Category Archives: Art
Welding course
Over a period of a few weeks i did a welding course, where i learned to weld with : Mig, Tig, Stick and Gas
I only did point welding, way back in school.
After the course i decided to buy a stick welder.
Found some old japanese calligraphy back
Something i made in de 90’s
Made some sake in 2011, and used calligraphy for the label
Update 2023
I found my books, but where are the AKASHIYA brushes?
My goose feather calligraphy pens
Password fun and tips
See my other bofh page
Never ask me to reset your password, i you are to stupid to remember or not using a passwordsafe … I WILL give you a new password, and you WILL remember not having to ask me again. 🙂
On this day i drew some example pictures for colleages.
Okay .. now some tips to create uniq passwords for every site in you head.
Want to type faster and not using mouse? .. Press home!
Type website
dirkjan (press home)
(press right) s
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(press right) c
(press right) r
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(press right) t
dsierckrjeatn <- your passwordOwn made clock
We made our own nerdy clock.
We took a big clock and covered the backplane with modeling grass.
It took about 5 containers to fill the backplane enough to get it nicely filled.
The lettering near the pictures are the RGB representation of the color used in our office.
Lets see if you can decode them all. (use password clock to view solutions!)
Cork worldmap lasercut
UPDATE: 202304 street map Hilversum
In the weeks before Arja got her University degree, i’ve been working on a cork worldmap.
She always wanted to have a way to mark the places she has been.
So i started drawing, copy pasting, moving, potracing and editing.
Using Coreldraw and Inkscape i ended up with this:
End result:
So i made one for us too ..
My svg file
https://media.henriaanstoot.nl/world-landen-verzie-aan-werken-20160221-c-corelX4.svg
Lasercut Xmas Cards
Using a lasercutter i’ve been making some wooden ornaments.
We send these as Xmas cards, so people can hang these in their tree afterwards.
We also used these for Advent Calendar decorations.
You can find the lasercut models attached
https://media.henriaanstoot.nl/2015KERST.cdr
Making a lot of graphics for a book.
Coline is publishing a book for her thesis.
So we had to design Covers and graphics for this.
I used Scibus to make a mockup design.
The graphics in the book are made using Inkscape.
The book itself was written using Indesign.
Inkscape is perfect to create vector graphics. These can be resized to any resolution. So always perfect.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics
In the past i’ve used a program like sodipodi, there is something like it now integrated in Inkscape.
This is a tool to convert bitmap to vector graphics.
(Using a small jpg, i could convert it to vector graphics and print it in a huge size)
Inkscape work
Some designs
Final design
Playing Uilleann pipes in Ireland
Schematic drawing beer brewing
Made a drawing about the steps involved brewing beer. Made this after following a workshop beer brewing at t’wort wat
Just to have a follow-along sheet .. so i dont forget a step.
UPDATE : Used this to teach others about brewing later on.
For friends, family or colleagues.
See post about NA Brew and BBQ day