Drawing on paper and translating songs
Hallå pals!
Jonas here with another issue of Indie Notebook to get some ideas out of my noggin, and to inspire you to do the same.
I don’t have much to say about my personal projects today, mostly because most of my time recently has been consumed by freelance work. Which is great! I’ll talk a bit about that soon.
I did manage to sneak in a little bit of a quick personal creative fix though. The wall behind my computer screen is very white and somewhat empty. I realized there was no sign of Space Deer anywhere on it. So I made this drawing to make the wall a little bit less plain.
It’s a super simple drawing but it still took a couple hours to complete. When you draw a big black surface with ink or marker, you will usually see the direction of the pen strokes. I hate that. So I filled in the background one dot at a time. It makes the blackness look way more solid and consistent. The stars are just spots I didn’t put any dots in.
It was relaxing and quite addictive to do it this way.
Now I would like to always have a drawing on a loose sheet of paper in progress on my desk. It replaced my usual distraction of checking social media (I still haven’t managed to reclaim my attention completely).
We’re going on a vacation to Gothenburg in Sweden next week to see my best friend and to go to a Håkan Hellström concert. My girlfriend isn’t fluent enough in Swedish to understand his songs, so I’ve been translating some of the best ones, so she will have the option to follow along like that if she wants.
I’m obsessed with this song at the moment. Here’s my translation.
If you don’t know Swedish, this is one of the best things you’re missing out on. Although, even a lot of Swedes miss out on this because a bunch of people don’t believe he can sing. I think I have a soft spot for artists who sing imperfectly. Maybe there’s something going on there. I think the best artists find a way to sing even if they don’t have the voice and training of a traditional pop star. Or maybe I’m a bit tone deaf.
The Sweden-trip will last for two weeks so Indie Notebook will be on break until laterrrr (unless I get the urge to write about something).
Bibidi Bibidi progress update
I didn’t have time to work as much as I wanted on Bibidi these past weeks. As I mentioned before, freelance work ended up taking most of my time. Which is great for me! Less good for Bibidi.
Some small updates though.
We are getting the Steam page ready.
We set up a dedicated Bibidi Bibidi discord server.
The gameplay is steadily improving thanks to Daan.
My next game will be available soon!
Playdate Season 2 starts on the 29th of May! My next game is part of it!
What the game is is supposed to be a surprise until it pops up on your Playdate console, so I won’t give away any details about it yet. If you are one of those rare subscribers who has a Playdate, consider pre-ordering it!
Mini Notes
🕹️ Games - Good games
I’m just gonna list some hidden gems that came out recently.
🤖 Article - AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
Sure, AI sucks because it steals from artists and sucks the soul out of art.
But what sucks even more than copyright infringement is the planet burning up.
Sacrificing the environment for futile sh*t like generating soulless art, summarizing emails or brain storming ideas is insane.
Lots of people even use it in place of what they would have accomplished with a simple google search before.
“…worldwide AI energy demand is now set to surpass demand from bitcoin mining by the end of this year.”
Some researchers even say, “a generative AI training cluster might consume seven or eight times more energy than a typical computing workload.”
It’s almost as if AI does more bad then good?
Thank you for reading Indie Notebook! I’d love to hear what today’s issue made you think about.
Take care and have a creative week.