第2771期:How I turned frustration into creative success(1)

So for many years I've been doing computer art, geometric art with pen and paper on plotters. I write the code and sometimes I build the machines.很多年来，我一直在做电脑艺术——用绘图仪、钢笔和纸张创作几何艺术。我自己写代码，有时还会自己造机器。

I would upload the stuff to social media, figuring maybe people like the soft noises and the clicks and pops and so on. No one really paid any attention to it.我把这些作品上传到社交媒体，想着或许有人会喜欢那些轻微的噪音、咔嗒声、噼啪声之类的。但实际上几乎没人关注。

At some point, someone gave me a chocolate 3D printer extruder, and I filled it with acrylic paint, and set it up and made a terrible mess.后来有人送了我一个巧克力 3D 打印机的喷头，我就把它装满了丙烯颜料，安装好之后结果搞得一团糟。

I wanted to try out making some dots, and I wrote a little program, and the dots weren't in order.我想试着打印一些点，于是写了一个小程序，但这些点并没有按照顺序排列。

These were reactions it got. Some people got angry. Some people sympathized with the robot.这就是它引发的反应：有些人很生气，有些人则对这个机器人表示同情。

Some people danced to it. Mostly angry.还有些人甚至随着它的节奏跳舞。但大多数人还是生气。

If you go in a line, it’ll be faster. If you go in a line, it'll be -- it'll be quicker if you go in a line. I think -- you're going side to side. You should go in a line and you'll go faster. Just go -- go in a line!“如果你沿着直线走会更快。如果你沿着直线走——会更快的。我觉得——你现在在左右移动。你应该沿着直线走，那样会更快。就直接——走直线吧！”

This one is “Bad day at the circle factory.” I realized you could manufacture emotions of various kinds with just a robot and pen and paper.这一幅叫做《圆圈工厂的糟糕一天》。我意识到，只用一个机器人加上一支笔和纸，就能制造出各种情绪。

So I leaned into it.于是我更加投入其中。