Could you elucidate? I searched google but came up with a number of weird things like horse drawn machine guns and choirs (I think the latter is a song about machine guns???). Game perhaps?
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Neat! Some those modules are really complex. Long way from the Moog VCO-VCF-VCA. Iām so glad modular is back. Digital really took over in the '80ās and it looked like modular was gone.
I build some Aries kits long ago, then came across a 2nd or 3rd (or 4th or 5th) hand system for sale, and bought that. Worked on it for years, even added a few models described by Craig Anderton in Keyboard magazine; a VCF and VCEG using Curtis Electromusic chips. Sold it after my interests sort of changed. Now I just lurk, and listen.
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Yeah. (Sorry that the proposed box design reads Tatsnapka)
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Thanks ā that looks like a lot of work. Good luck!
Iām not a gamer myself, but Iāve known plenty over the years. My introduction to RPGs was a friend who, with a friend of his, developed Space Quest back in the dark ages. I remember helping them collate pages once. 
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Did an interview tonight
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Iāll have to listen to all of this later on! Money mindset coaching sounds really interesting.
It is interesting. I never heard of it until I got into the entrepreneur world. It sounds like bullshit until you start trying to make money, and then you have to confront these stories you create around it. I for years used to say, āI canāt make money at Yoga.ā The funny thing is that if someone came to my class and said, āI canāt do a headstand,ā Iād correct them and say, āYou canāt do a headstand YET.ā I know that as soon as you see that possibility is there to learn it, it gives you permission to try, and that gives you the ability to do really hard things. I know - I can do a lot of those Yoga Journal cover poses. I didnāt see that I did the exact same thing with money that people do with headstands; it was uncomfortable to see my own ideas about money were so limiting. Itās really neat that there are people who specifically focus on this issue to help entrepreneurs grow.
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Modular today is in a fun place. It seems like a lot of people got into it as a sort of backlash against digital synths and the computer being the center of a studio. But Eurorack format in particular came to be less Moog traditionalist, and more hybridized than some other formats.
A couple of makers introduced proudly digital modules, a few brought in West Coast Buchla/Serge designs, and some introduced ideas from computer science or animation and gave them musical applications, or said āa mixer should be an instrumentā or āthereās no reason an envelope generator canāt also be an oscillatorā or āwhy canāt modules be programmable?ā or āwhy not freely interface hardware with virtual modules in software?āā¦ and now itās pretty much wide open. And I love it 
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Got my rack rearranged and the last module I was waiting on set up today. So this is how itās going to be until Rabid Elephant Natural Gate is released and replaces the Sputnik Quad VCF/VCA, which will also open a little space for another toy or two:
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Iāve got Autodesk Sketchbook loaded on my Kindle Fire, and Iām finally starting to play with it. The basic app is free, but I highly recommend spending the $3.99 for the Pro Tools package to get more brushes, fills, gradients and selection tools. (Or you can get an annual subscription for program updates. But thatās deeper than I plan on getting with it right now.)
I canāt get enough accuracy in sketching with my fingertips, so for now Iām experimenting with brushes, selections, fills, and layer blending modes. If you just said, āthat sounds like Photoshop,ā youāre right. There are a few things missing-- no layer styles, no clipping groups, no masks, no strokes, canāt name or group your layers and you only get 18 layers max. 
But a little Photoshop knowledge goes a long way in Sketchbook, even if the interface isnāt quite the same.
The bubble sketch above is trial-and-error experimentation. If anyoneās interested, I can try to describe the methods usedā¦ but it sounds halfway like gobbledygook to me, and I did it! 
Hereās something else I did while passing some time todayā¦
Itās not all that great, but I donāt think itās too bad either, given Iām still figuring out all the bells and whistles.
I ordered an active (powered) fine point stylus that I dearly hope will work with the app (and a screen protector since the fine tip is metal, so much for a āfreeā app 
), and it should be in later this week. Then, hopefully, Iāll be able to do some real sketchingā¦ I canāt wait! 
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Oooooooh, I likey!
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Practice 8 Minutes to Inner Peace with my friend Catherine Carrigan. We recorded this tonight.
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I like to have some fun on the desktop with GIMP and Apophysis. Makes for very abstract sorts of composition, but very painterly (or āetching-lyā at times).
Vergangenes III
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That is supremely cool.
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Thank you. You can cover a surprising distance with those two tools alone, for instance,
āComposition IIā. (Call it abstract realism or realistic abstraction.) Similarly
āYucatĆ”nā
But other directions are possible (again, with just these two tools):
āEn noir et blancā.
āNight Fallsā.
āQuadrature IIā.
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Wow!
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Thank you.
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I love the definition of this word:
aĀ·pophĀ·yĀ·sis
a natural protuberance from a bone, or inside the shell or exoskeleton of a sea urchin or insect, for the attachment of muscles.
- Botany
a swelling at the base of the sporangium in some mosses. - Geology
a small offshoot extending from an igneous intrusion into the surrounding rock
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Interesting name for a fractal flame program, eh?
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Indeed!
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