Just want to acknowledge the joy of this endeavor. A running documentation of your failures is a great idea that I fully support.
Category: found
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Emacs For Writers
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Org as a Word Processor
http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/orgmode-wordprocessor.html
When I first saw one of his videos I was wondering how sick an effect was achieved, though I never asked–thanks to all who did for me.
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on why I didn’t like /the avengers/
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How the internet flips elections…
On the one hand: of course it does. On the other hand: pretty terrifying.
So if Google favours one candidate in an election, its impact on undecided voters could easily decide the election’s outcome.
Source: How the internet flips elections and alters our thou…
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Aaron “tenderlove” Patterson
Aaron “tenderlove” Patterson http://usesthis.com/interviews/aaron.patterson/
Firefox has an extremely nice feature that I like for web development: if you hit ‘ (single quote) it will bring up a search box, but the search box only searches through links on the page. Then you can hit enter to navigate to that link. That way I can avoid using my mouse.
I didn’t know about this, but I’m certainly interested as it’s a useful feature I’d previously installed plugins to deal with.
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Internet Art
I don’t think I agree with the unsupported conclusion, but the video is interesting and generally well done―and the examples are fun.
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transitions
Watching this makes me feel somewhat nostalgic about the days when copies were hard. Also, it seems so important to document this transition from old to new ways of doing things (and all the drama and challenges inherent to the change). It also reminds me of this clever video showing the changing nature of how we get things done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qMNg4S42C4 (2025-05-11 note: apparently removed).
This next video does a good job of contextualizing the transition of real tools to icons―revealing the meaning behind the terms and symbols some of us have never had any direct experience with in our designing lives.
The idea that it took 24 hours to get a line of marketing type back to apply to a design sounds insane to me because I never had to deal with it personally, though I’m certain there are inefficiencies I’ll look back on in 20 years and reflect with a similar sense of knowledge, disbelief, and present gratefulness.
I’m confident there is evidence to the contrary, but the phase that is in my mind at the moment is the following:
It’s never been easier to do what you want to do than it is right now.
Do your work.
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gif covers
I can only say that you should watch this and enjoy it. It’s a beautiful video.
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Awesome work on G’MIC
My latest ten months working on G’MIC http://opensource.graphics/latest-ten-months-working-on-gmic/
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Free Music Archive: Steve Combs
Free Music Archive: Steve Combs.
Some really great music here and—bonus—it’s cc-by licensed. Heard the music in this video. (Ah! The internet!)
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Sapping Attention: Fundamental plot arcs, seen through multidimensional analysis of thousands of TV and movie scripts
This is my vote for best post of 2014. What a fascinating look at structure via data analysis. The entire article is such a refreshing surprise. It explores the structural arcs in TV and Movie scripts across screen time (by breaking episodes into 6 or 12 even chunks) and then creates a single, multidimentional, visual graph of each show or movie’s movement through those topics across individual screen time. This sort of confirms Aristotle’s dominance in popular storytelling.
What is this saying? That in the grand corpus of tens of thousands of hours of studio-approved, investor-funded, union-written scripts, two major trends stand out: one set of directional trends, advancing continuously through the course of the film, and one cyclical, through which the language returns back to its origins.
That outcome is to be expected, though it is interesting to see the data produce such conclusive evidence directly from a scriptural level of word clusters. There is a new twist, however, that makes this research particularly interesting:
But although [each individual show] trace[s] out arcs, they do it in their portion of the plot arc space ... The portions of plot-arc space they land in correspond to genre: the crime shows live in an area something like the early middle of a show, while science fiction camps out after the end of the end. … So that clustering is interesting enough: but the omnipresence of the curves suggests that they all follow the same path through space in some way, regardless of where they start
This graph is a wonderfully welcome visual analysis of plot structure that adds to my understanding of how traditional structure functions. I wonder how one would modify this for use in dramatic scripts, particularly across languages and time periods. Where, for instance, would the absurdists lie on the chart using this sort of analysis. It is regarded as a genre but it’s defining features are not typically understood to be topical but structural. Circular plot structure—a hallmark of absurdism—is understood to end where it began, but where does it go? I’ve often heard Beckett’s Godot described as “nothing happens,” but that is not a fair assessment of the script or production, it illuminates how strongly we expect Aristotelian structure. And what of postmodernism? Are there any defining topical features there? Are there strains of postmodernism? Is topical-textual analysis the best way of evaluating those scripts? Are the scripts the element that makes the production postmodern?
Dr. Schmidt’s post made me smile. It provokes so many new questions. This type of research is extremely interesting. Now go and read!
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Alex Buono | HOW WE DID IT — SNL Title Sequence
It’s pure in-camera trickery…EUREKA! — suddenly we had our approach.
The often overlooked approach. This was a fun read with lovely images.
