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nick yonge 🌱

@nickyonge.bsky.social

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He/him, hi 🦆 “A cinnamon bun in a leather jacket” 🍊 It’s pronounced “young” 🪐 Playful design, mental health, queer anticapitalism, ducks ☀️ Electronics, artgineering, enthusiasm 🎨 @nickyonge everywhere 🌱

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Dec 5

I’ve lowkey rebuilt my entire like, brand? Vibe? Around ducks. It brings me so much joy. If you want to put a lil yay in my day, send me a picture of a duck. I literally painted a duck on the door of my design studio. Which is called Duck Pond Studio.

It’s nice to discover what your ducks is 🥹

It’s a door, painted orange, with a duck painted on it. It’s a very cute duck. It’s white with an orange beak. It looks like it might be a little confused, but that’s okay. We all get confused sometimes. The important thing is to just keep waddling on, because eventually there will be peas to eat and ducklings to lead on a tiny parade. We will always have peas and ducklings.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 2d

He’s a bootleg Spongebob who fucks. He’s perfect.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 19d

Oh my gosh! I absolutely do remember :) that’s wild, yeah I’d be down with that. I’ll try and dig up the old files, I suspect I’d be able to but it might take a bit. Can you DM me your email?

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 20d

Drew an amblypygi, or tailless whip scorpion. They’re sweethearts! Fully harmless to humans, and among the only arachnids to exhibit social bonds - mother/child, and even siblings, grooming each other.

Taking lil art breaks in between other projects is nice~

#sciart #insect #arachnid #procreate

Digitally drawn image of an amblypygi, an arachnid sorta halfway between a spider and a scorpion. It has six distinct legs, with its frontmost two legs having adapted into long slender “whips”, sensory limbs that give the bugfriend its name. Its pedipalps, grippy “arms” beside its mouth, are spiky and scary but harmless unless you’re a cricket or something. Its carapace is drawn purple and pink with a seafoam outline, against a pale yellow background. Colours are not true to life but stylistically chosen.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Sep 9

holy fuck IT LOOKS INCREDIBLE

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Aug 15

Oh mannnnnn, I'm reminded of this absolute bop that sampled his speech. Big nostalgia for 2000s-era chiptunes 💖

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7IE...

nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Aug 3

Ooh that’d be a fun cross-section to draw! They’re kinda just upside-down pourovers :P

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Aug 3

I'm supposed to be cleaning right now, so naturally I drew this picture of how a coffee machine works instead :)

#sciart #engineering #industrialdesign #productdesign

An illustration of how a coffee machine works! Water goes into the reservoir in the back, and flows into a tube around the bottom of the machine. The tube passes through the heating element, which both heats the water and the coffee carafe. The heated water becomes vapour, a mix of both liquid and gas. The hot vapour rises through the tube and passes a bubble valve, which lifts to allow rising water but lowers if water tries to backflow, ensuring water is forced up towards the grounds. A sprayer ensures the hot water is evenly dispersed over the grounds, which leach their delicious flavour into the water. The water then pours into the carafe, and you're left with a hot pot of fresh bean juice.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Jul 25

Garden Birds if they talk, Sleepy Voles if they don’t 🥹

nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Jul 10

I love you lol. You'll be happy to know that I make sure my maps ALWAYS include NZ

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Jul 10

Maps are fun but they're a LOT

(Other hiccups include whether to draw the Aral Sea as a sea; where "Eurasia" is; and Iturup, that lil island north of Hokkaido that Russia and Japan both claim sovereignty of. Is the Iturup vector childed to Japan.svg or Russia.svg? I just wanna draw pretty maps lol)

nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Jul 10

But oh my GOSH there's so many differences and alternatives (Australasia, Meganesia, Sahul, Australinea, learning some cool new words today) and even the Wikipedia article itself bounces between Australia and Oceania in different sections.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Jul 10

Some sources refer to Oceania as a "geographic region", not a "continent", and I'm reminded of that XKCD comic that's like

[There are 14 standards]
"That's too many standards, we need one universal standard to simplify and unify everything!"
[There are now 15 standards]

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Jul 10

The english speaking world usually uses "Australia" as the country and continent name, and dependd on context to clarify which. But, geographers - and like the entire non-English speaking world - tend to use Oceania, which is what I'm gonna use.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Jul 10

Labeling maps is a WHOLE THING. Like, just the names of the continents - specifically, Australia / Oceania.

A screenshot of the art app Procreate, with a world map graphic that has Australia in the center. Above it in large text is the word "Oceania".

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Jul 2

Making closed captions is fucking delightful and I apologize in advance if this messes with anybody’s screenreader.

Picture of a caption editor showing a still image from a video. The text caption at the bottom reads “just walked everywhere”, the image shows me trying to paint a map projection onto a canvas while a cat strolls over my attempted art, and also there is secret bonus closed captions of a emoticon cat face. Emoticon, not emoji. We’re going OG MSN Messenger mIRC style baby.

nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Jun 28

It takes so much lot of trial and error to figure meds out but omg what a worthwhile endeavour 💖💖💖

nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Jun 28

So I take 2 med-strength dosages a day. Initially it really spiked my anxiety, so I just gave up coffee for a couple weeks til my body adapted. I was drinking coffee to wake myself up for productivity anyway, Vyvanse just GAVE me executive function, so, worthwhile tradeoff 😅

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · Jun 28

Vyvanse enjoyer here :) or rather, Lisdexamfetamine, since it’s now genetically available (yay). It’s def critical for my executive function, I take it at a relatively high dose too. I found that a single dose wasn’t working out, the peak had me too anxious and it tapered off too quickly,

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · May 28

Visualization of latitudinal and longitudinal distortion on the Grieger Triptychial map projection. You can see how landmasses end up being largely accurate, thanks to distortion being centered in the oceans. #sciart

Distortion of Latitude and Longitude visualized on the Grieger Triptychial world map projection. Three maps are visible, a Tissot indicatrix and two heatmaps, that show lat/long distortion. This map projection manages to make landmasses very accurate because centers of distortion are located in the oceans.

The Galápagos islands, given their location, happen to be comically oversized lol

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · May 24

SAF, flattery will get YOU everywhere and ME nowhere 🫠

nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · May 24

Side-by-side view

nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · May 24

Would love thoughts on which animation transition you prefer, simple (flat) or bumped. Having a hard time choosing. I've def lost objectivity over if the bump animation looks "good", and whether it takes away from the fact that the animated linework is superimposed over the painted lines.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · May 23

Video rendering 😪 I’m getting a blistering 5FPS on a ~3 minute 30FPS video. I hate tasks that both hold up your entire workflow and can be measured in “seconds per second”

nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · May 23

Ugh sorry you had to experience whatever prompted you to write this

nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · May 19

Animation I made for a project I’m working on involving map projections~