Version 1.7 All Dogs Go to Heaven
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Version 1.7 All Dogs Go to Heaven
I’d say the month was robust. Had a creative burst at the top of the hour and cranked out 4 cricut cuts of varying intricacy I’ve uploaded the cut files here (Click here to see them in use.)*
Started a reading style where I round robin between short stories from anthologies and essays I have saved on my BOOX Color Go 7. Samanta Schweblin was a strong standout. She has this way of writing that seems simultaneously for and in spite of the reader. What i mean is, her stories are built so that everything comes together at the very end and everything is tense and terrible til then. Discomfort content. yeah.
Acquired tons of new art supplies and made it a priority to use my old ones. Massive overhaul on my main mega watercolor palette, It was a month of swatching and minimal proper painting. The last thing in my sketchbook is an ode to old internets. hint:
When Hell is full,
the dead will walk the earth
PURE EVIL SINCE 1996
Flush please
* Artist credit for image background: Ying Wu
MEGALINK.DUMP #023 - 3 articles, 3 artists and 3 videos.
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a few days later, multiple fires would erupt across LA county, leading to this exchange in our family group text. Later that day my brother, his wife, and their cone-headed dog would pile into their Rivian named RiRi and come to shelter ahead of evacuation warnings. ngl it was fun having them in town for a week since usually their stays are limited to dinner or a single overnight at most. A not insignificant amount of time was spent eating ice cream, going to the mall and going to the mall to eat ice cream. The mall happened to have a kiosk selling blind boxes these naked baby figurines 弟妹 collects, kfc mini brands for me and Japanese strawberry ube soft serve for all. We also spent some time at the arcade so jen could play some iteration of DDR and I could prove to myself that the claw machines there were a rip off.Beyond crafting and painting, I spent a large part of my downtime perfecting my cyber experience, tweaking system settings and downloading increasingly obscure utility apps.
idk some other shit happened but putting the above page together really drained my batteries. there was a fire? i got myself back into painting and so that was cool, nothing big, mostly sketchbook stuff. broke in my hibino (this year's hobonichi alternative), whipped up a little animation i ought not to share, obsessed over that avatar rig i did in december, saw a racoon, caught the planetary procession which was pretty nifty, put together a few non-official Temu lego sets... oh! 新年快樂! bing bong.
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October'24 Post
LINK.DUMP #022 - cool tools and cyber scarves, blood books and good books, and men who believe they are pregnant with dogs. we've got it all in this century's installment of linkdump.
Decker // Hypercard
I'm here to share another fun tool I've discovered, along with its ancient predecessor. In true tooth fashion, I'm inclined to share the path I took to get here. So without further adieus...
Decker
Ok so im on my computato all dang day, and rarely am I willing to pause youtube to give something the full attention it deserves. But today I had some down time and decided to give some of the play-in-browser games I've been link hoarding on itch and started with GUS IS SAD, a mini game about depression, made by one of favorite people to follow on the platform, OXY. This led me to check what other in-browser gems they might have, and noticed a lot employed this sweet sweet dithering effect over relatively simple click through design. Every now and then I think I want to try my hand at making a game, but put those thoughts aside when I realize the effort it will take. I scrolled down to their first game, arguably one of their best, Collage Advertisement (right). After playing a round I scrolled down to the product page and see that its made using "Decker". A comment reading in part "inspiring use of decker!" caught my eye.
Ive heard of other visual novel makers like Ren'py and Twine and those went over my head before I could get into them since my brain falls out of my butt as soon as i see a github link but Decker immediately hit different. Namely it had an itch page and didn't suggest I learn Python. In the description, the maker (Internet Janitor) states it's inspired by "Hypercard" with a link to the wiki.
Hypercard, 1987
Hypercard borrows its name from the Hyper family of the early internet, Hypertext, Hypermedia, Hyperdrive? Anyhoo, there's a link to a video on the wiki, which is nothing short of a delight. It's part product demonstration, part interview with the creators on an old tv program called Computer Chronicles. I am immediately smitten, as it would fit right in on an episode of Sleepcore (a go to bedtime media choice).
From here I see that Hypercard is an archive hashtag and name of a dedicated collection. I'm browsing creations from the late 80s and 90s that look like a cyber-xerox edition of everything neocities wishes it was. Old web af and clip art aesthetics at peak perfection. I find a digital magazine that was published via Hypercard and read an essay on vaporware by the folks who coined the term (above). Soon Im somersaulting down the rabbithole, flicking back and forth between the Decker community forum and Hypercard stack emulations on the internet archive and idk which im more excited to discover the old quirky, cyber dusty collection or the indie project iteration.
pick both.
I downloaded the Decker zip file and I urge y'all to do the same and let me know if you make something because I know if i can, then you dear reader most certainly can too! I would also urge you to browse some time away on the Hypercard archive, you're bound to find something that inspires you.
To open a Hypercard:
Once the emulator is running, click on 'disk' below the program icon (está aquí) and above the trashcan. Click the associated files in the window until the program opens.
LINK.DUMP #021 - Chaos based generation along with a bouquet of font faces from the past present and future
I also spent a week or so in 
