Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  • I have finished reading Creative Code and decided to get back to using my business planner, as well as continuing to use my morning pages. Yesterday I realized that I have turned all of my stationery into drawing utensils (more on that in a few months), so I went shopping for writing utensils.

    And, as things are with all graphic designers, I of course did not use these tools to write anything, but instead put together a flatlay of what I’ve got.

    I am playing around with becoming a travelling designer of sorts, so I need to consider a few things in the future, like how mobile can a workshop be and is that even a thing? That sort of play.

    But with these new tools up there, I am fairly sure I can find new enjoyment in writing down, literally writing down.

    And it struck me as odd how expensive these products were, since I associate Lamy and Pelikan with school brands, much less stationery brands. Maybe I am wrong, and these are just high quality brands? Having looked through my local supply store’s shelves one town over, all the other brands were a lot less expensive, so maybe these things in my flatlay are frivolous to someone else?

    Eh. Now that is some Poor Dad talk right there, if I may say so!

    There are also other things happening right now, which curiously are also about writing–typing, that is.

    Maybe you remember that I have put together a set of so­‑called text expansions for the Beeftext software before and uploaded these to github, and there is some development happening there, but in a direction basically implied in this repository, and this development has been catalyzed by a kickstarter project turning the E1‑keyboard layout into a physical keyboard, which I have backed for the keycaps (I’ll put my own keyboard together, thank you very much).

    I am teaching myself how to use the E1‑keyboard layout, while not relying on my own text expansions. Gradually, I am learning where the additional, typographically accurate marks are.

    Until my set of E1‑keycaps arrive, I have plenty to study and improve upon. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll enjoy being able to do this, using a typewriter keyboard:

    While chatting with an old friend today, I took note of what I’ve said about listening to the band Meshuggah, and liking it. “When you like Meshuggah,” I typed, “then you don’t have to share it with anyone–you don’t care if somebody listens to Meshuggah, you don’t care if they don’t. You just enjoy what you enjoy.”

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

  • Embrace MODIFIER LETTER CROSS ACCENT. MODIFIER LETTER CROSS ACCENT is your friend. MODIFIER LETTER CROSS ACCENT is here for you. MODIFIER LETTER CROSS ACCENT, MODIFIER LETTER CROSS ACCENT: MODIFIER LETTER CROSS ACCENT. #asca

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • Have you noticed? People have turned themselves into billboards for ads, canvases for somebody else’s benefit?

    And the thing is, they are ads for nothing: everybody in 2024 said that the most beautiful thing one can aspire to be, is to look like an ad.

    Advertising as a visual style, a fashion style. So now we have ads sitting next to things that look like ads, but since there is no product or sell attached to them, other than people themselves being advertising space. Is advertialism a thing? A style? An aesthetic?

    @modempunk

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

  • After over a decade of severe sleep apnea (and bad habits because of that; did you know you can become habituated to feeling too tired to do something you only need 1% energy to do? I sure never noticed), I can tell you, after a year of wondrous sleep therapy:

    the worst thing ever are the spur of the moment, utter knee‑jerk decisions consisting of swinging between always/never and no/yes.

    Right now, I have to root around a mix of browser history, and maybe local archiving to find an illustrator and his work, while having no idea how I have originally found either.

    So this sort of feels like remembering something before it happens, but you don’t know when it will happen.

    So here is the thing: never say never, never say no.

    You might change your mind. Again.

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

  • @mariobreskic:

    Added Threads to my archival system: now everything gets stored as a text file, a notebook entry in my notetaking programme, and I can access these from anywhere. Neat. asca

    Source: My Threads Account Mario Breskic

  • Around every first Saturday of the month, the following happens between me and my computer—some step repeat on other days, too, but rarely all:

    • encrypting local files
    • syncing encrypted local files with a remote cloud
    • copying notebooks from my notetaking programme into an archival section, named like this: year, month, and notebook name, like so: the notebook called “Projects” has its content moved to “2024-09-projects”, before the next step
    • exporting notebooks from my notetaking programme into various formats, then using an archiving programme to make an archival copy of these files
    • a certain analysis takes place, knowing I have my projects and ideas in one place: when I get around to them, I will do them
    • these exports and archives get synced from one local drive to another local drive, which itself is the decrypted representation of the encrypted local files I keep in sync with the remote cloud

    While this is not exactly a pleasurable process, it does provide a certain comfort: all is not lost. And while physical archives are rarely easy to access or a joy to use (my SO might have the one exception I am aware of: a suspension filing system by Leitz, which I find really neat absolutely glorious), this is one of the systems whose only tedium comes from the redundancy in exporting.

    As I work my way down my list of notebooks concerning topics like my projects and ideas, personal diary entries, changes to my workshop and its tools, social content, I take notice of why I do this process. Of course, there is that thing about being German and loving archives, sure, check that stereotype, sure, yes, sure.

    But why I do this is at all, is this: my existence is meaningful to me. What I do is meaningful to me. My observations and experiments have value to me. Maybe there is a little bit of becoming older playing into this, but I have always found computers to be a delight for one simple reason: I can search all of my files. And with interesting new tools like AI, I can even analyze my own files in meaningful ways, looking for patterns, and most often: for tone.

    If I would allow all of this to disappear into the obscurity of whatever social media does to a few people’s capacity to become involved in their own perception and processes, then all I would have done, is to allow my own words, my own life, to disappear.

    I rather uphold structure. I rather write about what I have done.

    Maybe you are into that sort of thing. Maybe you have read some of this, wondering about me and what I do. Maybe this is all very obvious and clear to you. All the same, I believe that knowing what we do, what we write, is of value to us.

    And most of what I am currently doing, is writing. I haven’t done that for years, and I am still struggling to get away from any kind of promotional tone: not because I was ever any good at that, hell no, but because the idea of having to market what I do and why I do it, has basically poisoned joy.

    Imagine doing work like this, and then having to satisfy some imaginary person you have in your head, because someone said something somewhere to get under your skin.

    For most of us, creative or not, that is a sad truth of existence: that only with time we can find joy in what we do, rather than looking for joy given to us by satisfying what others demand of us.

    And like I have said up there, doing this archival work is not exactly on a par with eating vanilla ice cream—but it satisfies something, which does not even need a fancy name. Maybe being your own person is about that: to neither be able to be understood by others easily, nor putting any effort into neither being understood nor being misunderstood.

    In a way, I am alone with my thoughts, in the company of a few hundred people. Imagine. I actually can’t. I just do these things, and write about them. Some of it in private, some of it like this, in the privacy of a few hundred mutuals, friends, and family.

    I think I will finish up reading Maeda’s Creative Code now.

    Maybe I will switch on some sort of archiving for my Threads account, too.

    I think I want to blog like this. I think I just did.

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

  • A desire to have other conversations than

    • saying what is bad about a thing
    • saying how a thing makes me feel

    I carry around this image of a monkey responding to stimuli, and I am sick of it. Having studied graphic design also meant having studied marketing, and psychology of perception.

    But it also meant having studied media, and science of communication, too.

    Starting a new kind of conversation today. I refuse to name it, I refuse to describe it. I refuse to use these same two modes of conversation I mentioned, because I donʼt think they are conversations at all (may Schulz von Thunʼs students and the other adherents to other simplifications forgive me, I canʼt believe that a model always applies).

    I expect to get myself into immense trouble.

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

  • Aus meinem Tagebuch #digitalestagebuch #digitaldiary
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  • Does that make sense? The need to do my best. I see it in others. A seemingly effortless ability.
    Yeah, I think I am ready for this next step now. #asca

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • After having watched the very female film “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” a few years ago, I will now watch the very male film “The Lighthouse”.

    You can read about these two here https://www.broadstreetreview.com/articles/between-the-lighthouse-and-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-one-film-is-true-to-q and here https://www.slashfilm.com/1615264/the-lighthouse-movie-metaphors-symbolism-explained/

    The gifs from these films floating around tumblr are usually exceptional.

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