Who am I?
Well then, online you may know me as Mechanis but my irl name is Glenn :]
At the time of typing this I am a rather unknown stop-motion creator as well as amateur photogrpher present on YouTube with only a few views to their name.
Why did I make this website?
I made this website to share my hobbies and opinions with the surfers of the Indie-Web something I view as vastly superior to any form of social media which I hardly touch nowadays. I understand almost nothing about coding (html, css, javascript) so this has been a big leap out of my comfort zone and I may have resorted to some shady methods to speed up the development process and to give myself a little something to build off of, caugh caugh 'AI' caugh caugh 'web searches.'Hobbies
Photography is one of my core hobbies and has been for awhile. I love photographing miniatures such as Army Men, Lego, & models on various terrains within different environments and since I'm a terminal hoarder/collector of tat & gubbins I always have some material to photograph with.
Stop Motion Animation has played quite a large part in my life ever since I was a wee urchin when I discovered creators such as TheGeneralMoe who at the time mainly did Army Men and Lego Star Wars, Robert Benfer's series KlayWorld and many more from that era (2000s to 2010s). It was only recently (3 years ago) when I finally got the chance to film my very first stop-motion films when I got my current phone and installed the free Stop Motion Studio (I now use the Pro version). My first films were rather crappy in my opinion and soon after I wrapped up my final big film I took a 2 year break. Finally in 2025 I came back onto the scene with a new channel, a better mindset and apparently better skills. Although I did lose my 212 subscribers.
Doodling/Drawing was something I use to do a lot of back in the day but slowly, as my life became busier and stressful I kinda lost that passion for it leaving my pencils to collect dust. But now in 2025 I have purchased a new sketch pad and plan on sharing my terrible drawings with yall through this website.
Reading & Writing have been some of my most prevelant hobbies, I write scripts, storyboards, & lore for my projects or just to keep myself busy and I plan on possibly attemtping to write some short stories that could be designed like a small book of sorts. I love reading whether it be a hsitorical encyclopedia of war or a George Orwell novel such as Animal Farm or 1984, the latter of which is what I'm currently reading now.
Gaming is something that use to be more prevelant in my life with GTA3 & Crazy Taxi on the Playstation 2. Battle Nations, Tank Tactics, and Among Us on mobile. And even on desktop with Zombotron, ElectricMan, and all them other flash games on Friv. Though sor of given up gaming as of now as it had just become a massive time drain on my life especially Roblox which i actually got really into for a time and could spend hours on. Now, I only occassionally check in on my Battle Nations outpost.
Not sure if this counts but I love the Indie-Web (or true web in my opinion), open source/FOSS internet and the journey to some what decent online privacy. I myself love not having social media as a really positive detox. I use an RSS feed reader for my news and notifications for new blogs.
Finally, I am interested in getting into model painting after being introduced to it through TheGeneralMoe's Warhammer 40k video as well as some of his older videos featuring model 1:72 scale WW2/WW1 soldiers.