FINALLY streaming this week (I freed my lap of cats) and we're Relaxing in Vale Reef yet again. If you're not hip on the In Extremis lingo, that means I'm making cozy music. Come join me for Stream 246: twitch.tv/mrskelin

Live again over on twitch.tv/mrskelin making some cozy music again! More music from Vale Reef, stop on by if you're like me and don't have some Halloween evening plans :) Love to see you there for stream 245!

Live over on twitch.tv/mrskelin with some more pixel art! I forgot I have a non-screen drawing tablet so that's mostly working for now. Stream 243—see you there.

On November 3rd from 12 - 8 PM I will be on the front page of Twitch telling anyone who will listen about the critically endangered vaquita porpoise! twitch.tv/kaseysnowart We'll be making art and fundraising too! I would love to see you there, let's get the word out! #SaveTheVaquita #Twitch

Sorry for the delay, forgot to upload this week's video. But it's live now! Back to Vale Reef:

Live now with the next iteration of the Relaxing In... series—back to Vale Shores! Might be a little rusty with these soundscapes, but swing on by! There's new sails :) twitch.tv/mrskelin

You can learn a lot just by looking at great art every day. You also get a lot of new inspiration. Have a list of 40-50 favorite artworks and look through some of them of them for 10 min every day. There's a lot to discover and it helps to develop an intuition.

Forgot to post that I went live, but here's what we worked on tonight, four new figureheads for your ship! The paintbrush and sword change colour with your ship, the pickle wiggles, and the daekoiz (far right) pukes lava.

No stream today, going to change my schedule since this isn't really working for me right now. Here's the new schedule, and follow the link for a poll: www.youtube.com/post/UgkxCXN...

I had a lot of errands yesterday so I'm still dealing with Saturday chores this morning. Might stream later today, still thinking about schedule change(s).

Last Relaxing in Pale Shores is out on YouTube now! This weekend will be back to Vale Reef.

I want to start showing off what I do on stream more post stream. Didn't upload this last night 'cause I only built the frames on stream, but here's a WIP animation showing off ship and item combinations for my StreamAvatars.

Stream 240 over on twitch.tv/mrskelin! Making some cozy music today, and just that. Having trouble with my drawing tablet.

Also, using ANY generative ai technology shows companies and grifters and scammers that there is a market for it.. so using it at all, encourages MORE OF IT. Gen ai is scientifically proven to be HARMING society on SO many levels. Cognitively, creatively, emotionally, environmentally.. please.

All of my non artist and artist friends. Please. Understand that using chatgpt, ai art, AI generators of any kind is harmful. Using them at all for any reason is HARMFUL. regardless of the reason. It. Is. Stealing. It did not generate it on it own. It took things from others to pretend to make it.

HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you. Haven't finished any drawing/painting in a while so...we voxel?

Making some more Avotoc music today on stream, then I'll do some art. Not sure what art yet. Come join me for stream 238! twitch.tv/mrskelin

Stream 237 is now live! Working on some figureheads for the ships today, plus I've got some spooky surprises! Come join me:

I have not one but two cats on my lap who are varying degrees of upset with me at the moment. No stream tonight. Octopus is catchable and I'm hoping to have something else finished by Sunday's stream.

This week's music stream is out on YouTube! Check out what I did for the first chunk of the anniversary stream, and this bit is longer than most weeks!

Live again, but today's the THREE YEAR streamaversary! Stop by for #236: today I'm making some music, and then some art.

I'm live! Stream 233 over on Twitch. It'll be a bit shorter today—just music. I'm feeling under the weather, but I wanted a lil' cozy moment with y'all. We deserve that this week.

Yesterday's stream now is out as a standalone video (without commentary, as always). Tune in and relax, on your schedule:

I forgot to press send before I went to the grocery—no stream today as I'm expecting a 60-90 minute call and I don't want to have to pause stream for that. It's important, but I'll be back Tuesday (probably)!

I'm live again (finally?!) working on our first pixel boss for the streamavatars ships. Join me here for stream 229:

I was able to (mostly) figure out the audio issues I was having during stream yesterday, and now the video of what I ended up recording is over on YouTube! Hopefully less issues this week.

A little later but live nonetheless! Catch me over. on twitch for Stream 228, making some music first then art:

New music/video from yesterday's stream is up on YouTube, last of The Outcropping for a while!

Which one is this, stream 226? Making music and some art studies today. Feel free to stop on by 🫶

every day is a great day to support each other, no matter how big or small. our calls, donations, demonstrations and actions will create the changes we need. rest when you need to, find solace in the knowledge that so many of us care very deeply. we are all trying in our own ways, together. 🌈

I did in fact, post on my website for the first time this year. Short read.

Stream 225 is live, pardon the rhyme! Voxel on stream for the first time? Why not.

Finally live again! Stream 224 is live now. I'm working on pixel art, but not quite sure what yet.

Stream's going to be delayed today (couple hours I hope?) Depending on when I get back from a last second errand, I'll go live.

This week's / yesterday's stream was really good, actually. I'm pretty proud and happy of how these are turning out. Not sure if I'm getting better as a composer, musician (since I play these somewhat live), or in my understanding of the "genre". Also not sure it matters?

Stream Triple Two (222) is live! Working on some acoustic composing tonight, come join me:

It's been out for an hour but I'm not automatic. You can still enjoy it now! (or any time)

Stream is live! I think this one is #221, come hang out as I make some new music and then work on becoming a better artist: www.twitch.tv/mrskelin

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

No stream tonight, having to perform some emergency iPod surgery. IYKYK

It's Monday evening (for me) so that means yesterday's stream is now up on YouTube! Already! Time flies!

I'm live again! It's been a while, come join me for some tunes early and art later. Stream 219 is a go: twitch.tv/mrskelin

No stream today :( big migraine

Yesterday's stream is already up on YouTube! Going to continue putting these out on Monday nights (US) though I may change the time over the next few weeks to experiment.

Before the return of the Relaxing In... streams tomorrow morning, I went through ALL of the videos on YouTube and redid the descriptions to be a little bit more informative and social friendly. Also fixed some broken links and incorrect dates. Always a great time to relax with these tunes. <3

Find me making some lanterns live over on Twitch! Maybe other things later? Stream #216 live tonight: twitch.tv/mrskelin

No stream tonight (would've started by now). Work drained me today and then I found two (2) teeny ants in the pantry—where everything is sealed—so I went a little overboard cleaning for the last two hours... We'll see if I'm feeling it by Thursday. Gonna try and cook up something before then.

By the time you're reading this, I'm probably live with stream #215. If not, I'm either still brushing my teeth, or I was live earlier...sorry if you missed it.

I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.

This made me realize I don't have anything recent with characters and landscapes. Guess I should fix that