{"id":640,"date":"2006-09-20T07:01:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=640"},"modified":"2006-09-20T07:03:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T12:03:26","slug":"an-island-where-no-one-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"An Island Where No One Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beckoning Chasm has moved into some new wordpress-driven diggs<\/a>. If you’re the bookmarking sort, then I suppose this would be the point at which you update them. <\/p>\n

He also has a few new posts<\/a> in the Telephone Girl series<\/a>, which I mentioned before<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The painting is a tough one. Now, aside from using fingerpaints as a child, I’ve never painted in my life, but I can still recognize the process he’s going through. I follow a very predictable cycle when undertaking a project, and I bet a lot of people will find this familiar.<\/p>\n

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  1. Enthusiasm: This is going to be my best project ever!<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Unease: Hm. This is getting tough.<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Dismay: This is impossible! It’ll never get it!<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Defeat: What a waste of time. I must destroy this project and erase all traces of it so that my lack of talent is never exposed to the world.<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Grim resolution: I’ve come this far. I might as well finish it, even if it sucks.<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Hope: You know, I’m starting to get it. I might pull this off after all.<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. Elation: I did it!<\/em><\/li>\n
  8. Hubris: That was easy! Next time I’ll do something twice as difficult!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m somewhere between steps 5 and 6 on my current project, which is making a character animation engine. (In videogames, this is what makes those 3d characters move and bend their limbs instead of sliding around like statues.) I enjoy it anytime I can see someone make it all the way #8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Beckoning Chasm has moved into some new wordpress-driven diggs. If you’re the bookmarking sort, then I suppose this would be the point at which you update them. He also has a few new posts in the Telephone Girl series, which I mentioned before. The painting is a tough one. Now, aside from using fingerpaints as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}