Celebrating World Egg Day

Original title: When you realise that you forgot the egg

Hi there! I've been taking things slow this week (no writing, no coding besides client work, Mango's gotta eat). I'm happy I took a break instead escaping into the more comfortable nook of my brain... with one small slip.

Then this masterful toot caught my attention:

Fuck, it's Egg Day! Thank you for the nudge Matthias. Here are some of my egg-inspired works, chosen at random under 3 minutes:

My first attempt at stop motion animation

Source: Mmm... egg

The interlude of my first attempt at a newsletter

Source: Weekly Notes #6

Vaguely Lynchian Prima Aprilis

My first attempt at teaching the egg how to walk

This was a prototype of a Liero inspired multiplayer deathmatch game, finding the last egg rolling so to speak.

It would be hard to achieve this level of realism without Inverse Kinematics and procedural animation.

A longer description would deserve separate post. Suffice to say, things didn't go that smooth as the algorithm I applied was more suitable for arthropods rather than anything with human legs. (imagine a bipedal human sized spider, now compare it to a walking human).

Also, some leggs (typo, but I'm keeping it) were so displeased with my rigging skills, they decided to fly away, just like my dad when he went to buy those cigarettes.

Something I noticed while editing this: so many of these projects are my firsts: first newsletter, first stop motion animation, first IK experiment, first egg in drag for the first of April. Writing truly is thinking!

This animated loop from an article on sonnet.io (HTML+CSS)

Why I made it: I needed a looped video on my site and the easiest way to create it was to:

  1. animate it in CSS
  2. record via QuickTime (I miss Macromedia Flash)

You can find the article and the video here.

This drawing I share instead of saying it's a balancing act

Source: Balancing Act

Finally, Chomsky, geopolitics, egg massage

An accidental find from the times of the Plague. I suspect it's the least entertaining or informative example here. Please, don't judge the egg, judge me.

That's all for today. Anyway, what's your favourite egg? Let me know.

P.S. Thanks for reaching so far, please take this NSFW True Detective inspired Egg Erotica as a token of my gratitude.

And remember, to quote Obvious Plant: this isn't real, nothing is real.

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a giant foot-shaped snail with a house on its back. the house is still in construction, with a big crane towering above it The image is a stylized black-and-white illustration. In the lower left corner, there is a small, cozy-looking house with smoke rising from its chimney. The smoke, however, does not dissipate into the air but instead forms a dark, looming cloud. Within the cloud, the silhouette of a large, menacing face is visible, with its eyes and nose peeking through the darkness. The creature, perhaps a cat, appears to be watching over the house ominously, creating a sense of foreboding or unease.