Information Landscapes
January 10th, 2021Wind
December 23rd, 2020
Five songs I first heard in 2020 that I like a lot
December 15th, 2020Six patterns from Whatever Happened To Green Valley?
September 21st, 2020
native-land.ca
September 14th, 2020Native Land is an online map of Indigenous territories, language groups, and treaties.
I remember seeing this a couple of years ago, but since then they’ve added Australian locations. This’s something I’d wanted to do myself using Open Street Map, but hey!, here it is already.
🖙 native-land.ca 🖘
m~u~s~u~c
July 31st, 2020I forgot to mention that I salvaged what I could of my old music blog, after the Tumblr mistake, and put it up at musuc.ryliejamesthomas.net.
It’s using a blogging tool called TextPattern, which I’d never used before, but I like it a lot more than WordPress. Feels really simple, gotta get your hands in and customise it, nice and DIY. More work (and the reason I took so long to mention it is that I wanted to get it setup right), but not to hard to tailor it to what you want to use it for.
I’ve been thinking about tying it to a wiki—either its own or my regular one—so artists and songs would have pages with bits of other info.—or even making it entirely wiki-based. But happy enough with it as it is now.
Roland TR-8 Pattern Sheet
July 27th, 2020I made a simple template for recording patterns made with my Roland TR-8 drum machine.
Might add a section for recording the knobs (empty circles you mark?), as hand-doing those is a bit of a pain, and so-far that’s been most of the what I use the note space for anyway.
Example Short 23.976
February 1st, 2020An example of a film using a frame rate of 23.976, from Netflix.
A Drawing A Day
January 15th, 2020Midish last year I thought it would be a good idea to try doing a drawing each day, with no others rules.
That didn’t last long, but I did enjoy drawing in Tux Paint on a tablet I’d found. Tux Paint’s an open-source drawing program aimed at kids for touch-screen things and PCs. Seemingly inspired by Kid Pix, there are lots of fun brushes and effects, and silly sounds. I like drawing with my fingers, and smudging things and using the toothpaste brush, and just playing round. I ended up using the toothpaste brush on a CHAI fansite I made too.
Here’s everything I done, in chronological order.
Looking at them together now, they remind me a lot of paintings I did between TAFE and Uni.