The NACA Music, Art & General Creativity Thread

[briantrumpet]

Obviously, when they started, they were typesetting using hot metal, so when they did kern, they'd often let forth an involuntary "Ow!!"

 

[Beebo]

Obviously, when they started, they were typesetting using hot metal, so when they did kern, they'd often let forth an involuntary "Ow!!"

I’m sure they used the crust from the Cornish pastie to protect their fingers.

 

[Ian H]

Obviously, when they started, they were typesetting using hot metal, so when they did kern, they'd often let forth an involuntary "Ow!!"

That explains the tin mines.

 

[AndyRM]

This morning I was greeted by my cats (Yoshi on the left, Tilly on the right) utterly rejecting a magazine cover I designed a couple years ago. I can't blame them, it's not great.

 

[Ian H]

Name that artist

Could other colours besides the primary ones be used? Must the line be made explicit...? Were directions other than horizontal and vertical permissible for the position of the various elements? Should the image be concentrated within the surface of the picture, or was it better to suggest that it extended beyond the outer edges? Were the shape and placement of lines and areas of colour a question of intuition, or should they be governed by mathematical principles?

 

[briantrumpet]

Name that artist

Could other colours besides the primary ones be used? Must the line be made explicit...? Were directions other than horizontal and vertical permissible for the position of the various elements? Should the image be concentrated within the surface of the picture, or was it better to suggest that it extended beyond the outer edges? Were the shape and placement of lines and areas of colour a question of intuition, or should they be governed by mathematical principles?

Mondrian ?

 

[Ian H]

Mondrian ?

It could hardly be anyone else, could it.

 

[briantrumpet]

It could hardly be anyone else, could it.

I wondered if it was a trap, it was so obvious! Not that you'd ever play a dirty rotten trick like that, being a gentleman.

 

[Ian H]

I wondered if it was a trap, it was so obvious! Not that you'd ever play a dirty rotten trick like that, being a gentleman.

I'm no gentleman. And I'm wrestling with paint and paper at the moment. Not sure who's winning yet.

 

[Ian H]

Name that poet -
He has said his aim in writing a poem is “to construct a verbal device that would preserve an experience indefinitely by reproducing it in whoever read the poem.”

 

[AndyRM]

Larkin.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Name that poet -
He has said his aim in writing a poem is “to construct a verbal device that would preserve an experience indefinitely by reproducing it in whoever read the poem.”

Very true but also troublesome, read "Aubade" and then spend days being terrified by your own mortality!

 

[Xipe Totec]

As I might have mentioned some 47 pages ago, back in the increasingly distant past I was in a band called Maya29 - and bizarrely, if you check the calendar you'll discover today is Maya29 Day. It's true. Check if you don't believe me.

Anyway, in celebration of that auspicious occasion some fool (that'd be me) has seen fit to digitally release our self-recorded debut album from 1999, Second Suicide, on The YouTube. Back then, we did songs about sex, death & monkeys, as well as one tear-jerkingly beautiful cover of a song some of you will likely remember.

I haven't listened to this in years - and I don't know whether to be proud, or gutted that nothing came of it.


View: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIOnBfyRrEVd9g07hYMkfQ2_a7YibPSXj&feature=shared