even more stuff ive been listening to/watching this week
Posted 11/14/2024
Triangle Unicode (LP) by We Are Magonia
so the fun thing about liking a particular genre of music on bandcamp is that you start liking all their friend's music too. We Are Magonia are the people that work with Draven from my previous "what i've been listening to" post.
Triangle Unicode is a really interesting album that mixes classical instruments and electronic ones in a really effective way. my favorite songs on the album are "Written in Blood" and "If She Floats…".
im the type of person that doesn't like to listen to songs independently of each other, i only really listen to full albums, so all together this album is really good. highly recommend if you also like electronic music and darksynth stuff.
give it a listen or a purchase on bandcamp here!
Framework Cyberdeck - DIY Portable PC
i don't think its a secret i like cyberpunk shit, just look at the music i listen to. but i'm that type of pervert that has actually read the foundational fiction of the genre and have the queer and non-white lense to try to approach it without the gross baggage it can carry for those that just like the aesthetics.
anyway, that's a preamble to say that i really like small electronic machines and want to build my own one day when i finally have the time and space to dedicate to it. so instead i just watch videos of people doing it and live vicariously through them.
this one is really interesting since it's a full feature windows laptop basically, but just small! and what's more this is all pretty feasible and well documented for anyone to approach, especially with the new knoweldge that Framework exists. they make laptop parts so you can upgrade and fix your own machines. a lot of the parts Ben used for this cyberdeck build came from them and he just made his own case for it all.
give it a watch here if this interests you!
I Built My Dream Keyboard From Absolute Scratch
so on the opposite side of the thing above, here is someone documenting something that i don't want to do at all.
i recently accidently spilled water on my keyboard and i was looking into other keyboards for a hot second worried i was going to have to replace it. i have a pre-built 75% mechanical keyboard made by Epomaker. im not crazy into keyboards, but i just really love seeing the level of customization people take with theirs.
in this video, this guy is not kidding when he says he built his keyboard from scratch. his documentation is also pretty good and if one were inclined to follow his lead, you could by the steps he outlines here. i think it would be a fun project for people that want to go that heavy with the customization of their keyboard to go all the way like he did.
also, this video is very well edited, but i think that's an effect of this guy being a software man and not a hardware man, it comes with a different aesthetic style to how to present your video lol
here's the link for this video
oh also, my keyboard is fine, once it dried out completely there were no problems. i just got some new keycaps for it so it looks real nice :^)
[The Bob Brickface Show] Memory Lane
i get a lot of weird shit recommended to me on youtube. i don't know how this one got in there. but it had an intriguing enough thumbnail because who the fuck is that guy.
this is an "episode" of a surreal and absurdist 1980s TV show, "The Bob Brickface Show". it's really weird, but im not treating it like a "damn what were they on" type weird, but a "clearly cleverly written, performed, and put together" weird. an intentional weird that i think pulls off what its trying to do. i think it's pretty funny.
give it a watch here on youtube!
3D Cloth Simulation in Minecraft ⛏️💎
so. idk man. i keep watching youtube shorts of people doing physics simulations of cloth and other materials.
as a person who can say i do sculpture/fiber art stuff, there's something in my brain that keeps trying to assign real world fabrics to a particular face count that i see in these videos based on how i know them to behave in real life. maybe that's the autism monkey brain draw as to why i keep watching them, at least for me. i want to categorize things i see based on my own technical knowledge.
there's a lot of people out there making shorts exactly in this format, a shape or object (this guy sometimes uses minecraft models) and then the fabric get drops on it, with both how many faces make up the model and how long it took to render the simulation, running through 1 to several million polygons.
also there's just a point that gets reached where the fabric crunches in on itself a lot of the time. a sweet spot with fabric seems to be around 200-400ish faces that makes it look believable if this fabric was blowing around and could pass for a sheet of cotton fabric.