travel podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bit-of-a-rambler/id1804692516

sorry about the aliens.

if you want to go back, then going back to college is a good move and a good investment.

Lemmy is a much nicer environment overall, so i moved here

wow that is crazy, your dad’s actions were crazy I mean, I’m glad to hear you came out to him and severed that tie.

“Parents have no hold over you, not really. If they don’t deserve your presence, don’t allow it.”

can’t agree more with you here.

sorry to hear that.

you certainly don’t have to travel if you dont want to, I just like people being aware of the option, but I’m not following one thing:

How does disagreeing with and being alienated from your family make traveling less of an option for you?

“…that molten glass was involved…”

yeaj, the process you actually go through is even more impressive than the already incredibly difficult fantasia-sequence molten glass process I imagined, haha!

creating a 40 piece picture frame or 60 piece or whatever it is, jeez, that is very cool, and to get it so smooth.

the podcast is called “bit of a rambler”, it’s everywhere podcasts are, main page here: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bit-of-a-rambler--6571124

the first two episodes are out and new eps will be coming out every Wednesday for a long time to come, travel stories and information.

those paints came out great, very vibrant colors, and the car polish you added is such a smart idea, they’ll probably look that way forever.

the nail polish in UV lamp are another good idea, what’s on hand is the way to go, I ended up using strips of old pool noodles lying around as sound insulation for the office I record the podcast in just the other day.

I’ll be on the lookout for whatever you post here next. or I’ll remember you from Lemmy when your YT shorts blow up!

“…she is a true inspiration.”

wow, what a stellar gift, and something that you can throw your appreciation for her into.

do you have a finished picture of the “we can do it” piece you can share?

haha, i remember soldering headphone wires for the first time and ending up with a crazy lumpy Boulder of solder and burnt wires by the end.

to which, of course, I shrugged and rolled electrical tape around and accepted.

living outside the country good buddy

i haven’t myself, but i became friends with a chilean couple who traveled around the world according to berry season, Australia, Italy, Germany and so on picking berries, living in free housing while saving for a house back home.

they seemed pretty into the lifestyle, or at least willing to trade a few years for traveling and a house.

Whoa! That is a legitimately fascinating video, thanks again for sharing. “We Can Do It” is such a great image too.

Youtube shorts might net you a little extra revenue if you have a bunch of these clips, btw, if you aren’t way ahead of me, haha, i just learned about shorts.

How long did it take you to develop such a steady hand for the solder?

So there’s no glue and the metal doesn’t fuse into the glass, but the overhang of the solder once it’s cooled acts as a picture frame for each shard and then a complete frame for the whole piece? That’s amazing.

And you definitely did great work on the smooth part of the soldering, all of those front-facing lines look very even and smooth.

Ha, easy to bump projects, i got all excited about these t-shirt designs but after four designs i started up a podcast and got super distracted throwing myself into the episodes. It’s great to feel that inspiration though when you like a project so much you can be reasonably assured it’ll develop into something you’re proud of.

Well, I’m excited to see the new piece, thanks for sharing all this information with me, I would have no idea how something like this worked otherwise.

Are there special glass paints to use for the colors?

oh wow and it’s a time-lapse, you legend!

that definitely gives me a better idea of how the process goes, thanks a lot for sharing, that was very cool to see.

so that’s the copper foil at the end and then do you use a blow torch or something to melt all the pieces together?

that must be so much fun for you also, do you have a lot of projects going on at the same time or do you tend to focus on one at a time?

Ha, that’s awesome, thanks for explaining. Yea, I’ll definitely check out the video when it goes up, sounds like a nail-biting, rewarding process.

Very cool, it came out great.

I coincidentally looked up glass cutting recently and found videos of people cutting window panes by scoring a line and then smacking the scored section off. Is that what you do for cutting glass curves also? Your work looks too technically precise for the smacking method I saw.

wow, that’s very cool. so you have to cut each piece of glass for each finger bone like that?

absolutely, you’ll be good.

I could barely count to ten and knew how to say pho, and still enjoyed my entire trip and made friends, so you’ll be fine.

haha me too, i thought it was pretty funny there.

Very well.

I spoke nearly no Vietnamese and bikepacked across rural northern Vietnam for 3 months after buying my bicycle in Hanoi.

People in the city can speak some English, but even if they can’t they’re so earnestly helpful that I was able to easily buy clothes, bicycle repair items, get my bicycle repaired, buy food everyday(pho lyfe) be invited to tea and then a family feast, take shelter from a rainstorm, the stories of their generosity go on.

It’s definitely a good country to visit.

The mountains are pretty magical, and every single person was extremely helpful and gracious, either in the city or way out in the tiny mountain villages

the coolest.

i was on a bike, so i guess he felt like he had to hustle.