This is far and away my most popular work published yet; made last spring for a discord server’s weekly theme, “Cozy.” I’ve decided the caterpillar’s name is Jackson, after the kind old gardener who introduced my sister and I to his summertime pests when we were little. (More like summertime pets, am I right?)
While considering whether to participate in the challenge, I went looking for a tutorial for knitting with geometry nodes (thinking I
could make a joke about a granny getting carried away making cozies for
everything). But instead, I found Erindale’s tutorial on UV-based procedural knit textures and wanted to test it on something more complex than a square plane. And then there was a tomato hornworm.
It was a fun puzzle combining armature, object, and shape key animations to get a slightly hacky knit loop
together in a week. The only things I added after the deadline were sound design (self-recorded foley and CC0 nature sounds) and an improvement to the loop of the modified Unsplash image from Matteo Silvestri in the
background.
Proudest moments so far:
A weaver on Twitter who had tried to learn knitting before, for whom the theory clicked while watching this loop.
The surprise of getting an honorable mention in the challenge, and the judge’s heartfelt appraisal of it: “This one is disgusting…but darn cozy.”
Video description under the cut.
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Your vibe is oddly bitter and reeks of insecurity
sounds like someone needs to go in the water
Reblogging again because the art is spectacular. 10/10.
[ID: The first image is part of the Twitch video collection editing page for a collection titled “Enthusiastic Entomology” with the description “Recreating a scorpion and cactus character from Nicholas Kole’s concept art, for 3D animation.” The collection’s total length is 138:56:08 (nearly 139 hours) and it was last updated June 1, 2023.
The second image is zoomed in and vignetted to highlight the next piece of information: 47 of 100 videos added to collection.
The third and final image is a rough digital cartoon (light on dark) of the artist in a desk chair leaning on the desk in front of her laptop, saying, “So what I’m hearing is I have a new deadline…” Behind the laptop is a small bee with a fish tail holding a knife. It says, in brighter white than the rest of the comic, “Don’t you dare.” End ID]
EGYPT FROM ABOVE (2020) — (1.01) Egypt's Ancient Empire
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Wait, garters are venomous?
Many species are, yeah. It’s not anywhere close to medically significant to anyone who isn’t, like, a slug, though.
Faunwood's "Slither."
Currently on view at Antler Gallery in Portland, Oregon is artist Faunwood's solo exhibition, "Slither."
Miranda ZImmerman, better known as Faunwood, creates delightful and exotic ceramic sculptures and illustrations of woodland critters. "Slither" is a very welcome continuation of the brilliant series from the Eugene, Oregon-based artist.
A Number System Invented by Inuit Schoolchildren Will Make Its Silicon Valley Debut
Math is called the “universal language,” but a unique dialect is being reborn
by scientificamerican.com
In the remote Arctic almost 30 years ago, a group of Inuit middle school students and their teacher invented the Western Hemisphere’s first new number system in more than a century. The “Kaktovik numerals,” named after the Alaskan village where they were created, looked utterly different from decimal system numerals and functioned differently, too. But they were uniquely suited for quick, visual arithmetic using the traditional Inuit oral counting system, and they swiftly spread throughout the region. Now, with support from Silicon Valley, they will soon be available on smartphones and computers—creating a bridge for the Kaktovik numerals to cross into the digital realm.
Today’s numerical world is dominated by the Hindu-Arabic decimal system. This system, adopted by almost every society, is what many people think of as “numbers”—values expressed in a written form using the digits 0 through 9. But meaningful alternatives exist, and they are as varied as the cultures they belong to.
this is so cool
Absolutely love it
[ID: Tweet by Megan K. Stack @/Megankstack reading “At bedtime the 8 yo told me his teacher said: "think of your mind like a pond full of fish each fish is a feeling. Try to be the pond, not the fish.” And all I can say is primary school has significantly improved.“ End.Id]
how do you guys stop thoughts of anxiety and stress at bedtime? anything with sound is not an option, I need to wear ear plugs because of my cat from hell
@cjgladback reading has worked for me yesterday so thank you!
I’m so glad it helped! And since I should’ve been brave and said it in a reblog to start with, here’s the copy & paste for screen readers.
[Image ID: Tumblr post reply from cjgladback sent 10 hours before the screenshot. “When sound’s not an option, reading (dark mode on an epub reader) is an option ignoring the very healthy advice to avoid screens. When I’m to the closed eyes point, if there isn’t a daydream story I want to tell myself I tend to just rotate 3D shapes in my mind and morph them into different forms. Since that’s usually the kind of visual that my dreams start in. And first slowing your breathing (6 in, 6 held, 12 out or a better pattern) helps if you’re angry/panicked.” End ID]
