i like all your plants too
― marcos, Thursday, 5 March 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
thank you! have you been painting too? if so we could move this convo over to Your art (picture thread) because i'd love to see what you and others are up to, and it would be weird to host that discussion on this thread
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Thursday, 5 March 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
and thanks DJI! :)
Euphorbia trigona, I believe, and good work! I took a painting class at a local junior college and it was pretty fun.
― nickn, Friday, 6 March 2020 00:06 (four years ago) link
i finally got my bandcamp together! i have worked out an exclusive deal with them to release my music! i told them "listen, i'm going to charge what i want, and i don't want to charge a thing - i'm talking free streaming, free download, i'm talking total free access!" and they backed down immediately, agreeing to all of my demands.
i am trying to use coronavirus as a delimiter. in the same way that the perusing the recent copy of bookforum feels outside of time, because none of the articles or commentary mentions coronavirus, i have some songs from the past few years that i'd like to stop working on. i started working on them so long ago it seems insane, and never felt that they were "done". so now they're done! fuck it! here's one:
https://zs25zs.bandcamp.com/track/twelve-tone-era
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:10 (four years ago) link
i haven't told anyone about this outside of my ilx family so if you actually like it please let me know so i can build up the courage to do the full instagram friends and family post. but otherwise i'll just also post some new animations so the conversation can just sort of drift toward that without too much weirdness. but also with _some_ weirdness, i suppose.
jfc coronavirus
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
guess i can share some painting "progress" (unfortunately another case where i kept going and made it worse with each new stroke)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link
i decided to take silby's advice and just do a figure drawing, fuck it. but i figured i'd start out with a really tiny one, low stakes. but still near the middle. i like how the figure turned out, as well as the tree line on the left. i really fucking hate what i did to the sky. i'm noticing that i like my simple lines better than the more complicated sections, and can't tell if that's just because i'm better at them or that i'm so bad at the detail work. time will tell! "we'll see what happens"
https://i.imgur.com/k9eWMtD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/6eWgjk4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/HXOAjku.jpg
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link
!
looking good
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:35 (four years ago) link
i think for the next one i'm going to consolidate my gains and focus on ONLY SUNSET TREE LINES.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:36 (four years ago) link
thank you hadrian!!
if anyone wants that last painting just let me know and i'll mail it to you. my only demand is that you "buy" my new hit single for free. i used an earlier stage of the painting as the digital artwork for it, so it's a promotional bullshit thing. then i'll mail it to you! along with a $5 bill. i will also just give you $5. i just now decided to throw that in
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 28 March 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
Hey, Zach, that single is great! As a feelies fan, I think it compares favourably. Will listen repeatedly.
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 28 March 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
wow thanks! i love the feelies so much, so that means a lot :)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 28 March 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link
You are an inspiring dude, Karl.
― DJI, Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
:) that's very nice, thank you DJI. i definitely do not feeling inspiring right now - honestly i feel like i am just falling down the stairs, metaphorically. i feel like i'm trying to hard and just spinning my wheels, for so long. but my backup plan is to try to be transparent about the process, the development of small things that at least kind of worked, and the constant failures along the way, just because i like when other people share those things.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
I like it when people share them, too, and I like the way you share. Youโre a gem, ZS.
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 29 March 2020 02:09 (four years ago) link
FREAK OUT!!
.
https://i.imgur.com/Sl8tmLC.gif
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 29 March 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
just isolating it so it's easy to scroll past for people who might barf
xpost
< hardcore
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 29 March 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link
<3 hardcore
messing around with some iridescent gold acrylic paint. it's really weird. unless you gloop it on heavily, it's terribly thin and transparent. not in a good way. don't know wtf is going on with that one so far but it's saturday night
https://i.imgur.com/JFzVUuS.jpg
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 29 March 2020 05:31 (four years ago) link
i had to delete earlier FREAK OUT! gif because it was the wrong version. here is the proper version:.
.https://i.imgur.com/mxuCti6.gif.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 29 March 2020 05:38 (four years ago) link
god dammit, that was STILL the wrong one. oh well. freak out over.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 29 March 2020 06:53 (four years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/QBAkTtkFyoME3x0S4D/giphy.gif
― wmlynch, Sunday, 29 March 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
hi Karl, I enjoyed the track a lot, liked the guitar sound
interesting to see your paintings evolve too. definitely inspiring to see yr things take shape, and to see someone fight against this horrible anxious block which I guess we're all feeling now. anyway, thanks, take care
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
thanks for listening! it is my first electric guitar and amp (ES-339 and Fender blues jr IV), so i don't have much to compare it to, but it seems to be good at handling bright Byrds-like tones.
i had my first total painting failure last night. 6 hours spent on it, and i completely ruined it at the end.
one thing that sucks about using analog media: no Undo feature
― Karl Malone, Monday, 30 March 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
thatโs the best part, actually
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link
haha well yeah, it's true. i feel that way most of the time. but holy shit every once in a while i wish i could Undo. maybe just like one big Undo you can do, per week, so that you have to make it count
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Pj2s77B.jpg
i've painted half of this! but if i repeat what i just painted, upside down, as a different layer, and adjust the opacity and saturation down, it'll look like this! so pretty much halfway there, rounding up to done
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 06:51 (four years ago) link
sorry, drunk. what i mean is that i'm going to try to take the current version
and paint a new layer over parts of it that look like above
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 06:59 (four years ago) link
and by "rounding up to done" i was trying to make a joke about being halfway done and obviously far away from finishing but rounding up to the next milestone ("done")
i have been recently informed that some of my jokes aren't landing and don't even make sense. things got a little dry over here, humorwise, on my part
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 07:00 (four years ago) link
i'm laying it all out here on the table
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 07:03 (four years ago) link
don't bother scooping up my corpse, coach, i gave it all up out there on the field
sometime, when the team is up against it -- and the breaks are beating the boys -- tell them to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 09:01 (four years ago) link
i was already giving 110% out there. but then my pay got docked 80% but my tasks remained the same, so now i'm giving, uh...let's see...138%
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
jeez, i was a little drunk last night
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
thought of youhttps://zooooom.us/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 20 April 2020 01:05 (four years ago) link
"This is a real parody and a real screensaver"
And a real ripoff of conferencecall.biz!
― DJI, Monday, 20 April 2020 06:00 (four years ago) link
i'm surprised conferencecall.biz hasn't gone viral again
― diamonddave85โโ (diamonddave85), Friday, 24 April 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
it's gotten a little boost, and i've seen more twitter comments and stuff recently, but nothing too big.
overall stats since 2014:
297K users, 338K sessions
average time on-site: 48 seconds
https://i.imgur.com/oqGRZ7f.png
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 April 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
profit = (~$15 AWS server costs per month) x 88 months = -$1320
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 April 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
on the plus side some developer guy asked me a few days ago if he could adapt the website into a Google Assistant app, which i guess is cool for people who use those kinds of devices
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 April 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
not to be that guy but you might be able to host it for free on github pages and have the dns point there (assuming its all static content)
― diamonddave85โโ (diamonddave85), Friday, 24 April 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FVPRIOm.jpg
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Sunday, 26 April 2020 05:04 (four years ago) link
oingo boingo version
https://i.imgur.com/qLNQy58.gif
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Sunday, 26 April 2020 05:20 (four years ago) link
bandwidth throb version
https://i.imgur.com/1ekM4PI.gif
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Sunday, 26 April 2020 05:32 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Nu6n3Ct.gif
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Sunday, 26 April 2020 05:37 (four years ago) link
never finished this, which these days means it's finished i guess
https://i.imgur.com/fYwjZDL.jpg
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Sunday, 26 April 2020 05:40 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/B7zq9FV.png
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Sunday, 26 April 2020 06:22 (four years ago) link