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What creative projects have you been working on?
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Anyone get any good pictures of the eclipse? Heres my digital shot from my grandparents' farm. I also hopefully got a good picture on film so I'll have to see how those turn out when I can go and get them developed. My grandma was a professional photographer so being able to use her camera to capture the eclipse over her farm made what was already an incredible experience something even more special and I may have ended up crying a bit. Overall it was well worth ~30 hours of driving and a new car engine.
There are a bunch of pics other users took in the Eclipse related topic:
https://tildes.net/~talk/1fhh/eclipse_plans
p.s. I took one as well. I don't know if mine is a "good" pic but I wasn't really focusing on taking pics of the totality. I was mostly just in genuine awe of the event, and enjoying the moment with my family. I took a bunch more of/with my family before and after the event though. :)
Edit: That's a damn great pic you took, BTW! The composition is awesome.
Finished this cross stitch just yesterday - a present for my chainsaw wielding friend 😊
The design is from here, so not original, but I knew I had to make it lol - however this pattern is huge and so I ended up remaking it, going from ~128x128 to 70x70 which was very difficult as I had to go stitch by stitch to figure out how to retain the details with about four times fewer crosses. Just the face took like an hour to remake and get right in the software. But it was worth it because I saved myself at least 20 hours of stitching time, maybe 30, and so I just hope my friend is gonna like it! Homemade gifts are always a bit of a gamble
That is awesome, and I bet they will love it! Even if it turns out not to be "their kind of thing", I hope you feel good about the hard work you did making something beautiful and funny.
I completed an original tune and built a video around it. All the photos and artwork are my own.
https://youtu.be/W-gVGBaZPoI?si=9NLGrw7vwmhiBE3y
ive been implementing a lisp in Lua! I'm hoping to eventually have it be vaguely scheme shaped. https://git.acdw.net/lam
I've been interested in music production for about 10 years now. I've had a productive phase at the start where I've written a handful of (bad) songs, and it was fun. But once I got serious about it and I started learning more, I entered the "dip" phase and nothing sounded good enough, no matter how hard I tried. Learning new stuff felt pointless since I wasn't able to make full advantage of it in a song that people would want to listen to.
It's been well over 5 years since I last started seriously making a song, much less finishing it. I made a track in Bitwig Studio last year but it was just a bass and drums copy pasted for 2 minutes, can't call it serious.
Two weeks ago, I had some sort of creative urge to just make music, coupled with the epiphany that I should maybe just allow myself to suck at music and stop giving a fuck about quality and perfectionism.
I finished my (almost) fully FOSS setup (everything is open-source and/or public domain, except Reaper, my DAW) and got to work.
And I did it! I made a new song! It's a melodic house track, built on piano chords and a pluck melody that's a touch melancholic.
It's trash and doesn't sound nearly as good as I would have wanted it to, but I still kinda like it, even though its flaws are obvious. Mixing is terrible, I wasn't able to make a good transition from intro to chorus so the drums just kick in suddenly, and the second half is a blatant copy-paste with some vocal effects added in at -20dB volume to pretend like I did something lmao.
The problem - I'm terrified of sharing it with anyone. Not even my partner has heard it yet. Don't think he will any time soon.
However, I took the decision to send it to a distributor (Anti-Joy if anyone is interested) so it gets published on all platforms, mostly to get the hang of the distribution process, and to properly reference it against my Spotify playlist so I can figure out what I should focus on when mastering my tracks.
It also provides closure, as it went from idea to "release" and once it's on Spotify I can consider it done forever and move on to a new song. I just wish I didn't need to attach my full name to it - my distributor requires I provide my full legal name in case I ever get royalties (nope, lmao).
Now I'm working on something completely different, a drum & bass track, but I can't really figure out the drop. I have the first 8 bars of it, but I can't extend it to 16 since duplicating it won't work, I have the bass playing some sort of transition notes at the start before the actual rhythm, and duplicating it sounds bad, but removing it in the second part sounds repetitive and boring. I'll spend some more time on it, hopefully I do get to finish a second track these days.
EDIT: Oh god, it's live on some platforms already, Spotify included. I feel great, and on Spotify the song doesn't sound so bad, seems like I got the mastering right at least (too bad the mixing sucks).
Sooo, I guess, here's the link? https://tunelink.co/axis-noir/morgana-1
I'm still scared of what people will think, but maybe this is a start to get past that fear. Here's to more songs, and continual self-improvement until I can be proud of my own work.