Media threads - Page 6 | virtualwolf.org

A photo of a narrow raised garden bed alongside a fence, there's two palm-type trees in it, a fair few grassy weeds, and the red mulch coverage is fairly patchy and it looks very dull.

A wider-angle shot of the same bit of garden bed but showing more of it to the left. There's no weeds at all now and the mulch is fresh and red.

Phew, that was a productive afternoon. Pulled up all the weeds and dead mulch in half of our side garden, plus pruned a bunch of the dead fronds from the palm trees, then put weed mat down and fresh mulch. The other half will have to wait for another day because a) I'm out of steam, b) there's way more weeds than the half I did, and c) the garbage bin is full.

Posted on 7 January 2023, 16:41

A photo of a compact electronic drum kit, with a very shiny metal acoustic hi-hat stand with a black plastic cymbal mounted on it sitting behind the kit.

I've started doing some more advanced stuff on the drums and some of it involves using the hi-hat pedal to open and close the hi-hat, but the stock hi-hat pedal that comes with the drums is fairly mushy and I was having a lot of trouble getting it to register when doing fast switches between open and closed (it's perfectly fine just when it's fully closed or open, just not so much when switching between the two in rapid succession). I did some research and Roland actually have a hi-hat that you mount on a regular acoustic hi-hat stand and it physically moves up and down as a regular hi-hat would. I ordered both the cymbal and the stand earlier in in the week and it arrived today, and man it feels nice to play!

our house music darkroom new toys drums

Posted on 5 January 2023, 14:14

A photo of a raw 3kg pork collar butt wrapped in netting and covered in coarse pepper and salt, sitting on the grille of a smoker. There's two temperature probes going into the meat and a third measuring the ambient temperature of the smoker itself, all three of which are going into a little box with an LCD (a Thermoworks "Signals") that shows the temperature of each probe. The wood has started smoking already and there's lots of it coming up from underneath the grille.

Starting off 2023 right: doing a pulled pork. Related: every part of me smells like wood smoke right now.

our house darkroom food barbecue

Posted on 1 January 2023, 12:22

The box of the Warhammer Underworlds warband "Grinkrak's Looncourt". The art on the box has black-clad goblins wielding various weapons. There's also the box for a deck called "Fearsome Fortress," the art on that has stairs up the side of a ziggurat and the field of view towards it is being encroached on by brown vines.

Miniatures for the miniatures god! Plus one of the new Rivals decks, which are a great idea to simplify things because it means you don't have to screw about with deck building.

our house darkroom games workshop warhammer underworlds new miniatures gnarlwood grinkrak's looncourt

Posted on 30 December 2022, 12:36

A photo of the box of Games Workshop's new Warhammer Underworlds box, "Gnarlwood", and four Boss guitar pedals. The Underworlds box has artwork of a guy in furs and looking very shamanic, and the guitar pedals are the DS-1W distortion, DD-3T digital delay, GE-7 equaliser, and Reverb RV-6.

Christmas loot! Hope everyone's had a good one.

christmas our house darkroom games workshop presents warhammer underworlds guitar pedalboard gnarlspirit pack sons of velmorn gnarlwood

Posted on 25 December 2022, 13:47

Drums plus chords with single coil split

I made another song! This time it was just straight up recording a track on the drums, then playing guitar over it. Definitely doing significantly better in terms of staying in time now. 😛 For the guitar, I used my new Ibanez and switched it to the split between the bridge humbucker and the middle single coil, and it's SUCH a nice sparkly sound! I added some reverb after the fact in Logic Pro as well, since I don't have my reverb pedal yet, and man it's amazing how much of a difference it makes. The whole guitar just sounds more... open, I guess? It's hard to describe but it's quite a noticeable difference.

music guitar drums audio ibanez jiva10

Posted on 10 December 2022, 18:59

A photo of seventeen assembled miniatures in grey plastic. They're all wearing industrial-looking protective gear but their skulls are freakishly large and they're clearly not actually fully human.

Continuing my miniature-assembling spree by finishing putting together my Genestealer Cults! I absolutely love these miniatures, they look human at first glance, but then you look more closely and their heads are too large and the ones at the right have three arms. Looking forward to getting them painted up.

our house warhammer 40k darkroom games workshop painting genestealer cults

Posted on 9 November 2022, 22:17

A photo of a half rack of ribs slathered in sauce sitting on top of hot chips.

A photo looking down the middle of two lanes of a bowling alley.

Yasss, paid-for-by-work team event today consisting of ribs followed by bowling. I got 108 in the first game (first in my lane, and second only to someone else from the team in the other lane), and then 137 for the second (first out of everyone)!

darkroom food portrait mode bowling ribs darling harbour circular quay

Posted on 21 October 2022, 15:53

A photo of the box of the Warhammer Underworlds warband "Gorechosen of Dromm". The art on the front is three beefcake dudes, one's got a big ceremonial headdress on and is wielding an axe and a staff, one has very Immortan Joe from Max Mad vibes, and the other is part demon with absurdly large arms and big horns over his shoulders.

Last year we had a "creative refresh day" at work, where our whole department got a free day off to go do something creative and we could expense the stuff we got. Naturally I bought a Warhammer Underworlds warband (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1712) and painted them (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1719), and we've been having a monthly just "refresh day" pretty much since then, just a free day off work. We've got another refresh day on Friday next week, and my team decided we'd do something remote but as a team, I suggested miniature painting and a bunch of people were keen for it so naturally I've bought another warband. 😁

our house darkroom games workshop warhammer underworlds new miniatures nethermaze gorechosen of dromm

Posted on 18 October 2022, 11:47

A photo of me, a white man with a red beard and brown hair that's in need of a trim, wearing a paper face mask.

It's yer man, me, with his shiny new bivalent COVID booster! And also getting increasingly in need of a haircut, now that I look at the photo.

selfie me darkroom portrait mode covid stanhope

Posted on 13 October 2022, 16:26