I made this woman using Dpaint JS. I thought she looks pretty cool, so I thought to share.
Keep breathing in stardust you awesome folks.
xoxox
~Nadette
Art?
January 29, 2025
I decided to play around with Tux Paint, some kids drawing program, to see what I could make. I ended up making this. I think it's pretty cool looking and thought to share it.
Keep breathing in stardust you beautiful creatures.
xoxox
~Nadette
Site Update
January 28, 2025
Just a notice that the daily song will be moved over to it's own spot here at Music from the Drainpipe. So come tomorrow, I'm going to delete the songs from here and keep this just for site updates and if I want to babble about something.
I've been enjoying picking out a daily song to virtually put on the turntable and have a morning coffee with all you folks, and I think it does warrant it's own space. I have such a love for music of many genres and really like sharing that love. Who knows, maybe you'll find a song or artist you've not heard before.
Music has always been a wonderful outlet for emotions and also has the power of social awareness and change. In the ragged-ass world we all live in, we need music more than ever. If you have bands you would like to suggest or tell me of your favorite band and genre, always feel free to drop me a message in the guestbook on the main/home page or on Bluesky where I'll be posting when the daily song goes up.
As the sticker on my travel mug says:
Big Site Update
January 17, 2025
Good morning everyone. The new awesome site revamp has been completed. Big, no, HUGE thank you to the neocities creator Repth for the gorgeous template layout and sparking my inspiration into making this a more interesting looking website. Also enjoy the photo of my bathroom drain pipe.
Keep breathing in stardust you beautiful creatures
xoxo
Nadette
Site Update:
January 9, 2025
So I was testing the TV Room with the drive embeds and found them glitchy and also slow. So I decided to just upload them directly to the site and they seem to load a lot better.
Have fun over there.
Keep breathing in stardust.
xoxox
~Nadette
Site update:
January 3, 2025
The new page of my animations has been made and can be found up there.
[Nadette points upward to the menu bar]
It is similar to the old site where I only was hosting my animations on the website, but seeing how long it took to load, and ate up my neocities space, I removed it. However, now I have a more streamlined site by getting to know coding better, and keeping the site simple, I made it again embedding direct from my drive. I also brought back my little TV dude! I would like to fully move it all from youtube as I like this space being my all in one area to be creative with. However, I'm keeping the youtube channel, but this will be the main area I'll post sometimes extra animated things, more experimental stuff that look out of place in animation, as I like to play around with mocking up videos, and doing video collages. Who knows what else down the road.
I hope you have fun over there, as much as I have fun making these things.
Have a wonderful weekend and keep breathing in stardust.
xoxo
~Nadette
Site Update
January 2, 2025
So I was thinking about doing something again where I host my own videos on here, but trying to do that before would make neocities pages load slow and also take up space. However, after a discussion on a discord server I'm on about alternatives to youtube for people hosting videos, it was brought up about someone hosting them from their drop box. I have a big account I'm paying for with google drive being a bit of a data hoarder and uploading stuff of my own collections. I thought, I save all my videos on there, why not embed from there? It was such a no brainer when it was brought up. Isn't that always the way? Someone mentions something that is so simple that you feel kind of dumb for not thinking about doing it in the first place?
So this weekend, if some of you remember the old site had a "TV Room" section where I was uploading my videos but trashed it because it was eating my storage on the site and make the page slow, now I have a less background/gif heavy site, also knowing more about making sites work, it should load faster and just embed from my drive. So this weekend I'm going to get onto that. I'll still upload to youtube as I don't know how many people bother going to this site, and are just there to view the animations and not the rest of my crap. So I won't take those down or anything. But it would be nice, if one day youtube nukes us every day little folks for more corporate and big name TV accounts (seems to be the way of the land I've heard) I'll always have neocities to put out my little nuggets to the world for whomever enjoys them.
If I had my way I just would host all on here and not bother with youtube personally as I am doing this not to look for making a living, as it's completely for a hobby, as I have an established career outside of the web. I love writing, and making fun little things. If someone gets a laugh, or reads something that makes them smile or they get a feeling from it, then that's all the pay I want.
So keep an eye out on Bluesky for the notification of the new page update this weekend some time. Any chance of me making another little page is fun for me.
Keep breathing in stardust you beauitful creatures
xoxox
~Nadette
EDIT: Update to the update:
Also I should think of a way to have people leave coments on here. I guess bluesky works, and I also have a guestbook if anyone wants to post anything over on the side section here. It's set up without the need of a website or info so you can feel safe to write something there. I don't know. If more people are coming by, maybe make it more a thing. Just a thought.
December 2024
Small Talk
December 29, 2024
Do you want to know the best Christmas gift someone could get a music lover?
An MP3 player.
Yep, a good old mp3 player. At the age of 47, I'm not new to these little guys. I had a couple back in the day. I sadly lost an ipod nano once somewhere in the subways of Montréal. I hope whom ever found it enjoyed the experimental jazz, and punk on it.
So coming on the new year I was thinking to myself about how I'm the kind of person who only uses their phones for calls, text, email and to watch the occasional youtube video, as I'm not a big social media person or need something to snap the most high quality photos and videos, I think the most thing outside of keeping up to date on my business emails, I mostly use my phone for music. I play music all through my work day on it, yet hardly use it for music at home as I have my stereo and computer.
Being someone who is into a ton of different genres, and in any run of the day, I can bounce between some punk, blues, experimental, 80s synthwave, rock, all at a whim, I thought well, since spotify is on almost every phone, I'm going to get premium and just do that.
Then I got to thinking about needing a new phone. I am kind of getting tired of the size of phones now as I have small hands, and I may as well carry around a tablet if that's the case the way the sizes are now. They just feel awkward for me to use. I then started looking at phones that were not completely smartphones, but not dumbphones either. I have been eyeing on a cool blackberry original throw back phone. Then I thought, why not get an MP3 player to free up some space on one of these minimalistic phones.
So I got this one for cheap off amazon to dip my toe back into the mp3 waters. I have a massive amount of music from my collection converted through many, many, and MANY weeks of converting them, that now, when I buy something new, I convert it just to have stored on a drive that I listen to when I'm upstairs at the desk, and to have back ups of things.
Let me tell you, I have not put this little dude down! I stuck an extra 256 sd card in it, even though inside it has 65gb built in, and it holds more than half the stuff I have on my drive, more music than I can ever listen to at once! I even threw the notepad of my writing on there, a few videos I love, and though I carry around my kindle scribe, I stuck my e copy of Leonard Cohen's Spice Box Of Earth (one of my absolute favourite poetry books) just to have, and I still have space on here!
Also, the sound is FAR better than I got out of the streaming service. I have been using them with my Audio Technica 3.5mm headset and wireless buds of the same brand, and once I tweaked the equalizer to my liking, this gives way better audio than my phone ever gave. I just don't know how much more ways to say it. This is the absolute best $30 I spent. I was thinking if I like it, I'll spring for a Sony or something, but this little one suits me just fine.
It also makes me feel wonderful to play music I physically own. Yeah, I had spotify and owned the music I streamed off it in physical form, but it kind of don't feel the same. I don't know why, but it does. I sat down at one point, took the cassette, CD or vinyl that I actually own, and converted it. Something about I actually own this music I'm playing, and my money went to either the artist or my favourite small business record shop I go to all the time, it helped keep them in business. Something is more tangible about it.
So basically I cancelled the spotify premium account and that cash back in my pocket paid for this little mp3 player and has made me feel more connected with my music collection again.
However, I'm drawing the line at this cumbersome one. He can sit on the shelf for nostalgia’s sake. You've eaten one too many of my cassettes, you monster!
Merry Christmas
December 25, 2024
Thank you everyone for your wonderful support and encouragement in taking my creative weirdness to the internet. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, and all the best for the new year.
Now here's some tacky Christmas gifs because I recently discovered gifcities.org :D
Keep breathing in stardust.
xoxox
~Nadette
Small Talk
The first snow fell over night. I guess I am getting a white christmas if is stays around.
Art?
I Came across this cool piece in one of my Bread and Puppets zines. I have to share here.
Small Talk
December 12,2024
Good morning everyone. My god buying this new coffee maker has been the best gift for myself, along side of paying off my mortgage.
Just going to show this awesome machine off:
My majestic coffee machine isn't the reason that I thought to post this morning. As I was looking for a nice quote for the daily quote off to the side there, I came across this one, which was too long to put in the side section, but wanted to share it. A few other writers, I've noticed, are out there checking this place out, so I would like to share it with us all, though I feel it could be any passion you love to do.
Myself, I've been writing little things since a teenager. If I didn't have the feeling to write (and music) I would have went too far into myself back then after my mother passed. In fact, I've been writing even as a little girl. I remember my grandfather (big tattooed up burley Navy guy) being a lover of poetry and always encouraged me to keep writing. I never did anything big with it, other than getting it in local zines around the city, years ago, but I just have to do it regardless. I always pictured writing to be like taking a piss. You have to do it when it's what you love. Anyway, enjoy the quote below.
Have a wonderful day and keep breathing in stardust.
xoxoxo
~Nadette
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose...
...Describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty - describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world’s sounds – wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. - And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
Small Talk
December 9,2024
Good morning!
I thought to come in with a little update now I've settled into this new area, which is a lot cleaner than my last one. Yay for me learning how to make a kind of proper website now. I like the less chaotic look to this one than the old one I was learning on through a template. Anyway, just like to give a heads up that I've been on a crazy creative streak last night, and finished a couple new animations. As you may tell that most of these animations, (and anything that I do basically) is just all from a flow of consciousness that I just let it take me without question. I usually get an idea for an animated thing once a week or couple of weeks. However, last night it was back to back. Here are a couple of stills from them.
Hopefully I can get the time to sit down and do a couple more things I have on my mind for this place. My work has been busy lately (I run my own business, everything I do here is just a fun hobby) but I should be able to get around to it soon. So be sure to check back, or keep a watch out on Blue Sky for some stuff I have going up. I have some comics I need to convert to be put up. Scan some of my collage work among some interesting zines I'd like to share.
Also, another update: RSS is not working right for me. I think I still don't quite get how to do it, so just keep the page bookmarked and check back. There's always a daily poem in the morning, and a writing exercise posted in the evenings, along with a song of the day, creative quote, and a feature video every morning as well. So there's always something going on here each day. Also I make the updates when things go up on the Blue Sky account.
To others who have just scoped out this place because of Blue Sky, thank you for dropping in and enjoying what you see.
Have a great Monday everyone.
Keep breathing in stardust
Xoxoxo
~Nadette
Apocolypse Ram collage made in GIMP. Is he perfect? No, but was fun learning how to do collge work in GIMP.
November 2024
Here's a little thing I doddled last night on the kindle scribe.
It started out as a spur of the momment poem that I just drew some doodles with.
This little piece of doodle/comic came about one day when I was thinking on a tape I wish I still had. Years ago (talking early 2000s) my friend Drock gave me a cool mix tape full of awesome punk songs. We would sit in the park after seeing a show together and me, him would split a bottle of wine and pay this tape he made me (it was my job to bring The Cassette) and he had this battery operated tape player that would fit in his pocket. About the size of a walkman but had a speaker on it. It gave shit sound but it was good enough for us. We would play this tape and split the bottle of wine and would sing along to it. My favorite on there for the longest time was a song by the band called The Violators (he got me into them) and the song Summer of '81.
I then moved from an old apartment, not thinking much of it, threw in a box marked Free/Libre à prendre on the box of random stuff I didn't want to take and moved. We would make a lot of mixed tapes for eachother, but sadly none seemed as special as that one as the years went on. I guess you get older and nostalgic for the oddest things. Even though I do have that song on lots of things and listen to it on the regular, I still wish I had that old park drinking tape.
