My coasters arrived! I had ordered some sandstone coasters on Zazzle with my logo printed on them. For weeks I waited and today they finally arrived with stickers on the package from the UK and Switzerland, and they came from Canada(?!) Well they made it here somehow. That is all for now.
Well, it's a start...
With all the changes going on in my life recently and the mess that has caused I wasn't sure if I was ever going to continue on this project. However, I decided to press on. I'm going to finish this "apartment upgrade" even if it is the last thing I do. Today this sofa arrived and I went and bought a bedspread for... well, the bed. As one can see, the walls don't exactly look great. That's what the samples on the sofa are for. Still picking out a good shade of gray for the walls. Wanted to keep it neutral but not too dark like in my concept renders. Why does the modern world seem to be about nothing but escapism?
You have to look at consumerism fueled advertisements that distract you from the entertainment you're watching/reading/listening. The entertainment distracts you from the spun news reports you just watched/read/heard. The spun news reports distract you from the fact that real life is actually nothing like what you think it is.* Don't get me wrong, this has been going on for as long as information sharing has existed, since the existence of language one would think... but I feel like the scale at which information can now be spread over the internet has shot this aspect of human nature massively out of proportion. In such a way that it might be backfiring horribly in the form of fear and prejudice. Finding out the truth seems to still be a very local thing that you have to seek out at the source but a lie can spread to a large group of people at the speed of your average internet connection. I don't really follow any news outlets or participate in current culture. This is why I feel horribly out of touch with the modern world but I also don't feel like I want to become part of it. I'm fine being who I am. I just wish I knew more people like myself, whatever that type of person is. I've never met anyone like me, certainly not someone at my own age. This is why I keep falling off the edge of this world, time and time again, into the loneliness beneath. Nothing seems to ever be able to keep me up there, no one ever seems to be able to keep me up there. I'm looking for a change but I certainly haven't found the right kind of change yet. All I know is that I don't want to stay down here. I don't want to die already buried. Well I'm back in school... After seven(?!) years of being a lone-wolf I'm once again part of a herd. Earlier this summer I decided, randomly as I do, to apply for a course in Graphic Design at a university (yrkeshögskola) nearby. I didn't really hear back for quite some time but about week and a half ago I got an SMS that I was now being considered as a possible reserve candidate. I was asked to send in some practical and written material as a test and the very next day I was told I had been accepted. There went all my plans to move, travel and possibly retire from human society altogether. ..and believe me, those were all genuine plans I had. Regardless, this is a two-year commitment I have made to remain in Sweden, we'll see how it turns out. - Scratch that. Didn't work out very well. In other news; bikes. Went to see the classic bike races in Karlskoga with my dad. Got a nasty sunburn because he had assured me that there would be no sun and just large amounts of wind from all directions. That wasn't really the case. Here are some photo's of the event below: A couple of weeks ago I made up my mind that I was moving out of this apartment but... due to certain unforeseen consequences I have decided to stay a while longer. About two years most likely, more on that in a later blog no doubt. So right now my apartment is in a dreadful state. Boxes everywhere, random furniture with no actual stylistic cohesion and quite a lot of dust that built up over the years. Well let's see if I can put an end to this. This new project is intended to sort out this dreadful mess and make it a much nicer place to live. Here are some real-time rendered screenshots in trueSpace of what I've got in mind. The bed and lamp in the corner I already have... so there's that. As for the rest. The sofa I might be able to buy somewhere, the table can probably be made quite easily provided I can find the right wood and glass. Same goes for the little bookshelf and night stand, I will see if I can have those made or make them myself. The table for the printer and television are very much placeholders but I'll settle for anything that makes sense stylistically and that holds up the TV. The TV itself I thought would be far to expensive, 40 to 60 inch TVs cost around the 600 Euro's. Obviously I forgot that I have two gaming monitors that cost about 700 Euro's each so that puts that into perspective I think. Those ceiling lamps though... they're going be tricky. Maybe with some 3D printing and/or paper I can craft a couple of them. Apartment Update Blog 2 is coming whenever.
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