#tech hosting

[heathermartinez]

How the stars aligning inform how I design my offerings

Like most artists, I flutter from idea to idea.

But when it comes to offering classes at Let’s Letter Together! I have a very different approach. I have been planning, setting intentions, harvesting, and sharing the abundance on an annual cyclical basis.

By Winter Solstice of each year, I plant my seeds of intention for the coming year. I let the fertile ground of my intentions help my ideas grow.

By Summer Solstice, my ideas are fully formed and ready to share.

This year I delivered: • Lettering with Pencils • Finding Your Signature Style

Then the real fun begins: Lammas/Harvest allows me to see and share with abundance. This year delivered a bumper crop. As I was planning to announce:

Dancing in the Dark with Sharon Zeugin

When The BigOne! Blowout happened:

BigOne Duet with Brandy Agerbeck

Let’s go BIG Together! (a free class on Neuland markers)

BIG Fun! with the BigOne! With Mike Gold

Not to eclipse my efforts with Sharon, these BigOne sessions have come together quite easily—inspired by a retrograding Venus transiting over my natal sun in Leo and the Venus Cazimi. While Dancing in the Dark has been in slow development for over a year—with good purpose.

Starting on the Fall Equinox when the light and dark are equal, we will begin Dancing with the Dark with Roman Capitals on black paper. Together we will dance with Sharon through a series of prompts and end our time together at Samhain, at a time when the veil is the thinnest, and we will be equipped to let go of what no longer serves us in order to step into the selves we need to become next.

From Sharon… "Let's use this time to emphasize connecting the lettering with personal feeling and one’s own words—a meaningful mantra or something fun to write. This is an opportunity for experimenting with improvisation in terms of writing words and designing as you go.   We’ll start simply and grow from there, always rooted in the knowledge and experience of the forms—and variations on their rhythm, spacing, and proportions."

This launching of ideas and completing them by November 1 aligns perfectly with the Deer Walks I am doing with Cassandra Leoncini (http://www.twoeaglesastrology.com). This is the restart after a 7-year cycle since my first Deer Walks when I lived in DC and needed an integrated Vision Quest in order to leave so I may return to the Southwest.

And it’s after that time that I take all of the ideas I have gathered during this harvest season for 2024 and let them reveal their true selves.

Will I be collaborating more with master calligraphers to give our shared audiences what they need, want, and desire?

Will I both: return to the basics by offering more handwriting classes all WHILE helping visual practitioners Level Up so the important work they are doing is supported?

Will there be another European Lettering Tour? Since 2018 I have taught hundreds of VPs in over 10 different countries in-person. With so many more entering the field, do they need me in-person or will virtual learning continue to grow?

I read a quote on Instagram the other day that said:

“Set goals so high that they demand an entirely different version of you.”

I know where I want to put my focus in 2024:

Appreciative Inquiry,

Lettering,

Tech hosting and building curriculums to support trauma-informed communities

But will the stars align?

Only time will tell. As will my health and well-being in support of these efforts. Both my willingness to grow and the external forces outside of my control will determine what version of me will come next.

What future self are you currently developing?

[veryberrybad]

wanted to try my hand at a vintage vox design! i was REALLY inspired by 2013 baby vox and his black and white screen (and by vox in @mothballmilkshake ‘s Competing Frequencies, just write that fic on my tombstone at this point)

so here’s vox in his debut!! an upstart who’s a bit less confident but a bit more passionate

and more orange!

i wonder where the orange went

base lineart of the sketches !

[kanhotep]

Alastor would love to have a computer because while he still thinky vinyl is the superior medium for music he can't deny that it's more effective to have a digital music library.

He could also built a computer easily, the hardware is no problem for him.

Unfortunately he stopped keeping up with programming in the 60ies, there was just so much going on. And now he can't get any software that is not in some way connected to Vox he doesn't want to admit it, because he's the radio demon, this frivolous digital technology is beneath him, but there is a little part of him that is pissed about it.

Definitely pissed.

And in no way whatsoever melancholic, reminiscing of a past when he and Vox would build them together, Alastor working on the hardware and Vox doing the software.

A past where such actions were meant to be a pleasant hobby, a nice way to pass the time and not a commitment to an unreliable lifestyle that chained itself to whatever new trend arose.

No, he could never miss this old flight of fancy. But he can admit, that he misses the old Vox. His old chum used to be a nice company rather than a persistent annoyance.

[tvmblrsillyman]

still salty that a random tech startup bought a beloved tumblrina playlist maker from inevitable shutdown, failed to relaunch the site, left it abandoned for years only relaunch it as their own thing at the corpse of a website/brand they have bought

[arsenic-clownip]

WARNING: SHAKES, GLITCHES, PANICKING, RAPID IMAGES. I DONT KNOWW WHAT ELSE

THIUGHT THIS WAS FUNNY. SO I MADE IT.

ANYWAYS IM SO FUCKING CONFUSED BUT. THIS IS CHILL NGL. :p

-THEY/IT/🐝/🌻

[l0thcat]

I was a bit late because of low spoons and life, but i got them done <3 I'll try to draw Omega, Emerie and some other characters next 💞

( Echo uses She / Her pronouns )

Group shot + old WIP:

I realize i did forget some things, but i will add them a second round <3 just wanted some refs for future drawings

( the first @ in the copyright is my main art blog <33 )

[motoroil-recs]

[X / X / X] [X / 🏎️ / X] [X / X / X]

A stimboard for Rayman [Captain Lazerhawk] with imagery of cities, neon lights, and being a TV show host in yellow and purple.

[unnamed-atlas]

Struck by a sudden thought. Ghosts hermitcraft au... .. . . . .. . . .

[sunskate]

Shanghai Trophy pairs technical specialist Cong Han 😭

[tomato-greens]

did my student...think...because I wrote (text) after a document as opposed to (video) or (audio)...that it was an RTF or TXT file....

[novelconcepts]

Honestly, I made that joke about Van’s ancient desktop, but it probably works better than new computers. And it made me think: god, Van must HATE planned obsolescence. Stuff that’s built to die? Stuff that’s built to fall apart in a matter of years just to force you to buy more? For a person whose whole deal is gripping tight to the past, to old technology that still works perfectly fine, to the idea of survival threaded through everything from the stories she tells to the machines she rents out? Yeah, dude. No wonder she hates her cell phone. Not only does it force the illusion of connection without actually granting intimacy, but it’s doomed from the minute you take the thing out of the box. For Van, the very idea has got to be offensive.

[monahostvn]

Dung de website gian doan hoạt dong vi quen gia han domain

Khi tên miền hết hạn mà không được gia hạn, nhà cung cấp dịch vụ sẽ tạm ngừng hoặc gỡ bỏ tên miền khỏi hệ thống DNS, khiến người dùng không thể truy cập vào trang web. Điều này không chỉ làm mất lượng truy cập mà còn ảnh hưởng nghiêm trọng đến doanh thu và uy tín của doanh nghiệp. Hãy đảm bảo gia hạn tên miền đúng hạn để tránh những rủi ro không đáng có.

[radioexe]

Hidden circus era is gone guys the circus got exposed now we gotta move onto other things like the radio and me losing my mind on the layout

HFAHZSHS the circus did not get exposed, its sleeping!! hopefully you're losing your mind on the layout positively lmao

[girls-and-honey]

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[norfkid]

love coming across some absolute divas in this delegate acquisition job. oh i’m so sorry you have to answer some mandatory questions about your organisation’s use and integration of ai, data & cybersecurity on the registration form for the ai, data & cybersecurity conference um ???

[pidgefudge]

are the three other people in the gdq tag also experiencing premature withdrawal