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What creative projects have you been working on?
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Just painting miniatures. I kind of turned my gaming group back on to Warhammer 40k, as I was just in the mood for it and so we're starting with some small games as to not overwhelm ourselves with rules and long games again; which has the added benefit of using much smaller forces, so we can focus on painting a small group of miniatures rather than hundreds at a time.
So, I've been in the process of painting 5 different ones and so far, I have two finished and three partially painted. I did take a break today, however, as I needed to organize my paints, so I put up some nail polish shelves and got my paints on them. I discovered several colors I had no idea that I owned, so it's already paying dividends.
edit: here are a few pictures
I'm happier with the first guy, having tried a new recipe for my skin tones. That said, I prefer the brighter skin, so I may try to do something a little different and blend both recipes to come up with something I like.
I just started oil painting and I’m having a ton of fun. I went to college for photography and had to do a little oil painting in foundations courses and hated it, but recently found my old paints and since they were still good I decided to paint some still lifes and they're turning out pretty good!
Messing around a lot with music creation. Lately been experimenting with more fringe genres (harsh noise) and also trying to crossover fringe stuff with accessible stuff (bring lots of heavy noise into a track with whispery clean / soft vocals, kind of like how HEALTH does with their clean vox + electronic heavy sound, but in a much sharper, noisier way). Think almost shoegaze+noise.
I've been sculpting two small cats. They're not realistic at all. More on the cartoony side. I'm not that great at sculpting to attempt anything more difficult.
It's a present for my sister! They're based on her real life cats.
I've been working on a constructed language based on the most spoken West Germanic languages, namely English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, and Yiddish. Of those I only speak English, so it's an off-and-on project until I study the other Germanic languages more extensively. Still, I've made good progress with it. There's no real goal except for it to be a personal language I may use for taking short notes.
Hallo! Ik is 'n frou. Ik denk dat et hier regen. Ik lees 'n boek.
['hɑlo ɪk ɪs ǝ froʊ] [ɪk 'dɛŋkǝn dat ɛt hir 'regǝn] [ɪk les ǝ buk]
hello I am a woman I think that it here rains I read a boek
"Hello! I'm a woman. I think it's raining here. I'm reading a book."
The grammar is very reminiscent of that of Afrikaans. Verbs don't inflect for person or number. There's no morphological past tense; instead you use perfect forms along with a past participle (i.e. 'I have worked' to mean 'I worked'.) to form a past tense of a verb. The orthography and phonology is designed so that English speakers should readily recognize a lot of words. 'Word', 'school', 'bed', and so on are exactly what you'd expect, though the pronunciation is unavoidably different. There are some anglicisms: pronouns have conjunctive and disjunctive forms because I'm fond of this usage in English (e.g. "Who? Me?" where me isn't really the dative or accusative; this use case would be I in most other Germanic languages). The vowel inventory, too, is basically my vowel inventory of American English. It's really just a language for me and me only.
Looks fun! As a Dutch speaker it does look very Afrikaans to me.
Out of curiosity: is there a reason you used <'n> to transcribe /ǝ/? From various Dutch and German dialects I'd expect <'n> to represent /n̩/ or at least /ǝn/.
Oh! That's a mistake. The actual pronunciation is [ǝn]. Good catch.
Brain dump is brilliant. I've been mulling over what to do with my home page for like a year now, it's just a brief bio and a picture, I've been writing poems and doing paintings lately and was just thinking about how I should start posting and writing about it more frequently. This is perfect.
I started recording!
Last time I spoke about not having started the actual thing yet. But I have now.
And it sucks!
And that's ok!
As we say in Dutch, de kop is er af, meaning the difficult part is over and we started the thing (literally, the head is off).
I'm happy to have started what I set out to do and it makes the subsequent plans to record begin to feel fun.
Looking forward to practice a bit and get a better result and start editing.
Composing music mostly. Currently in the "procrastinating via planning and reading up on theory stuff" stage of the process, which is always a fun place to pretend to feel productive in.
I've also been learning to code for a good while now. Decided to start in C because it looked fun and is super helpful to know, and it's been going well. But damn is there a lot of stuff to learn, I've been learning for a few months now and I still feel like I'm just doing glorified math problems rather than actually making anything resembling a piece of software. Hopefully it'll click one day and I'll understand how to go from dumb code to a thing that does stuff, probably after I inevitably abandon C for a more handholdy language that doesn't require a compsci degree and 600 lines of code to open a blank window.