diff --git a/_uh323/2025-01-14-placeholder-2.md b/_uh323/2025-01-14-placeholder-2.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3d10f3a..0000000 --- a/_uh323/2025-01-14-placeholder-2.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "Template" -excerpt: "Not Yet Present" -sidebar: - - title: "A wild ?????? has appeared!" - image: https://placekittens.com/450/250 - image_alt: "placeholder image" - text: "This image used to be a kitten, and the text used to say \"Meow\", but then the kitten-generator broke. The image still might be a kitten, but it's no longer a guarantee." ---- - -Nothing to see here! diff --git a/_uh323/2025-03-26-drum-leaf.md b/_uh323/2025-03-26-drum-leaf.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..87d37cc --- /dev/null +++ b/_uh323/2025-03-26-drum-leaf.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +title: "Drum Leaf Book" +excerpt: "Failing at Books (Again)" +sidebar: + - title: "A wild ?????? has appeared!" + image: https://placekittens.com/450/250 + image_alt: "placeholder image" + text: "This image used to be a kitten, and the text used to say \"Meow\", but then the kitten-generator broke. The image still might be a kitten, but it's no longer a guarantee." +gallery_drum: +- image_path: /assets/uh323/drum/front.jpg + url: /assets/uh323/drum/front.jpg +- image_path: /assets/uh323/drum/1.jpg + url: /assets/uh323/drum/1.jpg +- image_path: /assets/uh323/drum/2.jpg + url: /assets/uh323/drum/2.jpg +- image_path: /assets/uh323/drum/3.jpg + url: /assets/uh323/drum/3.jpg +- image_path: /assets/uh323/drum/back.jpg + url: /assets/uh323/drum/back.jpg +--- + +This book was another disaster. Starting with being isolated from tools due to TSA regulations and ending in COVID-19, the ways this book has been delayed are certainly not few and far between. + +Once again, the idea of this book was to tell a story from music expressed in art. + +Yes, art. + +We know exactly how bad I am at art. + +So, like always, I found a creative way to not have to draw anything: my story was inspired by space exploration, which allowed me to reuse some old cover paper to make my two-page spreads. I then decided to emphasize this theme by titling the book as I did. The song behind this book, [Sail Away by TheFatRat and Laura Brehm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWOuuwrREh0) (and this one's not a rickroll, promise!), is one that I frequently listen to in class while not paying attention to lectures that I don't understand (physics is hard!), and instead daydream about science fiction novels (among other topics), so I thought it fitting to add a small spaceship to each page. + +If you're a math person, I've modeled the motion over the positive part of the inverse tangent function. However, I also didn't do a good job at it, so a keen eye could claim it modeled after a logarithm, hyperbolic function, rational function, or if you're feeling brave, a polynomial interpreted between six points. + +As a book made off of materials that I had on-hand rather than dozens of hours of drawing, the two-page spread imagery may be familiar. Specifically, from UH 223, the [Ethiopian binding](/uh223/2024-04-10-etheopian) used some of the artwork as cover art, and the image pack has been my go-to cover art image pack for the last few years. + +If I were to do this again, I'd probably scrap the design as a whole. I wasn't too fond of how the overall progression feels, and I don't feel that it portrays a story that well. I'm not sure where I'd get the artwork to do so, though. I'd also use a layer or two of cardstock to thicken the individual pages before binding - the pages in this book felt unreasonably thin. Lastly, I would like to use one of the fancier cover designs. I wasn't able to justify it on this (as my normal cover paper wouldn't fit the book block contents), but the simple wrap-around cover feels flimsy and low-quality on this book. + +Oh, and I wouldn't accidentally spill water on the back of the book once it's finished. + +{% include gallery id="gallery_drum" caption="My Drum Leaf Book" %} diff --git a/assets/uh323/drum/1.jpg b/assets/uh323/drum/1.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bff8c75 Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/uh323/drum/1.jpg differ diff --git a/assets/uh323/drum/2.jpg b/assets/uh323/drum/2.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c0b0c07 Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/uh323/drum/2.jpg differ diff --git a/assets/uh323/drum/3.jpg b/assets/uh323/drum/3.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60dbbe7 Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/uh323/drum/3.jpg differ diff --git a/assets/uh323/drum/back.jpg b/assets/uh323/drum/back.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ccdd8d Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/uh323/drum/back.jpg differ diff --git a/assets/uh323/drum/front.jpg b/assets/uh323/drum/front.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..261704d Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/uh323/drum/front.jpg differ