Ryan Marttala

@soundswefind.com

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Family man • Information management librarian • Composer • Instrumentalist • Interested in finding music we can share • DFTBA • 🇨🇦 SW Ontario (🇫🇮)

A low-angle, side view of an outdoor upright piano that has been painted with a landscape scene. The artwork depicts a river winding through a dense, green forest under a sunset. The piano itself is weathered, with the keyboard showing chipped and worn keys.
Two inquisitive green-cheeked conures are perched on the top of an open laptop.
Under a purple light, a life-size statue (with the glittering surface of a disco ball) depicts a human figure sitting with their head tilted slightly up, as if interested in something in the distance. A man poses next to this statue in a Canadian hotel lobby, pretending to see what is so interesting off screen in the distance. The man is also without shoes, to highlight his Awesome Socks from the monthly sock subscription on Good.Store that raises money for the Maternal Center of Excellence, a hospital in Sierra Leone.
March 14, 2025 lunar eclipse happening far, far in the background through some front-lit tree branches.
Melting ice and snow partially reveals a weather-beaten lawn ornament of an owl. Despite only one remaining eye and many missing coloured tiles, the owl appears to be gathering its strength to do the next right thing.
Hank Green dressed in a duck costume as Dr. William Weathersby, on the annual Project 4 Awesome charity event.
An unsettling depiction of an imagined screenshot of a nonsense YouTube livestream by Chizza Marge and Hank Flanders, with the live chat displayed at the bottom. The Chizza Marge character has the cartoon body of Marge Simpson, the terracotta head of John Green, hair of chia sprouts and a cactus (for height), and a thought bubble with the words "Legal Reasons". Hank Flanders has the body of Ned Flanders, the head of Hank Green from that brief moment he had a mustache, and his arm around Chizza Marge. The live chat is borrowed from a real Nerdfighter livestream, in which one user's comment on the terracotta figurine of John Green's head ("a cactus would be great. a nice Marge Simpson look") led to this visual attempt at whatever this is. The other commenters say "Howdy", "Johnergy", and "hope everyone has a good day <3".
A green-cheek conure named Coconut sits on a perch, with their head tilted and looking quizzical. The background is a reproduction of "The Starry Night" oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, that happens to be hanging on the wall behind the bird.
Two green-cheek conures are perched together, high up on their spherical rope-climbing toy. One of the birds is preening the other, seemingly in just the right spot (the tiny feathers just above the beak).
The iconic scene from a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film called A Trip to the Moon [Le voyage dans la lune], in which a rocket lands on the eye of The Moon, but heavily modified such that the rocket is now an old-timey bottle of Diet Dr. Pepper, and The Moon's face is now a Pizza John (which is a memeified picture of author John Green's face with a mustache and the word "PIZZA" under it).
A green-cheeked conure named Coconut is perched on a couple of the larger metal bars of a vibraphone (F#3 and G#3) while waiting patiently and watching you in earnest. The rest of the vibraphone's playable surface makes up the majority of the background of the image, with four mallets resting there as two pairs, ready to be used.