#ScribesAndMakers day 1: Does the change to a new calendar year affect your creativity in any way?
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#ScribesAndMakers day 13: Reveal the answer to yesterday's poll.
It was "Transverse City", the title track off Warren Zevon's very-cyberpunk 1989 album. My TTRPG group used to use this song to kick off our Shadowrun sessions from ~1997–2003.
The bit about "the song of shear and torsion" is my favorite line from a song that has a plethora of them. As a professional architect, Angel Castillo is very familiar with the song of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear_stress and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_(mechanics).
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️#ScribesAndMakers day 14: Is there a color you find comforting?
The deep blue of the sky about 20–30° up from the western horizon, a few minutes after the sun has set on a clear day.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 14: Is there a color you find comforting?
The deep blue of the sky about 20–30° up from the western horizon, a few minutes after the sun has set on a clear day.
#ScribesAndMakers day 15: You are in an art contest (or collaborative game if you prefer) with someone of similar skill level. Choose your 'weapon': pencil, pen, paintbrush, digital pen, or clay.
This reminds me of a contest/game from my past, when I and a few friends were all DJs. We'd do something we called "Iron DJ" (a nod to Iron Chef), where we'd have to pick a theme for a set from out of a hat, and then spin a short set based on that. Themes included... 1/2
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#ScribesAndMakers day 15: You are in an art contest (or collaborative game if you prefer) with someone of similar skill level. Choose your 'weapon': pencil, pen, paintbrush, digital pen, or clay.
This reminds me of a contest/game from my past, when I and a few friends were all DJs. We'd do something we called "Iron DJ" (a nod to Iron Chef), where we'd have to pick a theme for a set from out of a hat, and then spin a short set based on that. Themes included... 1/2
...things like "the four elements", "past, present, and future", and a whole bunch of other things I can't even recall right now. They definitely weren't all simple sets of things like that; some were more creative.
So anyway, my choice is DJ equipment! 2/2
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...things like "the four elements", "past, present, and future", and a whole bunch of other things I can't even recall right now. They definitely weren't all simple sets of things like that; some were more creative.
So anyway, my choice is DJ equipment! 2/2
@kagan That sounds like a lot of fun!
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...things like "the four elements", "past, present, and future", and a whole bunch of other things I can't even recall right now. They definitely weren't all simple sets of things like that; some were more creative.
So anyway, my choice is DJ equipment! 2/2
#ScribesAndMakers day 16: You wake up to find someone staring at you. Who is it, and why are they there?
It's my partner, who came over to surprise me with morning snuggles.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 16: You wake up to find someone staring at you. Who is it, and why are they there?
It's my partner, who came over to surprise me with morning snuggles.
Cat. Waiting for pets, and breakfast.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 16: You wake up to find someone staring at you. Who is it, and why are they there?
It's my partner, who came over to surprise me with morning snuggles.
@kagan aww...
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#ScribesAndMakers day 16: You wake up to find someone staring at you. Who is it, and why are they there?
It's my partner, who came over to surprise me with morning snuggles.
#ScribesAndMakers day 17: What's an animated movie you love?
_Princess Mononoke,_ by Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 17: What's an animated movie you love?
_Princess Mononoke,_ by Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli.
@kagan AMEN SUCH A GREAT MOVIE
truly lifechanging.
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@kagan AMEN SUCH A GREAT MOVIE
truly lifechanging.
@asakiyume Yeah, I've never seen anything by Studio Ghibli that I didn't like, and I had to debate for a while before settling on this over _My Neighbor Totoro_ or _Spirited Away_, but this one is tops for me.
Although if you asked for my favorite *single scene* from an animated movie, it'd have to be that train ride across the water in _Spirited Away_. Just breathtakingly beautiful.
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@asakiyume Yeah, I've never seen anything by Studio Ghibli that I didn't like, and I had to debate for a while before settling on this over _My Neighbor Totoro_ or _Spirited Away_, but this one is tops for me.
Although if you asked for my favorite *single scene* from an animated movie, it'd have to be that train ride across the water in _Spirited Away_. Just breathtakingly beautiful.
@kagan And the MUSIC from that part of Spirited Away is one of my favorites from Joe Hisaishi (though there are many contenders.
Yeah, the dreamlike nature of that ride across the water is really something.
EDIT: the music wasn't quite right for that -_-
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@kagan And the MUSIC from that part of Spirited Away is one of my favorites from Joe Hisaishi (though there are many contenders.
Yeah, the dreamlike nature of that ride across the water is really something.
EDIT: the music wasn't quite right for that -_-
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#ScribesAndMakers day 17: What's an animated movie you love?
_Princess Mononoke,_ by Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli.
#ScribesAndMakers day 18: Vinyl, compact disc, digital, or radio?
Digital. It's nice not to have to lug around lots of physical objects to have music.
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@kagan @dyana His work must be seen in the original art, never a print. The presence is powerful. Scale, tones, texture all make a significant impression. The kind of work where no one in the room it was in would ever start chatting. It’s monumental IRL and a surprise likely if you’ve never seen his work.
Thanks for the perspective! I have seen his work in person. I think I need to stand in front of one with a friend who does like it so they can explain it to me.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 18: Vinyl, compact disc, digital, or radio?
Digital. It's nice not to have to lug around lots of physical objects to have music.
#ScribesAndMakers day 20: When it comes to theater, do you prefer tragedy or comedy?
Comedy, although it's a close thing. Watching someone completely ruin their life can be grand and full of pathos, and many of the best soliloquies are from tragedies, not comedies. But in the end, I prefer to walk out of the theater having laughed and had fun rather than having gone, "OMG, can you please not do the obviously catastrophic things?" for a couple of hours.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 20: When it comes to theater, do you prefer tragedy or comedy?
Comedy, although it's a close thing. Watching someone completely ruin their life can be grand and full of pathos, and many of the best soliloquies are from tragedies, not comedies. But in the end, I prefer to walk out of the theater having laughed and had fun rather than having gone, "OMG, can you please not do the obviously catastrophic things?" for a couple of hours.
#ScribesAndMakers day 23: If you garden, do you give away anything that you grow? If so, what do you give away the most of?
I don't garden.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 23: If you garden, do you give away anything that you grow? If so, what do you give away the most of?
I don't garden.
#ScribesAndMakers day 24: What's a work of science fiction that you love? What do you love about it?
I'm going to say, completely unironically: ST:TOS. Maybe it's partly because I grew up on it — and look, I'm not saying *every* episode; some of them were real stinkers¹ — but by and large, the message that humanity can come together, overcome our differences, triumph over the three evils of racism, militarism, and greed, and even ally with alien species in the pursuit of... 1/2
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#ScribesAndMakers day 24: What's a work of science fiction that you love? What do you love about it?
I'm going to say, completely unironically: ST:TOS. Maybe it's partly because I grew up on it — and look, I'm not saying *every* episode; some of them were real stinkers¹ — but by and large, the message that humanity can come together, overcome our differences, triumph over the three evils of racism, militarism, and greed, and even ally with alien species in the pursuit of... 1/2
...knowledge and peace, is one that I wish more works would promote, and more people would follow, today. 2/2
1. I know, you're thinking of "Spock's Brain". But "The Empath" is even worse. Hoo boy, does that one suck!
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...knowledge and peace, is one that I wish more works would promote, and more people would follow, today. 2/2
1. I know, you're thinking of "Spock's Brain". But "The Empath" is even worse. Hoo boy, does that one suck!
@kagan
funny story, it took me years to get my spouse to watch ST:TOS with me because every time he came across it in reruns as a kid/young adult, the episode airing was "Miri."
(An episode he loathes to this day)
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Hm. I wonder how much of my love for Awful Cinema comes from enjoying even the stinker episodes of TOS. -
@kagan
funny story, it took me years to get my spouse to watch ST:TOS with me because every time he came across it in reruns as a kid/young adult, the episode airing was "Miri."
(An episode he loathes to this day)
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Hm. I wonder how much of my love for Awful Cinema comes from enjoying even the stinker episodes of TOS.@kmherkes When I first saw "Miri", I didn't see the problem with it.
In my defense, I was maybe 8 years old?
I forget when it was that I saw a little of it as a post-pubescent, rather than pre-pubescent, person and went "yikes".
But anyway, yeah. Not enough yikes in the world for that one.
