Patreon!

I'm starting a Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/silverowlcreations

A big part of the reason is that most of the shows where I sell my jewelry have been cancelled. I hadn't realized how much I relied on the deadlines of upcoming shows to drive me to make new pieces. It makes me feel a lot better about myself and life if I'm crafting, and that's even more critical in this long depressive never-go-anywhere COVID time. I have new things I want to learn and try, but it's been hard to get up the gumption to do something productive with my time rather than playing endless mindless computer games. Having patrons would push me to create more and post about it more -- and I hope people would like to see it.

The other thing is that I've recently been thinking more about types of art and music I've done in the past, and I would like to revisit them -- songwriting, poetry, drawing. My father-in-law recently gave me a wonderful present: the first recording mic I've ever owned, and it's blowing my mind a little bit that I can not only record but overlay my voice. If you can't sing harmony with other people, singing harmony with yourself is very much better than nothing. So I expect music recordings will start going on this Patreon too.

The Patreon billing for it is based on 'per creation', which means per post I mark as 'paid'. I expect to make 2-12 paid posts a month, but you can set up a maximum limit per month and never pay more than that no matter how many additional paid posts I make. Any paid post will contain some media I've produced, whether that's photos of jewelry I've created, or art, or music, and will either be viewable to Patrons only, or in some cases viewable to Patrons first and then later become public. And I expect I'll make some non-paid posts as I go along too: discussions of where my creative work is going, polls where you can give your opinion on what I work on next.

I've put up one public post already with some photos and discussion of my results with new alcohol inks.

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I recorded myself singing Jubilate Deo (with myself! computers are amazing) and put it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/favorite-round-43311529

I'm finding I'm surprisingly bad at some of the harder rounds. Though it's been actual decades since I sang something like Cantate Domino with any other humans. (At Intercon last time I got to sing Non Nobis Domine with some lovely humans and it was *so great*.) One thing singing with myself can't get me is singing along with baritone/bass voices. I've been listening to a lot of a capella with great bass singers on Youtube lately. A. also got me a nice set of headphones for a recent present (my previous nice set of headphones are still in my desk at work, unreachable for 8 months), and wow, suddenly there's bass! I've been using crappy headphones for most of a year.

I am trying not to think about politics at this point because I stand very near a whirlpool of rage and despair and it will not actually help anything to brush it or fall in. Song, art, and work that doesn't suck help me. I don't feel I can do more phone banking this week because I am actively primary on call, and one thing I hate doing that involves listening carefully for my phone making noises at me, for days on end, is already almost too much. Went and gave some more money. Confirmed my ballot was accepted. All that.