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Shiedler and the Making-Of Livestream
Shiedler was inspired by a statue made by Joao Pedro Rodrigues: The livestream video where I made it:
Shiedler was inspired by a statue made by Joao Pedro Rodrigues: The livestream video where I made it:
The personification of bitcoin saying, “Come and get it.” Inspired by the Crypto Couple, a wonderful pair of bitcoiners that make funny videos. https://twitter.com/thecryptoc0up1e
Today’s inspiration for the https://bitcoinavatars.com render is the concept art for the Mentat from the Dune movie. I made 2 cypherpunks so far with haloes of code. The original opening idea for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movie featured Mentats with haloes of pure mathematics: http://youtu.be/J6TJCU7XDIA
I watched the two movies back-to-back. It was a good sequel to Wall Street, I have to admit that. I’m not sure I’ve seen the first one, and I definitely hadn’t seen the sequel. Though I do remember the Tulipmania scene for some reason. It must have been in a Read more…
A note from the author: The nanodaemons stories are some of my oldest ideas. I’ve had much fun writing them, and frankly, I still have many nanodaemons ideas left on my folders that could have evolved into fun little stories.Unfortunately these haven’t gotten the audience I would have liked. I Read more…
Inspiration for the Vampire Lord’s castle! Read the Halloween Raid. Happy Halloween! Did you know that many consider Germany’s Eltz Castle to be one of the most haunted in the world? Built in 1157, it still belongs to the same family after 33 generations. It is said to be haunted Read more…
There’s a cute little show on Netflix, Emily in Paris. It has caused quite a stir in French people because they’re portrayed as snobby and rude. Which is absolutely true, and I know that after visiting Paris twice. The show is full of cliches but it’s a nice modern take Read more…
Two years ago, in 2018 I was inspired by the amazing artwork of two artists to write some short stories for them (Bloodsplach and Philtomato.) It all went so fast after that, and I ended up making an illustrated collection. It was both a challenge and an experiment. It’s not Read more…
I had ditched this service because of the review process. It’s bullshit and inane. Here it is rejecting a Pandora’s Box picture because the title contains the name of a company, meaning Pandora. As if I give a shit that there’s a company named after that. Every single name in Read more…
I like to keep things simple, so instead of making a fantasy map full of stupid things, I just used a real Hellenistic period map of Phrygia. The story of Midas in Greek mythology takes place in Phrygia, which is a real Greek area in the modern day Turkey. The Read more…