Creative

Sammy Turton’s 4StringBoy site and YouTube channel have dozens of short fingerstyle tutorials, which have consumed my brain! I even dream about these little videos. Highly recommend for anyone interested in playing ukulele fingerstyle. He teaches in simple steps, then puts it all together in a way that makes sense. With very little stress or frustration you soon have a short piece of music that is very satisfying to play.

I've been saving the scraps from everything I make and have finally gotten around to sorting and quilting them up. I think I'm going to make a dress but I might have to make bellbottoms and a bomber jacket. I'm undecided. I have some time to think on it as I have a heap of scraps to sew

1050 pieces, took about two days. Not a terribly difficult build if you've done any nanoblock before but I wouldn't recommend it as a first project.

This one is unique because the arms, legs and wings rotate a little.

I like un-wound low G, so especially looking for warm-toned soft low G sets, with no-metal low G.

I'm a big fan of "TheCrafsMan SteadyCraftin" (on YouTube) among others. What gems have you found on their for folks who like to create?

Just curious. I crochet a bunch, newly including Tunisian crochet. Tried knitting but that shit's hard, and slowwww. Might use my knitting skills for super small stuff like washcloths, but I doubt I'd have the patience to create anything bigger.

Crochet, though. Crochet is dope. My favorite thing to make is scarves. They're nice and easy but useful and usually don't require you to count stitches like hats and other circular things do. I donate a lot of scarves and the occasional hat or blanket to local mutual aid organizations.

I may post some pics of my crochet later on, but atm I'm at work and can't do so.

Trying to get comfortable with the shader nodes in blender I sometimes create random materials. I mostly post them on my mastodon account but I will test the waters here as well.

The basic idea for the shader is to get two weaves going at 90 degrees from each other. I used a voronoi, scaled down in one direction to make each bit long rather than round, with a low randomness to make each weave. Then pipe it into normal and displacement maps to get the texture out, and use a colour ramp to add the albedo and some light subsurface scattering. Tinkering with the bsdf is just me playing with slider, I didn't have any real direction with those.

If this were going to be for a photoreal material this node set up would be an excellent base to start from, but it would take many more layers and details to use.

What do you think? Do you have any suggestions for materials for me to try?

This is the world I’ve been building for ttrpgs, fun, and eventually some stories for the past few months. Despite the constant procrastination it’s been a ton of fun. The is steampunkeque that is largely controlled by a trading group and culture called the Moche.

I’d love some questions and criticisms to help me flesh Drio out.

Hello, everyone! I was wondering if anyone here enjoys using Krita? I started using it about a month or two ago and it's been a rather pleasant experience. The switch from Clip Studio Paint was smoother than I expected. It doesn't have a fancy brush shop like CSP does, but the brush customization is more intuitive than I expected and the ones I've found on the forum are nice too.

I tried to argue here why "AI art" in its current form, is not art at all.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/183203

Copie Gauche, a new French publisher dedicated to open license content, is calling for original solarpunk short stories.
They'll make a book out of the best, under an open license, with fair remuneration.

• Direct link : copiegauche.fr/projet-null/
• Their Mastodon

This webpage has lots of handwritten text inside pictures, so here's my best attempt at a transcription for those who need it. Some liberties were taken with punctuation and casing to hopefully make it more screen-reader friendly. Words that didn't have a clear transcription were left as [illegible]:

Consider this apple

We experience time for this apple in three dimensions.

We can travel to any point on this apple as we trace it.

Much in the same way, we experience life in four dimensions, because time is the fourth dimension.

The book has already been written; it's just that because we are in it, living the story, we can't observe it all at once.

[All capital letters] How would it feel, then, to experience something in four dimensions as a benevolent interdimensional alien stranger?

There's talk of a Strange Feeling.

This Strange Feeling lingers on city streets, around intersections, areas of past busy activity.

The Strange Feeling frequents these places, now so haunted by phantoms of ideas, nations of a pre-epidemic world.

Of course, excuse me--there have been pandemics before--pardon my [21st-century-centeredness, written to exaggerate the word's pretentiousness]-- I don't mean to narrow our scope.

Ah, let me return to the story--so this Strange Feeling longed to be put into words (remaining an intangible amorphous Feeling wasn't enough), so that it could feel like part of the comprehensible human world.

And so it targeted unassuming passerby, pedestrians on [all caps] their mandated daily [end caps] Walk Around The Block (TM) possessing their bodies to feel out the edges of its being.

Kind of going through and identity/existential crisis now. Talking to M has me seriously thinking about what exactly it is that I want to do.

[caption of an image] A couple in the distance. They seem like they're in love, in the thirty years and still holding hands in line kind of way

Graphic design seems to thrive on disaster capitalism--how even much in poor taste it may be to sell overpriced masks to realize the dystopic covid-times toxic wasteland atmosphere, I feel like having a job where I can actually apply my skills feels better--or maybe less hollow, less empty--than sitting on the sidelines, jobless.

For a while I thought maybe I can go into criticism--because at times, yes; I do have something to say--but is this my place to take up space? It all feels so futile, so pointless

I really don't know much about "the outside world," about society; sitting here freaking out, similarly feels helpless.

I wish I could be more secure in myself but [illegible] am I not enough already?

Maybe I should seek the art [illegible] library and [illegible] oh god, maybe becoming an [illegible] could be a way out, a kind of [illegible] where escapism is my job?

Entertainment, maybe? An animated series?

But it's like... How can I survive and better yet live of of something that I can turn off when I go home?

Maybe what I need to do is figure out, tidy up, clean away a space for me, in my apartment, in my mind and in my heart

But the familiar [illegible] smallness of childhood games stares me down

So certain, so plesant, so easy and simple. God I wish I could worry about these things on an [illegible] all the way, to make it productive so I could survive off of something? What even

Sometimes I wonder whether consumption (purchasing things, that is) has taken over too much of "who I am".

Have I begun to worship objects too much?

For a time I felt that divorcing myself from the ego/or "letting go" was the way to reach transcendence.

But now I think arriving at this conclusion without a journey will not let me to practice/feel this fully, so I am okay with materialistic/individualist calls/urges sometimes.

Developing a ritual takes time. Maybe it's ok that I'm so confused (for) now...

Worlding practice.

A collection of drawings made with CSS

Paid apps not foss, but these have been my go to apps since kissing Adobe goodbye. Currently discounted.

I've used the V1 apps for years without needing to pay for updates. Theres a universal bundle which includes ipadOS, mac, win versions.

Also see krita and inkscape for FOSS alteratives.

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40% Merino, 25% Rayon, 25% poly-amide, 10% Kashmir

Nowadays, many people save their memorable stories in cyberspace, I myself save a few short stories at my small forum.