Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

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  • From my mastodon:

    I have been thinking about this for quite a while, and there is a public part to my process anyhow, so let me start with that public part, and then move it back into my personal notes later:

    are there any undead websites out there, where hosting/server costs are covered in advance for years, everything is automated but the person who authored the website is dead or has been dead for a while, and nobody is responsible?
    Maybe calling it a tomb would be more apt?

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  • Since I got my feed‑server up and running again (which means I also got my feed reader apps pointing to this main hub), I am now tuned back into what the design and art world is doing, above a certain threshold of notability of course (for the cool stuff I still need to dig into it, talk to people directly, you know, get a connection; magazines and websites can’t reasonably be expected to allocate resources to writing articles for single‑digit audiences).

    There is a new short series on ARTE called “Change by Design”, which you can check out here. I will watch it later as well. It seems to revolve around sustainable products, so I know the products are not for everyone, for various reasons.

    I personally like to keep that connection I have made last year to the arts and crafts community, during a seminar for my alma mater’s alumni about what we call “Kunsthandwerk”.

    Bonus: “Typographic Video Gaming”, an episode from the series “Art of Gaming”, also on ARTE.

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  • Where was I?

    During graphic design study, we had what I thought was a too short semester of video class, as in moving pictures, you know, storyboarding, types of shots and crops, animation in 2d and 3d.

    And my professor then was really amazed by the show called “Devs”, and how the sfx and computer generated effects looked and worked in that show, so of course I incidentally already had that CineFex magazine issue #171 with the long article about some of the video effects in that show, and I sent him the article, because I was so amazed by it as well, still am.

    To this day, I still wonder what he thought of that, a student, out of nowhere, pulling up an article from the only issue of a magazine he has bought a couple of weeks before, talking about a show he thought was neat. Serendipity? Attempted bribery?

    So anyway, here are a couple of links about Devs, for me and you:

    ps: since my archival system at https://social.mariobreskic.de/ (that is my URL by the way 😎) is working nicely, you don’t even have to log in anywhere to have access to what I am up to on my socials these days. You can search it, too (if you were around at that time, I like making things which are searchable, like I did with my year‑long project grafikdesignfeed.de where you could access a plethora of graphic design feeds, search them and use them).

    That project still exists in a way, since I am not in the habit of destroyng things; it just isn’t part of the clear web anymore.

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  • Progress is an infinite train going in a flat spiral. I can hop off whenever I like the scenery I see. You like an area in between the rails? Sure, hop to it!

    The train will keep doing its thing, while I go around building my own stuff. I can hop back on if I feel like it, otherwise let’s wave at each other 😉

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  • While I am loading up my handheld with music, I came across The Book of Ive talking about Solarpunk and how it relates to Cyberpunk.

    At first I was passively listening to it, as you do while doing something more important but still need to occupy your inner gremlins, but then he mentioned a word I have not heard before: interpassivity, a word linked to Robert Pfaller’s philosophy of media, and also the title of his 2017 book, and I paused and took note.

    And this is how the book and its topic is described on its page on De Gruyter:

    “A radical criticism of current assumptions in the field of cultural theory today

    Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why do some recovering alcoholics let others drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers?

    Robert Pfaller advances the theory of ‘interpassivity’ as delegated consumption and enjoyment. Applicable to both art and everyday life, the concept allows him to tackle a vast range of phenomena: culture, art, sports and religion.

    Pfaller criticises dominant assumptions, offers an escape from prevailing ideologies and exposes how cultural capitalism promotes commodities with the promise of happiness.”

    Interesting take, right?

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  • Let us all have our own websites!

    LuvstarKei talking about how fun it is to have your own website which you can put anything on.

    I personally believe that what I would call fake professionalism (that’s the one where you pretend to be different from who and how you actually are) will destroy your creativity quickly, so to thine self be true.

    Yeah, sure, having a portfolio website is all cool and sh*t, but I believe that if you like to make friends and get to know cool people in your field (and in others) giving them what is basically your business card after a cool hang is mental.

    I will have a portfolio section, sure, of course, but come on! How drab would that be! I am not building these fun little things so that nobody gets to see them because I could possibly confuse my “customers” in my “niche”.

    Reading that last paragraph again, that actually sounds like putting a cage around my soul.

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  • On the topic of music, some years ago, I was listening to Isaac Arthur’s various podcast episodes about science fiction and besides enjoying them, I also noticed certain pieces of music he used in his videos which just sounded right for cosmic exploration, and the awe you feel when looking up.

    The music he used in those episodes was by the musician Frank Dorittke, also known as F.D. Project, and the particular album Isaac Arthur used a lot at the time (and I enjoyed, later, listening to it myself after signing up on the website offering it) is called Mare Tranquilitatis, and you can find it here.

    As a bonus for the shephards and gardeners among my mutuals, Arthur is talking about how he feels about Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis here, a hypothesis which played not a small role in my bachelor’s thesis in graphic design about signaletics for life on Mars, thanks to my mentor, Professor Ken Lanig, who you can listen to giving two book recommendations in German here.

    Still enjoying what I now realize is my sabbatical, and in the mood for being real: my life is connected to itself.

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  • The hard problem is about the fact that there seems to be some subjective experience that doesn’t correlate with your ability to respond.

    Hakwan Lau in an interview with Elliott Ihm about Aphantasia, listen to the timestamped quote here.

    Since one of my classes during study was psychology of perception, this is worth a note. I think I’ll look into following him on Twitter when I get back to that in November, I think.

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  • I enjoy the green on black dashboard palette on tumblr a lot, so I decided to give my social wall archive thing a very similar look as well.

    I hope ASCA likes it. It also feels kind of right for an archive to be some kind of oldschool, webdesign‑wise.

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