Shirt Update

2018-06-29T13:58:56Z

( Progress Diary ... )

Lessons learned from practice shirt:
Pattern tweaks: Collar needs to be looser, shirt needs to be longer, possibly baseball cut, sleeves shorter.
Pattern shenanigans: Glimpses of inner collar stand and button plackard will be colour inverted, seen similar done on fancy shirts now I know what I'm looking for. Main colar will be unglitched plain plaid. Pocket with strip going other way, or maybe unglitched.
( New mock-up... )

I think I'm going to need 107 x 180 cm of fabric.

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Glitch Shirt linkdump

2018-05-18T14:25:46Z

Okay I'm going to do this.

One for my #badtshirtidea archive. #glitch plaid. pic.twitter.com/CMUOkHhUTI
— C Dave (@c_dave) September 13, 2017

☑️ 0. Design shirt
☑️ 0a. Plaid.
☑️ 0b. Mess it up a bit.

1. Learn how to make a shirt!
☑️ 1a. Buy some cheap fabric.
☒ 1ai. Don't turn it into a princess Leia costume
☐ 1b. Get a pattern.
☐ 1bi. Ooh, parameterised patterns are a thing.
☐ 1bii. Ooh, excessively parameterised open source long sleeved pattern. I should get the tape measure out.
☐ 1c. Shortening the sleeves shouldn't be hard.
☐ 1d. Collars look fiddly.

☐ 2. Get some fabric printed.
☐ 2a. How much will I need?
☒ 2ai. How wide is a bit of fabric? "A bolt is usually 45 or 60 inches" Rule out any site that doesn't do better than that!.
☐ 2aii. Test laying out pattern on the floor.
☐ 2b. Where to buy from?
☐ 2bi. Compare against Spoonflower.

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Solid State review

2017-05-04T12:01:06Z

I've listened to Jonathan Coulton's new albumn Solid State a few times now, and it's just not clicking for me.

I think it's trying to do two different things, and as result not doing either well.

It's trying to be a fun nerdcore pop album; long on geeky references, with occasional pathos to accent this. But fails as it's a concept album set in a dystopia. For instance the "watching kittens videos" and "don't feed the trolls" songs felt more melancholy and depressing than fun or pathos inspiring.

The other thing it's supposed have is "a bit of a concept behind it," with a "character that you follow throughout his life." But because most of the songs are trying to also be standalone songs, I'm just not finding the story here. But the chorus of the main track (released before the album), makes absolutly no sense to without more detail.

"What if Kurzweil doesn't make it?
What if all the switches get struck on destroy?
When the shuttle goes, we won't take it,
When the final counter-measures are deployed,"

Who is Kurzweil? What shuttle? Etc.

If the album only makes sense with the accompanying comic book, then only making that available as hardcover comic, that won't arrive for weeks after the album comes out is an odd decision.

Having said that, once I stumbled upon the explanation for his last concept album, I did enjoy it a lot more. Giving each track a counterpart track with an opposing mood makes for a disjointed, but interesting, album.

So I hold out hope that when the comic book arrives, the album will be more enjoyable.

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