An Art Hive is a community art studio that welcomes everyone as an artist. From an art pop-up in a local library to a community studio or gallery, at its heart, an Art Hive is about inclusion, respect and learning. It's a welcoming place to talk, make art and build communities. Responding in creative ways to things that matter.

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Rakis Heron

Your contact person for grid (no drama)
and hometown sim advisor.
Owner of grid. 8 domains, 6 servers, 5 works,
hardware, software, business internet and
all bills every month. $ 300 / month.
PayPal donations are always welcome.

I wrote the lyrics to this from a poem I composed years ago. I used Suno ai to set the lyrics to music and then struggled with the video, using GROK. I hope you like the song. https://youtu.be/r2Rzns4kEio?si=O-QXhP59lOngiwd_

I recently did a deep dive into what one might find in an Irish Petrol station. Because even though I lived in Ireland for the better part of a year in my 20s, I didn't drive there at all so I kind of assumed their gas stations were similar to ours. In Canada (and I will extend this to say probably in the USA too because we are quite similar in many ways) it's considered high risk behaviour to eat food you buy from a gas station. But when I looked up food at a petrol station in Ireland, they're rather high end with lovely hot food counters that won't give you intenstinal distress. People go there instead of fast food places for the quality. Remarkable. One of the things that kept coming up as a delicacy really is the Chicken Fillet Roll so I had to make that. And potato wedges of course. The rest are Sketchfab finds of things I saw commonly listed. Coffee fixings, soft drink stuff and slushies as well as a whole Tayto Crisps rack are also in there. Free to Copy/Buy for 0.

And EV Recharge stations are becoming more and more prevalent in Northern Ireland especially so I took a crack at making one of those across from the regular Maxol Petrol station. I'm not quite ready to make the regular station free to copy yet as it still needs some tweaks but you can get the framework for the EV station which can then be easily unbranded. The EV chargers, fences and solar panels are separate peices to the framework build so be mindful of that.

Again Free to Copy and buy for 0.