Oh, and the work:
Is that Vancouver? It’s gorgeous!
Seattle! I ended up having to buy a VIP ticket on the great wheel so I could have a car all to myself, and I didn’t have to worry about other people (or the reflections of the logos on their clothes and whatnot) reflecting off the glass as I was meticulously framing this with my EOS Rebel T7, while the wheel was in motion. There was a lot of timing constraints here! The ride would end soon, plus the velocity of the wheel needed to be accounted for in my framing! You can see some dots at the top of the image, the wheel’s reflection.
This one:
What an awesome view! The pnw is the best place in the world!!!
Glad you got everything lined up just right for a great shot!
Your glasses are giving me the craziest headache and I love it
Thanks. They’re a medical aid to help me process my own face in the mirror. Don’t have strokes, alright? They break stuff I never thought was breakable.
Can you point me to a topic where I canread more a out this kind of glasses and the underlying logic?
I think the best thing to do is to learn about the fusiform gyrus in your head, and what happens when it malfunctions, or stops working entirely.
So the notch in the glasses is a sign that you are looking at your own face?
Yup, like in photos and such, but also I know my right eyebrow is just behind the notch, and between that and touch, I can extrapolate the rest of my face enough so I can do simple makeup and shaving and such.
That definitely sucks, but is also kinda incredible. They match your style and personality perfectly. (All complimented by your sick-ass framed photo.
Don’t have strokes, alright?
Shit, that’s the goal, but no promises.
I need to get this one reframed so bad:
Unfortunately, when it’s hung up, it comes undone at the top of the frame joints.
It’s my magnum opus along with the rest of its project, and I love it so much.
That is a gorgeous photo, and that’s a nice lightweight frame! That means that there are a few fixes you can try at home:
- You could pop in a few staples across that joint. If you’re using light-weight staples, like the ones for papers, they’ll likely stretch pretty quickly.
- A high-temp hot glue gun, some epoxy, or super glue would likely work.
- If you like hanging light-weight things, a picture hanging kit might be helpful. If you don’t want to even go that far, some fishing line and low-profile thumb tracks could work and save you money over the years. You’ll need to tie a loop in each end of the fishing line, so consider looking into a fishing loop tool if you have any dexterity issues.
- Command strips will hold that shit up, and take the paint from your walls when it comes down.
- If you’re concerned about damaging your walls, use a ridiculous amount of hot glue. I’m absolutely serious. It seems like a relatively permanent solution, especially when it’s time to take everything down, but rubbing alcohol cleans up hot glue really nicely.
Of course, getting new frames from thrift shops is always a decent solution. Or, if you feel like it’s worth the cost, consider printing it on canvas or metal. Lots of local print shops will do this in-house now.
Some of my works I’ve put on canvas ended up being a bit washed out and deprived of a whole bunch of little intricate details, I’m more of a gloss-and-frame kinda lady.
Eventually I’m gonna have to get it reframed right, cause I plan to get the whole project in an exhibition at some point in the future.
(And there’s me, briefly fantasizing about seeing, on the door of a gallery somewhere, ‘Matsuri Machi,’ by Tanis Nikana. A girl can dream.)
If you want a quick fix before reframing, you should be able to fit some small angle plates (screwfix - angle plates) to the corners for a bit of reinforcement. I’d suggest doing the other corners in the same way.
You can put a little sticky felt bumper pad on the back if you want to avoid the edges of the metal scratching the wall.
Ooooh. That’ll save the day! Thanks!
Now I just gotta trick a friend who has motor skills into coming over and helping me out. I think I can bait that trap with pizza. :D
I totally meant to add angle plates, or corner braces if you’re nasty, to my list and forgot. Thanks for including that!
Daaamn, I’m sorry that happened to you! I know someone who had one a couple years back and she recovered very well. I hope you do the same!
My second stroke was in October ‘23. I can walk with a cane, and one of my hands doesn’t work well. Can still drive with the best of ‘em though, but I’m one of those weirdoes who follows the law and does three under in the rightmost lane cause I’m a heavy equipment operator, and I wanna be safe about it.
But yeah, can’t recognize any faces whatsoever.
Every time I see my wife is the first time, and goddamn does she look amazing.
Every time I see my wife is the first time, and goddamn does she look amazing.
Omg awweee <3
Great advice that probably applies to other forms of art, too. I wonder what’s the most satisfying way to do this for music …
Concert posters! Preferably purchased at the concert. I’ve got a bigass King Gizzard show poster hanging in my kitchen.
Rattlesnake.
Rattlesnake.
Rattlesnake.
Rattles me.
Vinyl.
Hm. Certainly the most tactile experience and it’s great for showing off because it’s much bigger than CDs or cassettes, but if you want to actually use it it’s kinda meh IMO. But CDs are utterly boring and it’s actually pretty hard to find a decent tapedeck (if you buy an old one it’s very likely to have issues with playing at the correct and constant speed, and new ones are kinda expensive plus it’s not actually possible to get new parts and licenses for the old Dolby B/C noise reduction technologies).
Vinyl is cheap and simple enough to get equipment for, high quality enough to enjoy, and don’t degrade in the same way as many other forms of media.
(Yes it can be very expensive too, but so can anything if you want it to)
Oh man making your own record and it just being your music has gotta be really freaking cool. I still have the demo CDs from my first band because they’re awesome, and vinyl is cooler than CDs to me. If I ever get good enough at producing to justify the cost I’m definitely doing this.
Fuck yeah.
Idk if its pretty or even good but I’ll frame it and even wear the damn thing.
Cool shit!!
@supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone did that for me with a bunch of my photos. Not something I’d ever have done otherwise
It is beautiful. I have a bunch of cheap frames on the wall and im constantly swapping out what’s in them for my latest paintings. It helps you see the progress of your work, and if you hate one of them, it’s good incentive to create more so you can swap it out.
Hey, I remember that post!
Such good advice! I got one of those cheap dye sublimation printers to see what I really like and the real keepers I’ll get printed proper.
Printed some out to put around my desk and it brought me such joy, got some on displate and put on my front door. Everytime I walk in I see my pictures and it brings a smile to my face.
Definitely recommend putting some of your artwork around your environment its great.
Cool glasses. Great photo.
Man I miss living there
