Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  • #buildinpublic @claudia.schuethSource: My Instagram account Mario Breskic

  • Screenshot of the day

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • Source: My Instagram account Mario Breskic

  • Digging into Design by Numbers in between finishing up Creative Code. Feels a bit like finding something which was missing.

    You can find more about Design by Numbers here, and the software still works (ran it on my Windows 11), see video below: running an example code by Tom White.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • “If writing is a medium of thought, then software is yet additionally an agent of will. When it executes my will, my software and I form a single, coextensive unit of both thought and purpose. The computer, accordingly, is merely the software’s mortal coil.”

    An essay by Golan Levin, quoted in Maeda’s Creative Code. Read more of this essay here, on Golan Levin’s website, flong.com

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • I need to jot this down someplace, before I take it to substack, or medium (I am kidding, of course.. unless I’m going to do it).

    After being halfway through John Maeda’s Creative Code (I am reading its German translation, if you are interested in that sort of thing), something about tool building struck a chord there, if that’s the proper phrase.

    why aren’t there dedicated Photoshop devices? Or, why isn’t there something like Photoshop as an Operating System?

    I am myself more than a little way into hacking software to expand its functionality (I think basil.js tuned me to this whole world of plugins and extensions), so what gives?

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • Ich denke, dass die Stärken von Software dort liegen, wo sie nicht dazu verwendet wird, die Wirklichkeit anzunähern. Hinsichtlich sogenannter Generative Adversarial Networks wird es für mich als Grafikdesigner dort interessant, wo man „die KI“ einfach machen lassen würde #asca

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • After privating all of my posts here (I am never deleting anything, not completely, that is), I have chanced upon the capital C graphic design Community here on Tumblr, which I have instantly joined to built rapport and connection with other graphic designers and graphic design students here on Tumblr (at least with the ones who are also interested in building together and in public, lol).

    You can find the community here: https://www.tumblr.com/communities/graphic-design

    And since I have said before that I want to do weekly round‑ups to look at what I was doing the last seven days, this post doubles (or triples?) as that, as a fauxrst post (false first post, I like those), as well as creating something (a)new.

    The last week I was building an’ changing a few things on my website, drawing inspiration from all sorts of people, all sorts of places, all sorts of nets.

    I have added a couple of new pages to my WordPress‑based website, and moved around navigational links.

    There is of course the page with the design links to websites and podcasts you can use in your RSS feed readers of choice, provided you do a little bit of digging (if you need some help with that, you can write me any way you like, and we’ll look into it together)

    The new stuff I put in the footer, following inspiration from Scott Boms website.

    I have a page for friends now (currently made up of my teachers, tutors, and professors, mostly), a page for what I am doing now, called Now (which is a really cool idea, and it fits neatly between the very thin substance of a status post, and a long form post like this one, both in size, as well as now‑ness; you can find out more about that here: https://nownownow.com/about)

    But what I think is the most important addition to my website, is the page about tools, “Werkzeuge” in German.

    Here I could finally dump all of my graphic design hacker tools, at least that is how I think of them.

    My system consists of two pillars: new information, and how it is being stored. I believe that everyone rolls their own tools after a while. I would just love it if somebody would find some use for mine, if only to build something better from that.

    The two RSS feeds linked to from the footer are neat: you have the usual feed for the whole site, but I also provided an RSS feed of my custom status updates, which you can see on Home.

    These status updates are my own, most recent solution to my issues with posting, well, status updates on my socials:

    you know, issues like

    • am I posting the same status update to every net I have an account for,
    • will I automate and schedule the same content everywhere and be a boring, cold machine, and
    • do I want to burn myself out coming up thesaurus’d variants of the same post for every net?

    So now there are two ways to check (three, really) in what mess I’ve gotten myself into recently: you can check my Now page, you can look at my Statuses, or you can check it out using your own, third way.

    As for my study schedule, I am glad that summer is over, because I clearly cannot function during summer. I hope with cooler days ahead, I can keep a cooler head while practicing the art of not judging what I do or don’t do. I might have gotten my degree, but I want to learn so much more.

    Started reading Creative Code by John Maeda and sort of forensically/archeologically recreating the years during which it was written and printed, because these past twenty years have basically muddied the tracks quite a bit, so to speak. It is a good read.

    And I think I have covered the whole week now, broadly enough.

    I need to figure out which hashtags should go with this post. I need to look at the top posts for each tag I think could fit, and then consider what being in the top means for each tag I am looking at.

    Eh, let’s go through this together:

    huge tags first (>1 million followers)

    #drawing

    6.1M followers

    1.3K recent posts

    #artwork

    3M followers

    1.3K recent posts

    #illustration

    16M followers

    962 recent posts

    #digital painting

    1.6M followers

    157 recent posts

    #digital art

    5.5M followers

    3.5K recent posts

    #sketch

    4.8M followers

    662 recent posts

    #traditional art

    1.2M followers

    448 recent posts

    #graphic design

    5.8M followers

    this one doesn’t even show a recent posts count at all? But it feels extremely dead if you look at recent posts under that tag.

    We’ll figure this out together. If it is graphic design, then I will tag it as such. If it is something else, then I will not tag it as graphic design. I think that this is a solid foundation towards connecting.

    So, what is this post?

    It is about my website, it is about studying, about me being a graphic designer, and about software I use. Also, it is about creative coding, generative art, a book, and that I use WordPress.

    So I wonder which tags I will use? I prefer low counts when it comes to hashtags. Five sounds reasonable, nice for chunking, too,

    So there. I might not be a student anymore, but that means that I have just proven to have the discipline to get my degree, so studyblr fits.

    Hi everyone! Hello world.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • Torn between platforms and software. On the one hand I would love to try out using bookwyrm, but then again I have a website (and this sideblog, too), so I don’t feel like further diversifying or spreading out.

    I also have quite a bunch of social media accounts, so I might as well use those for the bookwyrm thing, yeah?

    I want to take some time figuring out which hashtags are being used on tumblr for what exactly, so that I can use these, instead of coming up with my own, no matter how salient I find them.

    I am also torn about how much of a service I want to provide, because I think that the real service, that of value, is the one where I simply do what I do, and write about it.

    The other type, the one I am finally ready to let go of, is to think of everything I do as marketing.

    Because, honestly, I can’t do marketing. Will not. Do not want.

    So I won’t.

    In short: analyze hashtags, use hashtags, become part of the community. Because that is all there is: the tribe and how I relate to it.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • Recapitulating the week.

    Cyberpunk 2077, CDProjekt Red

    Added more pages to my website and worked on the layout some more: now there is a now page, about what I am doing, like Scott Boms put it on his own now page, now‑ish, a page about which tools I use to stay informed and mostly secured, and I have added a page linking to my friends.

    That last part is sort of important, because of how important my connections are to me. Currently, most of the people on that page are from my graphic design study, but this will expand, with time, of that I am equal parts hopeful and certain.

    I am also currently excavating the milieu around the book Creative Code by Maeda, with my eye already on Design by Numbers as well.

    Autumn is here, with the Spätsommer’s last rays of a kinder sun, and as the outside air wafts in through heavy green curtains, I briefly understand that all things change, before I type on.

    I wanted to write something about how it has been a long time since I have worked on my foundations for drawing, painting, and illustration, but I won’t.

    I am moving on from judging, instead. I have been judging all kinds of things in all kinds of manners, and I am frankly just plain bored by it.

    Have been playing Cyberpunk 2077 a lot, and I plan to play a lot more of it in the upcoming days.

    I even bought two books about Cyberpunk: the artbook, and the pen and paper RPG called Cyberpunk RED.

    I love Cyberpunk. The games. The genre lit I mostly avoid.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas