Art – Jared Blake Smith https://jaredbsmith.com Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:21:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://jaredbsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cropped-img_7185-scaled-1-32x32.jpg Art – Jared Blake Smith https://jaredbsmith.com 32 32 Cathedral Caverns https://jaredbsmith.com/2024/04/06/558/ https://jaredbsmith.com/2024/04/06/558/#respond Sat, 06 Apr 2024 22:59:06 +0000 https://jaredbsmith.com/?p=558

I was very fortunate to visit my sister in Alabama for a little week getaway. We visited these awe inspiring caverns only an hour from her house!

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While hiking in the Uinta Mountains over the Labor Day weekend, I found a small little creek that has a perfectly peaceful atmosphere. I took this recording to playback for good ambiance.

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I have always been interested in slow growing plants; bonsai, moss, terrariums, mushrooms. Because of that, I have always wanted a make a moss garden. Well, today’s the day!

I bought an ultrasonic water mister for Halloween decorations to keep the humidity high and boy does it work!

Still working on getting a bigger/nicer looking box and some airflow but it’s turning out well so far.

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I recently learned that most organs have MIDI I/O ports. I hooked up my brothers piano to my computer and am figuring out how to write the Super Mario – Bowsers Castle Theme to MIDI so I can play it on the organ in the church building!

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Check these out! I was able to get Standard Diffusion up and running and have made some pretty cool landscape and architecture images.

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Found a mushroom colony in my backyard! It has been raining for weeks and my yard is mostly sand/clay so it is the perfect environment for it to grow.

They only lasted about 2 days though…

Reminds me of this art piece I saw on r/goblincore!

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I have always been interested in Japanese décor so it was a welcome surprise when I found that I could 3D print my own Japanese lamp! I got the files from online and printed it out. It looked great after printing but i wanted it to actually function.

I have tons of extra electronic parts laying around and I decided to rip the guts out of a moon lamp to use inside. I had to drill a few holes and added some wax paper inside for diffusion and tinfoil for reflection.

Here is the result! Can’t wait to add it to a sand garden at some point!

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