Not sure if it’s the breaking sounds you do recognise that are worst, or the ones you can’t even place.
Very polite of my blue recycling bin to give a friendly tap on the window before trying to come into the kitchen.
Remember everyone—if anyone asks, this is definitely yellow. Not ‘mainly reds’. Ignore the wet palette.
Right, Orktober is almost upon us, absolutely zero excuse not to get back to this guy. And to painting in general. First step will unfortunately have to be reverse-engineering the ad hoc mess of paints I was using for ‘yellow?’, since of course I didn’t write it down.
Alien: Earth episode 5 is a better Alien film in its own right than half the franchise of actual films.
Varifocals for work, switching between screens at various close and middle distances; distance vision prescription for moving about in ’the human world’ and, crucially, watching TV; reading lenses for seeing small details in mini painting. Throw in the prescription sunglasses/Transitions lenses for summer.
Life is the continuing accumulation of ever less effective pairs of glasses.
Infinitesimal onward progress. The accidental boop of white paint on the forehead is making me think I may as well give skin mottling a try. Happy little accidents etc.
Gravel-on-the-window rain again as the season shifts delightfully.
Speaking of ‘yellow’ (so-called), let’s see if we can work out how to invoke that imposter again… (🥰 to @andrewroycroft for the beautiful birthday gift of a light box!)
It’s taken me three episodes of Alien: Earth to realise that’s Ade Edmondson. Weirdly, only twigged because of the way he stood In one scene.
A quick blast of Ultra Matte seems to fix the mask layers well enough to paint over (h/t @Thebratdragon). It definitely leaves some unintentional texture at the boundaries but… it’s an Ork. It’s 90% unintentional texture. As long as the face detail isn’t obscured it’ll probably be grand.
Well, chalk that one up to experience. I’d finally picked up the paints again after months only to ‘ruin’ (slightly mar, to the point of minor but strongly-held annoyance) a mini while experimenting with masking fluid.
It’s barely visible in the image but there are small patches where it’s either inaccessible to get at and peel, or where it’s adhered in a crevice and stuck. I don’t want overpaint or I’m sure it’ll flake off at an inconvenient time later.
There’s a terrifying house I sometimes own in deep, seasonal dreams. Dozens of uncurtained windows facing out into black.
Alien: Earth is the most interesting thing they’ve done with the franchise in literal decades. I didn’t realise it was by the guy behind Legion or I’d have paid a lot more attention.
Finally had a real-world opportunity to use the “it’s because of the interesting word usements I structure” quote from classic Steve-Martin-starring Enya-delivery-vehicle ‘L.A. Story’.
It has sadly, thus far, remained entirely uncommented upon.
Just had a weird ‘wait, where’s my fence, don’t I have a fence?’ dissociative moment in the garden. In just a year it has been completely (and delightfully) obscured by climbing greenery.
I’d somehow been mentally filing it as ’the neighbour’s hedge’.
Now sitting at 4144 pixels, the threshold of what can be shown on a single 4K monitor has been breached. Containment has been lost. Save yourselves.
It’s been an ‘interesting’ visual experience running the macOS Tahoe beta…
Last text message sent: “It’s like someone cosplaying the end times while dressed up as the OTT satire of the first Robocop film.”
I assumed going thirty years between games consoles would leave me in choice paralysis hell in terms of what to play, but it turns out the best game of all time definitively does exist.