home/blog/drawsandwork last edit November 4, 2024

more drawings & work changes

been a sec since i used the blog proper, huh ! all the #update entries lately have been in individual project logs or new pages. this one felt like a blog post though .. probably because the main thing to share is, i went through my old backups and added a bunch more drawings to drawings! (and theres not really a more specific place to say that.) anyways so yeah, that "pre-cohost" section at the bottom has basically everything i would want in it now. it felt nice digging up the original renders of these and putting everything in one place. a bunch of them were things i posted on twitter or instagram, and i even tried to look through my account exports from there after i had a nice time doing the cohost one ... but of course those have the images all scaled and garbled the way those sites process them. (it really is like one of the big sleeper bummers about cohost that now theres just no good place to put an image in a post that wont destructively process it. i feel for the photographers) but so i bit the bullet and just went back to the source (my lovingly woven rats nest of screenshot folders) and got a chance to re-curate and reminisce a little, and now everythings just here ! thanks website :)

besides that i also added one of these now page things ive been seeing around, cause i think its a cute idea and it gels kind of nicely with how ive already been using the update tag to generate the front page and rss feed; i tested it out locally and i can make the page pop up to the top of that feed when i edit it, so paired with that the now page becomes kind of a cross between like, a series of "disappearing posts" and a single live page with ephemeral edits or something ? idunno, im feeling it out, but i think in theory its pretty satisfying to both my desire to post more little stray thoughts, but also to not have to like Commit them to the Record so much . i even thought about sticking the update tag on drawings instead of making this post, and maybe putting a temporary little note at the top; but then i realized there was a little more i actually wanted to blog about ...

including, the first item on that now page, my present unemployment. yes indeed ! not the place or time for a lot of details but, i lost my dang job . so now i have to figure out how to make money and stuff... and yeah im passing the website hat about it, i made this little tip jar page and put a link in the footer and everything. but thats just for buyin me coffees, so to speak; as far as any more substantive support, i dont see a super clear path connecting it to here just now . i dont like, make anything physical i could sell really, i probably wont have any music ready to release for a while, plus that one would take a ton of social groundwork ... i could do music or drawings or websites on commission, or make a zine or something -

idunno, im poking around for some kind of answer cause frankly, ive been craving more creative engagement in my money-work for some time, and im so freakin creatively engaged in website space lately, and its like ... people make money doing this stuff sometimes, right ? #art and music and websites and, just being curious about everything interesting ? its clear to me that i ought to have my sticky lil fingers in five or six cool projects at any given time, and even clearer looking around this place. wouldnt it be nice if i could transmute that into coins , so i could really throw all my energy there.. ? well i've tried a bit before, i had a patreon for a while, ive dipped a toe in the waters of self promotion ... but nothing really stuck or ever got much steam . but a lot has changed since then, in the landscape and in me. that was before cohost entirely, and mostly before the pandemic started ! i found this project comradery from this blog post by cohost founder colin @vogon¹ thats trying to do like, patreon but a worker co-op, they're in alpha and taking applications for accounts .. so thats cool ..... i cant honestly say im considering anything too seriously right now, but i also cant say it doesnt stir a little something in my breast !

anyway thats quite enough of that. if wishes were fishes, right ? at a certain point the next step is to just do it. but i do think it makes some sense to blog it out long-style here too. cause one of the whole things with the #meta is like, its not just about organizing stuff for myself, but also for presentation ... making these thoughts and feelings and discoveries navigable, manipulable, explorable; finding them forms of expression that, could make them valuable to others ! that's - that sounds relevant, right ?? do you see where i'm ... heh. but you know, it is helpful for me too. so thanks for reading and indulging me a bit of processing space . as always, hmu if you ever wanna exchange a couple letters for just about any reason. but this time especially if youre just dyin' for me to soundtrack your cool video game or something ;)