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Watercolor Journey: Flurrabell and Helios in Milan (11/20)
If I thought the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele was complicated, oh boy, I hate myself enough to have chosen the Duomo di Milano as background. When I knew I wanted to paint that cathedral, intentionally I chose to only paint a small part of it, and I was better looking for some streets where lighting could be more interesting than just drawing a postcard of the iconic view. And when I said about simplifying and adding important elements of what I was seeing, of course a trash bin was very important (nothing to do with my hidden raccoon instinct)
Flurrabell and Helios walking on streets of Milano, Italy
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Watercolor Journey: Flurrabell and Helios in Milan (11/20)
If I thought the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele was complicated, oh boy, I hate myself enough to have chosen the Duomo di Milano as background. When I knew I wanted to paint that cathedral, intentionally I chose to only paint a small part of it, and I was better looking for some streets where lighting could be more interesting than just drawing a postcard of the iconic view. And when I said about simplifying and adding important elements of what I was seeing, of course a trash bin was very important (nothing to do with my hidden raccoon instinct)
Flurrabell and Helios walking on streets of Milano, Italy
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Had the pleasure of spending a weekend with friends and celebrating @JD_Puppy 's birthday recently. Really enjoying my time 1-1 with folks and with furry groups like 50-150 people, reminds me of cons when I first got into the fandom :)
Also working out some bugs in my camera, may be time for a new one, but still trying to grab those time lapses :) Also loving the first track in this, probably my favorite kind of DnB.
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A second day of costumed shenanigans- this time of the #Khajiit variety. Athra made his first appearance at the Loxwood Joust today, and was well received! Will be back in a couple of weeks time (and hopefully will be able to get more photos than just selfies)
did you know you can just say the things you like about the artwork to the artist that you're looking at and they will actually appreciate it and be nice if you're not fucking weird about it
I /only/ get weird about the paws if I know the artist and/or know they're okay with it, otherwise if someone links something to me like "hey owa check this out" with a direct tag I politely am like "Wow, this is good art " or something like that
Took my #Jedi griffin, Qesnel, out to the #FestivalOfTheForce at the Kent Events Centre today. Smallish event (perhaps? Not sure on event sizes in the UK yet), but was good to bring him out. Met and talked with a couple of people; Tim Rose and Ailsa Berk.
LLMs and AI are a terrible "solution" to the fact that we just don't have time to do the things we're asked to do. we are overworked, across the board. all of us are.
i realize that the reason i see some utility in LLMs is because i was able to do some things here locally that i didn't have time to do because of work and other life stuff happening. otherwise, if i had had the proper time and space to do it, i would have gotten it done and learned something. but instead, i've fixed the issue but still don't know how or why it broke. the tradeoffs are obvious.
even if the solution is presented to me verbatim with an explanation, the time required for me to internalize that information isn't there. i can technically look up the logs to find whatever the LLM generated to get to that point, but it is not the same as you doing it yourself and retaining that information in your head. you are just a passerby while the thing does the work.
things are deliberately getting harder too; I was shocked and appalled at gmail not allowing folders and proper organization, training you not to be organized because you can just search for it, then they control the keys for search
feels like the society is making things deliberately harder on purpose so they can sell the tools to clean up the mess they trained you to helplessly make
Watercolor Journey: Mica and porter in Milan (10/20)
Now moving on from Cinque Terre to Milan, instead of nature I was facing a lot of architecture, very impressive buildings and such an adventure I got to live there due a train strike that I told on my journal.
Here we are in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, overpriced coffee, and then me thinking why did I do that to myself at picking such a complicated spot to paint, but honestly it made me work a lot on simplifying structures on buildings, and after getting all the shapes figure out, then I can start adding all details.
We can see Mica and Porter shopping, or better said... Mica shopping and Porter carrying everything out.
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Watercolor Journey: Denali and Archer in Riomaggiore (9/20)
My second day in Riomaggiore and this time I got ready for a splash. While swimming I was really looking forward to seeing a sea monster. The vibes from the movie Luca were too obvious that they got inspired on the place I was at that moment. The most challenging about trying to make this painting, more than not getting splashed by other swimmers, was to find some shade, the sun was too aggressive at that moment, I changed my spot so many times that I was worrying of changing too much the angle of my view, but for painting I had to leave it for later, I didn't want to get roasted.
This was personally one of my favorite paintings from all Cinque Terre, I was not intimidated for watercolors anymore, not even for drawing and painting buildings, I had learned I didn't need to copy all single details but to choose what was important to include and then simplify scenes. I could notice very proudly how I was improving.
On this picture, we see Denali and Archer, playing while cooling off from such a hot day. There was a lot of life like this in this place, it was so lovely!
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I don't generally do portrait photography because: a) I haven't got much practise with it so I don't have confidence they'll turn out as good as folks expect for decent portraiture, and b) I'm autistic so I find dealing with strangers and directing them in terms of position and expression kinda difficult and stressful.
*BUT*... I think this is cool, I think people would enjoy it, and if I make it clear that you'll likely not get your photos until after I have time to edit them post-camp and find a way of organising it so I don't get overwhelmed with requests... Maybe I could make this work.
@gsuberland if I wanted to do some practise runs to figure out the technique I want to use for a good result, would you be open to providing lighting? (not deliberately excluding you @yagfox , Graham is 5 minutes from my house 😅).
@DanHatesNumbers @gsuberland Thinking it over, a lot of people at this event aren't keen on having their picture taken, so it may not be the right crowd. Maybe a setup where they could take their own pictures might be more favourable.
@gsuberland yeah, I think if we were to try this I'd maybe organise it like a scheduled piece of content, so if only a few people signed up, I could reach out and bunch their times up a bit, and if no one fancies it I'm not sat there for drop in slots no one takes me up on.
Coming back to Riomaggiore the next day, because it was my absolute favorite village in all Cinque Terre, Italy. There was a sever heat wave hitting, and I was walking long distances, so I deserved my daily dosis of gelato. If I have a weakness, it would be for ice cream, and Italy is the best on it, and probably one of the best I've ever had in my life was that day in Riomaggiore: very soft, perfect amount of sweetness, very flavorish, you could feel the fruit on it.
Repaki, this red panda/fox, was representing my mood completely.
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@discontinuity Nothing really to the camera, the only adjustment to this image was a slight increase in contrast, to make the black areas darker (as the smoke was illuminated somewhat in the air) and adding the #emf26 logo! :)
This feels like a weird BBC "compelled balance" piece to me.
Feels a bit like the whole "the environmental crisis is your fault because you didn't recycle enough" signed by energy company CEO on £3m/year situation. Guilt tripping normal people for doing what they can given a shit situation.
The reality is air-to-air heat pumps ("air conditioning") solve lots of immediate problems. But we can't just say that. We have to go off and find somebody with a contrarian view that it's irresponsible and people should be focussing on making their roof reflective to drop the indoor temperature from 43C to 30C (!?).
Complete with photos of arrays of 8 20kW outdoor units, clearly commercial deployments - you know - totally irrelevant to residential users. No photos of a typical small residential split system that looks less imposing than a typical air-to-water heat pump?
@green it’s not bad - I’d have liked to see some INABA DENKO Slimduct SD used to cover & protect the linesets from UV, and some galvanised cable tray for the power feeds. Appreciate the attention to detail of the fall of the condensate drain. Isolators being closer to ground level so you can reach them with stepladders is appreciated too. 7/10.
INABA DENKO is a JAPANese leading brand of Installation accessories for Air conditioning and Heat Pump. LINESET, Truncking system Slimduct, Drain Hose, Bracket, etc.
So they're likely focusing on this because home air conditioning is a somewhat foreign concept to England until the last few years of record-breaking heat waves. But you are absolutely correct, if we are talking about luxuries we take for granted, there are a lot more wasteful producers of excess heat than what we need to keep our personal environments at healthy temperatures. Such as, oh, I don't know, all of the goddamn data centers.
My hometown's library had a good solution but I haven't been there in a couple years. Anything that left circulation or never went into it from a donation pile, that was still legible, got piled into a book sale room, where an older lady was there to take 50¢ per book. But we were a smaller library where that was just barely below an overwhelming number of books, and our throughout at book sales was high.
@BluefoxLongtail Our local had that as well, but only one mobile shelf full of books, and a lot of those still got chucked because nobody bought them before the space was needed for other rejects. And yes, only the legible ones: a lot were thrown away because pages started falling out, somebody had written/drawn all over them, or the cover fell off completely.
Returning to Vernazza, this time to walk inside their streets, and I found this spot, perfect for another painting, also the time of the day was helping to create some cool shades. But then the person living in that house came out to see what was happening, they saw me like telling me "what are you doing?", our Italian - Spanish/English conversation was not going anywhere, he didn't seem upset tho, he seemed okay with I was doing but I'm so shy that I felt intimidated, so I left, and I had to finish that painting later, based on a picture of the place.
Instead of the intrigued Italian, we have Dahan, appreciating the contemplative life, as cats tend to do.
I ❤️ @flurrabell