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in progress: lucasrees.com (1)

Introduction and table of contents

In this series of articles, I’m writing about my ongoing quest to build myself a personal website –some sort of portfolio in the broadest sense– from the very start and ‘in real time’ as I move along with the process.

The whole endeavour might take quite a while —fingers crossed for a release in 2022, so if you’re looking for the following parts, there’s a handy table of contents at the end of this article. And as always; If you have any kind of feedback, I’m all ears, just shoot me an email.

After bringing back this blog and having a lot of fun filling it with content over the past year, one of the projects I like to tackle in 2022 is the relaunch of my ‘regular’ personal website.

I haven’t had a portfolio website for years now –literally, the last iteration has been offline since around 2013– and I wanted to address this shortcoming for a while, to be honest. I’ve actually collected some basic conceptual thoughts as well as bits and pieces of writing already without doing anything further with it up to now, but I believe I’ve finally reached my Popeye Point ¹.

Usually, the creation of my personal website would be something I’d work on very secretively –not least because of the presumably rather slow progress and the possibility of this project even not leading anywhere eventually, but instead, I’m going to try and document my process openly this time. It’s an attempt to keep better track of my inspiration and archive the thoughts and ideas related to lucasrees.com more thoroughly.

The articles of this series are going to be titled ‘in progress: lucasrees.com’ to make it easy to follow along with the development which is undoubtedly going to take some time. Additionally, this post will act as a table of contents and will be updated accordingly down the road.

in progress: lucasrees.com

1. Introduction and table of contents

¹ Popeye Point; “When you get so angry, frustrated, and now action must be taken.” (via Urban Dictionary)

nocturnal sessions

A well balanced mixtape duo with moody music ideal for late night design sessions

Since back in the days as a young design student, I’ve enjoyed working during the quiet of the nighttime and I believe that’s something a lot of artists, programmers, writers, and designers share; We are children of the night. When it gets dark outside the demanding noise of everyday life with all its clutter steps aside to deep, overarching silence and the mind of many of us tends to be wide open and particularly creative.

At least for me, a proper soundtrack enhances those nocturnal sessions a lot —both in pleasure and outcome. Even though there are a lot of amazing LPs¹ to listen to, I’ve spent quite some time in 2020 putting together two long mixtapes made primarily for such occasions.

In total, these two Spotify playlists pack more than five hours of carefully selected and arranged tracks –90, including some Interludes and skits, perfect to get you into the tunnel and find inspiration during your extended late-night working sessions.

Apart from that, I draw on these mixtapes to find catharsis and come to rest during cold and dark winter hours and grey days in general, as well.

I often think that the night is more alive and richly coloured than the day.
— Vincent Van Gogh

Since there’s a lot of –to some extent heavy– bass and some rather high-pitched sounds, I strongly recommend a decent audio output device that can handle a broad spectrum of frequencies well in order to get the most out of this music.

part I: MANIAC
— 42 Tracks / 2hours 23minutes

part II: Wolves
— 48 Tracks / 2hours 59minutes

¹ thinking of M83, The XX, Her, Tycho, The Howl & The Hum, Howling, Son Lux, Darkside, and Portico for example