that’s neat, if i worked pigment into the filler that would be a cool approach for sure. to dot me
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that’s neat, if i worked pigment into the filler that would be a cool approach for sure. to dot me
thanks! looks close to the first round of restoration about six months ago but it’s nice that the eye doesn’t land on any smooth spots anymore, that bothered me.
still have trouble with adhesion / color depth on the dye even after four coats; ended up stippling with the sponge in the most stubborn areas, i assume in part because it isn’t real leather. still drying in this pic but overall happy with results. going to cure and then work some balm into it.
the big tip for anyone looking to restore some vintage furniture: get a bottle of Howard’s Feed N Wax. a lot of the time when vintage wood looks worn and damaged, it isn’t at all—it’s just dried out. here is the back of the selig chair, before and after applying feed n wax and buffing.
grateful to a youtube leather restorer video for that tip. i’ve got to apply a lot of coats of leather dye to restore the color now but i am much happier with the resulting texture from spraying the chip guard at 18-24in and gently knocking it down some with 400 grit sandpaper.
take two restoring the seat on the selig (eames lounger copy). leather filler can help repair big cracks and damage but restoring the surface texture can be dicey. sanded down the first repair, re-applied filler, then hit it with SEM Chip Guard, an aerosol spray intended for bumper repairs.
this year i took my family to private zoo / wild animal reserve with a bewildering array of animals. if you wonder how you end up having such animals, turns out you become Exotic Animal Guy that people who have, say, a mountain lion getting dangerously full grown, someone slips them your number
honestly i think all that stuff is solid workflow, it’s just the propensity of people to overshade the daylights out of everything. just my personal pet peeve. light still exists! shadows still cast on teeny lil guys!
well done, i like the emphasis on color and texture read; the stuff that’s super shaded and lighting-baked-in is not to my taste. i think you’ve done really well here calling out the immense detail in the sculpt without muddying or overworking it. great job
a mateba is always a good idea though we’ve got two revolvers in the game already and i’m not sure we can fit another gits nod :)
excellent week for the founding members of the .357 club in #brigadorkillers. is there an interesting niche i'm not thinking of that's a .357 magnum caliber gun?
for everyone who saw the gun renders i posted on here, here they are and then some, plus the lore as it will appear in #brigadorkillers. hope you enjoy them
always a possibility, true.
definitely considered, though unfortunately those don’t achieve a novel operating system and/or silhouette, which are important considerations when your equipped gun is represented by a tiny sprite on screen most of the time
excellent week for the founding members of the .357 club in #brigadorkillers. is there an interesting niche i'm not thinking of that's a .357 magnum caliber gun?
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
on the other end of the 357 gamut we have the... Hilfmir? what is that, swedish? #brigadorkillers
finished render of the mr73, in-world designation tbd. #brigadorkillers
but yes, i've spent years thinking about MB and other brigadors and how they factor in the new reality on mar nosso
hahah yes, more or less a direct line there for sure. pithy, know-it-all who loves to go on and on about hardware but can tell a good tale now and then. over time developing the entries, that became the important marker for me, personally—that the entries should have a good punchline, like a joke.
@pantspants.bsky.social alert! Christopher Meloni has exquisite taste in home furnishing and reading material. youtu.be/dx_uXn2XZP0?... (timestamp)
absolutely. i have one of his signed prints hanging on my office wall.
to expand on the last point, Keith Thompson is a very gifted artist whose work we admired, but especially because he presented it alongside evocative story vignettes. for whatever reason that was why i felt like i had permission (funny how that goes) to write little stories for our world.
sometimes we must respect the call to make a goofy gun even goofier. #brigadorkillers
it did! the inspiration was three parts. FC3’s doing gun descriptions in character voice, John Dolan’s writing as Gary Brecher (The War Nerd) for the character tone itself, and Keith Thompson’s doing story vignettes for his art on his site for the overall world building approach tinyurl.com/ycd5e6xw
i liked alien earth ep4. slowest one yet but not dull, and tv sometimes means piece moving eps. “sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” is arthur c. clarke though, not asimov. odd, easily checked detail to get wrong imo
the barrel isnt long enough and there are some inaccuracies but i'll never get them all done if i fuss each weapon too hard. this is very close for our purposes. i enjoyed the modeling exercise of modeling out the bipod as closely as possible.
our parents’ generation absolutely got fooled in almost the exact way that they said we would get duped by the internet when we were first starting out. it’s awful
surely not…? #wip #brigadorkillers
for everyone who saw the gun renders i posted on here, here they are and then some, plus the lore as it will appear in #brigadorkillers. hope you enjoy them
last time i watched it i was struck by how interesting it was seeing the overt cameron-isms of the script filtered through bigelow’s sensibilties, not unlike the pleasure of watching true romance. i feel like cameron himself wouldn’t have sold the love story so angle as artfully as bigelow.
because ultimately isn’t that how we’ve been duped into frittering away our time and attention? celebrities and small gaffes held under scrutiny and culture war football? anything but keeping the targets centered on the billionaires continuing to scoop our entrails out?
change is inevitable and companies sliding into irrelevancy are bound to try and figure a new strategy (see also jaguar). i’d much rather have a conversation about the design chops and design decisions than accept an easy target for riffing + ridicule. i’m suspicious about targets served up to me.
and i think it’s human to want to cling to something, any small dumb crap that gives you some measure of comfort these days. maybe it’s ok to be upset about a self consciously old timey style restaurant you liked giving up on its old timey style. that was the whole bit, after all.
the cracker barrel thing is another dumb little ball to kick around in the culture war, sure. maybe in charity we can refuse that frame and say, there are all kinds of people shocked and bewildered by the past several months regardless of their politics.
Bringing Out The Dead (1999), Scorsese’s undersung second collaboration with the great Paul Schrader. A dark night of the soul movie that has influenced much of how I have made sense of my adult life, dark times, and the beautiful bruised messy business of being human. We’re all dying, Mary Burke.
thank you to you and everyone else that encourage people to see two lane blacktop. when i finally watched it, it was one of those revelatory “i did not know you could make films like this” experiences.
surprise i just dropped a new article! i had a lot of thoughts about how people don't know how to engage with fiction, which ties into chatgpt delusion & book bans among other things. big thanks to @cxorlando.bsky.social for telling me to write about it when i posted a throwaway insta story
wonderful! i've found that detailing rusting/weathering on miniatures has much the same effect. it's so detail oriented and yet so... unstructured? its a very pleasant piece for the viewer i think in the same way as it was to make.
yes, running into modern soda serving sizes, when you haven’t been paying attention to them, is like the last time i was exposed to broadcast tv—oh people do this? on purpose? what is happening
i only watched a little of the tv show but i can see why the promise of the premise lent itself to spawning such a long running show, it’s pretty irresistible. honestly i liked the film a lot better than when i saw it in the 90s. a product of its time, mostly in positive ways. healthy cheese.
i love all the stuff you don’t see in movies anymore, the big built sets and sweeping sword and sandal epic style giant crowd scenes. the digital visual effects hold up handsomely, and miniature effects, well, emmerich was plainly just getting started.
russell and spader are both so incredibly charismatic on screen and photogenic and yet they share long stretches with almost no dialogue and only warm up a little at the end. clear prototype for the revised version (will smith and jeff goldblum). other similar dynamics echo between the films
that most famous emmerich is the interesting comparison. the same way cameron would continue to hone his grand theory of how to make the perfect blockbuster (spoilers: the ocean is involved), in stargate you see many of the instincts and plot elements that, pumped up, would make independence day
the film taking its time, building up tension and suspense for the big moments and reveals i think really work. the ending is also notably like a sort of first draft for how the finale for independence day works out.
it takes us (from a modern perspective) an incredible amount of time to even get through the stargate and then even more to make contact, let alone basically half the film until the villains of the piece show up. it’s by no means sophisticated; these characters are still heroic paper dolls, and yet
watched Stargate in a fit of pique after realizing i probably hadn’t watched it in close to 25 years. an admirably sound nuts and bolts construction from a different era of craft. roland emmerich’s work would be equated more and more with bombast over time and yet this film feels super old school
calories and sugar and all that aside, a big ol drink just seems like such a dangerous gambit in the theater. i hate ducking out for the bathroom
haha it always seemed like a sure bet to me yeah
man-amplifiers on parade
oh i remember really liking the trailer but not actually watching this, thank you for the reminder
still one of our favorite merch items. zippo is a great company to work with, and the quality is so nice that the last time we did PAX, these lighters sold themselves to people that had no interest in the game because Skull.
Tremendous piece by Chris Person on the pointless mutilation of film history by morons, overeager tech-heads (a subspecies of moron), and directors who've gotten lost in the sauce of unbridled capitalism. aftermath.site/true-lies-4k...
a future where true luxury is the time to have been briefed on an intentionally obscurant ui where there is no need for one. on track for the three shells
i'm reaching under the desk and hammering the @jesawyer.bsky.social shower interface alarm
lovely!
go off guillermo del toro 🫶🏻
Tell a friend who likes kei trucks about Honcho. 🙇♀️🙇
yeah no kidding. originally it had more of a shield for the user but i don’t think sticking your face close to a cut down barrel would be godo for you.
getting on some death stranding type gorped up swag
Cor, Blimey. 90% off Landlord's Super. Your quintessential construction simulator. store.steampowered.com/app/1127840/...
behold the "HTML bomb" It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
deepens my appreciation for Borges' Aleph. not only because of the incredible conceit at its core, which we all love science fiction et al for, but because its couched in incredibly human terms narratively.
hah, yeah. maybe one of his best feats to be honest
one of my favorite working definitions of style is "whatever you can pull off convincingly" and maybe that's the crux. at this point, what does reilly have to prove to anyone. comedy, drama, musicals? earned the right to be any type of guy he wants to be now. even a hat guy.
imo you earn the right at a certain age and station and body weight. it makes you look friendly and approachable and gently rumpled, like a careworn teddy bear. who yes is also drunk on a riverboat. can you imagine how nice it must be to take your hat off and fan yourself with it at any time
You do not have to reflexively surrender your brain and political imagination to a bunch of fascist rich guys who've spent the last decade getting neck deep into extreme fringe delusions about machine gods! You really don't!
Do we still like cutaway pictures? I've been experimenting with turning my scans into cross-sections. #photogrammetry
I wrote about Night Moves
goldie helped out a lot on Earthling and Bowie seems to have paid back in kind, good for him.
so i’ve been told. would that we could all write a novel like that
sounds like a book i’d like to check out. the cover also strongly reminds me of Dhalgren, a book i still haven’t read somehow but the cover alone has haunted/inspired me since childhood
a generation that patiently told their parent no, your computer is not infected with a virus because a flashing pop-under declared it, somehow find themselves completely enthralled to /besotted by / fearful of a customer service chatbot with a very odd penchant for roleplaying. why do people do this
when people fan and daub their brow with a handkerchief because the ai went into spicy pattern matching mode it feels like watching a kid get their world rocked playing with a magic eight ball for the first time. and then you realize most people could still assign great meaning to just that.
i understand gassing up ai’s power and credibility is big business, which accounts for the giant distortion field around it. but this kind of shock and hand wringing about the wacky stuff stuff bots say belies a completely unearned credulity and authority assigned to this tech. this is still ELIZA.
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Also, right, it's #portfolioday ! I'm the Captain, and I draw spaceships and robots.
i think if you replace “ask chatgpt” with the phrase “ask the devil” i think it really helps set a more appropriate perspective on the thing
better accuracy than i could probably manage that that range, but then ive never really shot scoped
what rifle and what range?
thank you so much! that’s very kind of you to say. hope you enjoy Brigador Killers.
New #BrigadorKillers music drop from @makeupandvanityset.bsky.social buckle up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBuV... #Brigador #gamedev #getdownwithindustrial
there’s the adage in graphic design: if it’s not working, make it big. if that’s not working make it red. if that doesn’t work make it black and white and red. not too proud to get a splash screen to work:
Borges’ capsule review of KING KONG in which he mostly complains that Kong should be bigger
what the hell? they put a delicious-looking shooting game in the scrandle and i only have 22 hours left to take advantage of the steam summer sale?? store.steampowered.com/app/439490/B...
June's #gamedev post is a quick one about beauty renders for the inventory screen of Brigador Killers on @steampowered.com store.steampowered.com/news/app/903... on @itch.io stellar-jockeys.itch.io/brigadorkill...
he was yes but if you just wear enough military veteran style hats on the back cover you’re smoke screened from that kind of comparison. mostly
a seed from the original work that goes on to grow into its own wonderful new thing. appreciating a work and a work that inspired it is like meeting a great friend’s parent for the first time, there is nothing but joy and appreciation and laughter and “oh, of course”
i have been reading borges again and the house of asterion, a story i think i read many years ago but now immediately shocked me as very obviously inspiring a good deal of susanna clarke’s exquisite novel piranesi in the best way. there are derivations but i think the truest inspiration is a seed
yes. he was a true believer / completely shameless military hardware otaku. not sure how you get into submarines otherwise. the belief element though, i think is really hard to maintain in the present era. in a cynical age of self there’d have to be something bigger than the self to believe.
also please don’t write “the end of reading” like that like it’s self evident. though it is
yes, clancy is key especially now. how else to really account for jack ryan spun up again and again until americans remember that gosh, the world out there is a pretty bad place and hey we might have to “torture some folks” but in the end the cia will keep us safe.
i think that’s a great point though doesn’t start or stop with clancy. so many generations of american fed a steady diet of pro cop, pro military, and cia interventionalism media that the disparity and obscenity of some of clancy’s premises never occurred to many people for a long time.
Five more packs of 1/144 scale minis are coming to the merch store soon. Here's a sneak peak at some assembled and painted. First is the Corvid Fatshoe mech...
...the Loyalist Betka & Antänzer tanks...
aaaaaaaand the KICK IS GOOOOOOOOOD!!!! #BrigadorKillers #Brigador #gamedev
followed you without seeing this. feel tricked
