r/VaporwaveAesthetics

Made this drawing, hope you all like it!

This image checks all the boxes

Completed in the style of Hiroshi Nagai.

Full res upscale

Source site with gatefold scans

Upscaled via Topaz Gigapixel/Photo, composited different upscaling and denoising results in Photoshop.

Discogs info on the album in question

Here's a convenient album with shots of the gatefold stuff

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Upscales/high res collection of Hiroshi Nagai.

Original gamma/color grade versions here and wallpaper versions here.

Non-upscaled original source scans here.

Or Hiroshi Nagai's site for the full catalog.

The spirit of the 90s lives on in saltwater fishing performance apparel and clothing

I dug for a few hours to find these old photos I took - me and 3 other friends getting together on November 17th 2016, smoking up sitting on the floor and listening to the original Youtube upload of Floral Shoppe on all of our phones at the same time while talking about - who even remembers? Definitely peak shit.

I remember very well us trying to synchronise the playback on all the phones, and then we kinda gave up getting it perfect and in result got the most incredible organic delayed version of the album ever performed by devices on the ground.

Do any of you have ancient digital memories like this?

This piece of art was made by myself and requested by a friend.

To give a little background: if you're obsessed with retro aesthetics like me you probably know that there were 2 distintives looks to movies in the 2000s. The first one was the warmer, hot, sunny look you could find in movies like the first Fast and the Furious or Charlie's Angels. The second one was the cold, blue-themed, often harder or gothic look from movies like Underworld, Resident Evil and Matrix. This is my take to recreate the first look, including giving it the "grainy" or just general dirty film aesthetic these movies used (I warn you though, if you want to use these textures be prepared for a size spike on your file size.)

The elements of the room are bits of 90s technology. I added some and others were asked by my friend.

Acrylic on stretched cotton canvas