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What creative projects have you been working on?
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I was going to make a big splash of this with a standalone post but in the end I thought that was probably too personal or uninteresting for that, so here it goes: I won a contest that secured me funding to write my first book, a collection of speculative short stories.
This project started as a TV show, which I converted to literature because it was too expensive for the Brazilian market. Because of that, I already have one story as a screenplay and 8 others with complete storylines, as well as conceptual art (these materials certainly contributed for my win).
The initial idea was to make something like The Twilight Zone, but years passed and I realized I have a tendency towards the absurd and the surreal that Serling never had. So expect something between Becket and Philip K. Dick.
I’m not getting rich, but the money is good and will help solve a lot of things, as well as give me the time and peace of mind to actually write the book.
I may spend two months with a tablet and a keyboard on a secluded location without cellphone reception and internet access. If such location is not available, I may use a small part of the prize money to get an Airbnb apartment away from the family home and equally offline. In my experience, that’s the only way for me to write longform content.
While I don’t sign the contract (and my contractual deadline doesn’t start counting), I’m reading stories in the genre to get some inspiration. I’m prioritizing stories in Portuguese (translated or otherwise) because I’ve been writing mostly in English for so long that my ideas and literary thoughts tend to come in English. And the funding is for a book in Portuguese.
Thanks! I am both extremely happy and extremely nervous hahaha
That's awesome! Nice work! Let us know when you publish (and when a translation to English is available!).
Thanks!
An English translation is something I wanna do ASAP. I must deliver the entire book to the financier institution first, otherwise I would write in both languages from the start (translating has become an integral part of my creative process). I love English and the lovely feedback I always get on Tildes.
The book will be published under a “pay what you want” model and without DRM (I literally have to, since that’s part of the project I submitted), so everyone will be able to read it.
And I’ll definitely make a big announcement!
Oh man, modular synth gear is something I'm deliberately staying away from because I know I'd just spend way too much money on things that I didn't actually use to any practical extent. I'm perfectly content just futzing with a regular ol' synth, but all those switches and knobs and patch cables just look so cool...
I don’t know many words you used. They sound cool though. Is this how people make music in a cyberpunk universe? :)
Now you’re sounding like Geordi La Forge from Star Trek!
But how does all that sound?
Is that a genre? I don’t know exactly what I should feel, but that was interesting and pleasant. Had to put my headphones. I was expecting something Kraftwerk-esque, which kinda happened I think. There was some snake jazz in the middle. Cool. The last minutes were pretty nice with a bunch of weirdness coming together. I can’t help but think of what you would be able to do if you didn’t need to switch the cables. But I suppose that’s part of what makes this enjoyable for you.
You should definitely keep doing that stuff. It’s pretty cool.
Yeah I felt a dancing vibe. I don’t dance, but my neurons moved a little bit.
I've been trying to convince myself to get back to my mini-painting - there's so much Kingdom Death to paint. My wife and I just did a big cleanup of our shared workshop, so that should help a lot. There's nothing more demotivating than deciding to start creating and then being confronted with an unusably-messy work area.
A while ago--I got a hold of 20+ monitors during an office shutdown, and ever since I've been trying to find content to map onto them/ways to even to get them to all run at once. The approach I settled on was to use NDI streaming and Raspberry Pi's as streaming endpoints, which theoretically should scale until I hit bandwidth caps on my ethernet switches. https://gfycat.com/disfiguredbitterakitainu
This works great for prototyping, and we even got it into a local gallery, but I think for any more serious works involving more than ~9 or so screens, visuals would have to be set up to run on device for each Raspberry Pi.
Recently--I've just been working on my TouchDesigner content, tidying it up and preparing for another wave of prototypes with the screens while I'm away from them for the holidays.
Finally finishing up a baby blanket for my sister in law. It was supposed to be for my fresh nephew on April, but alas I am a turtle.
I have also been drawing my OCs, as that has been on my creative to do list for some time! Mostly just doing busts, but focusing on how I can express their personality.
I frogged my socks (partially). It killed some of my motivation but I'll be getting back to it on a week or so. There are some things that I need to finish before I get back to them that are more important/due sooner lol.