photopigs is finally up on Patreon

[olivermoss]

And we even have backers! More than I expected so soon, but it will be a long slog to getting us to breaking even on the site. In addition to the photopigs site, we finally have our community space open. If anyone would like to help us with momentum (and a very welcome moral boost to those working on the site) joining the community space to give us some comments or submitting us to stumbleupon would be amazing ways to help us!

My personal photography site Dorkvania has a Ko-Fi link on the about page, but I am not sure how to promote my Ko-Fi.

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Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I have boosted the signal on my blog.

I liked the article about color meanings. I think it would be cool to explore cultural differences. Frex, most cultures associate white with life and black with death, but Japan reverses the two. Black, white, yellow, and red are four sacred colors used throughout much of Native American territory. Some tribes avoid blue due to an association with death, but you get into the southwest and they put turquoise on everything because it's sacred.

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[olivermoss]

Thanks so much!

Photography tends to teach Western perception as human perception. Someday, someday I will write that article on why aliens would not like our art, at all. Art and composition rely heavily on the quirks of our brains, some nature some nurture. That goes double for video.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

*laugh* I have done that repeatedly.

I had one SF story in which the alien art was meant to be perceived with sonar, but was ugly and asymmetrical to human eyes. But the "piece of crap" sculpture none of the aliens liked was appealing to humans because it was more symmetrical.

Currently, some of my cetacean characters think that human tools and puzzles are fun, while others think they're vulgar. And their own sculptures are mostly made with bubbles.

I've just always been fascinated by different perspectives and how that influences cultural expression.

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[olivermoss]

Oh nice! So much Sci Fi is in love with the idea that aliens would be charmed by our art, particularly television. But what if they don't perceive repeated stills as motion? It's a quirk, possibly a flaw, in our minds that makes video work.

The first serious book on composition I read went a lot into how composition is based on highly specific ways our brains work, which is when that occurred to me.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>>Oh nice! So much Sci Fi is in love with the idea that aliens would be charmed by our art, particularly television. But what if they don't perceive repeated stills as motion? It's a quirk, possibly a flaw, in our minds that makes video work. <<

Doesn't work for my Hailen elves, or at least, similar things like flip-books don't. They see "faster" than humans, so for instance, they can see the pattern of a horse's gait in motion, where humans just see a blur.

>>The first serious book on composition I read went a lot into how composition is based on highly specific ways our brains work, which is when that occurred to me.<<

Another quirk -- my brain breaks most methods of 3D imagery. That will probably happen with any species who has color-shifted vision like I do, or anyone with independently moving eyes.

Here is "Tools and Toys" for you. The one with them arguing over prosthetic hands isn't posted yet, though.

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[olivermoss]

Thanks, I'll check it out!