This week’s wallpaper is FREE to download in #WallarooApp and on our Patreon. I took one of the drawings I did for #Inktober in Linea and flushed it all out, added new textures, new orientations and even a fun nighttime variant!
Winter Birch is completely free to download so grab Wallaroo in the App Store today and then check out the hundreds of other wallpapers available, with new ones added each and every week. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallaroo/id1630565980
Next week our #Monarch wallpaper arrives. Just sayin! 😃
I was making scripts, styles, mags, and posting content several times a day every day trying to build kbin and encourage engagement, and on that front, it pretty much never got better.
Your work is appreciated. :)
It feels a bit lonely, I do wish more lurkers would consider joining the convo. There's lots of talk about things being stale and dead, not many active niche communities, but 98% of people aren't contributing. It's okay to not be a content creator, but a single comment a week is better than no comments ever. I might be a taaaad salty, because of how much effort I put in, and that the lack of interactions and engagement is pretty much the ONLY thing keeping kbin from reaching it's full potential.
I could not agree more, LOL. Props for powering through that feeling, I'll go check out some of your magazines soon. Unfortunately, this is a problem that feeds itself, as people don't want to post because people aren't posting. Someone's gotta be first on the dance floor if we want to see /kbin thrive. I've been quite busy with IRL stuff, so I haven't been able to post as much lately. What you said about even a single comment every once in awhile really makes a difference.
Speaking of microblogging, I still don't know what those are somehow lol. are they like mastodon tweets or toots or whatever? 😭
Yeah, that's basically what they are. Being unfamilar with them is no problem. The great thing about #kbin is that options are available, but not forced on us. #Microblogs could become more useful/relevant with the introduction of the #allContent tab being created. Having an aggregated view is really helpful for easing into how it could be used. One way I've been messing with it is to have an overview of magazines so I can more easily be aware of any content that needs to be moderated. I think they could be useful for other stuff besides one off #tweets/#toots so you can group related posts to look back on -- themed posts over a span of time (like #inktober posts, #caturday etc). I also regularly use them in @learnjapanese for my #japanesepractice.
The last few years, my wife and I have done something every day for the month of October-- art challenges, projects, etc (the same way some people do 'Inktober').
I recently posted some of the Simpsons art we did every day in October this year.
Last year, we did a podcast called Podcast of Horror and recorded an episode every day in October, talking about Simpsons Halloween episodes. We managed to cover EVERY Simpsons Halloween thing released up to last year -- even specials like Halloween of Horror and Thanksgiving of Horror. The other day, we just made one more new episode to cover the new Treehouse of Horror XXXIV from this year (and we'll continue to do it every year as long as there's new ones!)
I guess this all started because I've had a cartoon blog (https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com) forever, and the podcast is based on that. I still write about cartoons and watch them a lot. We might talk about more cartoons eventually on a podcast of some kind.
I was also planning some future stuff on Twitch - doing full vintage episode streams like https://twitch.tv/dailysimpsons does once a week.
As I was painting today at my in-laws' sunroom here in France, a small sparrow bird hit its large window. I held it in my hand for a few seconds, to place it under protection from the rain, such a fragile little thing. Soon after I got some bird food that my in-laws had around, and by the time I went close to it again to leave the food with it, it flew away. Hopefully it will survive this coming winter without problems.
The two paintings were painted with artist's crayons, and watercolors.
J'ai fait #inktober en dessinant un clown tous les jours. Ensuite j'ai fait un cahier de coloriage ou devrais-je dire CAHIER DE CLOWNORIAGE que j'ai mis ici à disposition :
But... but... the important thing is right behind you, Mulder!
Was trying to have a bit of fun with watercolors tonight, but I really couldn't bother to develop this further. I was more interested in watching youtube videos about the end of capitalism.
Two gouache paintings I made for an online challenge sometime back.
Continuing my tech-related post from yesterday, I'd say that my dream computer these days is a capable Risc-V-based mini computer running Debian. The Risc-V is the only open source ISA architecture today, but it is not 100% there yet in terms of speed: it gets about 500 points in the CPU score, while an M1 Macbook Air gets about 14,000 points, and Ubuntu with Gnome to run well-enough it needs about 3500 points. Video codecs are an issue too. It still runs well-enough Debian with XFce though. So we aren't there yet, but its time will come.
✨ What is your favorite thing about kbin? ✨
Here are mine! A handful of things come to mind right away, but there are plenty more:...