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Oh boy life.

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Last semester of college.  Almost there.  Just Calc II and Physics II and I'll have my associates.
I am also working on setting up my internet presence :D
i have roughly 7 tshirt sites and social media EVERYWHERE now.  

So much to doooooo.
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Lately I have been playing my keyboard in the dark before bed.  The idea is to remove all distraction so I learn faster.  I have one of those old Concertmate 970 Keyboards.

As you can see… the keyboard has a huge number of digital instruments and beats.  I cannot change instruments in the dark BECAUSE I cannot read the menu at all.  So I got to wondering… if I could paint it with glow in the dark paint.

I had a theory that I decided to test.

I knew that glow in the dark paint was more brilliant on a WHITE surface than a BLACK surface.  What I didn’t know was how much more brilliant.  If the contrast was high enough I could just paint the entire surface instead of trying to paint just the letters (which I wouldnt even attempt).

It turns out… you can!  You can slather any black-and-white surface with glow in the dark paint and the text becomes quite legible in the dark.  Unfortunately though… doing this requires a pretty thick application of glow in the dark paint.  It is very visible in the light.

So theres a tradeoff.  You end up with a messy-looking keyboard in natural light that you can read at night.  You give up a little of the day for the night.

I thought it was interesting and hope someone else finds it interesting too.

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Marker Trick

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When i was a kid I liked to decorate my school supplies.  Just by experimenting I discovered that if you use a red permanent marker on a black plastic surface… you get some really cool metallic gold look.


I have no idea why.

The only word of caution I would give is that the ink has a nasty habit of rubbing off so i would use some form of resin or sealer to prevent that.

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2017 will be a year I will try very hard to forget.
2018 doesn't look much better but... just gotta focus on your own life and do what you can.
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FUGUE STORE!

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I've finally finished with the single largest project I've ever completed.
It is a webserver i set up myself. It is part wordpress and part prestashop with lots of features and customizations. It still has to be populated with content and I may update things as time goes but it is finally serviceable!

It is going to be a jewelry, apparel, and accessory store that specializes in creepy-cute things. Gheistly already has a lot of her stuff up on Tumblr and you can find a link for that under ‘contact’.

www.fuguestore.com/

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Oh boy life. by chaoddity, journal

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