What’s on your mind?

[yaxomoxay]

Yesterday on a whim, I posted a video to social media. It sorta blew up, and even when I woke up this morning, it was still being commented on as frequently (albeit in many different languages).

It's kinda funny because a lot of people are asking how I did it, possibly assuming I used practical effects, but it's all dead-easy VFX—a one-point track and, like, four frames of rotoscoping.

Apparently it's pretty spooky, so I apologize to my dearest @keysofanxiety for sending it.

Spoiler: you've been warned

How do we know that the video is not backwards???

 

[D.T.]

Popcorn, sí! Maybe I should make it while the power's still on. So far it's still just overcast here, so whatever they forecast is already a bit late to the plate, which is fine by me.

Food related (so maybe wrong thread), but we make it on the stove top, big soup pot, some kind of organic popcorn (you know, just plain), and we use coconut oil (it's the local grocery "Greenwise" brand), the coconut oil is AMAZING. Seriously, it works great as a cooking oil, but the flavor is slightly buttery - I do a big dollop , let it melt down, add a bunch of salt, cover the bottom with corn, cover, but leave a crack ... and shake shake shake. When it comes out, dump into a big bowl, salt again, give it 2-3 minutes to cool and it gets perfectly crunchy.

Yesterday on a whim, I posted a video to social media. It sorta blew up, and even when I woke up this morning, it was still being commented on as frequently (albeit in many different languages).

It's kinda funny because a lot of people are asking how I did it, possibly assuming I used practical effects, but it's all dead-easy VFX—a one-point track and, like, four frames of rotoscoping.

Apparently it's pretty spooky, so I apologize to my dearest @keysofanxiety for sending it.

Oh wow, I can't wait to show my little G, she loves stuff like this.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Ugh. Write a short story about them... and the disposition of them... maybe it will give you the nerve to act out whatever you come up with...

"As the last of the photos drifted into the old well..."
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Use them to stuff lawn pillows...

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If you're old enough to come from a family where the elders had full attics and kept.every.thing up there, the most exasperating discoveries (short of boxes of pieces of string too short to save) have to be boxes of photos from four generations back where there are no names, no dates, the shots are interior, not of any rooms in any homestead anyone can identify, and of non-holiday events like weddings or wakes and one hasn't a clue if looking at invited guests, sympathetic mourners.

Sometimes they're fun if they're photos where some of the subjects are recognizably kin. Good for at least a sort of parlor guessing game at a family reunion. It is pretty comical though watching everyone there try to make sure they hand the box on before people start leaving.

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The next generation won’t have to worry about that. The images will all be locked away on. Computer/hard drive/phone and nobody knows the password.

 

[LizKat]

The next generation won’t have to worry about that. The images will all be locked away on. Computer/hard drive/phone and nobody knows the password.

A blessing, perhaps. At least taking a maul to a hard drive wrapped in a towel is simpler than trying to dispose of thousands of hardcopy photographs. Some of the ones we've had to deal with were also framed and we didn't even know who they were... and some of the frames turned out to be valuable, and some of the photos were old enough to be historically valuable as well for their production values etc. God. One ends up feeling like just picking up the next item in a pile of dusty things in an attic is like launching a whole new project. And you just want to get on with the job you were given which is help clean out the house so it can be made part of an estate to be liquidated.

I like old photos sometimes but I have so many memories of having had to help sort through stuff belonged to deceased great-greats. One's eyes glaze over. It's a really time consuming project. I'm trying to ditch all my stuff that's not just utilitarian ahead of that time for the sake of whoever gets stuck with my stuff. Even that is a pain in the neck. There's a lot to be said for minimalism in a lifestyle I must say! Or as you say, the more of it stashed in digital format the better.

 

[Apple fanboy]

A blessing, perhaps. At least taking a maul to a hard drive wrapped in a towel is simpler than trying to dispose of thousands of hardcopy photographs. Some of the ones we've had to deal with were also framed and we didn't even know who they were... and some of the frames turned out to be valuable, and some of the photos were old enough to be historically valuable as well for their production values etc. God. One ends up feeling like just picking up the next item in a pile of dusty things in an attic is like launching a whole new project. And you just want to get on with the job you were given which is help clean out the house so it can be made part of an estate to be liquidated.

I like old photos sometimes but I have so many memories of having had to help sort through stuff belonged to deceased great-greats. One's eyes glaze over. It's a really time consuming project. I'm trying to ditch all my stuff that's not just utilitarian ahead of that time for the sake of whoever gets stuck with my stuff. Even that is a pain in the neck. There's a lot to be said for minimalism in a lifestyle I must say! Or as you say, the more of it stashed in digital format the better.

Mines all going in the landfill if I go after Mrs AFB. No relatives likely to be interested.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Mines all going in the landfill if I go after Mrs AFB. No relatives likely to be interested.

Historians from the XXV century might be interested...

 

[Apple fanboy]

Historians from the XXV century might be interested...

I’m pretty sure this little island will be underwater by then.

 

[yaxomoxay]

I’m pretty sure this little island will be underwater by then.

Depends on what happens during the Great Alien Invasion of 2103...

 

[Apple fanboy]

Depends on what happens during the Great Alien Invasion of 2103...

I’ll be long gone by then!

 

[0388631]

Thought that was you, Anger. Saw a GIF or two of that today.

Food related (so maybe wrong thread), but we make it on the stove top, big soup pot, some kind of organic popcorn (you know, just plain), and we use coconut oil (it's the local grocery "Greenwise" brand), the coconut oil is AMAZING. Seriously, it works great as a cooking oil, but the flavor is slightly buttery - I do a big dollop , let it melt down, add a bunch of salt, cover the bottom with corn, cover, but leave a crack ... and shake shake shake. When it comes out, dump into a big bowl, salt again, give it 2-3 minutes to cool and it gets perfectly crunchy.

Coconut oil is exactly the base oil used for popping popcorn in those big poppers at the movie theater. It's what gives it that signature taste and smell. I use a local grocery's organic virgin oil, too. Also works nice in chocolate cake. Just a tablespoon or two in addition to the butter or whatever you used.
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I’ll be long gone by then!

"In the year 2525..."

 

[AngerDanger]

I'm working on version two of the Zippods. Now I keep picking up v.1 Zippods or an empty AirPod shell whenever I want to listen to music.

^^ As long as you take your hand out of the garbage disposal before turning it back on to see if the chicken bones will chop up this time, you should be fine, darling.

I mean do you ever wonder if anyone would think to cop one of your creations and stick pins in it with a couple voodoo imprecations?!

Now you've got me worried about Pinterest's "Pin" button… and what were John Warnock and Charles Geschke getting up to in adobe huts that inspired use as their company's namesake?

For the moment, I can rest easy, knowing that my work is only ever copped and then used without my permission. I made this wallpaper in high school, and it got approved by some curated desktop background site I liked:



Apparently, it's hosted on 25,270,000,000 pages (if Google is to be believed). Within those 25 billion, it's used as the background of a lot of music videos, a bunch of wallpaper sites, the hero image of a blog on machine learning—and my two favorites—the hero image of somebody's barren website, and an item in a pretentious design… firm's(?) portfolio.

"Vision without execution is hallucination" – Vision Bureau

 

[LizKat]

For the moment, I can rest easy, knowing that my work is only ever copped and then used without my permission. I made this wallpaper in high school, and it got approved by some curated desktop background site I liked:



Apparently, it's hosted on 25,270,000,000 pages (if Google is to be believed). Within those 25 billion, it's used as the background of a lot of music videos, a bunch of wallpaper sites, the hero image of a blog on machine learning—and my two favorites—the hero image of somebody's barren website, and an item in a pretentious design… firm's(?) portfolio.

Wow. If you had parked something somewhere and hoped to get even a billion views... never happen. But someone cops it and then the known internet sez oh cool, check this out, this would work... A sort of perverse parallel to Murphy's Law that a lot of artists in different genres have experienced since time immemorial, I guess, just the numbers are bigger now we're all rolling down the info highway:

If something of yours can go right, it will, but maybe not on your watch​

 

[Apple fanboy]

Food related (so maybe wrong thread), but we make it on the stove top, big soup pot, some kind of organic popcorn (you know, just plain), and we use coconut oil (it's the local grocery "Greenwise" brand), the coconut oil is AMAZING. Seriously, it works great as a cooking oil, but the flavor is slightly buttery - I do a big dollop , let it melt down, add a bunch of salt, cover the bottom with corn, cover, but leave a crack ... and shake shake shake. When it comes out, dump into a big bowl, salt again, give it 2-3 minutes to cool and it gets perfectly crunchy.




Oh wow, I can't wait to show my little G, she loves stuff like this.

Mrs AFB cooks and bakes with coconut oil as it’s one of the few things she can eat without side effects.
She makes these sort of pancakes with wheat free flower, eggs and rice milk.
As she can’t eat bread, potatoes or many other staples she has them for lunch. Cooks a huge batch and freezes them.

Trouble is I hate coconut due to an unfortunate incident with a bottle of Malabo in my early teens.

 

[0388631]

I see Gutty is posting weird stuff again.

@AngerDanger

Don't fret. Been there. Some 16 years ago I made paid animation sets and paid scripts for a software and they've been stolen and updated without my permission. I never cared because people are dicks and that's how life is. That said, there is a site called Medium, which used to be owned by Twitter, I think. Anyway, sometimes I come across a cool writeup on there thanks to Pocket. I'd love to read your story if you choose to share it.

On Pinterest, though, I'll sometimes use it to find something cool but I can't say I've ever understood the point of it. I think @LizKat once said she used it to find needlework patterns or I'm confusing her with someone else my brain has decided was in fact her, but was not her at all, thus no fact of her being the person whom I'm referring to and thinking of, because it was someone else, and simply not her at all.
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bottle of Malabo

Did you mean Malibu?


Oh, forgot to ask, @D.T. what do you guys use for salt? I know what theaters use and it's artificial, IIRC.

 

[Apple fanboy]

I see Gutty is posting weird stuff again.

@AngerDanger

Don't fret. Been there. Some 16 years ago I made paid animation sets and paid scripts for a software and they've been stolen and updated without my permission. I never cared because people are dicks and that's how life is. That said, there is a site called Medium, which used to be owned by Twitter, I think. Anyway, sometimes I come across a cool writeup on there thanks to Pocket. I'd love to read your story if you choose to share it.

On Pinterest, though, I'll sometimes use it to find something cool but I can't say I've ever understood the point of it. I think @LizKat once said she used it to find needlework patterns or I'm confusing her with someone else my brain has decided was in fact her, but was not her at all, thus no fact of her being the person whom I'm referring to and thinking of, because it was someone else, and simply not her at all.
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Did you mean Malibu?


Oh, forgot to ask, @D.T. what do you guys use for salt? I know what theaters use and it's artificial, IIRC.

That’s the stuff. Not recommended!

 

[0388631]

That’s the stuff. Not recommended!

Better coconut liqueurs out there. That said, coconut butter, not to be confused with coconut oil, is divine.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Better coconut liqueurs out there. That said, coconut butter, not to be confused with coconut oil, is divine.

If it tastes of coconut it’s not for me.

 

[0388631]

If it tastes of coconut it’s not for me.

Hard to take a man seriously when his avatar is animated fecal matter.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Hard to take a man seriously when his avatar is animated fecal matter.

His name is Zingy.

 

[AngerDanger]

Another day, another janky GIF. This time I try out Kevin Perry's "mirror ball" thing.

 

[LizKat]

On Pinterest, though, I'll sometimes use it to find something cool but I can't say I've ever understood the point of it. I think @LizKat once said she used it to find needlework patterns or I'm confusing her with someone else my brain has decided was in fact her, but was not her at all, thus no fact of her being the person whom I'm referring to and thinking of, because it was someone else, and simply not her at all.

hilarious considering how your post back there actually started out...

Yah I use Pinterest once in awhile. Usually to cruise around looking for ideas on how to use up scrap fabrics in maybe a miniature wallhanging, after making some larger wallhanging or say a couch throw. If the fabrics were an expensive designer print I don't like to just toss the leftovers into a "red scraps" or "Bali scraps" etc container. Maybe I will like to fussy-cut the leftovers into panels I can frame out or something. I get that far and then sometimes my brain locks up and I have to see some examples. I know what I want to do but can't quite visualize it.

I'm slowly learning to document the ad hoc stuff I do come up with a little better so I can springboard off it next time around. I used to only photograph work in progress --so I knew not to steal fabrics from that project for some quick one-off that popped into my head. Now I try to remember to photo the finished work as well, I usually just lose interest once it's done and ready to hand off somewhere and I'm ready to move on to the next thing.

Anyway now from prowling around Pinterest I understand more about how some people make pretty nice sites of their setups, whether they're collections of visual objects or news / books topics and so forth. I keep meaning to schedule a weekend to reboot my own setup. I'd like to make it a place I'm excited about returning to instead of hitting on it once in awhile and thinking yeah this really needs work I'll do it later... Tomorrow has a very poor chance of showing up at my house unless it lands on a calendar and so at least looks like a plan.

 

[0388631]

hilarious considering how your post back there actually started out...

Yah I use Pinterest once in awhile. Usually to cruise around looking for ideas on how to use up scrap fabrics in maybe a miniature wallhanging, after making some larger wallhanging or say a couch throw. If the fabrics were an expensive designer print I don't like to just toss the leftovers into a "red scraps" or "Bali scraps" etc container. Maybe I will like to fussy-cut the leftovers into panels I can frame out or something. I get that far and then sometimes my brain locks up and I have to see some examples. I know what I want to do but can't quite visualize it.

I'm slowly learning to document the ad hoc stuff I do come up with a little better so I can springboard off it next time around. I used to only photograph work in progress --so I knew not to steal fabrics from that project for some quick one-off that popped into my head. Now I try to remember to photo the finished work as well, I usually just lose interest once it's done and ready to hand off somewhere and I'm ready to move on to the next thing.

Anyway now from prowling around Pinterest I understand more about how some people make pretty nice sites of their setups, whether they're collections of visual objects or news / books topics and so forth. I keep meaning to schedule a weekend to reboot my own setup. I'd like to make it a place I'm excited about returning to instead of hitting on it once in awhile and thinking yeah this really needs work I'll do it later... Tomorrow has a very poor chance of showing up at my house unless it lands on a calendar and so at least looks like a plan.

I do something similar now, sans the quilting. I take a photo with my phone and rename the file's title with a quick note. Or when I'm taking something apart. I signed up to Pinterest using a junk email address years ago but wasn't sure how to use it. It's been useful for finding some interesting projects in terms of wood or landscaping. Still have to do legwork, but it's a lot better than reading text if you're someone who also benefits from visuals and not mere text.

I know guys who use it for fishing, guns, cars, etc. It's fairly useful for wading through recipes, too, instead of relying on online sites. I'm fairly certain I used it years and years ago to find recipes for quinoa the first time I bought it. Specifically, the white variety because it has less of a "wild" flavor.

Great grain with a nice light chew. Filling. Nutritious. Healthy. However, I feel terrible anytime I buy it because I know the demand for it globally has ravaged the natives of where it's grown. I try to source organic and ethically farmed brands as a result, but even I doubt how ethical it is.

 

[Healer Flame]

Just wondering if Americans watch foreign movies?
I know it's silly question but need honest answers.

Can you name the actors below...


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[decafjava]

Not American but:

1) Jean-Paul Belmondo
2) Alain Delon

Great actors both.

 

[Healer Flame]

Well done decafjava , both are superstars but not known in English speaking countries.