What other interests does anyone have?

 Can I juat make this point Sunleo18 if I may.

Clearly you know your own situation far better than anyone else but I would say to you.

Scrub that I do say to you that whatever you have to say or feel you want to or not you are bringing anyone down nor are you making the place morbid.

Obviously,I'm speaking for myself but I think Electrostar might agree with me on this one.

I know this is an online forum,the 2020s,basically an eroticca site thar attracts all sorts but you could get a touch crude and suggesta there's many a wanker here .

Like I have said I'm a product of the 20th century and to me chatting online whether on forums,email,messanger apps etc is still a valid form of communication.

If I have shared more than a couple of passing remarks like I have with you,passed a lot more than a few throw away remarks I mean,then to me you are a real person rather than an anonymous responder.

I've have expressed opinions,open up with a few true tales etc and the likes of you and Electrostar are absolutely genuine real people as far as I'm concerned and critically you deserve proper respect.

I know it's hard,well for me it is to try to put my words in my natural speaking voice when I don't have the person,or in this case you right in front of me so I can see you expression and mannerisms,pick up on all thaf non verbal info  but I do try to be up front,reasonably direct without straying into bluntness to make up for the lack or the real world side of chatting on here.

Ah sorry,I'm probably rambling again it's somewhat of an affliction you might say lol.

The point is Sunleo18 whatever you choose to say you will get genuine interest to and concern from me aswell as the respect due aswell.

I would genuinely be interested in hearing more because as I say you are a real person in my mind and anything like that is going to allow me to feel.I know you better which is all to the good in my mind.

Everyone else might just think I'm a little boiled in the brain but people have thought that before and it doesn't bother me at all.

So anyway it's up to you what you say or don't say I won't take offence or be put out if you keep it all to yourself aslong as you realise you won't be bringing anyone down of killing the mood.

As long as I get that point across in my typical convoluted 'stream of barely consciousness' style 😜😜

And fair warming I can takk music,guitars and pianos till the cows ,chickens,sheep,pigs and even squirrels come home . Yeah that bad 🙂

Ok. I appreciate and acknowledge the genuine concern. Thankyou.

From the perspective of knowledge and no one should ever find themselves in my situation I will elaborate a little. This can happen to anyone you see around you suffering like I was. 

So when I was very young. My hands used to sweat a lot to the point that I wasn't able to write my homework or my exams. The sheet would soak with droplets. It got triggered when I was worked up and anxious and apparently I was easily anxious in many common situations. The problem stayed with me and it didn't occur to me as an ailment back then in school and college too.

As soon I entered the corporate world the world of judgements opened to me. Any anxious situation  my hands would reveal myself I would be extremely embarrassed and self cautious.  I would want this abomination not to be known to anyone. Anxious or scared meant dead in the battle field and corporate life is battle itself. 

I stumbled upon a permanent solution for it on Internet when I was browsing the web in 2013. A surgery in the chest where they burn the nerves responsible for sweating in the peripheral areas above the neck. All I read was dry hands and no sweat ever again. I went for the surgery in 2013 for my right hand only. 

Results were great and unsuspecting of any dangers I went for the second hand in 2015. The decision turned itself on its head and came to bite me for the rest of my life.

Without going into technicalities much, our body emits a lot of heat and for the whole world I didn't know my body was crazily emitting heat throughout and mostly trough my head while I was playing.  Piano was an extreme workout like that of jogging a small run and I never fathomed it because you never see one sweating while playing piano.

After the surgery the whole body face the brunt of lost surface area for heat dissipation.  I sweat profusely from my back and chest when ever I play anything intense. And all I loved was the intense stuff on Piano.  Debussy Claire de lune moonlight sonata.Everything gone I vain. 

Sometimes I think I have commited a crime against myself whose only punishment was death. And it took me 2 years to forgive myself that it was a mistake. It could have happened because there was no page on internet saying if you are a pianist never go for ETS surgery. 

So now I have posted on many forums specifically mentioning that musicians beware of this surgery. If your palms are sweaty and you play a musical instrument surgery is not the answer. Please if you find someone affected like me let them know.

 My effing word,I don't know what to say about that except I'm.so sorry to hear that.

Heat is plain and simply the manifestation of energy being consumed in whatever particular form that may be.

I can say that with total conviction after years studying physics and engineering. Tension and anxiety certainly burns through the calories leaving you very susceptible to overheating.

The body regulates heat through sweating mostly but also sending bloodflow to the extremeties functioning like an organic heat exchanger,rapid breathing too.

For myself I've always had a fast metabolism which leavese prone to heat but it leaves red faced,almost panting like a dog and somewhat flushed feeling with my head spinning when it's bad.

I drink lot of fluids water and tea with carbonated soft drink being the other.I also keep a window oprn for a constant flow of air .

Foretunately I don't tend to sweat excessively,I did as a child and particularly as a teenager but less so now.

Actually,that's a bold face lie and only true because it's January and barely making 0 degrees centigrade so no sweat isn't a great problem,come summer when it may be as mild as 15 degrees and my answer will be different.

When we get excessively hot weather which for me anything higher that 18 degrees is excessive.I find 18 with a nice cool breeze is a great summer day but when it's getting into the mid to late 20s then I'm starting to get into real trouble. 🙂

As far as dissipating heat the greatest loss of heat for humans is through our head.

I should imagine most of that is down to the braim and the fuel required or again the calories consumed to release that energy we need for our brain to function,a considerable higher proportions of our calorific intake is need simply to fuel our brains,far more than any other creature.

I am no expert on biology or human anatomy though physics,chemistry and engineering have taught me everything I need to know about the relationship between energy consumption and that heat is the direct result of it.

Quite simply putting energy into any system excites the molecules,atoms and sub atomic particles.They speed up if they can i.e in a gaseous or liquid state or vibrate at higher frequency if in a solid form.

Excessive motion or vibration at higher frequency can cause the atoms,electrons,protons to collide and hit off each other creating that constant byproduct of energy usage heat.

I think the head loses so much more heat as much as anything to a large surface area and I would imagine that warmer blood flows through the scalp particularly at these times to radiate it out to the atmosphere. Exactly like any other form of heat exchange.

I can't imagine why playing would cause such excessive heat except if you were massively focused and concentrating to extremes,the greater work done physiologically by the brain would require a higher energy consumption.

People talk of energy in the most nonsensical and laughable terms on a daily basis and in public without any understanding of it.

If you refer to energy in any sense and make claims such as it can only be converted never created or destroyed therefore.......spirits,telepathy,life after death or whatever then you have utterly missed the point.Energy is the ability to do work,that's it nothing more nothing less and certainly has no bearing on consciousness or some god lol.

Anyway ,tangent aside if you work your brain harder it will require more energy to do more work so if you play in a very focused and concentrated way than I can see why you would get hotter.

Also,if you are playing very technical music that requires a lot of fast 'flurries' of 16th or 32nd note triplets say across the register and over several octaves I could imagine your hands would be traversing the keyboard rapidly back and forth.

That would seem quite a physical workout.I play a lot of very fast runs,scales,modes and sequences but it's concentrated in a much physically smaller area being able to ascend and descend through the intervals linearly up and down a single string i.e  along it's length.horizontally.

Across the strings from one to another etc which you could picture as moving in a vertical plane.

Then you can move.almoat diagonally both horizontally and vertically in an almost inexhaustible variety of ways 2 note per string patterms,3nps patterns,4nps aswell as using swept arpeggios and legato to emulate something with a reminisce to the violin or piano though clearly not truly the same but a similar sounding guitarlike approach where the normally plucked/picked quality of each note or particular accented notes with in a sequence or passage definitely creates a sense of dynamics in the way it's played that I think even a virtuoso violin player wouldn't be able to match.

I know you can vary the speed and attack of each key played on a keyboard plud you have foot pedals to dampen the strings within the piano but there are as many ways to play a note on the guitar as there are players to play them.

Rythm playing timimg,feel,speed,fluidity,musical knowledg and phrasing are essential to becoming a component player just as with any musical instruments but the one thing that's unique to the guitar and particularly the electric guitar are the dynamics that the player either develops as they progress or in many cases barely have a concept of.

Ultimately,it's probably the most defining characteristic between plainly good and truly great players.

It has been said by far more significant people.than me that the electric guitar is the only musical instrument that can emulate and match the human voice in terms of range and expressivsness.

You may here an incredibly dynamic player as a 'touch player' as there are so many ways to fret a note especially with a scalloped fretboard were the wood is scooped out between the frets so instead off holding the string down to the wood of the fretboard behind the string you press down behind the fret just enough to play the note without losing any intonation because pressing down fully will bend the note sharp.

A scalloped neck requires a lightness of touch that many can't get to grips with.I've put together two high end strats ,one rosewood the other maple but both fully scalloped lol.

To give you an idea of the sheer variety if different ways there are to play ths same note on an electric one of the greatest,most musically capable and   technically gifted guitarists of all time,that being Mr Steve Vai has stated that while studying music at university he would spend at least one hour daily of his 10 hour a day practice routine practicing nothing but his vibrato one single notes at a time.

If.you were playing the likes of Debussy then I don't imagine you were any form of amateur or even intermediate pianist but an advanced for sure.

Or so I would imagine and that being the case then my heart goes out to you,talking of crimes or being punished seems too far,not in terms of severity as to have become an advanced player and had it taken away would feel no less than having your life destroyed on no more than a spiteful whim.

I’ve become an advanced player myself and the sheer degree of constant effort,passion,time and belief,joy amd hope and at times sheer bloody frustration,doubt and despair but most of all practice and practice and practice,over and over,day after day,week in week out,year after year.

The unimaginable time spent learning,practicing and I swear if I went deaf tomorrow I'd still bw hearing my metronome till the day I die.

If for some reason I was unable to play ever again some time tomorrow I won't say I wouldn't be suicidal or just give up on life,maybe I would no longer care about anything anymore but it would be as traumatic and devastating as waking up unable to see or hear anymore .

That is seriously how it woild be for me,no.doubt at all.I've said many,many times in total seriousness if I was able to choose in time then I would take losinga leg over any lasting damage to my left hand. Sooner keep my leg or legs obviously but if it was a case of leg or guitar hand then watch me throw away my boots and shoes.

So I truly can relate to the sheer loss of it even if I am not going to tell you I feel your pain or some typical empaths ridiculous narcissistic statement of how sensitive they feel you ought to know they are.

The unimaginable loss of it though,is staggering. If it is the fault of anyone or anything then it's the fault of the corporate world you were part of and a society that accepts the commercial and business sector is so cut throat competitive and image conscious you feel you had to resort to surgical means to feel more comfortable within that world.

Not to mention the 'doctor' or surgical operative that either tell you what was fully involved or who wasn't up to doing the procedure properly.

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I actually use this site as a source for references for sculpting. The human body is hard to sculpt, and reference photos can be expensive. So this site kinda solves all those problems🙌 only issue is theres not enough pictures just strictly of people standing with there upper back/thoracic spine area un obstructed by hair lol

This is the last thing I expected to see on this website! Very cool though, could we see some of your work?

Yea fursure, this is the one im working on at the moment. Its my first time doing a female torso completely in the nude. Ive found sculpting male figures really easy because ive been staring at mine my whole life. But when sculpting or painting female forms its not entierly intuitive. So the goal with this one is that itll be a spring goddess. I want to represent strength and the realisation of celebrating making it through winter and the beginning state before the the maturity of summer. Thusly I want it to look muscular, but sexy and beautiful at the same time

Ill post the finished product when its done👌

Did anyone else get an email for a new post? I assume it's been felted but I can't figure out why.