We all know that what can be considered taboo or "spam" on other aggregators is welcome on Hubski, meaning that "original content is something worth celebrating". In saying that, if you have ever felt unsure about sharing your own creation(s) on Hubski, now is the time.
In this thread I would LOVE to get links, images, videos etc to something that you either created or had a hand in creating. Self promote people!! --- what are you passionate about?
I want to hear from lurkers that never post, I want to hear from newbies, I want to hear from those that have already been brave enough to share on Hubski.
I'd love to see ghostoffuffle, T-Dog, jonaswildman, mrjasonetaylor, kleinbl00, lil, _refugee_, humanodon, theadvancedapes, cW, insomniasexx, mk, mike, plitnickm, coffeesp00ns, flagamuffin, OftenBen, cgod, elizabeth, ButterflyEffect, wasoxygen, JTHipster, eightbitsamurai, b_b, veen, forwardslash, littlebirdie, alpha0 ecib, NotPhil, briandmyers, steve, roysexton, JakobVirgil etc...
This could be a band you are in, a song you've written, a short story you've penned, a poem, the blog you slave over, an article you wrote about mid-east policy, a photograph, a movie review, a website about doge-coin that you started, a map you made, napkin art, the bees you keep.... YOU NAME IT.
Let's all unabashedly share what it is we create, do and love. Hell, share things you have made and hate. Point is, this is a safe thread to share ANY and Everything. Even your spammy auto-parts SEO crap. (well, maybe not that)
I shouted out to people I know have shared in the past. I'd be even more interested to hear from those that haven't. Even if you've shared something in the past, dust it off and share it again..
mk -What have you not yet shared with Hubski that you've created?
More spam from me. Here's my new Borromean rings model. Each of these ladies is a ring. No two rings are linked. All three together are inseparable. I previously had a 2d picture of this, now I've made a 3d: I've turned it into jewelry. This is the prototype: Not yet up at Naked Geometry, but will be this summer.
Yes, it could, but it would be big and expensive. It's 3d printed and you pay by the cubic centimeter. I make a pentagram (the Pythagorean kind, not the mystical pentacle) made from 5 men that I think is pretty sweet -- I wear one myself everyday. Check out Naked Geometry for that one.
Could you explain the difference to me?Yes, it could, but it would be big and expensive. It's 3d printed and you pay by the cubic centimeter. I make a pentagram (the Pythagorean kind, not the mystical pentacle) made from 5 men that I think is pretty sweet -- I wear one myself everyday. Check out Naked Geometry for that one.
A pentagram is a five pointed star with crossing lines, the kind every kids learns to draw. A pentacle is a pentagram inside of a circle and has a rich history, which includes usages in various kinds of "magick". A pentagram inscribed in a pentagon is the symbol of the Pythagoreans and is a kickass mathematical shape.
Here's a handy guide I made to help show the difference:
Donald Duck and math, it is wonderful. If you mean about the Pythagoreans, they were a weird cult but most of the magicey stuff attributed to them was the nuttier Neoplatonists like Iamblicus claiming an ancient source for their own ideas to give them authority. There isn't much to go on about the actual Pythagoreans, and most of it was written by people who didn't like them. They might have been a lot like the early Academy, given Plato's interest in them. I'm not a classicist, though. Mostly I think Donald Duck movies about geometry are pretty great.
You realize Pythagoras was an occultist, started the first secret society, and is considered the father of Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism, the grand-master of double-meanings and hidden teachings, right? I mean, I'm not much for ascribing 'value' to different shapes, but saying that a pentagram is less occult or 'magicky' than a pentacle might not be entirely accurate. =P
Well, besides the fact that I'm still working on ideas for veenspace (I'm a slow worker - I want it to be as close to perfect as reasonably possible, but that takes time!) my Highways 2.0 map is almost done! I might actually sell some prints based off it. There's also some artwork I made (hastily, but still) for an assignment. Quite like how that turned out: 
Here is a song I've never (to my knowledge) shared, I recorded it several days after returning from scrimetime's bachelor party. It literally took me several days to be coherent again. Ah, vegas: https://soundcloud.com/i-like-to-hubski/song-i-wrote-after-scrimetimes-vegas-bachelor-party This one is just an idea I have for a song. I really dig the riff. I shared it with ghostoffuffle and jonaswildman. It's a fun one: https://soundcloud.com/i-like-to-hubski/idea-i-have some songs that nobody ever really cared about: song about a girl with bulimia in church song about the show Jericho (which nobody watched) Maybe I'm Down -- could use a big fat guitar solo imo Hubski Meets Twin Peaks Songs I dig: Elaborate Maps: Title track off our second album Struck Dumb --a song from our next album -unmixed Promo video for our first album Hubski talks about space: Made with steve
If you think I've share too much stuff... then you clearly don't get the idea of this post. Bring it...
Jesus, some of this stuff is dark, man. Said it before, will say it again- your output is insane. How many song ideas did you have just today?
Only one. Sadly, only one. Was sitting with Atticus between my legs and picked up a Uke and came up with a melody. I think it has legs. I can't help it man, I constantly hear music... like ALWAYS. Granted, most of it turns in to shit, but once in a blue moon I write something pretty kick ass.
Good to know I wasn't alone. It's just as good as any other of those survivalist dystopian prime time shows IMO. Is recommend it for an easy but entertaining series.
No! I will mail you both albums. My pleasure. PM me your address again
I will sometimes write stories for /r/writingprompts. Here are a few: I wish there was more Crimes are punished by illness, not time A man thinks he is the last human on earth, and finds out he's not The world after pollution, it has been deemed as toxic and one man wants out A man sees a demon in the mirror with a sign reading "please help me" A cult's last meal before suicide Trapped in my mind Banksy's Drunken Angel - This is an image prompt, here is the the image A man fakes his demise 1000+ minimum word requirement In a small town, you see a man claiming to be the devil If anyone has any feedback, it would be greatly a appreciated. Thanks!
1. Note to self, "never take a 25% loan." 2. Interesting concept, death sentence is to get a terminal disease and be "studied" while dying. Like it. 3. Dinner? 4. I enjoyed this one: "tears of pain and joy" indeed. Good stuff! ... I shall continue my reading. I think you should flesh some of these out and share here too. I dig some of the ideas and this type of "snippet" writing seems like it would be a lot of fun to do. I recall that we once had a challenge to create the best "first sentence" or lede for a novel. We should do something like that again. Thanks for sharing!
1-4 were fantastic. (3 was the best) Any one liners on 5-10? Also, thanks for the feedback. Number four, the quarantine zone one was probably among the first I wrote and number one was the most recent. I think its really cool to go back and see how much I've improved. In regards to the first sentence thing, that sounds awesome. A while ago I was exploring the depths of hubski and found the Caribouski from #storyclub and the whole idea of it seemed really cool.
Mmm. You'd enjoy /r/continuedstory and /r/textventures!
I was hoping you would share this. I really, really think some of these are funny. The first one "key chain" may be my favorite. I also really enjoy "cold hard cash" and "Chicken or Egg." Well done.
I love this! :) We should continue making editions where people can smush all their newest stuff in a pile. It'll be like an impromptu flea market sorta thing! I recently purchased this notebook, and sometimes I doodle but usually I write down lyrics I hear and think of, and cool things that people say. Pardon the potato quality.
Haha, it's minimal version of the logo I guess. Ironically it's tough to find so many great artists nowadays, for example Phish doesn't have single-song studio recordings on youtube. Perhaps once a year I have money to purchase an album or two, otherwise it's a painstaking and slightly guilty trek for a decent quality torrent. Man, I just started going to real concerts and I don't hesitate to milk every audience member for new music :D I bet you'd be surprised what similarities in taste we may have.
I used to have journals like that. They're wonderful to look at now as they can pinpoint a time/mood/place better than anything. I would write poetry, doodle, put down song lyrics. I kept them all and they mean the world to me. Never lose this this. Trust me.
I plan to preserve it for sure, thanks:) It's such an amazing thing to have by my side, for the longest time listening to music was the only reliable way I could "get lost," now I can record exactly where I was getting lost!
I have a few projects going right now. One is a benefit calculator that, after entering your information, displays whatever welfare/VA benefits you're eligible for. The second I'm still working out how I'd like to accomplish, but in theory it will parse medical documents to further determine disability eligibility and potential percentage. The criteria that disability analysts use is can be fickle, and it's done a bit differently between the VA service connected disability and Social Security Disability Insurance. It's going to be a challenge. I'm also helping my friend's new non-profit get started with grant research, general organization, building its website, helping him write their operation guidelines, setting up internal infrastructure like email and keeping records digitally, defining the boundaries of the services they want to provide, etc. Would love to officially work part-time for him if I had the time, but I'm content with volunteering. I'd love to continue working on my low income housing map and flesh it out with every cost of living, but I'm pretty tired of it. I'll pick it back up again soon. I just finished this semester of school Saturday, so I'll have much more time to pick up stuff, but I need to catch up on my reading. These projects show a certain kind of trend, I think. My proudest accomplishment is wholly different... Back in 2005, I made a shoutcast server with a friend. I wanted an audience, so I spammed it on 4chan. Eventually, I renamed it to /b/radio. I wanted to include video, so I found an obscure codec called NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video, made by winamp) that could be streamed from a server and viewed with WinAmp. This became /b/tv, which along with /b/radio was /b/media. /h/tv (for hentai) spawned as an off-shoot from one of my admins. I made a lot of smart friends and we tried to expand this so that people could upload their own music to the server and it would play itself on the shoutcast, along with allowing voting on songs in IRC. We also tried to do the same with videos, so that stuff uploaded to the server would be encoded to NSV and queued. NSV was underdeveloped though, and the way it streamed had it's errors; different resolutions or framerates would cause an interruption and people would have to reconnect. Generally, though, we made our own playlist mixed with banned movies, small strange clips, home-made commercials, or whatever. Sometimes it was themed streams. Because it was annoying being tied to winamp to stream like this, we tried to move into streaming it through the browser. It was far above our level of knowledge, and didn't really work. In the middle of all of this I joined the army and eventually we let it die around late 2007 or early 2008. It will probably remain my favorite project forever.
Damn dude, how did I take so long to notice your post. That's really awesome, I've always held the view that health care / accounting law is There Be Dragons territory, where only lawyers and seasoned corporations can make headway without missing an obscure detail which invalidates their entire calculations.One is a benefit calculator that, after entering your information, displays whatever welfare/VA benefits you're eligible for. The second I'm still working out how I'd like to accomplish, but in theory it will parse medical documents to further determine disability eligibility and potential percentage. The criteria that disability analysts use is can be fickle, and it's done a bit differently between the VA service connected disability and Social Security Disability Insurance. It's going to be a challenge.
For most welfare programs, it's pretty easy. For example, here are the qualifications for VA Pension: - Discharged from service until other than dishonorable conditions - Served 90 days or more of active duty with at least 1 day during a period of war time - Countable income is below a threshold (changes with dependents, spouse, needing a caregiver) - Net worth is below a threshold - Age 65 or older, or have a disability not connected to military service, or receiving social security This makes for very simple programming logic. You can even estimate the amount you'll receive because VA Pension won't pay you an amount that would push your monthly income over $1054 (which generally increases annually due to cost of living/inflation). I have one client that receives an extra $14.00/mo this way. Percentage can be much easier to predict with the VA for service connected disability, since many percentages are set in stone, such as 10% for tinnitus (ringing in the ears). It's far more difficult for Social Security Disability because your amount can fluctuate with how much you've paid into Social Security over your lifetime, and this is where I will probably fail and where many others fail. Ultimately, a predictor of eligibility for Social Security Disability is more important and that can be generally gleaned from medical records. They have a habit of denying these claims on the first go except in obvious cases. Many eligible people are denied when they absolutely qualify, so calculating it to perfection is beyond the scope of what I want to do. This is when the lawyers come in, and there are pro bono lawyers a plenty for SSDI appeals. If the first denial is not just an oversight, I imagine the rationale is that "those who really need it are going to fight for it."
Look, Hubs, I just need your help to spread the word. We're going to be a part of the coming revolution and we need your help, folks. This is only the beginning. This is my band. The Rothrocks. https://therothrocks.bandcamp.com/track/all-my-money www.facebook.com/therothrocks And here's me playing solo last Friday in San Francisco! JUSTIN CARBONARI (THE ROTHROCKS) @ CAFE INTERNATIONAL …:
Uffda. Norway has been calling me for some time now. So when I go I'll hold you to that drink :) or maybe one of those borromean necklaces..
So I can't share too much because but here's the new UI for that brand I do a lot of work for. Shhhh... :D The 20" version is finalized and animations have been approved. This is the tablet design. I'm in the process of working out animations since it's going to be website / browser instead of native. If anyone has any experience forcing a device to use GPU for CSS/JS, please let me know. My new company website is still borked on IE but a lot of changes and improvements have been made. It's hard to balance three HUGE projects at once, that's for sure. These gifs are pretty much the sickest thing ever - especially sine I was animating made up words. link I'm also fairly proud of my new sticker design. Spamming Hubski spam on a spammy hubski thread still counts as spam right? 
I love the "Hubski: It's not a jesus thing and I'm pretty sure that this is the beer coozy I want.
Yes. It's a joke of sorts, stemmed from an experience in Boston. https://hubski.com/pub?id=154724
Thanks for the invite, thenewgreen! Here's a few of my sites:
Naked Geometry, my artwork, math with naked people.
Naylors in Norway, a blog about family life in Norway.
Matematikkhuset - Math House, website for my business.
Mike's Cancer Blog, my cancer experience. With science!
Norway's Math Blog, my weekly math blog for the Norwegian Math Eduation Center. Even if you don't understand Norwegian you can understand a lot.
I built a weekly themed creations website. It's mostly just my own submissions so far, but anyone is free to show off their creative works. I make a lot of very small and very strange video games and code snippets that do various things.
http://foundonland.tumblr.com/ My travel blog :) Most of the more detailed posts on there I've posted as a #tripreport first but otherwise I just share pictures/videos I make. My boyfriend has a travel blog too ( http://alextraveling.com/ ) that I help him out with, but it's more technical information than personal experiences. I love crafts and I can't wait to go back home because I have a bunch of ideas I can't really do right now! I think I want do do a bit of simple jewelry once i'm home :)
The majority of my latest compositions are not online. I've been experimenting a lot and I'm currently obsessed with making music that is as unique as possible. Here is a little private link of one of my more recently tracks just for Hubski And here's another.
Also, here's an article I wrote not too long ago for a music blog i'm a part of
Neat sounds. I'm curious, how do you arrange these? Are they synthesized and sequenced sound, or sampled? Both? What program do you use? Not sure if it's what you're going for, but I find this stuff incredibly relaxing.
The sounds are a mixture of synthesized, recorded, and samples. The drums and percussion are one hit samples that I layers and piece together into the beat I want. The guitars are recordings of me playing whilst the things like bass and keys are synthesized. I usually play them in using a midi keyboard. In that first track, the steel drum sounding instrument (actually a Hang) are one note samples which I played in real time with an MPC. Things like vocals are of course samples. I also use samples for textures atmosphere. I'll usually stretch them and add all sorts of effects to turn them into pads and ambiance etc. I did intent for the pieces to be somewhat relaxing so I'm glad they had that effect There's a screenshot of what the first track looks like inside the software; there's also another 10 layers I couldn't fit. For reference, all the blue blocks are audio (recordings, samples, one hits ) and all the green blocks midi parts for the synthesizers.
Jesus. How do you like Logic? Was thinking of investing in a copy. For how much stuff is in the track, it sounds incredibly tidy. I also like the sonic texture that's created from mixing all those media. Very physical sound.
Well thank you! It's all about EQing and layering to make sure there's enough space for everything in the frequency spectrum. Also, what might appear as one sound in the final product is potentially 3 different layers blended together, so it's not necessarily 50+ completely separate things happening simultaneously. I love Logic. The version shown is actually Logic 9 but there's a more recent version out, however it's had a mixed reception. Out of every DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) it's probably the most aesthetically pleasing and easiest to navigate. It's capabilities for recording/managing audio as well as its mixer are also top notch. It's just about finding the program that matches your workflow. I'd certainly recommend it.
Here's an article from a few months ago about a fundraising effort by the radio station I'm involved with for a new, state of the art studio. Which is more or less unheard of for college radio stations today, especially paying for all of it yourself. Somewhere in there is a quote from me or something, haven't read it in a while. The video linked at the bottom I was involved with as well. The best part is, we have received all the funding necessary after raising half of it and the university covering the rest. We will have to pay that money back, and raising that is going to be a big part of this upcoming year for me.
you got it - here's a link to my blog - I post reviews of movies, concerts, music - anything that strikes my fancy. a book spun out of the first two years of this blog - you can find info on that here too: http://www.reelroyreviews.com I also do a lot of theatre and you can find clips on my youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/salinesexton/videos
That was perfect Roy, thanks for the links and as I have mentioned elsewhere, I've enjoyed reading some of your reviews. Others, follow suit, let's see/hear what it is you create/do!
It's on my Hubski bio, I think, but here's a soundcloud of my current stuff: www.soundcloud.com/vsns Hrm, not sure why that's not coming up as a URL, but it works. Not all of it is entirely complete, and none of it is mastered. I suspect it'll be a work in progress for a long... long time. Here's a song I did a long long time ago, for old time's sake. Sounds like it was recorded in a tin can, and didn't get much ear time to the best of my knowledge, but for something I shit out over the course of a weekend, I'm still pretty proud of it: Deep cuts, man... deep cuts. Hey, here's a song I was just thinking about shooting out to the Hubski music club! Good timing on this post, thenewgreen. Made it last year with some buddies, abandoned it, just came back to it last night and putzed around a little bit. Could be a fun one for additions. Esp. in the rhythm department. But also in every other department. Long, but extremely easy to follow. Lemme know what you think, I can do all the requisite shout-outs in another post.
I listened to that song earlier tonight with Atticus (Shenandoah). I was listening to another friends music via youtube and decided to search Le Loup. I found a really cool "official video" for one of your songs that we both listened to and watched. One thing I am going to try with Atticus is to go as long as I can without him watching any childish bullshit or kiddie-songs. I want him to be constantly surrounded by interesting and challenging music. But I suppose, some songs may bridge the divide. We really ought to make that our collaboration. A children's album that doesn't suck. I feel like I recall the song Eidolons, I've heard it before, right? If not, it's great either way. Do you hear any percussion in it eventually? I dig the lead guitar work, crunchy and uninhibited. Nice work.
Children's music is a racket, dude. We could clean up, big time. Case in point- the song you linked, the point at which I took it down, had more plays than all of my "legit" soundcloud songs combined. Not sure whether to be cool with that or depressed. Might've had Eidolons up a while ago. Never got off the ground from my end because it needs some serious investment re. drums, bass, non-electric guitars... basically everything I don't have access to or the wherewithal to play. Lead guitar was my friend/old guitarist. Miss playing with him. Or anybody.
Also, most of my songs have between 10 and 60 plays. The Itsy Bitsy Spider has 100 and 7 downloads (which is 7 more than most). Let's do it. Our kids will dig it and it could potentially pay for their education.
Move to Chapel Hill. I have those things. Let's record children's songs and retire.
I've pretty much lost my desire to create things as of late, which is why you haven't seen any original content by me on Hubski. I think it's a creator's depression that is in turn affected by actual depression. I could look around for something I might have done recently, though. Till then, here's a crazy last-minute win I got in Mario Kart 8. Starts about 15 seconds in and if you blink you'll miss how awesome it is.
Hey 8bit, I'm sorry to hear that you are not feeling the best these days. For what it is worth, I think you're pretty damn cool. Glad to know ya and I hope the creative juices get flowing again soon.
No no, you guys, that weakens the awesomeness of that MK8 replay. Being serious, though, I think being drained creatively is something that happens to everybody at some point, though for some it lasts longer than others. I've still been working on my novel, though that might be because 500 words a day becomes a habit, but I definitely can't show you guys that...I can barely show myself that, hell, haha.
https://hubski.com/pub?id=157798#h157808 Here's my creation! Riveted keys.
Ok, here's a thing I can spam: one of my poems has been incorporated into a performance art piece to be performed by my friend Ethan Hamby at an event called EN-ER-GY 5 at OBERON in Cambridge, MA this Friday night. Doors are at 9 p.m. (I guess, but I can't make it). Hopefully he can get a video of the performance so I can post the video component he sent me alongside it.
Nothing to post at the moment. Middle of a few projects. Me and friends will be doing a twitch stream of our WoW raids which may or may not fail entirely. Sometimes I still do movie reviews. Biggest thing I'm working on at the moment is a shitty 3D snake with my friend. There's probably already a 3D snake, but I'm learning game development and the best way to learn it is to throw myself in to it as hard and as fast as I can. Oh, we got my dad a shitty beer brewing kit for Father's day/his birthday so I guess I'm also making beer.
Have you put shouldiwatchthis.net on permanent hold? I was digging that and then it disappeared. That said, I think most people don't realize how much time and effort goes in to something like that. How did the beer turn out?
Oh it's well beyond permanent hold. As much as it was actually fun and a bit fulfilling to run a website, it's a lot of work, time and money. It also meant that I had to be generating content at a much higher rater than I was comfortable with, and my ability to feel passionately about a movie really slipped. I don't know if it came across in the writing, but I certainly was feeling it from behind the screen. I don't want to make a career or even a large hobby out of movie reviews. They're fun to do, but as I got more and more in to it and more and more in to film in general I realized that I really didn't want any part of it. I'll still do posts on hubski, but that's the extent for now. To a degree, having to review all of those films really ruined movies for me for a while. Now I can take a little bit more relaxed paced.
If it's effecting the enjoyment that caused you to do it in the first place, then you were definitely right to stop. I'm glad you'll still be posting them on Hubski, they're hilarious. You still in OH and hating it? I forget if you moved away? Either way, hope you are well.
soundcloud - Just email yourself the voice-memo and then upload. voila.
Thanks for that. Good idea, but now I need more soundcloud space. I'm all out!
Well, not quite self-promotion as of yet, because I'm still working on it, but here goes. I am trying to introduce myself to integer linear programming by making a Nonogram solver using Python and puLP. I've gotten it to solve 25x25 puzzles, now I just need to tidy it up and optimize it a "little" (for one thing, it currently takes a couple minutes just to generate the constraints on larger puzzles).
I'm the maintainer of a small project I've dubbed I2P Berry, basically a image for raspberry pi that turns your pi into a router for the I2P secure network. It's not nearly as exciting as many of the things other people are showing off here, but here's the main site if you guys want to try it out.
Crap, can this come in a week? I am working on making net closet look respectable! Also a website, but it's got my name on its author list.
How is it coming with "net closet"? Looked like a big job.
Still split between that and the website, but the parts came in for a server with 6 cores, 48 gb of RAM, and a fancy RAID array for storage! A friend is currently setting it up with CentOS + Chef + KVM, so we can have separate virtual machines for each service we want in the house (Web server, file server, network scanner, chef, development, etc). I'm putting the messy wires behind a patch panel, but cutting ethernet cables takes forever, so it's all sitting stagnant right now. When it's complete, I'll make a post with pictures.