Thank you! I really like researching these images. The postcard project has been a nice way to focus in on specific bits of worldbuilding research - at this point I'm also writing book-length solarpunk fiction stuff but it feels good to come back and work on these smaller, quick projects

Beautiful artwork as always, Jacob, and its made so much more special by all the thought you've put into it <3

That's really clever!

True but from what I understand they can also uncompress more lift gas from onboard tanks to fill partially-full gas cells (and recover/recompress gas rather than venting it).

I don't see any ballast dropped by the blimp. (Maybe it brought some dirt?) It's weight has to be the same before and after picking up the house to keep a consistent altitude.

Here's the higher-rez version: https://mega.nz/file/GBVTXRqD#qeIFhOcUTc2B7NuRcvwX_lDQLNNdMKDV9H_aHVRJBdk

That's so nice to hear! Wow! I don't sell anything but I can send you a link to a high rez version (it's actually the same size, just not a compressed .jpg) so you can get it printed if that works! Your local copy shop (or unsecured office printer) could put it on cardstock easily enough. I forgot my usual note at the end that all these images are CC-BY, use them however you like!

The rest of my solarpunk postcards are here in case you want any others for your collection:

https://jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/postcards-from-a-solarpunk-future/

This is lovely Jacob!! Do you think you'll offer prints at all? I collect postcards and I'd love to have this one to inspire a better future

Thanks! A friend in another group said Pittsburgh - I hope it'll have at least a little resemblance to every east coast factory town. I really like when the picture feels like it could be a few different places. But in this case you're spot on because I did pull a few buildings specifically from Manchester NH!

I associate that old brickwork with cities and big towns, and I'm also very fond of it

The cityscape looks much like Lowell, MA or Manchester, NH - I'm a big fan of the brickwork of the old mill towns along the Merrimack River. Great work as always!

thanks ! I'm at it right now ! :D

This is beautiful, I can't wait to see the gouache!! I love all the little details like the different tree benches and the winch for the awning

FINALLY we're making video game factions real

cool!! Have you done any more recently?

Awww this looks really cute!! Thank you for sharing :D

Looked pretty, but took four minutes to load on my Motorola G84, and played at one frame per second.

Strange that I have no trouble playing Zen pinball at full speed, but this was a pretty slide show.

I played it a while back, it's very cozy and chill. The dev lives on a boat herself

The Surprisingly Solarpunk Life of the Game Dev Behind "Spilled!"

whoa that's incredible!! I love artistry like this

I bet that rug really ties a room together, man.

Yes please feel free to add to the same etherpad doc!

And my notes on exurban changes are in the wiki here: https://wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:exurbs_in_the_solarpunk_transition

Yeah, I feel you... I mean what really gave the impulse to my desire to dive into this project was the fact that the fantastic solarpunk animation "dear alice" is actually a damn ad for dairy products... that's so dystopic haha, "nonsense trends" is really great wording about this. I had absolute sparks in my eyes when I watch that video, and the product placement made it fake and inauthentic Your pieces are so cool, i'll do my best to add my own contribution to the art created by all the hearty artists who have worked to make people dream 💪

nono it's so nice ! they have really good insight and resources, thanks for posting !

yeah ! I mean eventually I'd like to have some really specific subjects/professions or certain community represented in the octasolis project and I won't be able to just... do it out of only me, because i'm just not concerned and people just live their lives and they can tell you tons of little details that really makes the environment and ambiance speak for itself haha
Ofc ! etherpad sounds great. I can just add my notes on the one you created about the Mcmansion Hell discord responses if it's ok ? Did you add your work on rural and exurban areas to the wiki too ? sounds like a fantastic source for inspiration !

Not to deluge you with info but here's what folks in the Mcmansion Hell discord said when I shared this post:

https://pads.slrpnk.net/p/Pedestrianized_Streets_Research

I totally get it! Good solarpunk needs good ideas and tracking them down can be a challenge - especially when they're split into lots of niche domains.

I'm glad you'd be up for sharing notes - we don't have a good page on pedestrianized streets in the worldbuilding wiki yet so anything we track down for this could be a great addition. I tend to focus more on rural/exurban areas so I haven't done much reading on the subject yet but I can ask around on a few communities I'm in!

I could set up a document we can paste links and notes into, maybe etherpad, cryptpad, or Google docs, whatever works for you!