The recordings of when I joined the radio show with Time4Trance are available to watch on their youtube channel. I did a one hour mix for the show and in the first hour was interviewed. It was hilarious to have the chat of discord with me during this happening. I was initially weirded out by the fact to not have a chat so when I checked my phone I saw a lot of people in the discord lounge chatting while they were watching the broadcast. So fun! We even got to interview Charly like this haha. Here are the links to watch it back. Special thanks to Charly2Face for bringing me in on this opportunity!

First hour with the interview and mix by Han Beukers
https://youtu.be/RldFRcCbtD8?si=YLm3Ag1g1WZcQC2U

Second hour, my guest mix!
https://youtu.be/R0Am6Ue9A7g?si=mGIBBiaP496fFRVB 

In art world 'Inktober' is a thing where in October you draw something with ink every day. This drawing challenge can have a halloween theme since it's Spooktober leading up to it, or can be anything else.

I chose to do a Flow Arts edition.✨ Since I'm writing a story involving it, might aswel start drawing out all the props and things around it. The Star Nation community helped me with some fun extra ones to come up with 😎

Starting October it also marks the drawing season for me. I've decided it's time to brush off my insecurities and get out of the 'middle zone' with my art. I feel so close to more freedom but I can only get there if I actually start doing the thing. Time to study what needs to be learned and buckle down for a lot of practice.

I started my digital art journey in 2022 and it's been tough to keep up next to my busy life but I'm managing and I'm happy to be going into drawing season and finally spend more time with it. I added some recent artworks for the post update but if you wanna follow the challenge it will be posted on my ko-fi publicly. 

Enjoy your day! ✨

P.S. Did you know you can change the color of these LED kitty ear headphones during my stream? Just type !<color>kitty in twitch chat like '!purplekitty' 😺 Aaaahhh I love technology, oh how fun 😻

This Friday I will be on the radio with Time4Trance! [October 4th, 22.00 CEST] I've been asked for an interview & to play a one hour DJ set afterwards. I'm stoked to have this opportunity to talk a bit about who I am and what I do. I still feel like a baby DJ but to get opportunities like this is something to be grateful for and I'm taking on the challenge!

The interview will be in English (as per request so the international community can follow along too!) and it will be broadcasted through the following links:

Radio only but on all devices:
https://rtvlansingerland.nl/radio/live-radio/

Watch with video, desktop only:
https://rtvlansingerland.nl/radio/studiocamera/

Hope you can make it to listen / watch. Mark your calender for October 4th, 22.00 CEST! More info about Time4Trance on their website: Time4Trance.com

DJ gig incoming ✨ I will be playing at the chill stage of the Vageledic event on the 22nd of September!

Together with @charly2face we will also stream our sets between 15.00 & 18.00 - on my own twitch channel. Hope to see you in Amsterdam at the NDSM or digitally through the stream ✨ Don't forget to wear your mask!

Tickets at the door 🚪 💜

YAY! Twitch has launched a DJ program so that you can do LEGAL DJ STREAMS!! Over the years it has been a struggle for DJ's to survive on Twitch, DMCA strikes made many stop and for those that kept on going (or started in this period like me...) it was a risky business to be live. I played tracks from unknown artists or from labels that allowed the music to be streamed but it was hard to not play my favorite tracks since I knew I would be in trouble with it. With the DJ program on Twitch we now give a bit of our income to the artists and labels and so Twitch is the first to help us DJ's towards this new digital step in spreading the love for music! 

If you want to read what it is all about exactly read this article from Twitch and for my streams it will mean the following: 

• Part of my revenue will go towards the artists / labels from the music I play. This is ONLY from the income on Twitch and Twitch will cover 50 percent of the music costs too. For this reason I will not focus too much on bits and subs goals on Twitch. We keep the goals as they are since I do want to give artists something for letting me stream it on twitch. If you want to support me more directly then the ko-fi is the way to go. This supports my digital art journey because if I do art streams on Twitch and you give some revenue there, I share it all with the labels/artists now. For this reason it's best if you want to support my art, support me on ko-fi. There are memberships and one time donations possible and I will get the full cut. This way Twitch, the labels/artist and myself all get a share for providing the services we do. This is to me the most fair solution and luckily we already have it all set up this way. Link to kofi: https://www.ko-fi.com/luminousnova_

• For the upcoming year there will be less costs to DJing on Twitch, to initiate the program. This was for me the deciding matter to DJ REAL HARD FOR A YEAR. After if the cost get too high to sustain, I can always quit the program and go full on art streams or whatnot. It's a wild ride here on Twitch but I feel that this is a great step for everyone. DJing on Twitch was always a bit scary to be honest....

• Just in case of anything or if I want to stream on a different account, I made the account 'LuminousNova_22' for a back up. You can follow it already if you want https://www.twitch.tv/luminousnova_22

Hope to see you tonight in the first OFFICIAL DJ STREAM. Cheers to the new phase of Luminous Nova, after the comebacks succes, I'm so inspired to bring more amazing music and art to all of you! 

Streamer life is back 💜 This Sunday I will start my official comeback to Twitch with a celebratory stream starting 15.00 CEST 🎉

I've been streaming for 7 years and at the start of this year I felt a bit change incoming. I didn't know if it was tied together with streaming since I've been experimenting with that for so long, I needed to take a step back and evaluate. I now have come to the conclusion that streaming is in my DNA. I couldn't stop if I wanted to, no matter the numbers or income from it. After taking a break fully for a month I came back with streams once per week / two weeks and I decided to let go of the 'rules' I set for myself.

In all these years of streaming I started as a game streamer and picked up flow arts (2017), digital art (2022) & DJing (2023) in the process. With massive support from the Star Nation community I was able to develop my skills for years, streaming my training and process in them. With Flow Arts flourishing it's now time to develop and refine the other skills.

I've come to accept I'm a multi disciplinary artist and anything less then 3 artforms, is not enough for me. I will combine and develop these in my streams and my focus will shift towards digital art as my main development. This is how I work with different artforms, I focus on one for learning and the others go into the backburner for when I feel inspired I learn or do it but I will not push there. Part of me wants to push DJing since I'm getting asked to play at a lot of events and parties now. Not paid yet but I feel that might come soon and I wanna be ready. So I'm gathering music, creating playlists and developing my taste and style in music while making art. It's wonderful how that works together, I need music to flow or draw to anyhow!

In my absence of Twitch I have come out of my house and into an active social life out of my house. I had a taste of what that was like and now feel more sure on how to balance the digital with IRL. I want to combine these worlds together more, streaming the dj sets at events and bringing people in from the IRL for collabs on stream. No more seperate worlds, I am and part of both 💜