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What creative projects have you been working on?
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Working on some peonies. Still early days so I guess the only thing that really looks like anything are some of the petals š
That's so pretty!! They're coming along nicely, can't wait to see more.
Beautiful!
Just here to tell you how very very pretty that already looks. Hope you post when it's done šš
Iām brainstorming for a book, have to create the universe, research history and write down some story lines. The danger for me here is that world building may be more fun that actually writing it!
World building is so fucking fun. It's addictive. I'd love to be a writer for video games and be able to write all of the world building. I imagine all the item descriptions, in-world books and notes, magic systems, etc. and drool. That would be my dream job. Also creating quest lines and fun dialogue trees? I'd love it so much. FromSoftware is an influence on me. Not so much because I want to emulate their writing style, but more because how impressive the world building and attention to detail is.
You already have some core ideas for the foundation of your world?
Just yesterday I developed my first roll of film and im pretty pleased with the results, especially since i was expecting to screw up catastrophically at some point in the process.
Here is the cleanest scan ive gotten so far
https://i.imgur.com/L60k95o.jpeg
That's pretty cool! I was always interested in this process, but I never had the space for it. Where did you develop them? What were the biggest challenges you faced?
You should try. Space isn't a real issue these days. If you have space for a plastic storage box, that's about it. You don't need a darkroom. I worked out of a dark bag or a folded winter jacket, of all things, to load film. Just try it.
Black and white is pretty simple, only requiring two chemicals and the temperature doesn't need to be super precise, so all of my developing stuff fits in a small box. Like digitalphil said, you can use a darkbag for all the stuff that needs to happen in the dark, which is basically just loading your film onto the spool and into the development tank. Once that's done you really only need about a square foot of counter space near a sink for your mixing.
I said before that the temperature doesnt matter as much for black and white, but it will still affect dev time so getting as close to 20C as possible was probably the biggest difficulty and something I really want to figure out if I ever move up to color film.
Very nice, keep at it! I'm in the process of getting my darkroom gear set up in the laundry room. Talk about exciting.
Eyyy--just realized I have something I can share here. I posted it to /r/composting (here), but might as well share it here, too, since some of you may be interested.
Basically, I've learned that the top of a resting compost pile is a good place to sow seeds for cold stratification over the winter and sprouting the following spring. The compost is light and fluffy and is pretty easy to keep moist. Here's a photo of the whole system, with seeds in place and some pine kindling screwed together to indicate different sections for different seeds: https://i.imgur.com/mQ4RePW.jpeg
And here's the explanatory comment I posted to /r/composting:
...Likewise to you Tildes folks!
Starting my food blog! I posted a little while ago on here for advice of which I received a lot of helpful information.
The niche is probably larger than it should be - but the basic pitch is recipes globally (have a lot of experience learning from people who are experts in various cuisines) that are quick / easy to make and also more off-the-beaten track (I feel like there are a million recipes for X but only a handful for the lesser known things).
Additionally, I hope to have more of a scientific / analytic approach to recipes (not only to streamline them, but help the reader understand the WHY - think seriouseats meets Alton Brown), along the WHY of what's considered 'healthy' and not and being a bit more nuanced in the use of terms like that.
Anyways that's the dream! I know it's a crowded space and truly the goal is to have an outlet for my creative juices and something to share with friends/family. I've gotten the basics of the website up after teaching myself some skills, and now focused on putting the final touches on the first few blog posts!
That sounds like exactly a food blog that I would very much enjoy :) If you're up for sharing your website I'd love a link!
Let us know when it's ready to be seen! Sounds really cool.
Echoing the other commenters for encouragement! Share your link when you feel like it :)
I had a real rut of a year creatively, but I'm happy to report that I've gotten back into it! My solo project progressing in a steady pace and we got a new Noise Job track and video coming out next friday. This time we venture into an ethereal, blown out yet somehow organic sound.
For anyone feeling stuck, just take your time and be easy on yourself. The time to create will come again.
I participated in Global Game Jam for the first time last weekend! It was a really cool experience, and I made a fun little game that was loosely inspired by the Mario 64 head-stretching thing. It was a good time, but also exhausting to grind something out like that over a weekend, especially when it was right in the middle of classes. I'll probably do it again though lol
Share your game! If you feel like it :) Is it on itch.io?
For Christmas, I bought myself a Pocket Operator 33, which is a small standalone sampler and sequencer. I'm not impressed by the build quality: the pots are awful, and I had to pry open 3-4 buttons to clean them because they weren't registering clicks correctly. I guess you get what you pay for, but it's disappointing.
Anyway, I've been playing with it since then and I'm having fun with it. I use the Android app Koala to record and cut the samples before sending them into the PO, and then just make small loops. It's simple and limited, and the process of finding and cutting samples to make something new out of them is satisfying.
So cool. Glad yer not getting disheartened. Gotta start someplace. I did the same with electronic percussion. I started inexpensive to dip my toe in, to see if upgrades were in order, in the future. I find it interesting working with the second hand stuff too and the limitations that comes with it. The challenges are part of the fun for me.
I've been building a business plan and website for my video production business and holy fuck is it a lot of work. I've been grinding for like a month, and I feel like I've come so far yet have done nothing.
The website is mostly done, I'm just not happy with it quite yet. It's scattered and not as succinct as I want it to be. I don't want to paralyze myself trying to make everything perfect, but I want it to be the best it can be too. It also has a video of me on it, ans the idea of attaching my face to it is really starting to set in. So many insecurities I need to ignore, yet my inner criticisms help make it better.
I'm going to do it. It will get done. But holy fuck, it's just so much work. I hope I can just get out of my head and stop caring what people think.
This is terrible, isn't it? There are days when I work all day and at the end of the day, there is more work left than when I started. Those are the days when I re-read the legendary "coastline trip" story posted by Michael Wolfe as a response to the question "Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?" - link (I hate linking to Quora but this one deserves it).
I can relate. I tried to make some YouTube videos just for fun with the expectation that only my friends would see them... but I cannot post them. I can't explain why exactly, but it's like delayed stage fright.
I have been experimenting with Blender & a way to render 3D models as 2D pixelated images. I plan to find a good workflow to use in some future games.
It was surprisingly easy to do, but the results aren't as good as I want them. And then there is the problem of transferring this workflow from Blender to a game engine, but that will come much later.
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I've been spending a lot of time prepping for my next TTRPG campaign (I'm not fully settled on if I'll use D&D as the system yet, as I'm kind of bored of it and dislike its focus on combat). The general idea is that the campaign takes place over the course of a week-long festival/tournament in the capital city of an ancient nation. Lots of intrigue, mystery, and hijinx are available to be had. I've been figuring out what all of the major NPC's arcs are, or at least what they would be without any interaction by the players. It's fun but tiring work, so I took a break from all of that and decided that I wanted to write the creation myth for the world that the game is set in. I posted it yesterday if any are interested in giving it a read :)
Really enjoyed reading! Creation myths are always so fun to write. Do you have a personal fascination with spiders, or is it just an idea that sprung in your head?
It just sort of sprang into my head. I did very much enjoy Children of Time, so maybe that's played a role. But I did some reading about categorisations of creation myths and spent some time thinking about what went into turning a prehistorical understanding of the world into a creation story. So the idea that the Quick would look to nature and create this fable from what they saw there felt simply right. I suppose it could have just as easily been rabbits, or fish, or beetles. But spiders are a fascinating species (even though they give me the heebie jeebies), and once I thought "spider" all of these other ideas just started blooming right away.
Just wrote a quick little script to loop through all the jpegs, tag them with local AI based on objects in the image, and enable sorting by color in Windows Explorer. It's neat.
Sounds super cool!!
If you want, I can pretty it up and share it. It uses python, and ollama (Linux or WSL) to run LLaVA requiring at least several GB dedicated VRAM to run usably. I use a variant that fits in ~10 GB but I think it can be non-awful with maybe 6? Anything less and it takes a century to do anything.
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https://gist.github.com/MadameMinty/aff416c44905c38abbe2c80436893ac6
I wouldn't know how to use it myself but that's so kind of you to offer, thanks! Maybe others here on Tildes would be able to use it :D
Aight https://gist.github.com/MadameMinty/aff416c44905c38abbe2c80436893ac6
This was written on a knee so to speak, so zero warranties. It was meant to be ran once in a blue moon on a large set of backed up jpeg photos. It does not check or validate or skip anything.
I'm working on a glossary. This is my second one. I've got a thing for words, especially terminology. When they are used in a variety of fields to express similar concepts, they may even have more than one meaning. I feel it is essential to clarify these concepts and establish definitions that are easily understood. With lots of cross references.
So, that's my thing to keep me busy this winter.