#side-project

[joelhappyhil]

I'm working on a GG card game! If you want to read the rules you can do so at this link!

[the-learning-hub]

How to Handle Teasing About Your Side Project – Tips to Stay Positive and Motivated

No one likes to be teased, especially when it comes to something that is important to you. Whether you’re working on a side project or a full-time job, it can be disheartening to be teased about your progress. You may feel like you’re not good enough or that you should be further along than you are. But don’t let the teasing get you down! Here are some tips to help you stay positive and motivated…

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[ethrelite]

Track from a side-project I did last year https://ethrelite.bandcamp.com/album/digital-recluse-self-titled-2018-ep-side-project

[davidsima2]

“Born Ugly” tote bag — Side project Everything is judged by our culture's aesthetic criteria — even our food. Give ugly veggies a chance.

[double-atari]

The Requisite “Second Thing”

As we move along with the animated short, I've found that I'd forgotten one my key components to creative progress: don't have just one thing. If I only have a single creative project to work on, especially a formidable and complex one, I will focus all of my attention on it and any time I'm not working on it brings frustration and guilt at my lack of progress. This, in turn, causes me to freeze up and results in even MORE lack of progress. Horrible, creativity death-spiral.

SO! The solution has always been to have a side project that's creatively rewarding, but much simpler. That way I can point my brain in that direction, start working on it, and inevitably my mind drifts back to the big primary project -- which is exactly what I want it to do. I just have to trick the bastard into it.

"I play video games when I get a chance and I enjoy a very wide spectrum of them, so why not make something out of that?" I think to myself. One could, if one was so inclined, stream various genres of games and even edit them down to videos for YouTube. If one is successful enough at it, one may also begin to monetize it and maybe....MAYBE, cover the cost of the electricity to run the computer while the game is played.

So that's what I'm doing to keep creative things from getting stale or feeling stalled out. There is one "new" video up, but it was actually recorded in late 2014 and is just a four minute "highlight" of a stream, in which I discuss online conflict between myself and my wonderful wife betterneko before we even actually met. It's embarrassing, paints me in a morally questionable light, and is absolutely true. This first clip of the first series can be found here:

There will be several different "shows" streamed, defined by either the genre of game being played or if it's something I've never played before and will be learning to play publicly. The live streams will be found on Twitch right here: [TWITCH LINK]

Edited, bite-sized VODs will be on the YouTube channel right here: [YOUTUBE LINK]

So thanks for reading this small novella, and check out the streams if you'd like (the more subscriptions and views the streams and YouTube videos get, the closer I am to getting that sweet, sweet $20 [before tax and platform percentage fee]).

Thanks for reading and I hope you'll find the whole thing as entertaining to watch as I/we (it'll involve more than just me yammering on) will have making it!

[maxbeatty]

When is the last time you changed your password?

When is the last time you changed your password?

Last year, we vacationed in Europe for a few weeks staying in Airbnbs. International cell plans are insanely expensive and complicated so we relied on our host’s WiFi to look up restaurant reviews, museum discounts, train schedules, and everything else you used to rely on finding in a guide book. Each wireless network had a long and complicated password usually provided by their ISP stickered on…

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[iamjessu-blog]

eˆx — A broad and informal visual lifetime perspective

In this 2 hour project, I try to give a broad but informal perspective of the user's past and presumably left lifetime visualized in weekly units.

Each square represents a week on the user's life. Green weeks are weeks that the user has already lived. Gray weeks are weeks that, according to the user's figurative expected longevity, still left to live.

My objective with this experiment is that the visitor—besides having visual representation of her/his figurative lifetime—become aware of how relatively ephemeral time can be sensed, triggering encouragement to make the best out of it, week by week.

Give it a try: https://ex.iamjessu.com/