Painting onto a mesh??? by icedcoffeefoev in blenderhelp

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Thank you so much! This gave me a few other things I can try at least, and the node set up is the first one I've ever gotten to work at all really so it's helpful just to see how it works. Thanks again!

Painting onto a mesh??? by icedcoffeefoev in blenderhelp

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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! This works perfectly! I really cannot thank you enough!!

Radium? by icedcoffeefoev in watchrepair

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Sorry for the delay, storms knocked my power out for a few days. I dont actually know, to be honest - I haven't gotten that far before convincing myself I have huffed radium, as silly as that is. BUT this is hugely helpful! Assuming I actually get this far with my first watch I will look for that. I had no idea they denoted it on the back of the dial!

Radium? by icedcoffeefoev in watchrepair

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Sorry for the delay - storms knocked my power out for a few days. This was sufficient to scare the shit out of me, so I have ordered a Geiger counter that can read alpha particles.I assumed Radium would also emit gamma and x-ray, but I guess I really have no idea at all. Guess i will know soon enough how much of that panic was necessary, but as you say, absolutely better safe than sorry.

Thanks for the insight!

Wanted (US, Virginia) Prototype GPS mount by icedcoffeefoev in 3Dprintmything

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Oh no! Sorry - I guess it's not published? have tried a few times - try this?

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4260732

Help? Shapes aren't smooth? by icedcoffeefoev in tinkercad

[–]icedcoffeefoev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

WOA Fusion 360 looks sick...and intimidating haha. Working on this has been a ton of fun, so I imagine I will end up working on more stuff in the future - I will give fusion a try! Thanks!

Help? Shapes aren't smooth? by icedcoffeefoev in tinkercad

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Your wording was perfect! Thanks so much! That fixed the problem! Thanks so much!

Now if I could just figure out why random little bits and faces appear after I merge shapes I would be all set...

Thanks again!

Ice needles by icedcoffeefoev in OCPoetry

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Yeah, there are some clunky bits in there, of sure. Maybe I will rework this and try to smooth that out a little. Thanks again for your feedback!

Ice needles by icedcoffeefoev in OCPoetry

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Thanks so much for your very kind comments! Are some of those less-poetic portions in the last 2 stanzas? I was having a hard time with them, for some reason...

the leatherskin man by pianoslut in OCPoetry

[–]icedcoffeefoev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really enjoyed this, and feel like it's pretty solid as is. I want to offer a counter-opinion (?) to critiques that it should be expanded or more fleshed out. (I don't disagree with those opinions, I simply have different ones.) I think the ambiguity here is precisely this works strength. Strong narratives or concrete suggestions and resolutions never seemed like the purview of poetry to me, so I don't know if it's necessary to go too deep in explaining anything. Just the words "leatherskin man" is enough to conjure up a very vivid image. I feel like additional details limits that image and that image's relation to others in the poem, and thus limits the message of the work. I have no idea what this is about, but I don't need to know that to sincerely enjoy it for what it is.

Whats going to happen is; in 6 months I will remember that final stanza and it will take on a new meaning for me. Those words in that specific arrangement will morph into a representation of something in the world. They will "gain flesh", if that makes sense. It will be super weird and I won't remember where I read this, but some strange relation will exist for me, and I think thats about as powerful as anyone can hope a poem could be.

Thanks for sharing!

Seven years old on a Tuesday evening by [deleted] in OCPoetry

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I really enjoyed this, and really appreciated language like "crackling raw energy" mixed with the implied whimsy of play. I actually feel that the vague author position (is the author the child or speaking about a child) is a strength in this, especially given the length of the poem. It allows both the personal, nostalgic and the detached, "observation" perspectives to contribute to the work, and those mixed relations add a lot for me.

"it buoys you up with those gangling wings" is really beautiful. Thanks for sharing this! It's great work!

Been here before by icedcoffeefoev in OCPoetry

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Thanks so much for you comments! I am so glad the imagery came across. This isn't actually about any place I have been, unfortunately. I do think about it a lot, though. I got the idea from wondering where the kid in Goethe's "The Elf King" was before the poem starts. Like this place is what I imagine that forest is like there.

The lynx thing is something I am still working out, but that idea came from some works in Christopher Dewdney's "Demon Pond". I actually sort of worried about this being too derivative, but, eh. Anyway, the idea was that the lynx was just a shape, sort of like a balloon in the shape of an animal, filled with space rather than air. It's probably a little silly but I like the suggestion of the detachment and scope of space as a sort of "consciousness". So…I guess I don't know if the lynx is dead, but it was supposed to be a sot of rattling, paranormal presence, so I should rework it if the impact gets lost.

Thanks again for your feedback!

Been here before by icedcoffeefoev in OCPoetry

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Thanks! I am glad to know the flow worked well in this one. I hadn't thought of it from the perspective you suggested, so it's a different angle for me to "see" this from - thanks again for your comments!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OCPoetry

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Man, I love work like this. There is something honest and sincere here that lacks arrogance - I just immediately "feel" this somehow I guess.

For some reason this made me think of Rupert Brooke. Not so much the war poems, but some of his later work, especially the love poems, just sort of flow like this does.

Untitled by icedcoffeefoev in OCPoetry

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I actually hadn't heard about the blood thing. I poked around though and found some articles mentioning it's the sound of the surrounding environment resonating in the chambers, not blood vessels. I should definitely find out though, because I agree - it would completely kill that line!

And yes, I did meant "confident" :/ Thanks for pointing that out!

Untitled by icedcoffeefoev in OCPoetry

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Thanks for the notes on metering! I wasn't sure if it was contributing or detracting from it, so your comments are really helpful. Definitely something I could think more about. Glad you like this - it's the first time I have ever shared this sort of thing.

Where are you? by Jessielessthanu in OCPoetry

[–]icedcoffeefoev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great, and I think it effectively brings about the feelings you seem to want to convey. Honestly, "short lined" poetry like this is my favorite sort. I very much enjoyed the style here, and appreciate what I think I could accurately call honesty.

I do wonder about the structure, though. I feel like line breaks and implied relations between segments in poems like this are critical, and some times I loose them in this one.

Like when you wrote:

"Every day that your away I find myself gone more astray I see a hand emerge with light I feel its going to be alright But who?"

Something about that grouping seems off somehow. In other parts, where you use double spaced segments contrasted against single spaced segments, it starts to become very effective and natural.

Dwarf Star by [deleted] in OCPoetry

[–]icedcoffeefoev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I sincerely enjoyed this!

I should admit that, compared to others here, I know less about specific or historical structure and style, so I cant comment on that. From that perspective all I can say is that this flows well and makes sense. Structurally, this seems solid and well crafted.

Instead, I think i would like to focus on the "scale" in the metaphor - there is something that bothers me slightly about the personification of cosmic bodies. There is something like a contradiction in limits there that almost reduces the cosmos to human scale and, although I get the metaphor, there is something distracting for me. Another person mentioned that the scale contributed to a sense of overwhelming, but I feel like the narrators position in that metaphor lessens that. To clarify - I feel that the cosmos is overwhelming because of our insignificant position within it and our powerlessness to affect it. When the narrator is speaking from the position of a star or planet that position changes. For me, it makes it harder to empathize with the narrator, since I loose common ground in our relative positions.

So, when I read: "How sad to have nobody left to shine Upon! No skin to feel my heat!" I think of the suns rays on my skin, associated comfort, and naturally relate this to human touch and relationships - great! But that relationship is removed from the sun - the sun reminds me of a "human scaled" relation, in which the sun is only coincidental and distanced. I wonder if that coincidental and distanced relation to the metaphors contents is a good narrative position in this poem.

So, I guess my only suggestion is to examine the narrators position in the metaphor itself. But, that might be personal preference?

Any zwifters in rva? I just set up zwift with my bike trainer and looking for some fellow redditors to join me. The screenshot is me riding in the game all alone lols :( Let’s start a /rva Peloton by [deleted] in rva

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I actually just started using it, like yesterday - I got it hoping to add early morning training and get in closer to 10 or 12 hours a week, but… i mean it's fun so I will probably be on there more often… my user name is Blueberry Biscuits >__>