I have a Samsung U4 pebble-looking MP3 player that I’m very fond of. The only problem was the heck-awful software that it demanded me to install on my Windows machine before it would let me add any music.
But now that I have a Puppy Linux machine I thought I might be able 
to find something a little more user friendly and a little less inspired by iTunes. And find something I did, Gnomad2 for MP3 players, which loads in about a billionth of the time EmoDio takes. There was one little glitch when Gnomad2 didn’t add a desktop icon, but I just turned the usual Puppy Linux USB stick purple – like my player – and gave it a black screen also like the one my Samsung U4 player has, and I used that as the logo; and I think it looks quite cute on my desktop.
I’ll be looking for some Star Wars music to put on it, and perhaps that “Ground Control” song by David Bowie, oh yes and that 80s music that David Lynch put on the Dune soundtrack. You bet I’ll be listening to that crazy stuff and reading a science fiction novel on my phone – and the spaceship inspiration for my next piece of 3D sci-fi art will come flowing, at least that’s the plan.
And this week “unbalanced” is the word on Illustration Friday – a cool art challenge site I take part in – and of course my mind turned to spaceships, but a spaceship design that would be somehow unbalanced.
I opened Blender and loaded up the work in progress mesh of my latest spaceship, The Packard, to see if I could unbalance it in some way. And after looking at it for some time I decided to give it really big landing gear. The landing gear on this spaceship is square pods with a strut coming out the bottom which to anyone at all familiar with British sci-fi are reminiscent of those on the Space 1999 Eagle. But with such a diabolical and unbalanced change how would the spaceship look when it got rendered?
Actually I quite like the oversized landing pods… Hmm… Maybe I’ll keep them.
If you want to suggest some music to listen to for spaceship inspiration just leave me a comment.
