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i spent 8 months on metropolis circuit. as i began to craft a larger narrative and an "episode one" as it were i realized it was far beyond the scope of anything i was reasonably capable of doing by myself. basically, i wasn't willing to dedicate what would certainly be years of my spare time to something that i didn't even fully have fleshed out. it was a smattering of random ideas and inspirations that i was making up as i was going along.

as time went on and i graduated from college, i entered the workforce, and the rest was history. by the time i was back doing my own thing, i had simply moved on

i feel like i had my metropolis circuit/lighthouse girl type project in my mid 20s and after finishing that stuff i feel sorta tapped. it feels like making cool long independant things is something im tapped out on. i feel a considerable urge to keep pushing my abilities but somehow that route just seems kinda done and it sorta feels like i said all the 'angry young man stuff' and now i dont know what else is left to be funny and personal about.  not sure if this is normal for artists getting up there and if there is some sort of plateau to creativity. if so fuck that but at the same time maybe accepting it is how you truly get beyond it and back to improving and inventing cool stuff to be proud of.

maybe zines or something idk but defenitely some sort of challenge of ability and incentive to draw cool shit you could not have before the project necessitating and also it being cool to show friends or on-line people.

that's definitely a part of it - i was more uninhibited and still exploring my style and willing to try new things back then. but there's also the logistical and logical side of me that stops me from doing larger things. before i even get a second thought about attempting a large project i think about things like: how long will this take, where can i fit it in my schedule, will it help me pay bills, am i doing this for myself or not, etc.

someday i hope that i'll be in a place of privilege where maybe i don't have to think about those kinds of things and can do whatever i want. i am at least lucky that most things that i get to work on are things that i like, and that my main source of income is something i'm good at and enjoy doing. so i'm halfway there.

idk if i'd say i'm tapped out creatively but i definitely stop myself from even finding out.

drawing on paper is becoming a lost art

according to the US inflation calculator $13 in 2012 is worth $17.87 today

anybody ever use spaceports back in the day? This is where I moved to after leaving angelfire, lured in by their promise of "unlimited space". unfortunately, no archive exists of my spaceports page, and i don't have any locally saved files from it, so i'll have to largely leave this out of my journey to TBA. all i remember is i was here for about 2 years, hung out on their IRC, made a few friends, learned a lot about how to design and maintain a website - really basic stuff like FTP, but angelfire didn't allow you to use things like that, everything was done through the browser.

the pizza point committee will discuss this at the next gathering

Did anyone post the Blue Song yet.

     

the 2nd song i ever downloaded when i learned about napster as a kid
the 1st one was this and it doesn't belong in this thread because it's epic

(This might not last)
Post the worst song and your criteria behind why.

TubThumping is fun when ur like 12 and ur brother is smashing a gradeschool kitchen toy set with a pair of steel-toed boots by drop kicking into it on the refrain "I get knocked down". I have hated that song ever since.

when i was 15 we went on this week long field trip our school called "state trip" where small groups of students would go to different places in the state, on the way there one of the guys in my group had the chumbawumba album and we listesned to it on repeat the entire way. it's a good memory but i never want to hear it again

seems like you know this but yeah, it's not the "real" sheezart, it's a one-man revival project by a fan.
sheezyart was interesting because it had that web 1.0 flavor to it where you could heavily customize your own page and really make it your own. it was also in that comfort zone where it wasn't too big or too small - everyone more or less knew eachother, but it was very active and had its own community and history.
there was a lot of drama but i wouldn't say sheezyart was bad, it was just different.
i don't remember why it shut down. i think it just got too expensive and the creators lost interest.

it was a karma system that hopefully is still in the database.. if not, i'll probably convert the "likes" in to pizza points... soon (TM)

and by god i was good at it

i have no reason to make a DOOM map nor do i know anything about doing it, but that looks neat. the DOOM modding community has done a lot of crazy stuff with the engine over the years.

I was reading reddit and stumbled across this https://www.reddit.com/r/skiesofarcadia/comments/1fs39gm/well_would_you_lookie_what_i_just_found/

Had fond memories of this place and surprised that it was brought back.

well this is interesting. while i did make a comic for that forum, i never printed it, so whoever did made a copy for themselves. it's nuclear-grade cringe and has references to all the regular members of the forum of that time. i was - and still am - a huge Skies of Arcadia fan, back then the forum "Skies of Arcadia World" was my internet stomping ground of choice. i spent an absurd amount of time posting there. this was the early 2000's and my life revolved around 2 things: wasting time on the computer, and being at school trying to figure out how to waste more time on the computer.

yes, it did. but it was difficult to get people to contribute to it and most of the articles were written by me.

90% of the traffic to anipedia was just to get the "pixel tools" plugin for flash cs3, which i inadvertently made popular through my "move your feet" tribute animation. but even though i made it a point that i did not develop pixel tools, a lot of people believed i created it or had something to do with its creation - i did not, i was simply putting up a mirror for the defunct website it originally came from. at this point i do not even remember the name of the site or the author, i just remember the programmer being french.

eventually i just took anipedia down and left a download page for pixel tools, but i'm not sure where it is at the moment, and it doesn't really matter.. unless you have a very old version of flash. i'm almost certain it would not work on adobe animate.

Well I'm 38 and I need to stop eating 7-11 food oh my god.
Im gonna be sick. Very sick

i'll be your 7-11 accountabilibuddy

I'm not a giant weeb

i am

i'm 800 years old (on my home planet) and i like to roon

no more bots. bots aren't allowed to have money, not even $13

he got that dr dog in him

i think for what you're going for it is fine. how it turns out will depend a lot on how you animate it - especially timing. why wait? just make it. you'll learn a lot more from doing that.