What the hell is this will some of you ask? I’ll answer this is what happens when you mix 80s, Kraftwerk and Touhou together.

Obviously, it takes its inspiration from the music video for one of Kraftwerk’s hit singles, Musique Non Stop, released in 1986. The video was directed by Rebecca Allen (work originally started in 1983 but due to how slowly work on the album was progressing at the time, the video was only ready for 1986!). However, this is not a mere copycat or a screenshot of one of the video frames. What I did is recreating some of elements that struck me the most when watching the video, by memory. And I came up with this…

To my knowledge, no normally constituted MMDer would use wireframes in his works… yet I’m doing it, to great effect I think. Types I used are NimbusSanP, NimbusSanT (both URW’s take on Neue Haas Grotesk, respectively “poster”/”display” and “text” variants) and a Japanese font called NKD02 14-segment Hematitic. My only gripe is that it looks pretty busy, possibly making your icons a bit drown out if you plan to actually use it as a wallpaper. Also, I did the composition with widescreen-only in mind, so I had to improvise a bit for older squared aspect ratios.

Anyway, here’s the beast (click on thumbnails for original size):

– 2K format (2560×1600)



– FHD format (1920×1200)



– SXGA and WXGA+ formats (1440×1024)



– HD format (1366×800)



– SVGA format (1024×600)



– VGA format (720×512)



Note: there’s an odd one out in this picture, will you be able to find it?