Here be Jakit, Consumer of Root Beer

Just a place where I post stuff from projects and things I like to see from the web.

[jakitsol]

Hey Alex, It's my 5 things

I hope you like it! Its also my first completed video made using After Effects, so i'm feeling pretty good with myself! That and I live in Texas, just puttin...

Im gonna make a series using this animation style!

[lordandgodoftheobvious]

“The world is overpopulated.”

Nope.

“Well, that’s just carbon emissions. What about places for all those people to live?”

If the world’s population all lived in one city that was as densely populated as Manhattan, that city would be the size of Ecuador. The space taken up by ourselves and our toys is actually rather insignificant next to that taken up by our farmland.

“Ah-hah! Farmland! We’re not producing enough food for all those people!”

The problem here is we are insanely wasteful with our food.

Firstly, half of all food grown in the US goes straight into the dumpster.

Secondly, we grow it very inefficiently. We could very easily increase the food yield of a given area of land by building a greenhouse on it (which also reduces water loss) and using poly-cultures instead of mono-cultures; the reason our preferred method is open-air mono-culture farms, which are susceptible to erosion and blight and requires a god-awful amount of water to stay hydrated, is that labor is expensive and land is cheap.

In fact, if we took it even further–growing our food in carbon dioxide-rich environments lit with artificial lighting 24 hours a day (or at least at night)–you only need 1-2000 square feet of farmland per person. Admittedly, you pretty much have to have fusion power for this to be an environmentally and economically viable option, but still; the point is, we could easily condense our environmental footprint by a shit-ton (and even more options will be available in the future) without decreasing our population one iota.

“There is still a maximum carrying capacity the planet has.”

Indeed there is. And do you know what that carrying capacity is? It’s ten trillion. And the cut off isn’t space or resources–it’s waste heat. The things we’d have to do to get there aren’t exactly the sort of things we could do overnight–hell, we don’t actually know how to fusion yet–but they’re all well within the realm of the physically possible.

[jakitsol]

Real science. *mic drop*

[pdlcomics]

Crab

[jakitsol]

Life for for the socially awkward, but in crab form.

[jakitsol]

How To: Keyframe Caddy (Flash CS6)

A basic video running through the aforementioned Flash Animation Tool

[jakitsol]

That Feeling When...

[jakitsol]

Paper Tale Trailer - Testing a Process

[jakitsol]

i think the interview cartoon is going well!

[everydaylouie]

MOUTH! a song made using only sounds from my mouth. enjoy

[jakitsol]

Das some awesome lip synch there! Get it?

[unseriousguy]

[nuttendo64-deactivated20231225]

holy shit

[officialcrow]

dog im shouting

[themasterpupil]

Well..

[revysprite-deactivated20170502]

??????? Lol

[brother2thenight]

Where? How? WHY?

[ilikechildren--fried-deactivate]

[that1guykaiser]

My favorite things are when spectacular effprt is out into such stupid shit

[drugfriendly]

Amazing, honestly

[jakitsol]

Just... this is pure art

[gokucomics]

goku's funny twin brother, Joku

[jakitsol]

And lets not forget his estranged, binge watching cousin, Roku

[rabioheab-deactivated20200416]

i hate americans and their stupid fahrenheit temperatures

[rabioheab-deactivated20200416]

i only made this post in the hopes that someone would reblog it with the caption “don’t fahrenhate” and you’ve all disappointed me greatly

[danglingthpider]

don’t be a celsiass

[the-winter-stoner-blog]

its too fahrenlate 

[rnaryjune]

*waves hands helplessly* kelvin

[jakitsol]

Man these are some hot puns. Now if only they didnt give people the cold shoulder. I would measure the change in temperature, but i think these need a new sense of scale.

[amorphoussystem-deactivated2024]

How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.

[plantyhamchuk]

Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).

[samiholloway]

And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!

[plantyhamchuk]

The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet. 

We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk. 

Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:

Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.

Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!

Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden

Support your local farmers / local economy (US only link)

Support or create a local Food Not Bombs chapter

Support or create a local Food Not Lawns chapter

Grow food in 5 gallon buckets

Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity (as a bonus you can learn extremely practical skills)

Volunteer via 350.org to help the environment / the planet / the place we live and depend on

Excellent-and-still-growing wiki from reddit’s awesome r/zerowaste community - great resource to learn how to live more lightly on the earth

Spread the word about solarpunk, especially to engineering students. Show them projects like Open Source Ecology - Global Village Construction Set and Bridges for Prosperity 

Learn how to Patch a Hole, Mend a Seam, and Fix a Hem

Learn how to repair a hole in the sole of a shoe

Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.

Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.

Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries

Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas 

joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!

[jakitsol]

Tbh im kinda into this!

[grawly]

lmao bye

[hellotailor]

#aesthetic

[miskatonicwater]

but is it running Doom yet

[hollowct]

they did!

(source)

[miskatonicwater]

of  COURSE

[blind3dbylight]

devices running doom that should not logically be able to run doom is still my favorite form of technological shitposting

[jakitsol]

now all we need to do is play DOOM on a toaster. Thats right, a god damn toaster.

[pixelartus]

+40 Pixel Art Tutorials

A growing collection of animated Pixel Art Tutorials by Pedro Medeiros (@saint11) of Studio Miniboss (they previously worked on TowerFall and are currently working on Celeste and Skytorn)

All +40 Pixel Art Tutorials can be found on blog.studiominiboss.com/pixelart (10 Pixel Art Tutorials are posted below)

[fearingfun]

Absolutely incredible

[jakitsol]

Making a script AND an animatic at the same time by myself is a challenge. Not so much with what it contains, but more with when i am able to actuall work on the damn things.

[jakitsol]

Bout time I got off my butt and put an end to my irritations!

[theintrovertnation]

JOIN THE INTROVERTNATION MOVEMENT

[jakitsol]

Yep