#ochre — Public Fediverse posts
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New post: EP Review: ochre – PEN https://moshville.co.uk/reviews/album-review/2026/07/ep-review-ochre-pen/ #ochre
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CW: design overthinking, again
so Ochre's keyboard shortcuts generally centre around the WASD cluster
the initial layout is designed mnemonically around the QWERTY layout (Q for Quick Switch, E for Eraser, that kinda thing), and I want to make a series of fun printable poster/zine-type things that come with the app for learning
but what about AZERTY? or literally any other layout? I'm more interested in the physical position of the buttons under your human hand than I am the mnemonics, it just happens that I can come up with ways to make them more memorable by the printed letter
so I like the idea that Ochre looks up your input language and builds the default keymap to match the intended physical arrangement, so the 'default keymap' is a mapping template that sets up the same physical layout on everyone's computer (or near enough)
that means you can sit in front of almost any computer with any input language or physical keyboard and your copy of Ochre (and your custom preferences) will map to the same physical muscle memory
it's a huge QOL feature for new users, where the visual documentation will almost always match their setup, and it's super useful if you're an artist who might use it at home and at work on different setups, or you're a contract artist who's gotta take whatever floating desk/machine they hand you for the project
(this also matters because your setup/assets can be thumbdrive portable in Ochre)
idk man is this a good idea? am I overthinking it?
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CW: design overthinking, again
so Ochre's keyboard shortcuts generally centre around the WASD cluster
the initial layout is designed mnemonically around the QWERTY layout (Q for Quick Switch, E for Eraser, that kinda thing), and I want to make a series of fun printable poster/zine-type things that come with the app for learning
but what about AZERTY? or literally any other layout? I'm more interested in the physical position of the buttons under your human hand than I am the mnemonics, it just happens that I can come up with ways to make them more memorable by the printed letter
so I like the idea that Ochre looks up your input language and builds the default keymap to match the intended physical arrangement, so the 'default keymap' is a mapping template that sets up the same physical layout on everyone's computer (or near enough)
that means you can sit in front of almost any computer with any input language or physical keyboard and your copy of Ochre (and your custom preferences) will map to the same physical muscle memory
it's a huge QOL feature for new users, where the visual documentation will almost always match their setup, and it's super useful if you're an artist who might use it at home and at work on different setups, or you're a contract artist who's gotta take whatever floating desk/machine they hand you for the project
(this also matters because your setup/assets can be thumbdrive portable in Ochre)
idk man is this a good idea? am I overthinking it?
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okay, so my painting app has a name now... https://ochre.art
I'm going to update this website as development progresses further and I get ready to open a private beta later this year
Ochre is designed with useful tools and quality of life features that production artists and illustrators need in their daily workflows; as an artist myself, the status quo isn't providing this right now, and I want to fix this
Ochre will be —
- focused on pure digital painting
- available on Windows, macOS and Linux
- not dependent on the internet
- forever without GenAI or similar
- reasonably priced and free from subscriptions -
okay, so my painting app has a name now... https://ochre.art
I'm going to update this website as development progresses further and I get ready to open a private beta later this year
Ochre is designed with useful tools and quality of life features that production artists and illustrators need in their daily workflows; as an artist myself, the status quo isn't providing this right now, and I want to fix this
Ochre will be —
- focused on pure digital painting
- available on Windows, macOS and Linux
- not dependent on the internet
- forever without GenAI or similar
- reasonably priced and free from subscriptions -
Ancient Finnish graves reveal how ochre signaled identity and social networks
About 5,500 to 6,000 years ago, hunter-fisher-gatherers lived across what is now Finland. These communities, known to archaeologists as the Typical Comb Ware culture, built semi-subterranean houses, traveled along waterways, and relied on fishing, hunting, and small-scale plant use. They...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/finnish-graves-ochre-signaled-identity/
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #huntergatherer #anthropology #ochre
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Ancient Finnish graves reveal how ochre signaled identity and social networks
About 5,500 to 6,000 years ago, hunter-fisher-gatherers lived across what is now Finland. These communities, known to archaeologists as the Typical Comb Ware culture, built semi-subterranean houses, traveled along waterways, and relied on fishing, hunting, and small-scale plant use. They...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/finnish-graves-ochre-signaled-identity/
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #huntergatherer #anthropology #ochre
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#Ochre is somehow incredibly frustrating as a musical artist. Many of his tracks are a bit meandering, academic, or like someone just enjoys punching a few bits and pieces together on a #modularSynth without really evaporating in a story.
And then you stumble across a track like Suspension.
What a beautiful, evocative, unique piece of #electronicMusic. Dare I say even catchy. Truly wonderful.
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#Ochre is somehow incredibly frustrating as a musical artist. Many of his tracks are a bit meandering, academic, or like someone just enjoys punching a few bits and pieces together on a #modularSynth without really evaporating in a story.
And then you stumble across a track like Suspension.
What a beautiful, evocative, unique piece of #electronicMusic. Dare I say even catchy. Truly wonderful.
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G.
Hydrangeas in pink and purple
By
James McCormack
Gouache On PaperHydrangeas in pink, purple and blue, in an earthen pot, with dark green leaves against an ochre background.
[ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/hydrangeas-in-pink-and-purple-james-mccormack.html ]
#Hydrangeas #pink #purple #blue #earthenpot #darkgreenleaves #ochre #buyintoart #Fedigiftshop #MastoArt -
Early humans used ochre for advanced toolmaking at Blombos Cave, study finds
A recent study led by researchers at SapienCE has revealed that ochre—previously considered primarily a symbolic pigment—played a crucial role in the production of sophisticated stone tools by early modern humans in Blombos Cave, South Africa, during the Middle Stone Age (MSA), between 90,000 and 70,000 years ago...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/early-humans-used-ochre-for-advanced-toolmaking/
Follow @archaeology
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Early humans used ochre for advanced toolmaking at Blombos Cave, study finds
A recent study led by researchers at SapienCE has revealed that ochre—previously considered primarily a symbolic pigment—played a crucial role in the production of sophisticated stone tools by early modern humans in Blombos Cave, South Africa, during the Middle Stone Age (MSA), between 90,000 and 70,000 years ago...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/early-humans-used-ochre-for-advanced-toolmaking/
Follow @archaeology
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Little Big Planet 2 was a beautiful game. Its wonderful soundtrack also introduced me to Ochre, criminally underrated artist
#InfotainMe #ochre #littlebigplanet #videogame #electronicmusic #music
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CybcHw3xeh0&si=wHc5BrpuDpCVhPOy -
Little Big Planet 2 was a beautiful game. Its wonderful soundtrack also introduced me to Ochre, criminally underrated artist
#InfotainMe #ochre #littlebigplanet #videogame #electronicmusic #music
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CybcHw3xeh0&si=wHc5BrpuDpCVhPOy -
🥳 Very exciting topic! The #networks that we can identify in the Late #Palaeolithic are very dependent on mostly mineral resources transported from one area to another. Rarely it is possible to compare 2 different types such as #flint & #ochre as was done in this 👇🏼 paper.
https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2025.261 -
phone panoramic in an old ochre pit, luberon
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Carol Puruntatameri, Yipali and Purrukupali, 2024, Ochre on stringybark, 160x70cm.
This painting is about Purrukupali and the place Yipali, the beach where he walked with his dead son Jinani.
Jinani had died when Purrukupali's wife Wayayi (Bima) went out searching for food in the mangroves. While Bima was looking for food Purrukapli's brother Moonman (Tapara) came down to earth to be with Bima as he was in love with her. She left Jinani in the shade, but she stayed away too long, and he died in the sun. She did not hear her son crying for milk and returned to him too late.
As Purrukupali and Bima cried for their son, Tapara came down and asked them if he could take Jinani for three days and heal him, and a fight began between Purrukuparli and Moonman. Purrukuparli won, and Tapara got injured on his leg.
Three days later, the moon came out. It was a new, crescent moon. From the earth, Moonman’s scars on his leg could be seen. Purrukuparli then carried Jinani into the ocean at Yipali and they were never to be seen again. Bima cried and cried. He had walked onto the beach at Yipali and walked with Jinani into the ocean until they both drowned in a whirlpool. When the tide goes out at Yipali you can still see Purrukupali's footprints on the sand.
Carol Puruntatameri was born in 1959 on Wurrumiyanga (Bathurst Island). When Carol was 10 years old, the family moved to Pirlangimpi, Melville Island, her father's country.
'When old man, my father’s brother, did painting, he brought all us children and grandchildren to the Munupi Art Centre, teaching us to carry on. I used to watch my father painting Pukumani poles, and during the Kuluma ceremony, he was painting his body by holding the mirror. Our fathers told all us girls: “Go down and cut sticks from mangroves to use in the ceremony”. The sticks were put in a circle around the middle circle and the men go out and collect the Kulama (bush yam). We were all there, all my family, when our fathers were doing Kuluma ceremony. I used to stay home but one day I came to the Art Centre and watched my uncle painting. I didn’t know how to paint. I started painting, and I am here today, and I know how to paint. I used to copy what my father did. Some of my paintings have stories”.
Carol has been a painter at Munupi Art since 2010, and in 2024, she was selected as a finalist for the Telstra NATSIAA.
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Archaeoethnologica: Anthropologica et Praehistorica Nº 133 - 2024
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/07/anthropologica-et-praehistorica-n-133.html
#Archaeology #protohistory #BronzeAge #prehistory #paleogenethic #migrations #cremation #osteology #journals #openaccess #ochre #neolithic
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Roussillon Church (France, 2020)
#photography #fotografie
#fotografia #photographie
#streetphotography #ochre
