As usual, I have a lot of things going on at the same time. The necessary ones that I absolutely have to do and also the things that are only vital to me. Although vital only to me in that way that if I can't do those things, it may lead me to a state where I no longer can properly do those necessary things that are important to other people too, so that means that the not so necessary things are also pretty necessary. To me and everyone around me. No play makes Insane a grumpy camper. And nobody wants that. So eeeeeverything I do is equally necessary, absolutely vital and pretty darn important!
So let's get to the pretty darn important thing number one.
You remember my 2021 Inktoberings? As an extra inspiration and challenge (as if the Inktober prompts weren't challenging enough) I made a collage using paper clippings and also drew with a pencil, ink and computer. Metamorphoship.
I never threw away the magazines although I did not use them last year because I had a plan. A plan that has been brewing this long. Waiting for a right time. For those who don't understand Finnish or Norwegian here's a little explanation.
The magazine is called Hjemmet which means home. To a Finn the logic what it actually looks and sounds like is pretty simple. Just don't pronounce the j and add one of the really typical Finnish language characters to the end; double consonant and the word ending vowel. Hemmetti. That's an actual Finnish word. And it means damn, dammit and darn.
So I'm doing a series of collages that are the cover images of a fictional magazine called Hemmetti. Darn. There are so many things in life that deserve a special darn mention.
Moving on to another priority number one.
Renewing my old paintings.
Another Finnish language character is that as there are some letters that are not used in Finnish words (that are not recent loanwords) like F and C for instance, is that you can make a word a Finnish word just replacing the B with a P, C with a K, D with a T, F with a V, Q with a K and again add the double consonant and a vowel to the end (usually I). Like when you have the word cat, you replace the C and end up with a kat, do the double consonant thing: katt and add a vowel to the end, and there you have it katti, a Finnish word that means a cat. Simple! Of course just like in English and many other languages, there are other cat words too, like kissa, but that word didn't fit to my Finnish word building story so let's forget that altogether.
My partly blue katti is unfinished, as is my label tree...
...and also my word tree.
I will finish all these some day.
Next, my absolutely vital project number one, The Number Generator! I decided to add more numbers, five is the biggest one because before I managed to do more, I got an idea and went ahead with that, of course. I mean, who needs to finish projects, isn't starting them the most important thing ever?
Okay so I got the idea to do the same layer thingy with the numbers but Ishihara test numbers!
https://www.insaneworks.fi/numbers
Normal colors. (To everyone who has normal color vision.)
Protanopia vision. (There wasn't that big of a difference with this one and deuteranopia vision, perhaps because of my color choices, so I left the deureranopia pic out.)
As the background balls and the number balls are on different layers and the code randomly chooses which ones it combines, there might sometimes be more combinations that are visible to color blind people than numbers that aren't visible.
Tritanopia vision. (I'm working on to make more Ishihara numbers that are harder to see for people who have tritanopia vision.)
After all that color mess that I put on all the layers, especially the numbers that are clearly visible for everyone, this color scheme pleases my eye very much.
There are only 0 and 1 numbers on the Ishihara test numbers, but I assure you... some day. Some day there will be more.
Moving on to the next really important project, the ArtSquares.
https://www.insaneworks.fi/artsquares
I have nothing else to say about this one except: some day. Someday there will be more.
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I wonder if I can Finnishify the words art and squares with the methods that I've told you before. Let's try it! Okay so no "foreign" letters, add double consonants and something that I have not told you before, also adding double vowels is very much a Finnish thing.
Art = aartti
Squares = skuaressi
Aartti skuaressi
Aaaaand look at that, it works!
Only two very important things left. First the most important project and after that the other most important project.
Have you met my water vector creatures?
Cow, blue, alien, bear, furry and a cat.
(Kovvi, pluui, aalieni, peeri, vurri ja katti. I bet there's a city somewhere in U.S. or perhaps in Canada where Finnish immigrants moved perhaps a century ago and they talked English like this. Finglifyed English)
Or do you remember my Striped collection?
Both, the Water Vector series and Striped are in https://nftshowroom.com/insaneworks. As are most of the ArtSquares.
There you have it, almost every unfinished but important project that I have going on.
Emphasis on the word almost.
