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Trust me it is. Went from something fun to shit.

Is it still something you like?

Sometimes.

Well at least you like it sometimes, and it seems like you make some money off it. I hate my job.

I should probably clean up and remove all the oily rags I have piled up in the corners of my studio.

Why do you have oily rags in your studio?

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Because I use oil paint so the rags I use to clean my brushes and scrub the canvases are soaked in oil and solvents. Both of which are highly flammable to the point where they can spontaneously combust.

Do you make money off the paintings? Why do you leave the rags there if it's so dangerous?

What do you do?

I have made a little money in the past, I'm currently working on building a body of work and portfolio to send to galleries I leave them there because I just chuck them away while I'm painting and when I'm not painting I don't want to do anything but sit around and think about painting.

I calibrate and repair test maintenance and diagnostic equipment, Very boring.

why does the fox have the shadow of gondola

I see you're very focused on your work.

Sounds kinda neat. What type of equipment?

The shadow is of the back legs. The sun is low in the sky.

I am focused almost entirely on art. I am always thinking about the problems, what it means, is it even possible, and so on.

Frequency generators and analyzers, oscilloscopes,flash point testers, multimeters, torque wrenches, dial indicators, medical equipment, anything that takes or makes a measurement. I'm a metrologist.

Sounds neat! do you have a website?

That sounds neat.

I could use an oscilloscopes

Why would you need an O-scope?

I do not. I am going to go to this place that makes prints of paintings on Saturday to talk and see what all they can do for me as far as photographing goes. The cost and quality and all that. If they can help me I'll get them to photograph my stuff, then work on building a website while putting together a bio and write a statement. As it stands I have an instagram.

Well at least you have instagram. What does your art look like?

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Too see if a consoles clock signal is working.

Like this. I come from the New York School and Colorfield movement as well as Japanese and Western landscape painting.

O-scopes do test time/period, as well as frequency. Also amplitude and dB (same thing kind of) to a certain extant. I didn't know older consoles had a clock signal. There are also clock calibrators out there.

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Yeah they do. I've had consoles seemly be fine and not work at all. Would be nice to probe around and see if the chips where giving the right signals.

Course I'd have to get trained on how to use a scope.

I apologize, but I don't really understand what I'm looking at. Could you please explain something about the art you have created?

looks like a moldy mattress
actually my moldy mattress is nicer than that

They are relatively easy to learn how to use. They mostly have the same functions. It's mainly about what's different interface-wise between manufacturers.

Also they have different accuracies depending on the model

Yeah, I can imagine they're different

I don't even know a good brand,

I saw a few at Frys for $600 or so.

It's a painting, that is what you are looking at. My color is heavily dependent upon the natural color of the area I grew up, which is the Mojave Desert in California. A lot of golden browns, yellows, and pinks in the land itself, and a vast range of colors in the sky at sunset and sunrise. My interest lies in the material as material, I don't want to give the impression that this is anything but oil paint you are looking at. The process is also a vital part of it. Putting paint on, scraping it off, painting over and through areas, scrubbing the paint on the canvas with solvent soaked rags, and always looking, feeling how the painting is developing. I'm also intensely interested in creating a place of solitude in the canvas, where one can go and be by ones self.

You shouldn't sleep on a moldy mattress.

Agilent/HP, tektronix, keysight maybe. All good ones are expensive. You can go digital or cathode ray tube which is older. Both work.

i mean i can appreciate the effort but i feel like art should be interpreted properly without needing an explanation
even then it's pretty vague

As much as I'd like to use an older model a digital one offers much more I think.

I just wish Hakko made one.

Maybe Fluke makes one as well.

You sound very interested and dedicated to your craft! I'm happy for you!

Fluke makes good ones as well! Fluke is one of the more solid companies out there for test maintenance and diagnostic equipment.

I thought they might. I have a 117 multi meter I use for everything.

I don't feel the need to explain my work, honestly. I often don't unless specifically asked, and even then it's not "this painting is about this" so to speak. The viewer is free to think and feel whatever they want about it. Unfortunately for this kind of work, it takes time. You can't just give it a quick glance and get it. You have to spend time with it, which most people don't have to give.

I went to school for painting, it is my entire life and my main concern. If Snuggles were here he could tell you how terrible this is for me. It drives me mad and makes me a rather miserable person most of the time.

I like the 87 series personally, but 117's are still good. 87 series are more expensive anyway I think.

to each his own i suppose

Whether you are miserable or not, at least you have a passion that you're following. That's a great thing! Even if it's tough sometimes.

I'm not doing anything too advanced. Continuity, DC voltage test, and maybe capacitance although I have another meter for that.

That makes sense. That's what most of them are used for anyway.Resistance, voltage, and current are the main things. Capacitance, frequency, and temp usually take a back seat. I hate calibrating those functions when the customer doesn't actually need it.

Indeed. The painter whose work made me a painter said something along the lines of what you said. He said he was disgusted with the kind of work you need to go and get an education to understand. That pure abstraction was like a special club that only an elite few are able to be initiated in. He abandoned abstraction completely and returned to figurative work exclusively for the last twelve years of his life.

It's more an obsession than a passion. Art is a great thing though, it excites me unlike anything else. Even when I am miserable from it, the successful conclusion of a painting thrills me to the point where I am as high as a kite.

First though I need to get a PVM or BVM so I can start modding consoles.

Sounds like a passion to me. If it excites you like nothing else I say continue with it.

definitely do continue to pursue it though. art is art and i believe all art is equally beautiful if the effort and meaning is there.
good luck man

That's cool! I've never looked into modding consoles before. I mainly use emulators. Although I still use my SNES and N64 on a regular basis.

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What type of SNES do you have? The first boxy model or the second more sleek one? All models of the first version can output S-video and RGB by default, just need the cables. The SNES Jr needs an RGB/S-video amp.

As for the N64 you can tell if your N64 is RGB compatible by the serial number. If it Starts with NUS1 then you most likely have a model that can be modded.

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Perhaps, I think it more like an obsession though. I can't not do it no matter how much I want to stop. If I go too long without painting I start to lose touch with reality and my behavior becomes erratic. It's a very strange thing. Thank you though.

Yes, thank you.

I have a first gen SNES, same one since I was a child. I have another boxy model SNES as well that I keep at my Aunt's lake house for use by myself and cousins. This means I have two copies of every game I own. I don't care to look at my N64 at the moment, but I believe my current one is one of the later models.

You have two copies of your favorite games?

Like what?

obsessions can also be passions I think. I envy you.

Do you not have anything that obsesses you?

All three DK countries, Super Mario RPG, Super Mario All-stars with world, Zelda, MarioKart, metroid, yoshis island,chrono trigger, earthbound, castlevania,sunset riders, earthworm jim, star wars, etc.

Those are some good games.

If you want to sell any copies let me know.

Not really, I haven't been passionate about anything for a while.

What in the past were you passionate about?

My cousins and I enjoy them too much. Unless I move away I don't think I could ever sell them.

Of if some one made the right offer.

you have quite a few there that would go for some nice money.

Or*

getting tired

I liked video games for a long while and I was quite good at them, still am. It just doesn't get me excited anymore. I used to play and be passionate about football and soccer too. I'm still looking for something new.

They're worth more to me personally than that for the time being. I may sell some in the eventually though.

Yeah, I understand.

That last sentence was a train wreck.

Have you tried philosophy? Albert Camus, the French Absurdist author, play write, and philosopher started as a soccer player, he was considered a very good player that could have gone pro had it not been his development of TB at the age of 23 that ended his career. He once stated in an interview that everything he learned of human nature and morality he learned from playing soccer and in a conversation with Sartre, the French Existentialist, he stated, when asked outright if he had to choose between the theater and soccer (football), "Football without hesitation."

I'm not sure there's much for work in philosophy. As for any potential sports career, it was ruined when I tore my left ACL and my right achilles. Since then I've broken both ankles twice and dislocated my left knee once. My lungs have also been separated from my rib cage once as well.

oh yeah I have starfox too.

Star fox on the SNES suffers from frame rate issues. I though about overclocking the cartridge though to fix that.

What did you do to cause that to happen?

Neat! How would you go about that?

you cut the clock signal and wire in a slightly faster crystal.

Results in more FPS but the music is tied into the clock signal so it also speeds up slightly.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZLcw3O7aTgo

It looks so much better! Maybe I should do that. Do all the older consoles have oscillators in them?

Star Fox is an exception. It has an on board processor, clock and ram that essentially took over the SNES system and used it as a video/controller pass though. All the FX games do.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_FX

And yeah, you could over clock other consoles. I've seen over clocks for the game boy, NES and the Sega Genesis.

Why would you overclock a gameboy?

To see if it can be done.

Why else.

anyways going to bed

gb was intentionaly under clocked to save batteries. games actually run slower than they should. overclock gb to play them correctly.

Goodnight Luc.

Neat!

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Someone new!

uhh, sure.

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I think I've been the only person posting porn in this thread. Getting bored.

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