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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
I’ve been slowly working on a music project (with contributions from other tildes users) that is going well. I’m hoping to have it finished by the end of September, or at worst the end of October. Right now it’s shaping up to be an amalgam of drone, ambient, and downtempo music. If anyone would like to still contribute, please shoot me a PM!
Is the original post still valid or are there certain contributions you need more than others?
the original post is definitely still valid but open to other ideas as well if you had something in mind that wasn’t in the original post!
If you are still looking for audio files, I could create some fun ambient playground noises. My kitchen window opens towards a school playground, so I could stick a condenser mic in the window and record some noises of recess. Also, I have some outboard gear temporarily, so I could run some fun reverb and heavy compression.
yes! that would be awesome :)
Ok, I will plan on recording that tomorrow. How long are your tracks (trying to figure out how long of a recording I should aim to make)?
I haven’t set a length for anything — just wanted to see what makes sense with the sounds and audio clips. Record as much or as little as you’d like!
Ok, I tried recording morning recess, but it ended up being unusable since I routed a channel incorrectly and made a screeching feedback mess. Hoping to get a good recording at lunch recess. Picture of my dining table currently with the setup
if you didn’t delete the screeching recording, send that too! i love working with harsh noises to be honest. your setup looks nice!
I didn't bother saving the screech recording. I normally work in live audio, so I just viewed the screech as the unwanted feedback loop. My setup looks nice, but that is because I am currently borrowing the outboard reverb unit and outboard compressors for a gig I did last week. The compressor is being returned this afternoon sadly
My neighbor gifted me his previous 3D printer, a Geeetech A30T. It's my first time dipping my toes in the world of 3D printing, but it's been fun. I did a Darth Vader bookend, a key rack I mounted on the wall, and a puzzlebox for my daughter.
My settings and techniques could definitely use some improvement, but the end products haven't been bad for someone who has no idea what he's doing!
Well, I hired a professional reader (and literature major) to evaluate my sci-fi/horror/magical-realism short story "A Máquina de Nostalgia" ("The Nostalgia Machine"). She'll send me a complete long-form analysis in ten days along with extensive notes in the actual text. Any tips on how to handle the anxiety? I think I may die :P
Let your pride over the fact that you got it this far outweigh the anxiety? You achieved a heck of a milestone. In the end, the review isnt a reflection of your strength as a writer, that will be determined by how you digest the analysis. And itll hopefully help you appreciate your work and be confident in it, even more!
That is good advice. Thanks ;)
I'm working on my Phaser 3 game again. The initial version was quite bland, but I didn't feel like doing more with it. Now I'm modernizing it a little bit. I don't expect anything, but I hope that a few more people will enjoy it
Home renovation projects are one of my creative outlets. Recently one small project turned into a kids-playhouse adventure.
I noticed last winter that one of my basement closets was extremely cold, like below freezing cold, so I made a mental note to come back and rip out the closet's rear wall in warmer months to see what the problem was. I finally got around to it last week, and it turned out that there was a big unfinished (and poorly insulated) room behind the closet.
Finding this felt almost like one of those Reddit threads where someone discovers a boarded up old room hidden in their house. --almost; but this room wasn't quite so big; under 200 cubic feet, with 4-foot ceilings. More storage space! You know I was excited.
My kids were excited too, but they decided that additional storage was boring and that it would be better used as a playhouse. Being the pushover dad that I am, and realizing the potential to create my legacy as "Dad who can do anything!", I caved and began planning how to convert the dark and cold cavern into a safe, fun and WARM playhouse for them. And now I'm in the middle of building it.
So far I have sealed up air leaks in the exterior wall with expanding foam, added a layer of foam board insulation to the walls, framed the walls with studs, wired an electrical outlet, wired ceiling lights (on a 3-way switch to prevent older siblings from shutting off the light when a younger sibling is in the back), routed HVAC air supply ductwork to the room, and cut and framed a window into the drywall facing out into the main basement room. The final steps will be to hang and tape drywall inside the playroom, trim and paint the walls (color scheme TBD), and install flooring. Then we'll "furnish" it with a plush rug, some beanbag chairs, a bookshelf, and some easy-open picture frames on the wall so the kids can swap in and out their own artwork.
Given that this is a less-than-half-height room, working inside of it has meant I'm either crouching or kneeling a lot. My body hurts. It has been fun designing and building this, but wow it is exhausting. The next project the kids have been asking for is a treehouse-like loft built in an open area above their bedroom closets. I'm going to need an extended recovery period from this current project before I start thinking about that one.
Been starting to edit the photos I took while camping. I have a few that I am quite proud of how they turned out. I also feel like in some situations, I need to learn to not shoot with such an open aperture, as there are some that I feel have too shallow of a depth of field. I also am wanting to edit at least one picture with a texture overlay, which is something I have not done before. Probably, for textures I will need to sign up for a texture site, and then just download a bunch during the free trial period.
I just started working again on a fanzine/adult coloring book, a short collection of illustrations and tongue-in-cheek activities, nothing fancy, I made one before the pandemic and during lock down started working on a second one but life distracted me from it, hopefully I'll finish it before the year is over.
I am getting back into sewing. I just did my first project with a zipper. It’s a small pouch. Nothing fancy, but I just wanted zipper practice. The stitches are a bit sloppy, but it still came together quite well. The pattern came with a larger version, and I want to try that when I can get a suitable zipper.