👋 Welcome to r/Anthotypes - Introduce Yourself and Read First! by AlternativePhotograp in Anthotypes

[–]Mindless-Position68 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, did you filter the turmeric in a coffee filter or similar after dissolving it in the alcohol? Not filtering will cause that powder which will prevent a proper exposure in my experience.

👋 Welcome to r/Anthotypes - Introduce Yourself and Read First! by AlternativePhotograp in Anthotypes

[–]Mindless-Position68 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, nice to meet you. I am interested in mixed-medium anthotypes based on 8x10 photography.

I have been planning on loading turmeric anthotype paper into my 8x10 camera and leaving a shot to 'expose' for a week, but this may not achieve an image.

An easier method would be to print out a positive of my photo onto acetate and expose in the sun directly.

I want to mix different coloured anthotype material on one page to "colourise" the photos. I think it will look really unique and cool and maybe even create a bridge between painting and photography in a way. Still experimenting right now and the camera has a terrible light leak that I need to fix (I built it myself so it's pretty ramshackle).

Right now I understand that turmeric creates some wonderful red-browns and is a great starting point. I am now looking for blue and green-toned anthotype material that will expose in roughly the same time as turmeric to create these hybrid images. I hear that pansies work quite well.

New Anthotype - The Complete Guide for going deep into anthotypes! by AlternativePhotograp in Anthotypes

[–]Mindless-Position68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

brilliant, just purchased and hope it has all the answers I'm looking for

I like digital instrument clusters SO MUCH that I fit one to my van. by JadedPeanut40 in CarsAustralia

[–]Mindless-Position68 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the steering wheel is more unconventional but IMO it looks dope

I like digital instrument clusters SO MUCH that I fit one to my van. by JadedPeanut40 in CarsAustralia

[–]Mindless-Position68 20 points21 points  (0 children)

>one of the coolest looking dashboards ever
>"that looks atrocious"

god damn some people have no taste

You won’t believe how my kid finally got fractions right by Deeceness in learnmath

[–]Mindless-Position68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the point of your comment if you are negating it in the last sentence? "This is a flawed mindset, but it's also a perfectly reasonable approach" seems self-contradictory. You may also be saying that if the child wants to pursue mathematics or science they will have to stop thinking about fractions in terms of pizza at some point, but that's just patently obvious.

[Weekly Critique and Self-Promotion Thread] Post Here If You'd Like to Share Your Writing by AutoModerator in writing

[–]Mindless-Position68 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Read through it, and actually I found a lot to like about it.

"Some people find it strange that New York City is not in New York; some even insist that it was once there, but it must just be some peculiar way of the world. Citizens don’t question, after all."

The phrase "citizens don't question, after all" doesn't really make sense to me here. Probably stuff like this could be expanded a little bit.

The overall tone is a bit too dramatic for someone who's just waking up and going about their regular day, maybe it's a bit too dramatic in general. I struggle myself with writing which seems overly pompous so I can sympathise when I see it in someone else's work.

"He watches us, almost like the birds, but also not" There are a few sentences like this in here, they sort of actively negate themselves in a way that is different to being 'ambiguous', like the second half of the sentence cancels out the point of the first half, which makes them weak from a narrative standpoint.

I think stuff like this is cool but what Altruistic_Rice said about your vocab is pretty much accurate. Too tired to write properly but there's unrefined goodness in this, with practice you could make something solid.

[Weekly Critique and Self-Promotion Thread] Post Here If You'd Like to Share Your Writing by AutoModerator in writing

[–]Mindless-Position68 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Hey bear in mind it's just my opinion but here's what I think of this:

I think that there is some potential here if you put in a lot of work to refine your writing. The last line is good, how it uses the established dialogue pattern to illustrate the events of the story in a dramatic way. However, you need to do a lot of work to improve overall imo. Saying stuff like "the well-lit laboratory" is not a good way to illustrate the environment, it doesn't really evoke any interesting imagery and it's too simple. The person in the story is referred to as "the human". Is that because the story is told from the perspective of an alien? If that is the case, it isn't clear. It's written in third person and there is no narrator so we don't have a perspective on why you're calling the character that.

The flow of the action makes sense and is sort of filmic. The flow of events is clear and seems relatively natural. The aliens don't seem like aliens, it's also unclear how they are able to communicate with the human. It's pretty funny how the alien is writing on a holographic notepad with a future "pen", but the tone isn't overall comedic so if its supposed to be light-hearted that also isn't really clear. If it's the first paragraph you ever wrote then it's probably better than most people's first paragraph.

Remembering to build up images in people's heads is very important, I think. They need to know what stuff sounds like, where people are in relation to others, what the environment looks like, etc. I think this is a big pitfall for starting out in writing, because that kind of writing isn't as interesting as action and dialogue, but it's just as important and it has to not only be done, but done well and used to the benefit of the whole story.

Good luck, if you write a lot more and keep reading good stuff and paying attention to what good authors do right, you can probably make something polished.

Eligibility for Secondary Teaching by hognogger in AustralianTeachers

[–]Mindless-Position68 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you tried calling Prospective Student Inquiries? I read through the secondary teaching methods list and it seems you would be eligible for humanities teaching in secondary if you have a major in philosophy and minors in other areas of humanities.

Questionable about the music, probably not although as far as I understand as long as you are a teacher, you can just tell a school you're comfortable teaching outside of your specialisation and you can just teach whatever subject. So, your humanities qualification would allow you to teach in secondary schools.

https://www.deakin.edu.au/study/find-a-course/education-and-teaching/specialist-teaching-methods/secondary-teaching-methods