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Thanks for coming to the stream! We reworked the bridge a bit. I think it's coming together nicely.

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Today's stream in 20 MINUTES: Composing "Once in a Lifetime" (formerly "2025-08-08"). We finally have a title for this piece, though still TBD.

We'll be live on:
- YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi7e...
- Twitch: www.twitch.tv/penbuvt
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If you ever need a secret knock, go with a polyrhythm. That way, even if someone else hears it, the average person won't be able to replicate it.

My mental math was wrong, 4^4 is 256, not 384. 1/256 chance is still very small, though.

Screenshot of Penbu playing "Let's Explore the Airport". Scene: baggage trailers with luggage ready to board in front of an open plane cargo hatch. Buzzy: "Over there is the luggage waiting to go inside the cargo hatch."

Screenshot of Penbu playing "Let's Explore the Airport". Scene: a Boeing 747 on a taxiway with a marshaller.

Screenshot of Penbu playing "Let's Explore the Airport". Scene: Fact card about the Concorde with a text description and a cutaway of the plane.

Screenshot of Penbu playing "Let's Explore the Airport". Scene: Level 99 of the Lost Luggage minigame.

Thanks for coming to the stream! There's a surprising amount of airport info from this game that's still valid 30 years later, though RIP to the Concorde. We also spent an hour on level 99 of the minigame. Of course the last level was full RNG.
#RealTimePenbu

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Today's stream in HALF AN HOUR: Let's Explore the Airport with Buzzy! This is a game from 1995 that I played as a kid and the info is still mostly good 30 years later.

We'll be live on:
- YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcSb...
- Twitch: www.twitch.tv/penbuvt
#RealTimePenbu

Thanks for coming to the stream! I split the photos into their own thread so you can actually see them in my timeline:
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That's all for the photos we edited on stream. I showed off a few more unprocessed photos during the stream; if you wan to see me work on them, let me know and I'll do a part 2!

Tilable photo of a dense patch of mussels and barnacles.

The previous photo, tiled.

Crowded

Aerial photo of Cambridge, Ontario at night, looking south. Highway 401 splits the shot horizontally two-thirds of the way down the photo.

Cambridge Alight

(Turns out this is Cambridge, not London like I originally said on stream.)

Aerial photo of Toronto at sunrise, looking towards Lake Ontario.

Toronto From Above

Sunset on the port side of the passenger deck on the MV Queen of Alberni, looking towards her aft.

Sunset on the Ferry

Photo panorama of Cox Bay beach at low tide

Panorama of Cox Bay beach

(Yes, you can see the seams because I didn't lock my exposure settings. It would take more effort to try to smooth that out.)

You just lost [Book titled "The Game"]

Photo of a viewing point along Pacific Rim Highway 4. Roads and a "Do Not Enter" road sign are in the foreground against a backdrop of mountains. The contrast of the photo is heavily stretched. The photo is largely greyscale with highlights of yellow from the road and red from the road sign.

Do Not Enter

Sunset at Cox Bay, framed by two trees in silhouette.

Viewing the Sunset

HDR composite photo of a sunset at Cox Bay

Sunset on the Beach

Thanks for coming to the stream! I didn't expect to edit photos for four hours, a quarter of which on tiling mussels.
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Aha, welp, OBS won't start. If I'm late, it's because I'm recompiling the program.

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Today's stream in HALF AN HOUR: Photo editing. Let's take a look at my pictures from my trip to Tofino!

We'll be live on:
- YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Fw...
- Twitch: www.twitch.tv/penbuvt
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Penbu Schedule for 2026-W10 See the latest at penbuvt.ca/schedule Editing Photos (from my trip to Tofino) Local: Wed Mar 04 2026 19:30:00 UTC-0500 (EST) UTC: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:30:00 UTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8FwEmYD7-o https://www.twitch.tv/penbuvt Let's Explore the Airport (with Buzzy the Knowledge Bug (childhood game)) Local: Thu Mar 05 2026 19:30:00 UTC-0500 (EST) UTC: Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:30:00 UTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcSb0b2StQ4 https://www.twitch.tv/penbuvt Composing "Once in a Lifetime" (part 4, formerly "2025-08-08") Local: Fri Mar 06 2026 19:30:00 UTC-0500 (EST) UTC: Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:30:00 UTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi7eErtNxxU https://www.twitch.tv/penbuvt YouTube: @PenbuVT X (Twitter): @PenbuVT Discord: discord.gg/X5XZDfBSPG penbuvt.ca

Schedule for this week, 2025-W10. We're back! We'll have a look at my trip photos while we edit them, learn about the airport retro-style, and get back to composing "2025-08-08", which now has a title.

See the times in your local timezone: www.penbuvt.ca/schedule/
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I ended up getting end-of-day sales elsewhere.

When you want to go closer to the grocery's closing time so you can take advantage of the end-of-day sales, but you accidentally end up waiting so long that if you leave now, the store would be closed by the time you get there.

Evacuate (fire alarm duet, unedited piano improv ver.) YouTube video by Penbu VT

Before anyone asks, I did not put myself in danger by doing this.

Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rk3...

The schedule for this week will hopefully be out tomorrow. But in the meantime, in case you missed it last week, I put out a piano improv video where I duetted with a fire alarm. Full video in the replies.
#MusicalPenbu

Yooking up the circuit board because it has 6mm of unused space YouTube video by Yukie VODs

I don't expect her to be taking commissions, but I recall Yukie designing a circuit board and adding art to it in the past for her own projects. I think she's done this a few times on stream by now: youtu.be/bwAsu5Ggfnk?...

Thanks for coming to the stream! The MIDI recording is up on the YouTube VOD now for anyone who wants to do anything with it.

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Today's stream in 40 MINTUES: Piano Improv. First one of the year!

We'll be live on:
- YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfPL...
- Twitch: www.twitch.tv/penbuvt
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Penbu Schedule for 2026-W08 See the latest at penbuvt.ca/schedule Piano Improv Local: Tue Feb 17 2026 19:30:00 UTC-0500 (EST) UTC: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:30:00 UTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfPLwEwSyHM https://www.twitch.tv/penbuvt YouTube: @PenbuVT X (Twitter): @PenbuVT Discord: discord.gg/X5XZDfBSPG penbuvt.ca

Schedule for this week, 2026-W08! I figured piano improv (later today!) would be better this week instead of mixing. No streams next week because I'll be away, but watch out for a video.

See the times in your local timezone: www.penbuvt.ca/schedule/
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In the meantime, you can have a video of me attempting to tune my violin's E string after restringing it. Can I get it in tune, or will I run into trouble? Watch until the end of the full video to find out!

Full video: youtu.be/f2nHztSm8sQ

#PenbuVT #violin