That is officially the most terrifying knitting project I’ve ever seen. I’m nowhere near brave enough to try something so complicated. (Although I would like to try spinning and weaving one day.)
I need to sew this in letters of gold and put it up on every wall of my house. My inner perfectionist needs to go the hell on.
I don’t have a picture of the neon yellow coasters (yet), but I do have some of the t-shirt rugs I made. This is my bedroom rug and this is my kitchen rug, which is the first t-shirt project I tried. The kitchen rug is developing holes in the lightest band, so I’m mentally gearing up to make another.
Thanks. I’ve worked quite a bit with vinyl and haven’t had many issues before. Even my first project came out great so this one was frustrating to say the least. I cut with a Silhouette Cameo plotter. It’s made for the paper crafting market so it’s pretty easy to use and has a 12" cut width. It does detail and letters quite well usually. I usually use a different clear contact paper than the one I used with this project. My usual one works beautifully and I prefer it to paper transfer tape. This project was a perfect storm of issues, sadly.
I’ve enjoyed this thread. So many pretty things and books to look up too.
I’ve been kicking around the idea of a book in my head for 2+ years. I’ve written about three paragraphs.
The book will be called Civil War II, and the basic premise is that a series of failed economic and social policies has basically turned parts of the present-day (or near-future) U.S. into a Third World country. For reasons I have yet to figure out, the effect is most strongly felt in the South. When the Governor of South Carolina comes up with a series of initiatives to try to turn things around in his state, he’s shut down by the feds until, eventually, the South Carolina government announces its secession from the Union (again).
The book would explore some interesting themes, including the disconnect between political idealists (both Left and Right) and the people they purport to represent; the cultural, religious, and (sometimes) economic divide between the Right and the Left in this country (as far as the voters on the ground are concerned); and what it’s like living under an unpopular, failed president whose apologists believe he can do no wrong despite the evidence that is literally right in front of their noses.
There are several things stopping me.
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[li]I don’t enough about how modern warfare is prosecuted to make a coherent narrative.[/li][li]I’m still not sure how many (if any) American servicemen and women would carry out orders to carry out strikes against other Americans.[/li][li]I have no idea what happens after the first four or so chapters.[/li][/ul]
Still, the day may come when I come up with solutions to these problems and I wind up writing the next Great American Novel™.
Bubbadog, those are some awesome sand castles. And it is very zen to make something people enjoy seeing built, and that disappears completely after a few hours.
Oh ok, your blog post said it didn’t cut right and since plotters cut precisely I thought “did she cut that by hand?!” Maybe you just need a new blade or something. It still looks good and it’s a cool idea.
I went to a writers’ conference where they referred to this as the “vomit theory” of writing. Since I suffer from crazy-insane motion sickness, that appealed to me!
These are awesome! Are you using wire frames and Sculpy for any of them? I did that a long time ago and had a lot of fun doing it, and need to do it again.
I’m afraid I’m not much of a sculptor; most of my work is simply modifying pre-existing (solid-cast resin) figure kits. That usually involves cutting the figure apart, pinning the bits in the relationship I want them, and filling the gaps with epoxy putty. Sometimes the modifications get pretty involved; a Nosferatu I’m working on got taller and skinnier, and had his shoulders slumped, his head reshaped, and his arms reposed. (Well, he just didn’t look right before! )
A few times I’ve made arms or hands from scratch, using a wire frame and covering it with epoxy putty, and most of my female figures get voluptuous-ized with putty :rolleyes: but, although that does require some knowledge of anatomy, I’m nowhere near a good enough sculptor to make an entire figure from scratch. If you can do that, my hat’s off to you!
Thanks! It was a fun project; I especially enjoyed making the armored-car style nose. The lawn chair took a couple tries to get the webbing right. It’s wrapping tissue, soaked with Elmer’s Glue.
I’m debating whether to show it to my buddies in the club right now, or wait until the contest (September) to unveil it
This is the one I did when I went to animation school a few years ago. All I really did was take a bunch of sculpy logs and join them together with epoxy on a wire frame, then smoothed them down. This was after drawing front and side views and going through color schemes, so the process involved a lot of preliminary work. Once the setup was done, the rest wasn’t hard.
But all good artists know you have to exaggerate certain features of your masterpiece to attract attention, so don’t kick yourself for the bust enhancement.
Here’s a CD worth of mostly acoustic original Americana music I recorded at home about a decade ago, mostly me, with contributions by friends on the internet plus two local friends:
I think that’s what I get when my scarf isn’t warm enough.
Cool – I can’t imagine having the graphic skills that would take, let alone the imagination.
Can you make a lap-sized one, with a cushion on the bottom? Better yet, two of them? That looks great!
Very interesting. I’d love to hear what they’d sound like performed. As a keyboard player since the 70’s, the sound of programmed music kinda gives me the hives. Despite that, I found your pieces interesting, with unusual harmony. (I realize the guitar pieces wouldn’t be performable on guitar, at least not as a solo.) That’s a nifty website in any case.
Cool. BTW, I think that’s called “smooth jazz”; the term “cool jazz” implies something different to me, more Miles Davis. Incredible that we can do that on an ipad these days!
Way cool. I’ve made thousands of sand castles, having grown up on a beach where I still visit every summer. But I’m not in your league!
Hey, make me one to put a keyboard (musical instrument) in!
I was sure I’d clicked the quote button on your post but evidently I missed it! Excellent work; quite a contrast to my amateurish stuff. I love the sound of the piano you’re playing, too. Did you record this at home, or in a studio, and what were you playing?
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