#Processes

[koideres]

fool with aphantasia tries to draw hyv character with no reference and suffers

[karen-carlisle-off-the-artboard]

Updates: My Alternative to NaNo word count updates

https://karenjcarlisle.com/2024/09/05/updates-my-alternative-to-nano-word-count-updates/

Hi, all.

I’m doing a major push to get this project finished in time for pre-Christmas publishing. Wish me luck.

You can follow my word count on my Not-NaNo alternative word count tracker (NaNo’s AI policy was the last straw. Thankfully I never added any of my actual words to their site)

You can follow my word count updates on:

Discord #keeping-count https://discord.com/channels/402006538891427851/1224193642487480402), and

on My Write Club (love the name) at https://www.mywriteclub.com/beta/writers/KarenJ/goals/secret-project-1st-draftrewrites

[theonlinevegan]

[selectedthoughts]

Lost in the Moment

Sometimes, feeling discouraged is part of the process; going through the negative in life, as always, brings positive things.

When the moment overwhelms us, we want to give up, the moment seems truly endless, but there will always be another moment that will pull you out of it. Positivity is not always the solution because it doesn't help you deal with your problems. Instead, facing them logically helps you create and recreate yourself within a spectrum of constant learning. Learning from both positive and negative things equally, creating a true harmony, will make you aware of the shadows or aspects of your life or mind that you want to change.

Understanding the good and the bad, or the darkness and the light within you, will also help you understand the outside world. Such simple and complex processes require knowledge that is within you.

[processes]

[thejsacco]

The Matrix

Not to be confused with the movie “The Matrix” staring Keanu Reeves. I’m referring to the corporate matrix that many us spend much of our life toiling away. Having worked for corporations for over 40 years I have experienced very good organizations, average organizations, and well really messed up ones. Generally there are certain relationships that exist between a characteristic and the…

[floristwhitaker]

[thewildnopeboat]

Since I'm a dumb fuck and don't know how to draw, I legit collage/cobble together what I think shit should look like, then outline that bitch. Like with the Rosa art, which in total, took over a year to finish because I kept trying, but failing due to my lack of skills but love for the craft, (first was simple free hand art, then I said fuck it and did it)

I use this in order to make shitty thumbnails or memes for my discord/dnd sessions.

I am threatening to use this abuse of technology to make even more shitty art.

You will know no peace, only shitty and still drawn art.

[rawjeev]

"Reductionism envisages a universe of things - and simply material things at that. How these things are related is viewed as a secondary matter. However, I suggest that relationships are primary, more foundational than the things related: that the relationships don't just 'connect' pre-existing things, but modify what we mean by the 'things', which in turn modify everything else they are in relationship with. That is because what we are dealing with are, ultimately, relations, events, processes; 'things' is a useful shorthand for those elements, congealed in the flow of experience, that emerge secondarily from, and attract our attention in, a primary web of interconnexions. I have nothing against things, provided we don't see them as primary."

—Ian McGilchrist, The Matter With Things.

[koideres]

i was supposed to be taking notes on wtf i was doing sorry

[daveinediting]

If I'm honest with myself, I would say it bugged me—bugs me still— that I couldn't think outside the box when I was a young, young adult.

Think outside the box?

Yeah. I wasn't actually aware of that except in school, any time we were asked to connect dots. For example, in one of my business classes, we were presented with a fictional case study in which a number of different companies were described and we were subsequently asked about the possibilities for synergy between the companies, how specifically they might work together, how they might cooperate in such a way as to produce outcomes greater than what was possible for each of the companies on their own.

Yeah.

I had no idea.

I had no.

Idea.

But inevitably others in class jumped that hurdle with ease, seeing the connections. They could see the specific ways in which the companies could work together. They intuited which parts of each company had overlapping interests and complimentary expertise. And, to my sense of time, they knew these things immediately. While I just sat there, mentally spinning my wheels.

I couldn't see it and yeah. That feeling still bugs me whenever I think about those kinds of business thought exercises.

So why...

Think of them?

Because later, I can't tell you exactly when, I got a touch of that ability. 

Now, if I had to guess, it's most likely a product of my experience as an editor. After all, the editing process involves juxtaposing not only images and sounds... but words and ideas. Themes. The experience strives to identify connections both obvious as well as all kinds of levels of metaphor. Sometimes, even, you might say... out of the box.

It's the connections piece of editing I'm focused on, though. A repetitive experience that, across years, sensitized me to a huge category of Things That Go Together. 

Don't know when it happened.

It just happened.

To the point where, when I grab a hold of some new piece of information that fits somewhere in the processes of production and post-production, that information automatically fills in blanks where I didn't realize there were blanks. Technology that enables us to operate faster, better, in ways we had not considered before.

In ways we had not.

Considered.

So instead of a generalized thought experiment on businesses, my thoughts are swirling around anything and everything than can help me, can help everyone I know, can help every project I touch wherever it is I come into contact with those projects. The new information simply flows into these spaces where suddenly there's synergy between the tech, the projects, and our processes.

So.

Much as I might feel a little frustrated on behalf of young adult me, I feel absolutely fantastic about the me today whose brain's actually in gear these days.

Not just spinning its wheels.

☺️

[courtingwonder]

When you become fanatical towards a purpose, even a great one like fairness, you fail to serve that very purpose.

[russellmoreton]

Architectural Surface : Pierced and Unprocessed Cyanotype Image. by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: www.russellmoreton.blogspot.com

[cannedinternets]

48 - 3 = 45 27 + 3 = 30 45 + 30 = 75

[know-ill-keep-moving]

viktor vs cait innit