Creativity of the day

[Jetboy]

I've finally discovered something of an ability to draw, which is something that I've wanted for quite some time (read: all my life). Being able to imagine something and then actually be able to show it to people feels terrific! Here's something I made; I'm not sure what it is, but it doesn't look as horrible as a lot of my drawing does.

[vampireshark]

Products of boredom. I decided to rework some of the stuff for the Telèmor Passport, and here are the results.

Cover


Inside Cover


Biodata Page


Sample Stamp Page 1


Sample Stamp Page 2


EDIT (15/01): I also decided that reworking the Ilian Passport was also a good way to go through about two hours. Thus, here's the revamped Biodata Page:

[Viktor77]

Some before and afters of Detroit using Google Streetview. Cheesy, yes, but I'm quite addicted to them.

[Nortaneous]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8bT-rZoG8s

I've been working on a Lemmings level pack for a while now, and that's my tenth level, but four of the levels are minor variations on essentially the same layout so I'm probably going to drop three of them unless I make a megapack of some sort. I finally got around to recording that video (of my most recent level, actually), although I'm not sure if that level will make it into the final pack since it relies on hellish amounts of timing.

edit: also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeh_WoHfGSA but I guess this one doesn't count, since the level itself is old as fuck, whereas the one above I made today/yesterday

[roninbodhisattva]

Awesome passport pictures

What's the conlang on these and is there documentation of it?

[zoqaëski]

The other day I went out photographing the local freight train in the rain, much to the bemusement of the crew... There's nothing particularly imaginative about the angle or the subject matter, but I quite like the results. Despite appearances, the weather was not a misty winter's day but a hot wet summer's day. IIRC the temperature was about 30-something °C.

I took this one just outside the next village to my hometown; it's my favourite of the twenty or so photos I took that afternoon. (As part of the new regulations they're bringing in, the train has to stop about a kilometre outside of every town before proceeding through if the yard isn't signalled. The "Yard Limit" sign is about 50 m to the right out-of-frame.)


Ten kilometres down the line.


Same location, just closer. Due to the limitless genius of the ARTC, they've just finished upgrading the track with steel sleepers and continuous welded rails. But they didn't replace the rails while they were at it (some sections still have the original rails from the twenties), so the main-line locomotives in these pictures are limited to about 35–50 km/h due to their high axleload of 21 T or so.

And here's one of my latest drawings. The SVG master copy I exported it from is a 1:100 scale drawing; the dimensions are in mm but I've drawn it according to my own system of measurements that are loosely based on the Imperial system. Although fictional, it's based on a Swiss design.


I'll be the first to admit my main interest is actually railways and trains; the conlanging is just so I have at least one language to be spoken in my fictional world, but I intend to make it as realistic as possible. The world was created for the railways I drew... etc.

[vampireshark]

Awesome passport pictures

What's the conlang on these and is there documentation of it?

The conlangs are Ilian, an agglutinating language, and Telèmor, a Romance-derived language. No, there is not much documentation available on either: most of the introductory stuff I posted has been long since pruned from C&C Quickies (where I have posted most of my language and history-related stuff).

(And thanks...)

[Viktor77]

Zoqaeski: Nice train diagram! What program are you using?

Also, epic Communist ownage?

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[Jipí]

I am currently trying to get my website managed by Wordpress. The photo above is one of the header graphics I thought of using, though I think I'll rather take the one below, as the first picture contains a lot of elements so that it easily diverts attention, while this other one below is much more calm:



Suffice it to say, the word reads "Ayeri" The paper-and-pencil design does not hide the fact that the letters were constructed with a ruler and a compass, which metaphorically of course points to the fact that this is a constructed language (I used the same metaphor in my logo for the Sprachbaukasten, basically). The drawing tools are unfortunately not present in the second picture due to the very narrow height that's prescribed by the default twentyten theme, a personalized tweak of which I'm going to use. The eraser made it, however.

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EDIT: Those buggers deleted the files early, maybe because I didn't link back to imageshack?

[Astraios]

Suffice it to say, the word reads "Ayeri" The paper-and-pencil design does not hide the fact that the letters were constructed with a ruler and a compass, which metaphorically of course points to the fact that this is a constructed language (I used the same metaphor in my logo for the Sprachbaukasten, basically). The drawing tools are unfortunately not present in the second picture due to the very narrow height that's prescribed by the default twentyten theme, a personalized tweak of which I'm going to use. The eraser made it, however.

It's very good. You don't need the ruler and compass to show the metaphor either; the eraser, the squared paper, and the pencil lines all show that off enough.

[Bristel]

I like it. The script is very cool, and reminds me of Thai.

[Yiuel Raumbesrairc]

Suffice it to say, the word reads "Ayeri" The paper-and-pencil design does not hide the fact that the letters were constructed with a ruler and a compass, which metaphorically of course points to the fact that this is a constructed language (I used the same metaphor in my logo for the Sprachbaukasten, basically). The drawing tools are unfortunately not present in the second picture due to the very narrow height that's prescribed by the default twentyten theme, a personalized tweak of which I'm going to use. The eraser made it, however.

It's very good. You don't need the ruler and compass to show the metaphor either; the eraser, the squared paper, and the pencil lines all show that off enough.

Me and a friend of mine agree that the lower one is definitely the neatest.

[zoqaëski]

Zoqaeski: Nice train diagram! What program are you using?

Also, epic Communist ownage?

I draw most things in Inkscape and then fine-tune the exported PNGs with GIMP (cropping mainly, because the originals are drawn on approximately A4 sized paper).

Heh. Not quite Communist: if you look closely the star is eight-pointed, and IIRC the Communist star has five points. Inspired, certainly, but not exactly. The eight-pointed star is meant to be a Qevelian symbol (it's on the flag too), representing the sun that rises over the western ocean, and the shield idea was taken from the Swiss:

You can't half tell where I got most of my inspiration from, heh

[Risla]

Oh here, have an extremely unfinished map of the Eresian Isles:



South Eresia is most of that, aside from the northernmost big islands and the small ones around it (which is North Eresia).

Here's the continent it's attached to, which I call Norua:



I'll probably fuck with the shape of Norua a bit more, but the shape of Eresia is relatively set in stone.

[Pthagnar]

why is the shore so crinkly

[Risla]

Eresia is rather fjordy, and I just kind of absentmindedly kept going like that and overfjorded it. I'm going to smooth it out quite a bit.

[Jipí]

So, try out http://benung.nfshost.com/test/?page_id=5, available there for a limited time for now, because it's not yet finished. I've been obsessing about the dictionary search stuff instead of learning for my exams for the past week. Just give it a try. The database has ~2200 entries, so simple words should work easily. E.g. you may want to search for *nang* and hang-. You can also try entering nothing, or just an asterisk. The "Advanced Search" (accessible from the menu) doesn't yet work. What I'd like to know is if you find getting to the search categories intuitive or not. I played a bit with jQuery, as you will see.

You will find the entry for "fuck" by entering *fuck or to fuck, as I've saved infinitives with the "to"

[din]

I ... overfjorded it.

Haha

[dhok]

In fact, you might just say you...
*dons sunglasses*
went overfjord.

[makvas]

I'd like some feedback on this:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19419654/shrine.jpeg

The background picture is Reykjavik, snatched from Wikipedia commons, with my own photo of some many-armed shrine in China.

[Jipí]

Psychedelic. That and Hindu gods (or wait, it's China, so it might be Buddhist in fact) together reminds me of hippies somehow.

[din]

In fact, you might just say you...
*dons sunglasses*
went overfjord.

Even worse haha


Zoris:
Too many different colours (and ugly ones, too). And symbols from eastern religions are overused in tacky western art. I do like the composition itself, but I like your other images better

[makvas]

Too many different colours

I was afraid of this :P

(and ugly ones, too).

I can't say I agree honestly, just the wrong choice of combinations.

And symbols from eastern religions are overused in tacky western art.

Ouch, I was unaware of this. I was wary to put this up with my other stuff because of the religious symbolism (which I honestly know nothing about, making it weird) but if it's also tacky... probably best I don't.

I think honestly with that picture, I wanted to mess with near-symmetry and didn't pay too much attention to color :P

[zoqaëski]

So, try out http://benung.nfshost.com/test/?page_id=5, available there for a limited time for now, because it's not yet finished. I've been obsessing about the dictionary search stuff instead of learning for my exams for the past week. Just give it a try. The database has ~2200 entries, so simple words should work easily. E.g. you may want to search for *nang* and hang-. You can also try entering nothing, or just an asterisk. The "Advanced Search" (accessible from the menu) doesn't yet work. What I'd like to know is if you find getting to the search categories intuitive or not. I played a bit with jQuery, as you will see.

This new site design is looking good so far, although IMHO the font size on the menu is a little small. The dictionary output is very tidy, although to be honest, displaying the individual entries in boxes worked better because it gave you more horizontal space; the tabular columns sometimes results in line breaks in awkward places (such as the IPA column). I'd be inclined to arrange it so each entry's content is vertically aligned rather than horizontal (but that's just a personal preference):

ikanang /ˌi.ka.ˈnɑŋ/ n, a, sg
legend
Na ningiyo ikanangaris-ikan in Sintaylang.
Many legends are told of Sintaylang.

[Nannalu]

Well, I've been trying the modern psych thing for a few weeks now, it's improved but it still seems really noobish.

It's big