{"id":4346,"date":"2014-12-24T22:55:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T03:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/?p=4346"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:14:38","slug":"its-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2014\/12\/its-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas \/ Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the soon-to-be started New Year, I managed to do a summary of art compilation this year. I like doing these, but haven&#8217;t put one together for a year or two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-landylachs-summary-of-art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4348\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-landylachs-summary-of-art.jpg\" alt=\"2014-landylachs-summary-of-art\" width=\"963\" height=\"1279\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I actually made the layout to this in 2013 with the artwork I did that year, but I was dissatisfied with my artwork from that year, so I ended up not posting it. At least I made a template I liked enough to use this year, though, so it wasn&#8217;t a waste of time. :)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/12.12.2014-wires-and-wings-sketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4359\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/12.12.2014-wires-and-wings-sketch.jpg\" alt=\"12.12.2014-wires-and-wings-sketch\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/12.12.2014-wires-and-wings-sketch.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/12.12.2014-wires-and-wings-sketch-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/12.12.2014-wires-and-wings-sketch-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/12.12.2014-wires-and-wings-sketch-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/12.12.2014-wires-and-wings-sketch-720x720.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little fun sketch.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m going to link a video I&#8217;ve been waiting until Christmas to post here, haha. I&#8217;ll add it to the full post.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here it is! My Modern Talking phase has seemingly not yet worn out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IQw78i4tY1I\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love the person who edited this video, haha. It has a home-movie type of quality to it, warm and sappy, but not (in my opinion) in an insufferable way. I love the randomness of some of the added clips, like the cat painting and photos that look like they were probably taken from the video editor&#8217;s house or taken from a google image search. There is something satisfying about seeing a young Thomas Anders with his staring at you beneath those long curly locks while being covered by softly falling studio snow. It&#8217;s just a very calming video to me! In all its corny coziness. Yes, cozy. That&#8217;s a good way to describe it.<\/p>\n<p>This song was released as part of their album titled, &#8220;In the Garden of Venus,&#8221; released in 1987. I am rather curious as to where the clips that show Thomas and Dieter standing in that Christmas-themed studio set, knee-high in faux snow, originates from. Was there a Christmas music video released in Germany then, featuring this song? YouTube yielded no answers. Was it during a Christmas live performance from back then, and edited in to fit this song&#8217;s music video by a random YouTube fan of Modern Talking? One day, I&#8217;ll have to look this up. As those shots of them in the studio amuse me to no end.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, going to sleep soon. Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas \/ Happy Holidays! To commemorate the soon-to-be started New Year, I managed to do a summary of art compilation this year. I like doing these, but haven&#8217;t put one together for a year or two. I actually made the layout to this in 2013 with the artwork I did that year, but I<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2014\/12\/its-christmas\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[467,881],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-art","tag-467","tag-summary-of-art"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Landy","author_link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/author\/liz\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/category\/digital-art\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Digital Art<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Merry Christmas \/ Happy Holidays! To commemorate the soon-to-be started New Year, I managed to do a summary of art compilation this year. I like doing these, but haven&#8217;t put one together for a year or two. I actually made the layout to this in 2013 with the artwork I did that year, but I...Continue&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9031,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions\/9031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}