THE FOREWORD
Skrrt skrrt, late again pals. Sorry for my tardiness, working from home has completely fucked me up. I've been too exhausted to Hubski effectively. But. BUT. I did the bad and dangerous thing, and I left my house to see my not-quite-a-girlfriend but not-just-friends-with-benefits and it's-complicated-don't-worry-about-it. Bad for quarantine, good for mental health. I've been in the same two rooms every day for the last month and a half - having a small apartment is actually driving me insane, I think? I'm only widening my exposure by one person, but I still feel pretty guilty about it...So please feel free to criticize me for this.
Anyway! We're painting pots together. She's cute and good at crafting, and I'm good at complimenting her for it. Take a look:
THE AGENDA
Post updates to your projects, announce the beginning of new projects, or just show off what you've done.
THE TAGS
Foveaux, kleinbl00, zebra2, applewood, darlinareyousleepy, elizabeth, Dala, thenewgreen, ilex
Hey wanted to pick your brain about printmaking really quick. I tried doing some prints with some more textured paper and I don't love the way they mostly turned out. Most of my prints ended up looking really stippled even when I overloaded the print with ink. I was just wondering if you'd tried using different kinds of paper when print making and what you thought. I just really don't love how the print is turning out on this paper. stippling with what looks like a decently loaded block: stippling with what i'd say looks like an overinked block SOMEHOW: It's possible some of my ink is crap - cheap beginner kit -- but I tried some fancier stuff I'd bought special and still see stippling so I'm not sure. Would love any thoughts you have, i'm trolling through linocutboy blog right now trying to figure it out.
Sorry. I have no idea what I'm doing. I just buy the paper Strathmore or Canson says is for printmaking. I've thought about using some of my smooth drawing paper but I'm not brave enough. The stuff I use is pretty textured. I'm having similar problems and I think it's because I fucked up my brayer but I really don't know I think your prints look good but I understand how other people's opinions don't matter if you don't accomplish your personal goal
I can commiserate. I think I fucked up a brayer too. OK, so here's the print done on plain old printer paper. I don't think the cards I use look awful but yeah, they don't look the way I want them to look. The end goal for the project is a gift for a family member which means you may be right. At least you're on to something about high expectations. 
I thought the pics you posted before looked great but I do see the difference between those prints and the detail here so there's definitely a difference happening with that paper that is detracting from your design. I don't know enough (read anything) about printmaking to give any advice but it looks like smoother paper is better? That stated, I freaking love this design!
Thanks! I do feel the other cards are usable and I'll send them to people myself, for sure. The plan is to make 4 bird stamps of local birds to make a stationery set for my mom. This is a red-wing blackbird (I'll color the wing on the final!) and then I think a bluebird, woodpecker, and a heron. I've had this plan for a while but been intimidated. This guy went well and I feel good about the rest of the project. I also have a couple of months thankfully. The trick is, not to let initial success lead me into overconfidence with the bluebirds. :) I guess it's kind of my new longer term craft project so, I will remember to post as I finish them.
I was expecting their Wikipedia to have a section devoted to controversial issues they backed like child slavery or something but the worst thing they seem to have done is become center left so I felt alright copying their logo I did that. I carved it into a sheet of linoleum. All the straight lines made me sweat and shake. It's my new hobby that's not actually relaxing
I finished my workbench for my woodshop that integrates my 90's era miter saw and my 60's era table saw. No pics yet, because it was dark when I finished putting things together. Feels good to have it done though. Now I need to think about sawdust management.
So we're switching from $42/l cheapass resin to $200/l Easycast HD. So we have to profile it. Here's our best bet with cheapass resin. Here's our best bet with purple passion. Note that this is tedious. You have to print a resolution test that gives you a grid of eight samples each a second apart. The purple passion is even more annoying because while the clear shit comes out kind of like a Jolly Rancher? Or sticky fingernail? The purple passion is somewhere between "gummy bear" and "parmigiano reggiano." So then you need to hit it with alcohol briefly, immerse it in glycerine, hit it with UV light, clean it, let it dry, do the hokey pokey, etc. You'll note that at the initial recommended settings, the shit didn't even stick to the build plate. But eventually you get the settings you need and you're all happy and ...well shit. So let's chat with the makers of purple passion and figure out what's going on. In the meantime, the plague mask is fun an'all but visibility kinda sucks so let's see if the Internet has come up with a Covid Bane mask and of course they have. You start with an existing Covid mask And add a thingy on the front and here's where things get shitty: the build plate on my tiny shitty printer is about the size of a cell phone so this thingy actually sticks out a little bit which you figured would just clip the file but nope, it corrupts it like a mutherfucker ...and it doesn't fit the Covid mask anyway because apparently one of them went Rev2 without the other knowing so now we're at Rev2 on the one but have reverted to Rev1 on the other because Thingiverse? It's pretty much DeviantArt for people who can't draw so we'll fuck with that in a minute but we've been given instructions on how to unfuck the falcon so as you were posting this ...so wish me luck.
Dude, have you tried learning Blender? I've made several attempts over the years, and every time I hit the "oh, so this is what it's like to have a cognitive disability" point and give up. Anyone who can generate something more complex than a platonic solid with it has my respect.Thingiverse? It's pretty much DeviantArt for people who can't draw
Not as of yet. AutoCAD? Yes. Fusion? Yes. Solidworks? Yes. Meshmixer? Yes. MasterCAM? Yes. Mine is a world of straight edges. The world I'm choosing pretty much lives in Fusion, Solidworks, Rhino and ZBrush. And I mean, I suck in Photoshop? But I suck donkey balls in Gimp.
Painted my last wall tonight, hoping it dries up neatly. Lesson learnt: don't ever fucking paint your walls with heavy grain textured paint because it is a drag to repaint what is essentially sandpaper. After two layers of primer I still had to buy double the amount of paint. Will post pics somewhere this weekend once I've cleaned up our mess!
Pics! We painted the full 7m living room wall: And one corner of the dining room in the same color. IRL it's more blue than it looks here in poor lighting conditions - the table and cabinet in the next pic are the exact same dark wood. The other side of that room, and the longer side of the office, we painted in a gorgeous dark green: The idea of keeping white bands I stole from a friend, but the motif of doing that all around and going "just around the corner" on all walls was our own idea. Living room and office have that too. Really ties it all together.
Crafting and cooking on a downturn this week, but been improving the basement setup for streaming and watching streams. Set up a permanent shelf for the projector : painted the walls black, with a fun pattern on the side: And set up a 3-cam stream on OBS for my boyfriends birthday. It was awesome how people were into it dancing on zoom - and featuring them on the live really brings out the attention whores in everyone: Tonight tested the setup to watch and dance ourselves - not bad too! To be honest, I’m not even a big fan of music and dancing. But the technical messing around is fun :) Moar lights and moar cameras!!!
EDIT: Those screenshots look prettier if you click on them. You get the point without clicking on them, though. Project Goals: What I'm re-constructing: What I'm improving upon from last semester: Progress thus far: I've shifted my goals around to be more engaging. Turns out switching packages knocked out an extra goal or two. From a coding perspective, it looks like I'm doing less work compared to last run at it. Marking that down as improvement. The webmap is gonna be killaaaa.
Reminds me that it's been a while since I got to start my week with a choropleth.
Waaah. That's a neat site! Betting they're using QGIS. So you're supposed to look up the countries and do some mini-research to understand what they represent? Day 1 with no clues looks rough for chloropleth. Dot maps seem easiest to decipher.