We've spent half of the first January of this new decade already and after two and a half weeks of procrastinating, I figured I should do this now before the last full week of January begins: a retrospect with statistics, even neater than my already neatened approach on the statistics on DA (you can read it and more of my ramblings on 2019, the decade of 2010 and my thoughts for the future there).
Words of an AI (sort of)
I stumbled upon Talk to Transformer, which is about a neural network completing text given to it. Since the FFM writer I found it through, Flammenfeder, asked its opinion on politics, I decided to ask it the question "What is art?"
Phoenix is out!
Some analysis on how my projects progressed in Q2 2019
If you have followed my posts on DeviantArt, you have noticed that I have taken up the habit of recording how my art projects are progressing and putting the data into infographs after each quarter. I never got around to posting Q1's stats here, but I figured that since I have more extensive stats now, … Continue reading Some analysis on how my projects progressed in Q2 2019
Aphantasia – “You have an extremely unusual way of solving problems!”
This is an old sketch from school days that I happened to have scanned. You can see the layers of lines built up as I felt around for the shape I wanted and then started to nail down the ones that landed where I wanted them.
When I was in fourth-year architecture, I took an elective course in multidimensional geometry. (Yes, I did this on purpose. It was a great course.)
In the opening lecture, the professor stood at the front of the class and asked us whether anyone could imagine an equilateral triangle with three right angles in it. Nobody could – it breaks all the rules about what triangles are. He then threw a transparency on the overhead (this was 1995 – ask your parents if you have no idea what an overhead was) that contained an image of the earth – a line was drawn along one…
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Happy New Year!
The year has changed here in Finland, so I wish you all a very happy new year 2019! Let's make this year awesome!
My published poem: translated!
I decided that, as one of my final deeds at art this year, I will finally translate the poem that got published this spring. Luckily, it was not very long, so I could do it in one sitting. Both the original Finnish version and the translated English version are now on my DeviantArt page. I've … Continue reading My published poem: translated!
The arrival of Ten Little Astronaus
Alrighty, my copy of Damon Wakes's Ten Little Astronauts has arrived at my place in Finland and it looks fantastic! :D I can't wait to start reading it during my Christmas holiday! AND HERE IT IS!!! That record is so cool and I have no words for telling how much I love that cover art! … Continue reading The arrival of Ten Little Astronaus
Ten Little Astronauts Out Today!
Ten Little Astronauts has now been published and is available for sale – no pledging, no pre-ordering – anywhere you might reasonably expect to buy books! Readers who supported Unbound’s crowdfunding campaign started getting their copies yesterday.
If you’ve got one yourself, please do share a photo – I’m putting together a Twitter moment featuring as many as I can find:
The book is available in a whole bunch of places I’ll be adding to its page on this site as I discover them, but for now your main options are:
Alternatively you should be able to quite simply walk into a bookshop and ask for it. I’m not sure how many places will stock it right off the bat like this, but any of them should…
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I’ve gotten published!
Some time ago, LitConquistadores offered FFM writers a chance to get published. I submitted some of my stories and... Two of them were chosen for the anthology, which is now published! This anthology is called The Ruminations of a Multiheaded Monster. Check out all the buying options here: http://fav.me/dctgp5l Oh? Which are my stories that … Continue reading I’ve gotten published!
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