I actually want to create a slow‑paced environment, because my work takes a lot of time (graphic designer). Thanks for making me realise this about my own work. asca
I very much want to see a job posting that says “we’re a slow paced environment so please don’t apply if you prefer fast paced.”
Did some simple research about what turns out is called the “default mode network” in our brains, quizzing @MSFTCopilot. You can read this exchange below, on my arena account, and please do mind the comments I added to the file. https://are.na/block/31536061
This is a collaborative work in progress, as I am making my way through what seems to me to be a confused database: two of the books are not by the authors mentioned, and their ISBNs point to other books. I’ll add these findings to the comments as well.
if you keep track, I am a graphic designer, so I would assume that the MIT’s DBN (which is Processing’s “dad”) pointing towards Java would imply what I will further dig into both Java and Processing, long before I even touch anything close to OpenGL or WebGL →
because the last time I got into visual programming, that was ActionScript 2.0. But here’s the thing, when it comes to my own #computerLiteracy: I believe that I have a deeper, unaddressed interest in something like #vvvv, something like #openGL and #webGL →
There is something there, something I have noticed twelve years ago while first working with #AfterEffects and its “Expressions“, as its called. I don’t think I am a programmer. But maybe I am a computational designer? I’ll watch this unfold. I’ll download the video and think.
Ich finde immer wieder neues zum Entpacken in diesem Posting. Ich halte das mal fest asca
Was fandest du denn gut, Johann?
Ich finde es immer schwer zu sagen, da ‚Wahrnehmung von guter Strategie‘ oft gleichgesetzt ist mit ‚es wurde viel Geld ausgegeben‘.
(Deswegen werden hier so viele große B2C-Marken als Bsp. genannt).
Eine richtig exzellente Strategie würde aus einem kleinen Budget eine nischenspezifischen Knaller kreieren, der richtig satt konvertiert. Und von dem würden wir höchstwahrscheinlich gar nichts mitbekommen, da wir wahrsch. nicht die Nische waren. Daher: schwierig!
‘Nymphs and Satyr’ by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, c. 1873.
Most of his paintings are beautiful, yet to this one I must admit my own egotistical, naïve, and stupid attraction.
I would aspire to such a great work, and I feel I could never reach it.
But what if I tried anyway? Iʼve already admitted to my own egotism, havenʼt I? And nymphs and satyrs are the most fitting representations of our species in my eyes, truthful archetypes Bouguereau captured as representatives for the eroticism of both sexes.
These are so wild. Adding these to my visual library, too. Glad I had that nightmare about study wake me up, I came across Robert McCall on my tumblr that way, and now Roderick Fletcher Mead here! #asca https://x.com/cmkosemen/status/1846641021473468846
These need to be in my visual library. The brush strokes on the reef to the right in the underwater landscape are gorgeous. I need to study those later, as well as tag them in either Adobe Bridge or the freeware Allusion.
The slightest bit of research is needed then: like which year these are from, what they were for.
I want to further grow my visual library in two ways:
add what designs and artworks stuck with me for years
Here we go: I defended my thesis in March, and I just have had my first nightmare about being part of a presentation assignment where one of the jury members asked me to produce a specific file from my final presentation.
Couldnʼt find it. Laptop booted the wrong OS. Wrong resolution. Full panic mode. Did I even make that file at all? Where is my study folder? What did I name that file?
At 42, I can say: the nightmare never ends, lol.
But, the final presentation looked interesting: a cassette case booklet, with some tight and phat grid and margins for the images.
