Plantay's Weblog

Starting with not-so-good news this time: I sat in front of the computer for 9–11 hours a day this week, despite my goal to keep it around 5–6 hours max.

I made a few site tweaks this week: Added a separate disclosure element for random lists and pages on the homepage.

Spring Came So Fast!

Not every song is suitable to play with just one guitar and voice.

This week was full of emotions, and it's kinda cool considering I had a very flat lifestyle for a while, but damn, I’m so tired!

I've decided to return VCV patch notes to the website - I think it's the most suitable place for them in the end.

The first real winter in 2 years, what a relief!

I often write the same things in circles until I really shove an idea into my head, so here's another round of my thoughts on boredom, screen time, and creativity.

This whole week, I was learning motion graphics, so almost nothing else happened (which is sad because I feel like the whole week just skipped).

One thing that happens to me really often - and drives me crazy - is when a cool random idea comes to mind, but it's never the right time.

This was such a lazy week, and I really enjoyed it!

A few days ago, I realized that I have no visual or audio works uploaded on this website, so I’ve decided to start posting such things more often.

For the past year or so, I’ve been collecting links to websites that I liked - some for their aesthetics, others for their great blogs or bookmark pages.

It was a pretty productive week in terms of work, but I feel a lot more drained than before.

Sport : ran 13km (moderate pace) Sleep : stopped drinking cofe, sleep is great Touch typing : 6/7 sessions, great results: RU - 120min, 32/32 letters, 50 WPM with 95% accuracy ENG - 120min, 20/26 letters, 40 WPM with 95% accuracy Listened : Ryan Lott - Pe…

Sport : ran 23km (moderate pace) Sleep : recovered sleep schedule Consumption : almost the same as the previous week, sadly Visual : practicing basic motion graphics, learning Fusion History : 0/2 lessons, was tinkering with the site too much, will fix it…

On the last week, I was thinking about adding more pages to the site and maybe importing some of my notes here, but then I realized that, basically, it's the opposite of what I originally wanted to do.

Lately, I've been noticing more and more that everything in life happens exactly when it’s supposed to.

Over the past few months, I’ve been reading a lot about Jungian types, MBTI, and socionics.

This year was incredibly eventful and productive!

I quit social media more than a year ago.

This is the first part of my self-sufficiency exploration story.

Watch video (08:50 min, 101.8 MB) Download patch This jam was requested by one of the subscribers, so I decided to upload it while re-learning Teletype basics.

Watch video (14:14 min, 198.3 MB) Download patch This week I was experimenting with smaller patches.

Watch video (16:20 min, 176.7 MB) Download patch Pretty simple patch, but I love the vibe.

Watch video (06:40 min, 87.3 MB) Download patch This is the second iteration of the previous patch.

Watch video (04:36 min, 52 MB) This is one of my older patches, from when I had just discovered Teletype.

Watch video (04:24 min, 12.3 MB) I came across Hundred Rabbits a few weeks ago and was amazed by their devices!

Watch video (07:28 min, 71.6 MB) Download patch This is one of the first patches of early 2024 when I started experimenting with fixed racks inspired by some limited Eurorack setups.

Watch video (09:59 min, 159.5 MB) Just a small jam with Imagine, ODC & Supermassive.

Watch video (04:15 min, 16.5 MB) This video was inspired by "once upon a synth" series "art2music" and spellbinding art of Erin Hanson.

Watch video (11:38 min, 55 MB) Few days ago I went to the Gulf of Finland and recorded some foley with my Zoom H4n.

Watch video (13:16 min, 52.1 MB) Little VCV jam inspired by Richard Linklater's film "Waking Life".