Downloading and learning Blender in order to share it with the world. Wish me luck.
Several hard taco shells are arranged in a circle standing vertically. The lower tacos are held in place by a curved piece of acrylic. The top tacos remain in place like a stone arch bridge.
This arrangement is called an Irish Tortilla.
Questions and Answers
Why is it called a tortilla when it is made out of tacos?
This was not revealed to me.
How do you apply filling to the lower tacos?
This was not revealed to me.
What is specifically Irish about it?
This was not revealed to me.
(I've had this one loaded in my drafts for posting in October but because of developments I will post it right away)
One year ago I had a dream. Later, as I was waking up I revisited the few details I could remember from it. I am standing in an ice cream cafe in the town I grew up in. (A cafe we visited once, there was nothing special about it yet it remains in my memory for some reason.) On a table is an arrangement of tacos in a vertical circle, cradled by a piece of bent acrylic. I do not need to be told that this is called an Irish Tortilla, it is simply established in my mind that this is the truth.
As I laid there, turning this fragment of my dream around in my mind, I started laughing. During the day, I started laughing once more. I realized I needed to share this with the world.
One year ago I had one of the most fun times I've had online ever. The frenzied effort of getting around in an unfamiliar program, making the 3d model increasingly match the image in my mind, cackling as I see the grainy render take shape on my screen. Watching my notifications blow up as more and more people get psychically blasted from seeing what is out there in the idea world, the things that sometimes manifest themselves in our minds from a source not inhabiting the same reality we do.
I want to do this justice.
Contrary to what I wrote in the comments of my original post, I ended up revisiting Blender and learning it properly. Blender is the first time in a very long time that I've found myself being enthusiastic about a piece of technology. What you can do with it is just amazing. And it's free! You can just go download it and get started. There are tutorial series on youtube that guide you through the entire program, building up a scene, learning shading, lighting, rendering, compositing, a bunch of stuff.
I would not have learned this skill had I not dreamed about an arrangement of tacos. This was revealed to me.
