Studio F-ARTs from October
Hello again, fellow humans.
We made a major change to our product line this month. Bandar Chhaap has now become Baanar.com. I shared a blog detailing the transition. You might want to check that out.
Baanar Updates
Would you believe that it took a total of ‘TWENTY FIVE’ days for our spices to reach us?! 25 DAYS! Talk about being slow with our production haha But a whole new batch of products is ready to be shipped, while another batch is waiting for your gentle fingers to order for them 🙂.
The forever awesome ‘malhotraoye’ is helping with the marketing and the photo shoots with her awesome skills right now.
Using some of these photos I created poster versions that will now go up as ads. Hopefully we will sell out again 🙂 Fingers-crossed.
Building in public
Since I discussed in the Further Notes on Build In Public I started sharing the blogs and artworks on other platforms, hoping to get at least ~200 readers to this website. But who would have thunk that as 824 people would land up to the website in a month.
I do think that some of these (if not most) are bots, given that they are pinging from weird locations, but even if I discount half of them as bots, I still get 412 actual humans visiting the website 🙂 Wohooo!
I wanted to start sharing on Substack, remember? Well, I did update the Monkeyverse Substack. It is bare as of right now. But I am thinking instead of posting old content, I’ll just hit the ground running and update blogs as we move forward.
And as you all might be aware, I love writing ‘hello world’ posts, so I put together a nice little intro for Substack, Hello Beautiful World along with an About page that needs further edits.
On another note, I also read this comparison between artists on Substack vs Instagram ‘Are SUBSTACK artists better than INSTAGRAM artists?‘. An interesting take on the two, which kind of made sense based on my own experience. I am not sure I am all about glamour and glitz just yet. I enjoy the process too much 🙂
Thousand Arms
While there are other updates, Thousand Arms has been slow to progress, except that I have been working on the ‘Drink, Shrink!’ illustration. The line work looks interesting to me in style, but I need to print it to make sense of it. Also, have been trying out a different colour palette, though that is still a WIP.
All Will Rise
Among other things, are you not following All Will Rise on Instagram? Why?! Hehe Joking. No pressure. you don’t have to. But, since there has been a mountain of visual development for the game, I am in the process of putting together a longer blog. I am super excited about the game.
Project Pollen Butts
Do you like me, feel, we have lost our minds? ‘Project Pollen Butts’, follows a group of characters as the navigate around the ideas of technofetishism, the man animal conflict, and honestly, straight up human stupidity.
The concept and drafts are done. Now it’s time to edit and publish; hopefully this month 🙂
Attaching below is an excerpt from the story. A letter.
GRAM PANCHAYAT, PALAMPUR
(Under the Department of Horticulture, Himachal Pradesh)
Palampur Tehsil, Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh – 176061
Email: gp.palampur.hp@himachal.gov.in
Phone: 01894-242424
Ref. No.: GP/PAL/SEC/2025/042
Date: 22/10/2025
To,
Mr. Amit Kumar
Student, Department of Robotics,
IIT Campus, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, Delhi 110016
Subject: Invitation for Special Project Under Horticulture Department
Dear Amit,
Warm greetings from Palampur village. Hope you are fine and doing your good work in science and invention. We have been reading in newspaper and hearing from many people about your bright mind and clever invention machines. We all feel very proud that such young man from our country is doing these smart things.
Sir, we are writing this letter with humble request. There is one special project happening here under Department of Horticulture. The topic is very serious, and requires your attention. But I can only discuss this with you when you are here. Please do not share this with anyone yet. It is matter of life and death.
We request you very much to come and help us with you smartness. Please come soon if possible. We will arrange your stay and food in village guest house. The department officers and I will be waiting for your positive reply.
With warm regards,
Yours faithfully,
(Sd/-)
Anandita Madam
For Gram Panchayat, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh
Department of Horticulture (Special Project Unit)
These things, those things
A gripping story of the man who made the highest score on Pacman. But what I did not know before reading the article was that there was no one keeping score for video games in the first place. I find that very odd. These games have been global phenomena, and I always assumed that there would be some kind of a centralised server tracking scores and what not. But nah! No one cared. Well some people cared. I guess.
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Thats all for today people. Have a great day 🙂
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BREATHE 🙂
Yuvraj Jha.
Concept Artist. Storyteller. Worldbuilder.
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