Newly-printed translucent pot has joined K's garden succulent collection. Started as part of a metalwork commission, but liked the color so much, I ended up designing another plant pot with it.

new approach

A shift in my writing practice, from the daily guilt-ridden grind of days, weeks, years past to a more "blast all of it in a few weeks or days when the need strikes" now. Perhaps what I was needing was something like metalwork (and my resultant newfound obsession with 3D printing not only to reproduce metalwork in plastic but to design pots for K since I found scanning and printing different versions of existing ones to be onerous, to put it mildly) to fulfill me in the non-writing parts of my day. Which are a lot of them. Far happier and more fulfilled, creatively, away from the computer, playing with fire and sparks and making weird metal things, than I am staring at a screen and hating myself for not being able to write something no one will read anyhow.

But yes, a new approach. Toying with the notion of blasting out a novella or something in a short time frame, two weeks to a month, when the need to write strikes me; otherwise, I'll tinker with metal stuff and mini-comics and Singularities and etc. A note to myself in my Obsidian canvas: long-form ≠ long-term.

Now I have figure out how to assemble this 3D printer cover because a shed is not the most dust-free place for a 3D printer to while away its non-whirring hours.

toe dip

Just a test post to see if I’d really like to restart the blog or if I’m just aching for something different. Dig the Mastodon feed page, but I do miss the mid-10’s Tumblr-ness of the blog iteration. IDK - getting a full-sized iPad again helped; creating on a Mini is fucking useless. Oh, and there’s new metalwork going on - even if my 3D printing has stalled due to needing to readjust settings because it got Ohio hot all of the sudden. This was kind of nice to write.

At last, a fully mustachioed and realized 3D-printed Giuseppe.