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I saw a couple of talks tonight, by Caitlin Morris and Zach Lieberman. Both were really good.
Caitlin does those massive installations that have a hundred mechanical pieces. I have a bunch of thoughts about her talk, but it's simply reassuring to see that a nice, regular person makes those things.
Part of Zach's talk was about how he works. He does daily sketches — that is to say, procedural animations — and he is always iterating. I asked him what he does when it takes a really long time to get that first iteration going. His answer — and I hope I understood it accurately — is that he instead iterates on something that he can iterate on in a reasonable amount of time, then sometimes he comes back to something he couldn't iterate on before and now can.
This has worked for me, too, and his framing is much better than mine. I used to think of this as revisiting unfinished stuff out of a sense of duty; never giving up on anything. That's a really "clenched jaw" way of thinking of things; choosing what to do by following affordances instead of forcing things is much more appealing.
I'm really glad I went. I was worn out by work and was a little worried about how Katt was holding up because the guy was a little tantrum-ish today. Turned out he was chill after I left. I'm often skeptical about inspirational stuff, but sometimes, you need that it. I needed to feel hope about making things. -
I think I'm gonna start bringing a book to work. It's a better use of time to read something when you need a break from what you're doing than to look at Slack or email or something.
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If you're wondering how companies like Google, with so many liberal employees and progressive statements, ends up spreading misinformation and handing power to terrible forces, here's an excerpt from an article about Palantir:
When the scandal broke, Karp put the offending engineer on leave and issued a statement personally apologizing and pledging the company's support of "progressive values and causes." Outside counsel was retained to review the firm's actions and policies and, after some deliberation, determined it was acceptable to rehire the offending employee, much to the scorn of the company's critics.
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Jonas Akerlund (director of Madonna videos and the original drummer of Bathory !) on his movie Lords of Chaos:
Decades later, I realized that this story had stayed with me and as many others, I thought that this story was more important to me than anybody else. I thought that I own it. Nobody should touch it. It's mine. You know, and I realized that a lot of other people think that too. You know, it's one of those stories that just stays with you in a weird way. Once I got over that, I started thinking that this could actually potentially be a movie. I saw the documentaries, I read all the other books and there was a lot of darkness, a lot of fires and corpse makeup and demon voices that described a story. And I thought that maybe there's a way to tell this story where we remind the audience that these were very young children, and that this story is kind of sad. You know, so I thought that there was another perspective that have not been told yet.
The story he's talking about is the story of Euronymous and the black metal church burnings and associated suicides and murders. I think I'll see this at some point, maybe on Netflix. -
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The Burrow (the Weasleys' house) is £400 on Amazon! The Weasleys could never afford that.
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I've had Baby Shark in my head for a week, and I somehow don't really mind it!
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I should probably make it produce stuff like this more frequently.
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