Dino Hazard was my inspiration for revisiting Blender pixel art. I love that SNES Jurassic Park asthetic, but that swf Game Maker pixel art has always triggered me. I don’t think this matches the style as much as I was hoping, but it was a fun project.

This is a video by Solar Sands called Monumentality and it’s top comment gawks at the creator’s development ‘from Deviant Art ranter to a sophisticated art historian”. There is honestly no better way I can describe this video. Other than maybe the details about it being over an hour long and covering ancient and modern wonders of the world, buildings, statues, cities, transports, space, Star Wars, and obscure manga. It’s epic.

Long over due for an update on my iontophoresis experiment… it worked!

As pictured, I’ve “upgraded” to a full body treatment. I don’t think that is specificly working, at least not for everything. Localized treatment definitely works best.

It took about 3 weeks to see improvements. My feet aren’t dry-blistered from being soaked all day, so I’m sweating less, and my shoes smell, like, normal bad, rather than old cheeto bad. My girlfriend has complained of my overall lack of scent, so I think the bath is working as well, but after a couple months of just that I noticed that I was having to swap my shoes more often again. So since I’m already well established into the process, I do each: a full bath, and a foot-specific bath, once a week. That seems to give me the best coverage.

I don’t think I have much specifics to add. Other than, don’t accidently use AC. That was exciting.

I wanted to make some pixel art and having been introduced to Blender pixel art before, and loving how such a catch-all program Blender is, I decided that that’s what I wanted to do, but now I have to re-learn how to do that. Well, it didn’t take long to find this video from Soyaa that is a fine tutorial, but more importantly has references in its description to learn every step in the process. Wow. I wish this wasn’t the last day of my weekend to go through this stuff.

edit: As good as the tutorials are, Mezaka’s plugin is awesome. Especially if you add the extra features he goes over in his video:

Once again an ad on Facebook outed itself with a good idea that I could do much cheaper by myself.

Chickpea Pasta

Made up the same as regular pasta: 3/4 cup of chickpea flower, an egg, and a dab of oil and salt.

It needs to be made much thinner than what I did though, as it really takes its time to cook through. On the plus side it’s also very difficult to overcook, which is my main peeve with regular pasta. It does have a noticeable chickpea taste, which is also a perk in my opinion.

Might be time to invest in a cheap pasta roller.