Aristotle: art and poetry, based on his book Poetics. (Repost from early 2023)

The below quote is from Will Durant as he attempts to encapsulate Aristotle's view on art:

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When I came across this statement from Will Durant I decided to re-read Aristotle's Poetics to see how representative it was.

Aristotle studied at Plato's Academy in Athens, which brings continuity from Socrates -> Plato -> Aristotle.

Plato:

"And when someone honors beauty more than virtue, this constitutes nothing other than a real and thorough dishonoring of the soul" // Plato, Laws, Book B, 727d.

Socrates and Plato held an often times contemptful view of the poet or artist, expressed on several occasions in Plato's Republic.

This is likely because the artist was viewed as an imitator, in the negative sense. Reality is of course of higher value than any imitation. We might add to this that Socrates was sometimes ridiculed by contemporary poets.

Another point of irritation for Socrates was when poets celebrated and waxed sentimental over unethical men and portrayed them as heroes. It is possible that this latter case was Socrates' primary annoyance with the art of poetry.

Aristotle:

"What aims at reality is better than what aims at appearance".

// Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book I, 1365-b.

While there is overlap here between Aristotle and Plato there is also a clear divide. Plato is mainly concerned with ethics whereas Aristotle is more fascinated with analysis and substance. The ethics is obvious to Aristotle, what interests him even more is the practical considerations that can be made.

Aristotle continues:

"What a man wants to be, is better than what a man wants to seem (to be), for in aiming at that he is aiming more at reality".

Here Plato would focus on the ethical reasoning of 'being rather than seeming', while Aristotle is primarily occupied with the alignment to reality. For Aristotle, actions define us and it is through action that we realize our potentials. This in turn requires aims that are followed through - a fully practical process that does not involve pretense, but instead work and sweat. The point for Aristotle is not to spend time despising others for being unethical, but to inspire the proper practical achievement.

"And it is also natural for all to delight in works of imitation."

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 3, 1448-b-9

Aristotle's remark here relates to delighting in realistic representations of things. He points out that we learn something from observing a realistic imitation.

Aristotle continues by observing that 'learning' is the 'greatest of pleasures'. He expands to say that 'gathering the meaning of things' is a part of what he is referring to by learning.

There is in Aristotle a focus on substance that isn't isolated to exterior appearance, but rather to attain some form of understanding of what we are observing.

In the artform of Tragedy, Aristotle counts six parts, where he highlights the Plot.

"And again: the most powerful elements of attraction in Tragedy, the Peripeties and Discoveries, are parts of the Plot".

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 6, 1461.33

He continues:

"We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot".

Aristotle then lists Characters as the second most important part of the Tragedy art form:

"Characters come second - compare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid on without order will not give one the same pleasure as a simple black-and-white sketch of a portrait".

There is in Aristotle a focus on actions, meaning and realism. Beautiful, decorative details are less important than capturing the true essence of something.

It is the plot and characters that makes the story significant to us, not the dramaturgical expressions on a stage; the Spectacle.

"The Spectacle, though an attraction, is the least artistic of all the parts, and has least to do with the art of poetry. The tragic effect is quite possible without a public performance and actors."

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 6, 1450.b.16

"From what we have said it will be seen that the poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen."

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 7, 1451.a.35

There is attention to realism in terms of artistic plausibility, while not necessarily an exact imitation.

He continues:

"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars".

Art builds upon timeless principles that can be understood intuitively and metaphorically, whereas history is locked into specifics.

"It is evident from the above that the poet must be more the poet of his stories or Plots than of his verses".

Again, Aristotle is looking at the meaningful significance of actions, plot and characters, rather than the exact outward format of the verse.

"Of simple Plots and actions, the episodic are the worst. I call a Plot episodic when there is neither probability nor necessity in the sequence of its episodes".

Improbable elements in a story are serious flaws for Aristotle. This is also an extension of his realism.

"The Plot in fact should be so framed that, even without seeing the things take place, he who simply hears the account of them shall be filled with horror and pity at the incidents."

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 14, 1453.b.3

This is worth some reflection. Aristotle attempts to identify some kind of markers at this point by which we can identify a gripping plot. In short, it must stand on its own legs. This is yet another example of Aristotle's focus on the inner workings of a story or plot over the outward expression.

His realism is attuned to the inner, psychological motivations and plausible depictions of these, rather than merely ornamental or visual effects.

"The tragic pleasure is that of pity and fear, and the poet has to produce it by a work of imitation".

This perfectly encapulates Aristotle's positive use of the term imitation. The imitation he is talking about is an alignment with realistic internal realms, and how those can extend to the audience and create a meaningful experience.

"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it."

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 24, 1460.a.26

"Any impossibilities there may be in his description of things are faults.

But from another point of view they are justifiable, if they serve the end of poetry itself - if they make the effect of either that portion of the work or some other portion more astounding"

(1460.b.23)

This is where Aristotle shines, as he's playing the devil's advocate against his own argument.

While he is not yielding from his fiercely anchores principles, he is offering an alternative solution. If the artistic expression benefits it is possible depart from these strict guidelines.

At the end of the day, a compelling result is what matters.

In conclusion, I think it's fair to attribute the quote to Will Durant, as an interpretative summary of Aristotle on art. The inward significance is clearly highlighted in Aristotle. With some nuances.

Thank you for reading.

#Aristotle #Plato #Socrates #Writing #Plot


Been spending lots more time on #nostr the last two weeks (shout out nostr:npub164q45vfa8prpl7f63stsl9qm9n22v6julkasjdqxjc8kevchsj0sp42rl3 for the push), and have been trying to share more about the stuff I care deeply about beyond just #bitcoin (though I of course talk Bitcoin too).

But for me those things are literature, art, poetry, and ideas. Before I eventually became a lawyer I went to grad school for lit and film, and that remains an integral part of my life and the way I think about things. It’s my intellectual anchor.

I’ve been blown away honestly at the quality of convos I’ve had on here the last week or so.

Even the last few days I’ve been discussing Infinite Jest, Shakespeare, postmodernism, DeLillo, etc, and the discussions have been very cool.

I feel I can kinda open up and express more of my total self, beyond Bitcoin bull-posting (which to be fair I still enjoy and support). It’s refreshing.

Hoping to continue to find and engage with more Bitcoin/nostr folks who are into literature and mining great artistic achievements for lessons and constructive discourse on the present.

Gm


Bitcoin removes the central banking cancer from humanity.

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Zuck admits official govt pressure. This should allow court cases to proceed. Courts previously ruled that the complainants couldn’t prove govt pressure.

Remember, the govt lied, saying the hunter laptop was fake, when they knew it wasn’t. Proof that govt agencies actively interfered with the election. Conspiracy theorists right again. 😎 nostr:note15x8gefuf9hcf94yq30wwd9a6w0va0g6kzjcwrurh5jnp500nsuesdj4tje


Letter from Zuck to Congressman Jordan yesterday: https://image.nostr.build/f19cbb2016db05f89045fec10cc220117638784c98608534e1d5e06d60a66fb6.jpg


Nowadays 21 is a normal zap but in the beginning there were many 1,000 - 20,000 sat zaps.

Kinda cool to think about that 1 sat will be worth more than $1 at some point.


G'day.


Yup.


Post your #bbq setup folks, ive always had Weber gas grills but just finished building out my BBQ cook station and added a Traeger 575 pellet smoker.

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I'm on Amethyst (Android).


Margaret Thatcher on climate change
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Considering adding native Tor into Amethyst just to go around relay per-connection limitations.

Then we could keep all accounts connected and downloading their events at all times, while using a separate exit IP for each nostr filter.

There wouldn't need to be a global account switcher. Users could have 100s of accounts working together.

Plus, huge privacy gains.


YUVAL HARARI'S FLAWED PRESENTATION OF THE HISTORY OF HUMANKIND

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1. Introduction

In December 2023, Tucker Carlson and Dan Bongino discussed why Professor Yuval Harari and the World Economic Forum (WEF) pose a threat to our lives.

Klaus Schwab, who is the founder of WEF, seems to rely on some of Harari’s teaching when he formulates his policy recommendations to leaders around the world.

Harari knows a lot of historical facts, is good at storytelling and masters the art of rhetoric.

Commentators and academics therefore find it difficult to show exactly where Harari goes wrong in his analysis.

What I want to bring to everyone’s’ attention, is that Harari and Schwab base their policy recommendation on a narrative about the history of our civilization that simply isn’t correct.

It’s probably the repetition of this narrative that makes Schwab’s communication so effective when he talks to intellectuals, policymakers, journalists and leaders of giant corporations who firmly believe in “leadership” and the idea of technocratic global governance.

However, when we point out the flaws in Harari’s analysis of humankind and our history, it becomes a lot easier to shoot down his and Schwab’s ideas.

Therefore, I hope you will join me in this thread, as it in about ten minutes enables you to understand where Harari went so terribly wrong.

2. Harari’s background and some of his ideas:

Wikipedia gives us the following introduction to him:

«Yuval Noah Harari, born 1976 is an Israeli author, public intellectual, historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the popular science bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014), Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018). His writings examine free will, consciousness, intelligence, happiness, and suffering.»

Harari, who is married to a man and describes himself as an atheist and a vegan, promotes such ideas as:

- people don’t have free will, and human rights are a fiction,

- we are witnessing a natural development of a technocratic two-tier society where a «useless class» of consumers is guided or ruled by an elite class of «human gods. »

In short, Harari suggests that what we use to refer to as the foundation of liberal society is imagination, while the development of an apartheid-like dystopia is natural.

3. Harari’s understanding of the history of civilization

Harari’s analysis of the history is affected by his lack of understanding of the service that money renders to humankind and how different monetary systems dictate the development of very different forms of society.

He writes in Sapiens that:

«Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.»

This and other statements he has made about money tell us that he has understood that money is a cornerstone of our civilization, something which definitely is true.

From there on, it unfortunately goes all south for him.

Harari’s problem is that he doesn’t seem to understand that we get a very different society when people have monetary freedom (the right to use which money they like best, also sometimes inadequately referred to as «currency competition») compared to when a group of people has a monopoly in money production.

In the former, everyone must work to get money.

In the latter, a small elite can extract wealth from everyone else because they can produce money instead of working for it.

Harari, for his part, doesn’t make any such distinction at all.

4. Monetary freedom in a historical context

Monetary freedom has most likely been the dominant system throughout the more than 5000 years that we have had civilizations.

It’s the monopoly in money production that is the anomaly.

Here are some examples:

We had monetary freedom in Norway until 1050 AD.

The Dutch reintroduced it in the Netherlands after the rebellion in 1566 and they had it for about 150 years.

The Irish in practice held on to monetary freedom much longer, unclear how long, but it was all gone when the British crown finally managed to put Ireland under its thumb in the early 17th century.

The Americans established de facto monetary freedom in the US after the revolution in 1783, and it lasted until 1857.

And, finally, Argentina followed the same path as the US from the revolution in 1816 and kept it at least to 1880.

(It’s this system, that the new president of Argentina, Javier Milei, now wants to reestablish.)

5. Institutions in a society with monetary freedom

Societies with monetary freedom typically have no or very weak central governments.

Instead, families, relatives and clans have strong bonds.

Furthermore, private property is almost sacred, and one rarely sees large scale wars in this type of societies.

The reason is that without a monopoly in money creation it becomes difficult to set up an apparatus that can extract wealth from the people to finance this type of aggression.

However, the decentralized structure and a strong will to defend against intruders mean that they can be very capable of defending their freedom, as was the case in the region of Norway, where I live, until 1050 AD.

You can say that a society that has monetary freedom and little or no state primarily is rigged for defense and production, while a society with a monopoly in monetary production is rigged for expansionary war and destruction.

6. Why compound interest is of paramount importance

In order to understand why civilizations develop so differently with different monetary systems, one needs to understand the effect of compound interest.

A typical rate of monetary inflation (expansion of the money supply) in societies with monopolies in money production, has been 7-8% per year.

In a society where money makes up half of all economic transactions, an annual expansion of 7% means that the ones who control the monopoly can extract and take control of 7% of the society’s production each year.

Due to the effect of positive compound interest, constantly increasing the money supply by 7% each year can theoretically result in an accumulated wealth extraction that has doubled in as little as 10 years, tripled within 16 years and quadrupled in 20 years.

The rest of the society experiences the exact opposite, as people see that their money loses value at a negative compounding rate of 7% each year.

Therefore, those who are far away from the money spigot may have to double their productivity in 10 years, triple it in 16 years and quadruple it in 20 years if they want to preserve their share of wealth, their standard of living and keep their means of production, compared to a situation with no manipulation of the money supply.

This is of course nigh on impossible.

Therefore, establishing a monopoly in money production can easily transform a society from being fundamentally decentralized into becoming a two tier system in less than a generation.

It typically ends up with a small wealthy class of creditors with a lot of political power on one hand, and a large poor and indebted class of people with no or little political power on the other hand.

It all sounds so familiar, doesn’t it?

The combined effect of the compound positive interest rates for the «elite» and the compound negative interest rates for the rest explains how enormous effect a monopoly in money production has on society.

The gargantuan redistribution of wealth that takes place in such a society should be compared with what happens in a society without this system, where the distribution of wealth (and power) will be much more evenly spread.

This also helps explaining why families and kinship can remain a lot stronger in societies with monetary freedom.

Once a group of powerful men begins to fuel its influence with a monopoly in money production, the emerging state apparatus basically outcompetes the family and the clan as social institutions.

7. Why countries with monetary freedom become powerful magnets

When you set up a system with monetary freedom in one country, it quickly attracts talent and capital from countries with monopolies in money production.

It’s almost as if monetary freedom is a nuclear-powered magnet.

The explanation for this effect is that it’s much more profitable to work and invest in a country with money that doesn’t steal from you.

Therefore, people “vote” with their feet and their savings.

Harari doesn’t seem to be sufficiently aware of these mechanisms.

For instance, in Sapiens, he explains the Golden Age of the Netherlands with a boom in bank credit.

The reality, however, is that it was monetary freedom, sound money and full reserve banking that served as the foundation for the fantastic growth that the Dutch experienced in the 16th and 17th Century.

Because the other countries had kings and emperors who extracted wealth from their citizens via aggressive monetary policies, the very opposite system in the Netherlands caused it to attract capital and talent from the other countries at an extreme pace.

Harari also fails to recognize that it was the same mechanisms that played out after the American and Argentinian revolutions.

European rulers stuck with their monopolies in money production and continued to pillage their underlings.

As a result, Europe literally became drained of talent and capital that fled to America.

8. Conclusion

Harari’s Sapiens is supposed to be an exposition of the history of humankind.

However, due to the defects that I have shed light on above, the book cannot at all serve this purpose.

Perhaps Harari doesn’t understand it himself, but his narrative of humankind and the history of civilization draws squarely on the type of society we get when a ruling class is allowed to have a monopoly in money creation.

But as you now realize, this version of civilization is neither natural, nor has it been the dominant way of how we organize our activities.

On the contrary, the normal and, above all, much more human situation has been a civilization with monetary freedom, a significantly smaller state apparatus and a decentralized society where strong institutions such as family, kinship and respect of private property keep it all together.

People should therefore be very skeptical to Harari’s and Schwab’s visions for humankind and how we should organize us in the future.

***

Thank you for reading.

If you want to join forces in the battle of ideas, I would appreciate it if you follow me, like and share this note.

You may also want to go to our web page at UNDOQO dot com and check out UNBAR, where I discuss Harari's understanding of money in more detail, with a focus on the relationship between the monetary system and globalization.

UNBAR is amazingly illustrated by designer viz Mattis Storhaug, and it aims to open up the eyes of people from all walks of life, especially those who are critical to globalization but don't understand the importance of monetary policy.


Great overview Logan.

When the quest for truth and reason is abandoned, when the concept of free will and individual sovereign decisionmaking is replaced by determinism and the belief that humans are merely a sum of their inputs, the logical outcome is an ideology that values power over truth.

Those that believe that they cannot change the minds of others via truthful argumentation will arrive at the conclusion that the power to set the standards is the only method of attaining ethical behaviors; via nudging and programming.

CBDCs and social credit scores is the logical destination of determinism, since there is an inherent assumption that the only realization of ethical behaviors is an external re-programming with values and ideals that have been stamped by the bureau as correct and appropriate.

Political correctness emerged as an assumed path to an ideological paradise where all injustices are believed to be conquered, if only, and this minor detail aside, if only everyone accept and practice the enlightened re-programming of political correctness, communicated by central planners and received at the mountain of higher wisdom, to achieve this necessary utopia.

Central planning being the root of totalitarianism didn't stop this quest for absolute power, perhaps because the imagined worst case alternative was the absolute power of some other group with a worse ideological framing.

Yet now we are witnessing the emergence of decentralization as a potent force involving game theory mechanics.

Property rights for all could suddenly be attained at a protocol level. Jurisdictions will now have to compete for capital and resources by providing and securing individual liberties.

The game has changed in favor of allowing liberty, private property rights, sovereign individuals and the decentralized quest for truth to emerge as a greater movement.

The future is determined by individuals, not by a centrally planned utopia designed by committees. A world where all risks are eliminated is an existence where all liberties have been dismantled.

Give me a life of risk and infinite possibilities rather than a prison of bureaucratic intentions.


Gonna be an awesome convo. One angle I think about a lot:

Don DeLillo described the Kennedy assassination as “the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century.”

And he did so because after that Americans lost conviction in capital-T Truth, in a fundamental coherence of the universe. After all if we can’t even determine who committed the most famous murder since Franz Ferdinand, if we have to fall back on “magic bullet” theories, does anything mean anything? Is there something behind the curtain?

This, coupled with Vietnam, creates the perfect backdrop for the intellectual revolution that is postmodernism and all its tributaries and outgrowths.

Postmodernism takes over college campuses. Critical theorists like Derrida and Foucault and de Man become rockstars. Academia becomes almost a competitive game to see who can formulate the most radical understanding of the world.

We go off gold in 1971, and inflation ensues. For the next 50 years everything gets more expensive, especially higher education. So at the same time post-structuralists and post-colonialists et al are saturating the academy, the number of folks who can actually afford to go to the academy is decreasing.

So now we have elite schools increasingly captured by what is essentially an evolved viral (almost Darwinian) Marxism, teaching increasingly wealthy and well-connected kids. This is where we are now. With the country’s most affluent, privileged, educated kids becoming the most politically radical, and it’s all occurring in a way and in places more and more detached from the lived reality of normal people. And these kids of course grow up to take powerful positions in society (because they’re wealthy and well connected).

So a schism between “the Left” and the constituents it purports to care most about, “the working class,” emerges and grows.

Most regular people are basically just like what the actual fuck are you guys talking about.

And so the Left becomes utterly detached from its target demographic and becomes instead like an eternal regress of theoretical nonsense.

Like the bird in an early David Foster Wallace story (the title escapes me at the moment) that flies in increasingly narrower circles until it actually flies up its own ass.

Voila here we are. nostr:note1vysmayhv5xa3hsj42vfs8jt0ze6kzf7vqpqn766yy0yrlk63vjnq8t05lw


The harder they fight, the faster #Bitcoin + #Nostr go mainstream and make them obsolete.

Welcome to the age of decentralized, permissionless, and unstoppable rebellion. https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/d08546a3cbdf9ff824df8e2b7853c883b0d1b6c091803c8ec474bd5387adfee1.webp


Good ideas and interesting project you have going.

I was considering a secondary form of hashtags: funded hashtags.

Funded hashtags would be funded with let's say 10 sats. This would act as a cost barrier that reduces spam. Perhaps the relays that pick up notes with funded hashtags could gain a percentage of the sat funding.

While I hate pay-to-win features, spam will become an increasing problem and if the cost for funded hashtags is not expensive it might work.


Many people are saying “put it in the client”. Of course, this would be ideal.

A few challenges:

1) Right now, each client can only connect to a limited number of relays. For example, Damus recommends ~10. This forces nostr clients to connect to a small number of large (high bandwidth) relays to reach all other users. Basically, if you can only connect to 10, then you want to connect to the same 10 as everyone else so that you can reach everyone.

2) If relays were installed in phones, they would quickly go online and offline. Each client would then be forced to connect to a massive number of low bandwidth relays. This is the opposite of what happens today.

3) Mobile devices have limited bandwidth and aren’t designed to be low latency servers. Desktops can handle more load, they generally have higher bandwidth limits, and can be left running for longer. People need to be motivated to run desktops to support the network.

To move the relays into the clients (which should be done to make the network decentralized) the core underlying protocol would need to be completely redesigned.

I’ve been brainstorming and experimenting with such a thing but it’s not ready for presentation. I think I’ve loosely “solved” the broadcasting piece (hint: bees and flowers). But I still have two massive missing pieces.

First - replies (replying to someone else’s message so that 3rd parties can see it)

Second - data efficient discovery (eg. how to allow hashtags in a way that doesn’t drown your device in spam).

Both of the missing pieces are essentially data discoverability problems so perhaps they will eventually have a common solution 🤞

The challenge is minimizing latency, bandwidth, and data replication. Also, no matter what, moving the relays into the clients will likely degrade the UX. Centralized systems are faster, more responsive, and therefore generally have better UX. nostr:note1l7yww5ltcd5an05vcevht5ltqx4z5rnrus29j28zddwgeskns7dsrrqtw0


A beautiful piece of art in Riga https://i.nostr.build/mtahrEjCeIYOfWDw.jpg


I understand their strategies which is why I focus on the UN Agenda 21. It's not hard to understand once you study the code (Agenda 21) and put your mind into their shoes.


From a European perspective, I think that the establishment found it easier to implement the UN Agenda 21 under the banner of Social Democracy + alliances with Green parties.

As a result there is a general overlap between social democrat parties and the establishment, vs populist parties and anti-establishment movements.

This makes sense when we consider taxes, schooling, environmental policies, property rights, media control, moneyprinting in exchange for votes et cetera. These are all easier to achieve from a social democrat platform, even if there are authoritarian overlaps with the more extreme religious conservatives.


Yup.

Add that we would need at least two private keys to have proper control over our Nostr identity.

One key for regular login/signing and the master key for admin privileges that override the general key in case our regular key is compromised.

I never understood why the Nostr devs decided for risking a single point of failure.


This is just irrational.
Muted for being controlled opposition.


I don't see any specifics in his timeline.
Probably a good approach to not announce the destination.


Sorry, that doesn't even make strategic sense.

If I wanted to implement Agenda 21 + Agenda 2030, I would install a candidate like Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. Not someone that is pro-energy and antithetical to the climate alarmism agenda.


Chris Pavlovski, the founder of Rumble, has safely departed Europe. The attacks on free speech in Europe are deeply concerning.

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#Rumble #Pavlovski #Europe #EU #Censorship #FreeSpeech #Durov #Telegram


Don't you find it hard to believe the logic that the media in a dozen Western countries would demonize Trump for 8+ years, charge him with crimes, only to give him a political victory over a political candidate that the establishment controls?

Sorry, I find this extremely implausible. Even if we assumed such a scenario, wouldn't there be a risk of unknown candidates that could beat Trump?

Spending 8 years demonizing a person that you secretly support is not going to happen across a dozen nations, their governments + government owned media.

We can probably find a number of flaws with Trump but he is obviously not favored by the establishment. If it were up to me I'd rather see a Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of the US. Hopefully Vivek will get a good spot in the admin where he can reduce the size of government.


Don't you find it hard to believe the logic that the media in a dozen Western countries would demonize Trump for 8+ years, charge him with crimes, only to give him a political victory over a political candidate that the establishment controls?

Sorry, I find this extremely implausible. Even if we assumed such a scenario, wouldn't there be a risk of unknown candidates that could beat Trump?

Spending 8 years demonizing a person that you secretly support is not going to happen across a dozen nations, their governments + government owned media.

We can probably find a number of flaws with Trump but he is obviously not favored by tge establishment. If it were up to me I'd rather see a Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of the US.


There are a couple of things here to unpack.

1. In Sweden, the Social Democrats governed for over half a century until 1974. This made them + their collaborating party VpK (the communist party) the uniparty of Sweden and their dominance has since then been held by its control of institutions, education and government owned media.

2. If we are discussing Trump, he has been notoriously demonised by the governments + media in most Western countries for 8+ years. If you haven't lived in Sweden, Norway or other European countries you would probably not be aware of how coordimated the establishment is across continents.

I wrote a note where I bring up some of the reasons why Trump is viewed as an enemy by the establishment. One major reason is him pulling the US out of the Paris climate accord in 2017. This combined with his pro-energy stance set him on a collision course with the UN Agenda 21 establishment.

3. Boris is a part of the establishment, correct.

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There are a couple of things here to unpack.

1. In Sweden, the Social Democrats governed for over half a century until 1974. This made them + their collaborating party VpK (the communist party) the uniparty of Sweden and their dominance has since then been held by its control of institutions, education and government owned media.

2. If we are discussing Trump, he has been notoriously demonised by the governments + media in most Western countries for 8+ years. If you haven't lived in Sweden, Norway or other European countries you would probably not be aware of how coordimated the establishment is across continents.

I wrote a note where I bring up some of the reasons why Trump is viewed as an enemy by the establishment. One major reason is him pulling the US out of the Paris climate accord in 2017. This combined with his pro-energy stance set him on a collision cpurse with the UN Agenda 21 establishment.

3. Boris is a part of the establishment, correct.

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There are a couple of things here to unpack.

1. In Sweden, the Social Democrats governed for over half a century until 1974. This made them + their collaborating party VpK (the communist party) the uniparty of Sweden and their dominance has since then been held by its control of institutions, education and government owned media.

2. If we are discussing Trump, he has been notoriously demonised by the governments + media in most Western countries for 8+ years. If yoh haven't lived in Sweden, Norway or other European countries you wpuld probably not be aware of how coordimated the establishment is across continents.

I wrote a note where I bring up some of the reasons why Trump is viewed as an enemy by the establishment. One major reason is him pulling the US out of the Paris climate accord in 2017. This combined with his pro-energy stance set him on a collision cpurse with the UN Agenda 21 establishment.

3. Boris is a part of the establishment, correct.

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#FreePavel

But…

It is foolish how he thought Telegram could indefinitely operate a network without default E2E encryption and not play ball with regimes.

I see the same sort of presumption from Nostr devs/proponents ignoring the core architectural problem of needing relays.

Probably an unpopular opinion but it has to be said. Relays will be the death of Nostr but it’s not too late to fix it. The protocol is still in its infancy.


I could add that a single private key is not how I would design a free speech protocol.

If it were up to me I would use a set of at least two private keys, one for regular Nostr use and one for admin control of the identity. If the regular key is compromised, the admin key could be used to regain control over the content.

I hope Nostr will become the free speech protocol we need.


I could add that a single private key is not how I would design a free speech protocol.

If it were up to me I would use a set of at least two private keys, one for regular Nostr use and one for admin control of the identity. If the regular key is compromized, the admin key could be used to regain control over the content.

I hope Nostr will become the free speech protocol we need.


Perhaps, but if we look at the data above, the rejection of MSM sources extend over decades.

I'm not American so the 'Republican' label here in Europe would overlap more with populists and the anti-establishment movement.

The UN Agenda 21 was signed by 179 nations in Rio de Janeiro back in 1992. If we want to analyze the operative system of the "establishment" we can simply review the policies (code) of Agenda 21 and its next milestone Agenda 2030.

It is a very comprehensive plan for the 21st century involving a false "sustainability" program, which was inspired by Club of Rome as they were searching for reasons to implement global regulations. A climate scare fitted the bill.

Since it was easier for the establishment to achieve the Agenda 21 goals on a social-democrat platform, this is likely why we are seeing an overlap between republicans/conservatives and anti-establishment movements for the past 30+ years.


Perhaps, but if we look at the data above, the rejection of MSM sources extend over decades.

I'm not American so the 'Republican' label here in Europe would overlap more with populists and the anti-establishment movement.

The UN Agenda 21 was signed by 179 nations in Rio de Janeiro back in 1992. If we want to analyze the operative system of the "establishment" we can simply review the policies (code) that Agenda 21 involves. It is a very comprehensive plan for the 21st century involving a false "sustainability" program, which was inspired by Club of Rome as they were searching for reasons to implement global regulations. A climate scare fitted the bill.

Since it was easier for the establishment to achieve the Agenda 21 goals on a social-democrat platform, this is likely why we are seeing an overlap between republicans/conservatives and anti-establishment movements for the past 30+ years.


Free Pavel Durov.

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#Pavel #Durov #MSM #Telegram #Robert #Malone #1984 #Propaganda


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#Media #MSM #Matrix #Propaganda


The benefit of Nostr is the long format, over the compacted micro format of Twitter.

A few books I can recommend before I head out with my wife.

1. Time's Arrow, 1991 by Martin Amis.

The story in this book takes place in the reverse. The protagonist is a doctor that is introduced to the reader at old age and he is experiencing a backwards aging every day.

His relationships may start with a painful feeling on his chin, until he meets a lady at a restaurant that he never saw before, experiencing how she removes the pain on his face with a reversed slap.

It has a number of humorous parts in spite of the serious topics. The book opens up a different way of thinking about causality. Everything we do is filled with what we fill ourselves with.

2. The mirror in the mirror, 1984, by Michael Ende.

This book reads like an abstract painting and reaches out with a number of short stories that leaves pause for reflection.

Michael Ende is perhaps more known for his book The Never Ending Story but here he compacts his visual thinking into a series of poetic and dreamlike meditations.


Fuck ppl who want to talk about ppl.

Discuss ideas.


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Idea: Nostr Academy

I would like the ability to host private video educational series with zap to enter capabilities.  It would have the ability for attendees to be unmuted by the host to ask their questions via audio or video, or they can simply use the live chat.

My idea to funnel people from YouTube/X to NOSTR would be to host a live show there each week, followed immediately by exclusive interactive + educational content hosted only here. Each week on the legacy platforms I can talk about the great interactions we had on Nostr the previous week and hopefully bring a few new faces each time.

1. How possible is this currently?
2. Is anyone working on something like it?
3. If anyone is working on it, could I work with you to provide ideas & feedback on things I think might appeal to myself and people watching the show on other platforms?

Would also love to hear other ideas and projects for video creators that currently exist... especially in the education realm.


I believe that Vivek is the absolute best part of the new republican constellation. He needs to be in charge of reducing the size of government.


MSM Will character assassinate anyone they can't control.

Deep state will assassinate anyone they can't control.

Trump + RFK is an interesting new dynamic, another shift in the Overton window.

The election will very likely be rigged, but society seems to be moving in new directions.

🥖🎪


escape from the #eulag has begun https://i.nostr.build/vEHxx4FSFELym6Kz.jpg


The FBI tried to bribe a Telegram engineer to create a backdoor into their software to control and spy on what was happening on their platform.

https://video.nostr.build/b1021ae093747e50de02df887973dd7a43fa35435ca546951862ee9aac44832d.mp4


Nostriches! WTF is happening to Pavel? This is BAD!! NOSTR is more necessary than people are aware of. We have to keep on bringing more awareness! ☀🫂😘


-Treat the arrest of the Telegram CEO as an emergency.

-Advocate for his freedom and for all freedom tech providers.

-Support and build things that function without a CEO, like some aspects of Nostr. When authoritarian Europe or the US arrests you, be able to say, “I literally can’t control it, it’s already out there, and we are legion.”

-Tell me and others, as capital providers, how to accelerate this.


It was also interesting to see the polling results from the Republican side.

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While both sides have vested interests in presenting polls that put them in a favorable light, the most rational approach is to present the figures as they are in order to device strategies to improve the ratings. Skewing the poll numbers is a risky tactic that only makes sense for the MSM.

The high number of undecided voters are more likely Trump- (or RFK jr) aligned than Kamala-aligned since there is tangible establishment-crafted stigmatization associated with Trump (8 years of smearing in a dozen Western nations) but no MSM-created stigma associated with Kamala.


Tell your frens get on #nostr
#grownostr

Pavel Durov left Russia when the government tried to control his social media company, Telegram. But in the end, it wasn’t Putin who arrested him for allowing the public to exercise free speech. It was a western country, a Biden administration ally and enthusiastic NATO member, that locked him away. Pavel Durov sits in a French jail tonight, a living warning to any platform owner who refuses to censor the truth at the behest of governments and intel agencies. Darkness is descending fast on the formerly free world. Here’s our interview with Durov from several months ago: https://tuckercarlson.com/the-tucker-carlson-interview-pavel-durov


Facing 20 years in prison for not censoring users, Really Think About That For A Minute.
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Welcome to the g-EU-lag https://image.nostr.build/d50b0c94b649b357149f18dbd43e3298db32e87c04226f09dc96821111513e4b.jpg


Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, has been arrested in France for failing to apply EU censorship standards.


Nostr suggestion.

2 layers of security:

Full-key (24 or 48 words)
Half-key (12 or 24 words)

Half-key would mean the first half of the words of the full-key.

At half-key level of security we can sign messages and do most things we can now.

At full-key level of security we can flag our profile as compromised, as well as deleting all half-key-signed notes after a date yy-mm-dd.

I guess we could also allow the deletion of all our notes at the full-key level.

Usage: the regular user would normally use the half-key to access their Nostr profile and sign notes.

When/if the half-key is hacked/stolen, the user can flag their profile as compromised and set all new half-key-signed notes to be deleted. The user can now post messages with their full-key and explain what happened, create a new Nostr profile and guide their friends there.

The thief with half-key access would have their half-key-signed notes deleted due to the compromisation flag.


Nostr suggestion.

2 layers of security:

Full-key (24 or 48 words)
Half-key (12 or 24 words)

Half-key would mean the first half of the words of the full-key.

At half-key level of security we can sign messages and do most things we can now.

At full-key level of security we can flag our profile as compromised, as well as deleting all half-key-signed notes after a date yy-mm-dd.

I guess we could also allow the deletion of all our notes at the full-key level.

Usage: the regular user would normallt use the half-key to access their Nostr profile and sign notes.

When/if the half-key is hacked/stolen, the user can flag their profile as compromised and set all new half-key-signed notes to be deleted. The user can now post messages with their full-key and explain what happened, create a new Nostr profile and guide their friends there.

The thief with half-key access would have their half-key-signed notes deleted due to the compromisation flag.


I'm not competent in regards to cryptography but on the top of my mind I would ask this:

Would it be secure enough to use a 24 word seedphrase as a "master key" while allowing signing posts and accessing data using the first 12 words?

Alternatively, to double the security: a 48 word seedphrase master key with a 24 word signing requirement.


I'm not competent in regards to cryptography but on the top off my mind I would ask this:

Would it be secure enough to use a 24 word seedphrase as a "master key" while allowing signing posts and accessing data using the first 12 words?

Alternatively, to double the security: a 48 word seedphrase master key with a 24 word signing requirement.


Disagreements without hostility are always the most fruitful exchanges.

I appreciate the work that Samson Mow has been doing over the years and he is also a highly critical thinker that often listens to and consider nuanced feedback. He may not agree with the feedback but he is able to entertain multiple possibilities.

We will all disagree on the timing when
$1.0M bitcoin happens and that's fine.


Hans, you are misusing the term high time preference here.

Samson has been working with nation state adoption for several years. That's the opposite of high time preference.

Perhaps just sit down a bit when you are entering a subject where you have not built up credibility as an analyst.


Yeah, I was just showing my wife this some time ago.

The establishment demonization campaigns are on cue and very easy to spot.


RFK on fire against the Deep State censorship machine:

 "The whole basis of American democracy is the free blow of information. We know that a government that can silence its opponents has license for any kind of atrocity. Can you think of any time you can look back in history and say the people who were censoring were the good guys?"
#TeamOfRivals #RFKjr #Trump2024 https://video.nostr.build/ea62c1e608b94c91e69cb69aebb2c0f0d2a5db043edc584e4f651bdfa73b673a.mp4


When the plot is coming together beautifully.

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#Bitcoin doesn’t need… anyway, nice!
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Good morning Jay, looking forward to hear more about your project. ⭐💫🌟


👀
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Stars are aligning, puzzles are solved and the Bitcoin bullrun is around the corner. The content update patch for 2024 is turning out well.

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#RFK #Trump #US #Election


In his #BTCPrague keynote "Why Can't We All Just Get Along?",
 nostr:npub1au23c73cpaq2whtazjf6cdrmvam6nkd4lg928nwmgl78374kn29sq9t53j actually makes the point that bitcoin's civil wars are of crucial importance for the ecosystem.

https://m.primal.net/KHrp.mp4

Full keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE8CjEZZycg


On Tim Walz and his repeated digs at J.D. Vance for getting an education and making some money:

I was born and raised in a small rural town near the Appalachian Mountains, 2 hrs from the nearest major city.  Still work in this town today.

My father was born and raised in an even smaller town, even more rural town with a population under 2,000.

I have three degrees from three elite institutions because my folks believed in aspiring to education, that it opened doors, created opportunities, and allowed you to experience more of the world.  They instilled that in me.

I am a cocktail of my upbringing and my education.

I shoot guns, and I quote Shakespeare.

I eat venison, and I think about Dostoyevsky.

I am comfortable in both Waylon Jennings and Mozart, Steve Earle and Alice Coltrane.

I can cite Luke Combs and Lou Reed, wax poetic about Top Gun and Le Mepris.

I buy food (and milk) from farmers.

I am an attorney, yes, and my J.D. is from an elite institution.  I represent the blue-collar folks of my hometown.

I am neither a supremacist, nor a relativist.

I am a dad and a husband.

I am a #bitcoin er

All my life I have had one foot in the ethos and spirit of my rural hometown and the other in the rarefied echelons of the elitely educated, the financially successful, and the well-connected.  It's not always comfortable.

All my life I have climbed, my folks sacrificed and pushed me to climb and to aspire.  "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield," to quote Tennyson (see, I told you I can do that).

And all my life I have kept my upbringing close to me, because it is a part of me.  I don't shed my lived experience, nor do I forfeit its imprint, its impact, simply because I pursued the best education and got a professional job.  The validity of my experience does not expire upon achievement.

So when Tim Walz repeatedly attempts to invalidate J.D. Vance’s upbringing, to cast him as some inherently callous, rich interloper, out of touch with the "heartland" simply because he pursued the best education he could and made some money, it bothers me on a deep, personal level.

In the Walz taxonomy, which is binary, but only binary for non-Democrats apparently, financial success or an Ivy-League education, automatically and irrevocably renders one out of touch with "regular" people. Further, aspirations to these things are no longer to be applauded; they're punchlines in campaign speeches.

Never mind the financial success and education of the Obamas, the Clintons, Kamala Harris, Oprah, etc.  This does not invalidate their respective experiences, the journeys they each took to get there.

Only if you're J.D. Vance does success actually make you a charlatan to yourself, an interloper in your own life, an enemy to your past.

It's not right.  We should be applauding folks, no matter their race or political affiliation, for aspiring, for traversing the brutal terrain of class, region and familial afflictions and making it.

You may agree or disagree with J.D. on the issues, of course.  That's perfectly fine.

But dismissing him simply  because he managed to go to Yale (like so many Dems, by the way, who readily purport to be regular, working class heroes), or because he majored in philosophy, or because he eventually worked in finance and made some money, is craven, disingenuous, breathtakingly lacking in self-awareness, and offensive to anyone who has actually grown up in the "heartland," myself included.

Like so many other Americans, I contain multitudes, Tim Walz, but your taxonomy apparently doesn't allow that.


When we don't oppose harmful policies, we will sooner or later be hit by those policies, or by some permutation thereof, either directly or indirectly.


Yup. Central planners believe that society can be likened to a car that they can just drive as they please and that the vehicle is just a passive chunk of metal that exist to be moved from A to some destination B that bureaucrats have decided in advance.

In reality a society is more akin to an archipelago of ecosystems with emergent properties, a collaboration of sovereign, free agents with individual liberties and private property rights.

More freedom = greater prosperity.


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#Tax #Unrealized #Capital #Gains #Theft #CentralPlanning #Central #Planning


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"The free market constitutes an information-gathering process, able to call up, and put to use, widely dispersed information that no central planning agency, let alone any individual, could know as a whole, possess or control."

// Friedrich Hayek

#Hayek #Friedrich #Quote #Meme #Memes #Austrian #Economics #Free #Market


As long as the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an independent institution, far removed from our democratic system and absolute immune by law from prosecution for criminal offences, there is no democracy and elections are only a means of appeasing the majority. https://image.nostr.build/b785fe34a37cfb7dd38af79ae700b26b2be4860014ccdf65cfc98d2369f90ab1.jpg


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#Meme #Memes


Nice project, looking forward to see more.


Thanks, Rustypuppy. I like to show the process where an initial and underwhelming design can be turned around to something interesting. It's all about identifying problems and solving them.


🤷♂
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It's time to call a spade a spade. Marxists have completely infiltrated the highest levels of the US government and if Kamala Harris is elected they will destroy the wealth of this nation.

Bring back the Red Scare. Call out and shame these people.

https://www.tftc.io/attack-on-productive-class/


My wife grew up under communism in Poland.

Does that mean that my wife's opinion on communism is relevant and mine isn't?


The demonization of the productive class by the left in the US is sickening. It’ll start with taxes on unrealized gains, escalate to overt asset confiscation and ultimately physical harm against those who rightly try to protect their assets from the government.

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The establishment of central banks perpetuates an inflationary loop.

1. Politicians buy votes while making fantastical promises of social welfare benefits funded by taxes and moneyprinting. The highest spending promises will typically win the most votes.

2. Governments sell debt (gov't bonds) to finance these expensive policies. Central banks and regular banks buy the government bonds with money created ex nihilio; from nothing.

3. As the government spends this newly created money, the monetary supply expands; inflation worsens.

4. The population struggle with increasing prices and costs of living due to inflation and can be predicted to vote for more government moneyprinting and spending. The loop returns to point 1.

A secondary form of inflation is caused by the Mandrake Mechanism.

Every time a bank loan is granted, new money is created by the bank from thin air. This newly created money flows into assets such as real estate, stocks, commodities, etc.

This process leads to an increase in house prices. Later when the assets are sold on the market, the newly created money enters the greater economy and the monetary supply expands; inflation worsens.

The speed of this loan-based inflation is set by the repo rate. When the central bank lowers the repo rate, loans become more attractive to lenders and thereby more money is printed into existence.

When the repo rate is set high, loans are expensive and the rate of inflation is temporarily reduced.

Keynes noted in 1919 that the establishment of central banks would lead to the destruction of capitalism; i.e. the abolishment of free markets.

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Central banks will gradually rig the market, together with government, with false signals, distorting the supply and demand from regular market participants.

The result is a gradually impoverished population, impacted by a worsening burden of inflation year by year.

In the West, this process has solidified a powerful social-democrat voting block with few potential challengers, a form of uniparty structure.

In Sweden, the social democrats ruled without pause for half a century, until 1974, which gives a clue to the power of the inflationary voting loop.


The establishment of central banks perpetuates an inflationary loop.

1. Politicians buy votes while making fantastical promises of social welfare benefits funded by taxes and moneyprinting. The highest spending promises will typically win the most votes.

2. Governments sell debt (gov't bonds) to finance these expensive policies. Central banks and regular banks buy the government bonds with money created ex nihilio; from nothing.

3. As the government spends this newly created money, the monetary supply expands; inflation worsens.

4. Voters struggle with increasing prices due to inflation and can be predicted to vote for more government moneyprinting and spending. The loop returns to point 1.

A secondary form of inflation is caused by the Mandrake Mechanism.

Every time a bank loan is granted, new money is created by the bank from thin air. This newly created money flows into assets such as real estate, stocks, commodities, etc.

This process leads to an increase in house prices. Later when the assets are sold on the market, the newly created money enters the greater economy and the monetary supply expands; inflation worsens.

The speed of this loan-based inflation is set by the repo rate. When the central bank lowers the repo rate, loans become more attractive to lenders and thereby more money is printed into existence.

When the repo rate is set high, loans are expensive and the rate of inflation is temporarily reduced.

Keynes noted in 1919 that the establishment of central banks would lead to the destruction of capitalism; i.e. the abolishment of free markets.

https://image.nostr.build/7da61797a7e1f1e8608854cca5a2913ce46e6906d5bb11d822e6e4811cc6451f.jpg

Central banks will gradually rig the market, together with government, with false signals, distorting the supply and demand from regular market participants.

The result is a gradually impoverished population, impacted by a worsening burden of inflation year by year.

In the West, this process has solidified a powerful social-democrat voting block with few potential challengers, a form of uniparty structure.

In Sweden, the social democrats ruled without pause for half a century, until 1974, which gives a clue to the power of the inflationary voting loop.


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#Meme #Memes #Mpox #Moneypox #Monkeypox #Monkey #Pox #Money #Scam


I see two political options and people engaged in promoting the alternative they think is better.

I am not a mindreader so I can't insert a fear of change into other people's decisionmaking process. "Fear of change", what does that even mean?

I expect that adults will promote what they believe is helpful. If we have a better alternative to offer them we can speak out about that.

At the end of the day we know that inflation will continue as before and we need Bitcoin in order to protect life and liberty.


This is a mischaracterization though.

The upcoming election may decide if WW3 breaks out or not. I'm in Poland and the risk for escalation between Nato and Russia is a real threat.

The establishment in most Western countries are overwhelmingly in favor of a war escalation, while they just by accident also have demonized Trump for 8 years.

Some people in Poland have been jailed in the last year for simply being in favor of war de-escalation and peace talks.

In Sweden, many workers in vital infrastructure are not allowed to leave Sweden or change their job because they are placed under a war preparedness plan designed to protect critical infrastructure in the case of war.

In relations to the US elections, the establishment in most Western countries desire a particular political outcome which is for an escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, pro-Agenda 21, pro-Agenda 2030, pro-climate alarmism, pro-CBDC, anti-Bitcoin and for energy de-industrialization.

There is no savior involved here.

People should keep their savings in Bitcoin and speak up for individual liberties, private property rights, anti-censorship, anti-CBDC and for energy policies that can power a modern civilization.

This is why people are engaged.
It has nothing to do with saviors.


Scifi Helmet 3D Modeling Tutorial.
Software: Blender, Zbrush + Substance Painter.

https://image.nostr.build/aba01a699af9932eaf565beccda3e0e8f37a7ebf251795b4b3ebe4528ca87c27.jpg

This tutorial will not cover the basics of 3D modeling but instead focus on a tactile, hands-on design process without safety nets.

The standard modeling approach is starting with gathering reference images and proceed with sketching.

For this helmet design I wanted to attempt a different angle of approach. I decided to start the modeling process immediately and let practical considerations inform the design.

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This first, quick iteration, while visually awful, gave me a number of valuable ideas.

I wanted the glass visor to be spacious and let a lot of light in, illuminating the character.

One goal I had defined from the beginning was that the helmet was going to be used for scifi portraits, meaning that the visor must provide good visibility. I also wanted to experiment with setting up an interior lighting system.

Since I didn't know in advance how my lighting system needed to be structured, this hands-on approach suited me perfectly.

It's important to not lose sight of your goal at this stage. Trust yourself that the design will improve.

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Here I made a fast paintover where I indicated changes I wanted to model in Blender. No details at this stage. I want to let function impact design here and I need to consider the overall shapes first. In which direction do I want to take the helmet?

This is a stage where all paths are open. Anything is possible. I love this moment in a hands-on design process because at this moment I am not bound by an initial sketch that I have to copy and recreate. I can enter the creative flow instead and just imagine changes to the vague outline.

https://image.nostr.build/48a9e898e8b787b8bb209daf6d687957579cfef3a89708c65d957192357edf29.jpg

At this moment in time I am not concerned with the quality of the mesh and don't bother with hard edges or weighted normals.

My ideas for the visor shape is starting to form, combined with some bulky shapes that strengthen the helmet and allow for integration of a radio piece.

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Here I added an early shape for a radio-comms device. I also extended the helmet chin area which was too weak in the previous version. I feel that I am on track with the changes and that the radio fits well with the placement of the character's ears.

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The helmet was still a bit too smooth and barren at this stage and I wanted to include some more technical items and modeled a simple box that I intended as a speaker/comms piece, connected to the radio antenna piece. I made the top of the helmet more bulky since it felt overly fragile.

https://image.nostr.build/0ecbc67a35943f65d424f417e78643981d0b85c9f2cd69d66850a934bbe93361.jpg

I decided to cross my Rubicon with these significant changes. I had been debating with myself how much light I wanted to flow in via the visor. As I was considering adding an internal light above the character's forehead, I had to extend the helmet shape forward in order to achieve that result.

Function informs design. This is why I didn't want to start out with a sketch, because I had no idea at the beginning how exactly the functionality would impact the design. Placing a character inside the helmet was crucial for me to consider its shape.

At this point I have started to add details to the radio/comms structure since I was happy with the overall layout.

https://image.nostr.build/e1c087016ac624da434cf7a85df2f9870d9d55322bfe7b16a5c92d22c1df0754.jpg

As I felt the interior was empty I decided to sculpt a simple instruments panel with mini screens that can display valuable information.

A bonus with this idea was that I could use these mini-screens to lighten up the character's face. I also modeled a simple microphone, extending from a set of headphones.

For the radio I modeled a few more greebles and four small cables hanging openly beneath. I was aiming at a retro-scifi style so I was looking for opportunities to show exposed cables.

https://image.nostr.build/4e29fa5d770ca787bb2a66e37f69ad63afbc3010fa44092b51dc9393932f461b.jpg

At this stage I was experimenting with the interior lighting system. As I had hoped, I was able to use the mini-screens on the instruments panels as light sources by cranking up their emission values.

Thanks to the function-informed design the top-light in the helmet could be angled to cast a light on the character's forehead.

Also I expanded the instrument panels a little and I was happy to add some more exposed wires where they made sense.

The external radio and speakers needed some kind of internal device that connected with them, and the new pieces I modeled fitted the purpose.

https://image.nostr.build/5ce5b46c69b6922c8704e32435213860c9fba5fd86136fccae2ccfbd45a78da6.jpg

At this point I felt that my overall design was working and I started to improve the mesh, finalize the shape and add hard edges. The instruments panel grew and I think this was the first time in the design process that I could start imagining the texturing stage.

https://image.nostr.build/a7cbcb7cf44368a798ce70b7cb363332c6ec1095902fc636cf6f038bec7763ba.jpg

More refinement. I made the top and bottom more bulky and sturdy. This thing was supposed to take some beatings.

After this I decided that I wanted oxygen tubes connecting with the helmet. I wanted the oxygen tubes in turn to connect to some kind of air filtering device.

https://image.nostr.build/84b0a1a8263414498b48a88da2d4b4247d52cde1381086634b5fdfc92eb7b76e.jpg

This was the final design of my oxygen tubes and the air filtering unit. I wanted a slight StarWars stormtrooper feel here, but with a more tactile and practical design. I added a screw-on system for a rustic retro scifi look.

This render is after my texturing process of course.

https://image.nostr.build/be643f569ede51e5be2878f9fa6fa6c96d73d04dd0e8c3d38210641a25bc8394.jpg

Another look at the backside. I made several paintjobs and spent days on end just to scratch up the metal by hand in substance painter.

https://image.nostr.build/ee8947662d3b99f812bc1ca09e8312f619dac91429c32fa93589509840bff8e8.jpg

Yet another paintjob. This is a closeup of the attachment system for the air filtering unit.

These designs above are the only ones I didn't model by myself. They are simply normal-map shapes that I added to a flat mesh surface. They look like general topology because I made scratches around areas that would have more wear and tear.

The screws have been used and the hatch has been opened many times, so I had to visualize this with the areas of peeled-off metal.

https://image.nostr.build/60947dc4c58cdb65c60465e84f69febe5d0027ee30211628adfbc5dd56df622c.jpg

Closeup of the air filtering unit and a different paint job.

https://image.nostr.build/c3635be071bf5ec71bd522966ea669242fdd938fb9fc46d1db5f04c091e5a75c.jpg

From this angle, the oxygen cannisters inside the air filtering unit are visible. I thought it was fun to expose the bottles like this, it is retro-scifi after all.

Under the filtering unit I made two circular connections, just in case I wanted to connect the filtering unit to a backpack in the future.

https://image.nostr.build/e46f3c3d977023430b258d70fb0e4c65a6359c3d63d56799f4fb88f0fc15b4cb.jpg

The scratches don't stop. Below the helmet there needed to be heavy scratching due to placement wear and tear. Throw that thing across the floor.

https://image.nostr.build/35d795bff1aa7c83a351f65c8966cd2d9a806c6bdb74b09af2d4294709e88c90.jpg

Another paintjob from below and heavy scratching. I realized how wildly fun it was to scratch up the metal.

https://image.nostr.build/7310aafeaea5cd804b991d9040e87a655986eeab25a8e96f27f6f3792d420bd7.jpg

Closeup of the radio/comms system. I had intentionally made it slightly assymetric and went with an approximated symmetry feel.

I wanted the helmet to look cobbled together in a garage. If the systems work, they work. They don't have to be factory design symmetric. I wanted a rough and tactile design.

https://image.nostr.build/980799aa6bcd9d79f9b8c89aa4b2252f3f4ef92efa573f6f18a8847137be3b5a.jpg

I wanted to allow the option to hide the radio/comms system.

https://image.nostr.build/3dcd8de3fb121f071a94742352973b2ddc44f75bc3245bddbf723da5d74e62f2.jpg

Frontal view of the finished helmet. I tried to give the interior leather padding a kind of WW2 style, which fitted with the retro theme.

https://image.nostr.build/8c1466a6b5a7a4cb18f1d07fb070e3d868b421b60ee0ec31982155e4f684c88a.jpg

Same render but with the radio/comms system hidden.

https://image.nostr.build/7b821915d0aa40a6621c773c398b1eb1b47ca1e9a3b87d5ec89efd9ef407da37.jpg

A look at the instruments panels and microphone headset. These are all mini-screens without any buttons. The helmet user is probably not going to press any buttons with their facial extremities anyway.😄

https://image.nostr.build/97c2af2392c189250ac06d6a9e831732fe7814bdafbed6884fc4ec3a0102b676.jpg

More interior.

https://image.nostr.build/e90bbbc4218be3b159e1bfe63844d325dcd6e201712b24427fa2d54398ebee7d.jpg

Full interior view of the instrument panels. I designed a number of simple screen graphics to fit with the retro style.

The two central lights are not part of the helmet. I modeled them separately to help illuminating the character from below. Because they are separate they can be resized, rotated and hidden easily.

Lessons

In conclusion I want to mention that I initially planned the UV seam on top of the helmet. This was a grave mistake that forced me to redo my UV-mapping and my first texturing. There was an unfortunate bug in my (old) version of substance painter that made the UV seam hard to hide. Also it presented a few other technical problems.

For my second attempt I placed the UV seam at the front of the helmet, cutting through a small segment of the frontal chin part of the helmet instead of the whole upper+back part.

This was a far better way to UV map the helmet and if I were to embark on a helmet project again, that's where I would cut my UVs.

Thanks for reading. 🌟⭐💫

https://image.nostr.build/fb59d12fc3c92831e92229a8d3546015a1a3b945eb278d13b4c7aff53224eec1.jpg

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#Tutorial #3D #Model #Modeling #Blender #Zbrush #SubstancePainter #Substance #Painter #Scifi #Helmet #Design #Lucentforge #Fernevak #Daz #Daz3D


Scifi Helmet 3D Modeling Tutorial.
Software: Blender, Zbrush + Substance Painter.

https://image.nostr.build/aba01a699af9932eaf565beccda3e0e8f37a7ebf251795b4b3ebe4528ca87c27.jpg

This tutorial will not cover the basics of 3D modeling but instead focus on a tactile, hands-on design process without safety nets.

The standard modeling approach is starting with gathering reference images and proceed with sketching.

For this helmet design I wanted to attempt a different angle of approach. I decided to start the modeling process immediately and let practical considerations inform the design.

https://image.nostr.build/c20493ba51e2d78a6f1b80767e2156c898a18c5f07702c9d5ac1d35c285c6c17.jpg

This first, quick iteration, while visually awful, gave me a number of valuable ideas.

I wanted the glass visor to be spacious and let a lot of light in, illuminating the character.

One goal I had defined from the beginning was that the helmet was going to be used for scifi portraits, meaning that the visor must provide good visibility. I also wanted to experiment with setting up an interior lighting system.

Since I didn't know in advance how my lighting system needed to be structured, this hands-on approach suited me perfectly.

It's important to not lose sight of your goal at this stage. Trust yourself that the design will improve.

https://image.nostr.build/e7d1159951054fb53f98b55ff666b40de33cce0661d59ffa801c038e78d050ea.jpg

Here I made a fast paintover where I indicated changes I wanted to model in Blender. No details at this stage. I want to let function impact design here and I need to consider the overall shapes first. In which direction do I want to take the helmet?

This is a stage where all paths are open. Anything is possible. I love this moment in a hands-on design process because at this moment I am not bound by an initial sketch that I have to copy and recreate. I can enter the creative flow instead and just imagine changes to the vague outline.

https://image.nostr.build/48a9e898e8b787b8bb209daf6d687957579cfef3a89708c65d957192357edf29.jpg

At this moment in time I am not concerned with the quality of the mesh and don't bother with hard edges or weighted normals.

My ideas for the visor shape is starting to form, combined with some bulky shapes that strengthen the helmet and allow for integration of a radio piece.

https://image.nostr.build/49e16854b04ef796ac01b33d98cc0e33bbea268f8939659ea23e7f15c11029e8.jpg

Here I added an early shape for a radio-comms device. I also extended the helmet chin area which was too weak in the previous version. I feel that I am on track with the changes and that the radio fits well with the placement of the character's ears.

https://image.nostr.build/a5a5b9dd35e5fd22e66103bd4c42db87cb1297c22be7e203653ee2b531ae2dae.jpg

The helmet was still a bit too smooth and barren at this stage and I wanted to include some more technical items and modeled a simple box that I intended as a speaker/comms piece, connected to the radio antenna piece. I made the top of the helmet more bulky since it felt overly fragile.

https://image.nostr.build/0ecbc67a35943f65d424f417e78643981d0b85c9f2cd69d66850a934bbe93361.jpg

I decided to cross my Rubicon with these significant changes. I had been debating with myself how much light I wanted to flow in via the visor. As I was considering adding an internal light above the character's forehead, I had to extend the helmet shape forward in order to achieve that result.

Function informs design. This is why I didn't want to start out with a sketch, because I had no idea at the beginning how exactly the functionality would impact the design. Placing a character inside the helmet was crucial for me to consider its shape.

At this point I have started to add details to the radio/comms structure since I was happy with the overall layout.

https://image.nostr.build/e1c087016ac624da434cf7a85df2f9870d9d55322bfe7b16a5c92d22c1df0754.jpg

As I felt the interior was empty I decided to sculpt a simple instruments panel with mini screens that can display valuable information.

A bonus with this idea was that I could use these mini-screens to lighten up the character's face. I also modeled a simple microphone, extending from a set of headphones.

For the radio I modeled a few more greebles and four small cables hanging openly beneath. I was aiming at a retro-scifi style so I was looking for opportunities to show exposed cables.

https://image.nostr.build/4e29fa5d770ca787bb2a66e37f69ad63afbc3010fa44092b51dc9393932f461b.jpg

At this stage I was experimenting with the interior lighting system. As I had hoped, I was able to use the mini-screens on the instruments panels as light sources by cranking up their emission values.

Thanks to the function-informed design the top-light in the helmet could be angled to cast a light on the character's forehead.

Also I expanded the instrument panels a little and I was happy to add some more exposed wires where they made sense.

The external radio and speakers needed some kind of internal device that connected with them, and the new pieces I modeled fitted the purpose.

https://image.nostr.build/5ce5b46c69b6922c8704e32435213860c9fba5fd86136fccae2ccfbd45a78da6.jpg

At this point I felt that my overall design was working and I started to improve the mesh, finalize the shape and add hard edges. The instruments panel grew and I think this was the first time in the design process that I could start imagining the texturing stage.

https://image.nostr.build/a7cbcb7cf44368a798ce70b7cb363332c6ec1095902fc636cf6f038bec7763ba.jpg

More refinement. I made the top and bottom more bulky and sturdy. This thing was supposed to take some beatings.

After this I decided that I wanted oxygen tubes connecting with the helmet. I wanted the oxygen tubes in turn to connect to some kind of air filtering device.

https://image.nostr.build/84b0a1a8263414498b48a88da2d4b4247d52cde1381086634b5fdfc92eb7b76e.jpg

This was the final design of my oxygen tubes and the air filtering unit. I wanted a slight StarWars stormtrooper feel here, but with a more tactile and practical design. I added a screw-on system for a rustic retro scifi look.

This render is after my texturing process of course.

https://image.nostr.build/be643f569ede51e5be2878f9fa6fa6c96d73d04dd0e8c3d38210641a25bc8394.jpg

Another look at the backside. I made several paintjobs and spent days on end just to scratch up the metal by hand in substance painter.

https://image.nostr.build/ee8947662d3b99f812bc1ca09e8312f619dac91429c32fa93589509840bff8e8.jpg

Yet another paintjob. This is a closeup of the attachment system for the air filtering unit.

These designs above are the only ones I didn't model by myself. They are simply normal-map shapes that I added to a flat mesh surface. They look like general topology because I made scratches around areas that would have more wear and tear.

The screws have been used and the hatch has been opened many times, so I had to visualize this with the areas of peeled-off metal.

https://image.nostr.build/60947dc4c58cdb65c60465e84f69febe5d0027ee30211628adfbc5dd56df622c.jpg

Closeup of the air filtering unit and a different paint job.

https://image.nostr.build/c3635be071bf5ec71bd522966ea669242fdd938fb9fc46d1db5f04c091e5a75c.jpg

From this angle, the oxygen cannisters inside the air filtering unit are visible. I thought it was fun to expose the bottles like this, it is retro-scifi after all.

Under the filtering unit I made two circular connections, just in case I wanted to connect the filtering unit to a backpack in the future.

https://image.nostr.build/e46f3c3d977023430b258d70fb0e4c65a6359c3d63d56799f4fb88f0fc15b4cb.jpg

The scratches don't stop. Below the helmet there needed to be heavy scratching due to placement wear and tear. Throw that thing across the floor.

https://image.nostr.build/35d795bff1aa7c83a351f65c8966cd2d9a806c6bdb74b09af2d4294709e88c90.jpg

Another paintjob from below and heavy scratching. I realized how wildly fun it was to scratch up the metal.

https://image.nostr.build/7310aafeaea5cd804b991d9040e87a655986eeab25a8e96f27f6f3792d420bd7.jpg

Closeup of the radio/comms system. I had intentionally made it slightly assymetric and went with an approximated symmetry feel.

I wanted the helmet to look cobbled together in a garage. If the systems work, they work. They don't have to be factory design symmetric. I wanted a rough and tactile design.

https://image.nostr.build/980799aa6bcd9d79f9b8c89aa4b2252f3f4ef92efa573f6f18a8847137be3b5a.jpg

I wanted to allow the option to hide the radio/comms system.

https://image.nostr.build/3dcd8de3fb121f071a94742352973b2ddc44f75bc3245bddbf723da5d74e62f2.jpg

Frontal view of the finihed helmet. I tried to give the interior leather padding a kind of WW2 style, which fitted with the retro theme.

https://image.nostr.build/8c1466a6b5a7a4cb18f1d07fb070e3d868b421b60ee0ec31982155e4f684c88a.jpg

Same render but with the radio/comms system hidden.

https://image.nostr.build/7b821915d0aa40a6621c773c398b1eb1b47ca1e9a3b87d5ec89efd9ef407da37.jpg

A look at the instruments panels and microphone headset. These are all mini-screens without any buttons. The helmet user is probably not going to press any buttons with their facial extremities anyway.😄

https://image.nostr.build/97c2af2392c189250ac06d6a9e831732fe7814bdafbed6884fc4ec3a0102b676.jpg

More interior.

https://image.nostr.build/e90bbbc4218be3b159e1bfe63844d325dcd6e201712b24427fa2d54398ebee7d.jpg

Full interior view of the instrument panels. I designed a number of simple screen graphics to fit with the retro style.

The two central lights are not part of the helmet. I modeled them separately to help illuminating the character from below. Because they are separate they can be resized, rotated and hidden easily.

Lessons

In conclusion I want to mention that I initially planned the UV seam on top of the helmet. This was a grave mistake that forced me to redo my UV-mapping and my first texturing. There was an unfortunate bug in my (old) version of substance painter that made the UV seam hard to hide. Also it presented a few other technical problems.

For my second attempt I placed the UV seam at the front of the helmet, cutting through a small segment of the frontal chin part of the helmet instead of the whole upper+back part.

This was a far better way to UV map the helmet and if I were to embark on a helmet project again, that's where I would cut my UVs.

Thanks for reading. 🌟⭐💫

https://image.nostr.build/fb59d12fc3c92831e92229a8d3546015a1a3b945eb278d13b4c7aff53224eec1.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/644559fd09fac7b600a90d80f2b0d9f9bf2552c754443b3c409aedef42a55e42.jpg

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https://image.nostr.build/bbe25a4e2df0527ba5766d78c0a67afb5656c079745f095cfc6af5472cdce3e2.jpg

#Tutorial #3D #Model #Modeling #Blender #Zbrush #SubstancePainter #Substance #Painter #Scifi #Helmet #Design #Lucentforge #Fernevak #Daz #Daz3D


Scifi Helmet 3D Modeling Tutorial.
Software: Blender, Zbrush + Substance Painter.

https://image.nostr.build/aba01a699af9932eaf565beccda3e0e8f37a7ebf251795b4b3ebe4528ca87c27.jpg

This tutorial will not cover the basics of 3D modeling but instead focus on a tactile, hands-on design process without safety nets.

The standard modeling approach is starting with gathering reference images and proceed with sketching.

For this helmet design I wanted to attempt a different angle of approach. I decided to start the modeling process immediately and let practical considerations inform the design.

https://image.nostr.build/c20493ba51e2d78a6f1b80767e2156c898a18c5f07702c9d5ac1d35c285c6c17.jpg

This first, quick iteration, while visually awful, gave me a number of valuable ideas.

I wanted the glass visor to be spacious and let a lot of light in, illuminating the character.

One goal I had defined from the beginning was that the helmet was going to be used for scifi portraits, meaning that the visor must provide good visibility. I also wanted to experiment with setting up an interior lighting system.

Since I didn't know in advance how my lighting system needed to be structured, this hands-on approach suited me perfectly.

It's important to not lose sight of your goal at this stage. Trust yourself that the design will improve.

https://image.nostr.build/e7d1159951054fb53f98b55ff666b40de33cce0661d59ffa801c038e78d050ea.jpg

Here I made a fast paintover where I indicated changes I wanted to model in Blender. No details at this stage. I want to let function impact design here and I need to consider the overall shapes first. In which direction do I want to take the helmet?

This is a stage where all paths are open. Anything is possible. I love this moment in a hands-on design process because at this moment I am not bound by an initial sketch that I have to copy and recreate. I can enter the creative flow instead and just imagine changes to the vague outline.

https://image.nostr.build/48a9e898e8b787b8bb209daf6d687957579cfef3a89708c65d957192357edf29.jpg

At this moment in time I am not concerned with the quality of the mesh and don't bother with hard edges or weighted normals.

My ideas for the visor shape is starting to form, combined with some bulky shapes that strengthen the helmet and allow for integration of a radio piece.

https://image.nostr.build/49e16854b04ef796ac01b33d98cc0e33bbea268f8939659ea23e7f15c11029e8.jpg

Here I added an early shape for a radio-comms device. I also extended the helmet chin area which was too weak in the previous version. I feel that I am on track with the changes and that the radio fits well with the placement of the character's ears.

https://image.nostr.build/a5a5b9dd35e5fd22e66103bd4c42db87cb1297c22be7e203653ee2b531ae2dae.jpg

The helmet was still a bit too smooth and barren at this stage and I wanted to include some more technical items and modeled a simple box that I intended as a speaker/comms piece, connected to the radio antenna piece. I made the top of the helmet more bulky since it felt overly fragile.

https://image.nostr.build/0ecbc67a35943f65d424f417e78643981d0b85c9f2cd69d66850a934bbe93361.jpg

I decided to cross my Rubicon with these significant changes. I had been debating with myself how much light I wanted to flow in via the visor. As I was considering adding an internal light above the character's forehead, I had to extend the helmet shape forward in order to achieve that result.

Function informs design. This is why I didn't want to start out with a sketch, because I had no idea at the beginning how exactly the functionality would impact the design. Placing a character inside the helmet was crucial for me to consider its shape.

At this point I have started to add details to the radio/comms structure since I was happy with the overall layout.

https://image.nostr.build/e1c087016ac624da434cf7a85df2f9870d9d55322bfe7b16a5c92d22c1df0754.jpg

As I felt the interior was empty I decided to sculpt a simple instruments panel with mini screens that can display valuable information.

A bonus with this idea was that I could use these mini-screens to lighten up the character's face. I also modeled a simple microphone, extending from a set of headphones.

For the radio I modeled a few more greebles and four small cables hanging openly beneath. I was aiming at a retro-scifi style so I was looking for opportunities to show exposed cables.

https://image.nostr.build/4e29fa5d770ca787bb2a66e37f69ad63afbc3010fa44092b51dc9393932f461b.jpg

At this stage I was experimenting with the interior lighting system. As I had hoped, I was able to use the mini-screens on the instruments panels as light sources by cranking up their emission values.

Thanks to the function-informed design the top-light in the helmet could be angled to cast a light on the character's forehead.

Also I expanded the instrument panels a little and I was happy to add some more exposed wires where they made sense.

The external radio and speakers needed some kind of internal device that connected with them, and the new pieces I modeled fitted the purpose.

https://image.nostr.build/5ce5b46c69b6922c8704e32435213860c9fba5fd86136fccae2ccfbd45a78da6.jpg

At this point I felt that my overall design was working and I started to improve the mesh, finalize the shape and add hard edges. The instruments panel grew and I think this was the first time in the design process that I could start imagining the texturing stage.

https://image.nostr.build/a7cbcb7cf44368a798ce70b7cb363332c6ec1095902fc636cf6f038bec7763ba.jpg

More refinement. I made the top and bottom more bulky and sturdy. This thing was supposed to take some beatings.

After this I decided that I wanted oxygen tubes connecting with the helmet. I wanted the oxygen tubes in turn to connect to some kind of air filtering device.

https://image.nostr.build/84b0a1a8263414498b48a88da2d4b4247d52cde1381086634b5fdfc92eb7b76e.jpg

This was the final design of my oxygen tubes and the air filtering unit. I wanted a slight StarWars stormtrooper feel here, but with a more tactile and practical design. I added a screw-on system for a rustic retro scifi look.

This render is after my texturing process of course.

https://image.nostr.build/be643f569ede51e5be2878f9fa6fa6c96d73d04dd0e8c3d38210641a25bc8394.jpg

Another look at the backside. I made several paintjobs and spent days on end just to scratch up the metal by hand in substance painter.

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Yet another paintjob. This is a closeup of the attachment system for the air filtering unit.

These designs above are the only ones I didn't model by myself. They are simply normal-map shapes that I added to a flat mesh surface. They look like general topology because I made scratches around areas that would have more wear and tear.

The screws have been used and the hatch has been opened many times, so I had to visualize this with the areas of peeled-off metal.

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Closeup of the air filtering unit and a different paint job.

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From this angle, the oxygen cannisters inside the air filtering unit are visible. I thought it was fun to expose the bottles like this, it is retro-scifi after all.

Under the filtering unit I made two circular connections, just in case I wanted to connect the filtering unit to a backpack in the future.

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The scratches don't stop. Below the helmet there needed to be heavy scratching due to placement wear and tear. Throw that thing across the floor.

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Another paintjob from below and heavy scratching. I realized how wildly fun it was to scratch up the metal.

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Closeup of the radio/comms system. I had intentionally made it slightly assymetric and went with an approximated balaced feel.

I wanted the helmet to look cobbled together in a garage. If the systems work, they work. They don't have to be factory design symmetric. I wanted a rough and tactile design.

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I wanted to allow the option to hide the radio/comms system.

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Frontal view of the finihed helmet. I tried to give the interior leather padding a kind of WW2 style, which fitted with the retro theme.

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Same render but with the radio/comms system hidden.

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A look at the instruments panels and microphone headset. These are all mini-screens without any buttons. The helmet user is probably not going to press any buttons with their facial extremities anyway.😄

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More interior.

https://image.nostr.build/e90bbbc4218be3b159e1bfe63844d325dcd6e201712b24427fa2d54398ebee7d.jpg

Full interior view of the instrument panels. I designed a number of simple screen graphics to fit with the retro style.

The two central lights are not part of the helmet. I modeled them separately to help illuminating the character from below. Because they are separate they can be resized, rotated and hidden easily.

Lessons

In conclusion I want to mention that I initially planned the UV seam on top of the helmet. This was a grave mistake that forced me to redo my UV-mapping and my first texturing. There was an unfortunate bug in my (old) version of substance painter that made the UV seam hard to hide. Also it presented a few other technical problems.

For my second attempt I placed the UV seam at the front of the helmet, cutting through a small segment of the frontal chin part of the helmet instead of the whole upper+back part.

This was a far better way to UV map the helmet and if I were to embark on a helmet project again, that's where I would cut my UVs.

Thanks for reading. 🌟⭐💫

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