Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  • 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?

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • I am playing with the idea of allowing commenting on my social archive. What kind of person would find it appealing to lurk someone else’s archive, commenting here and there, in the safety of a well‑built subdomain?

    What kind of person indeed?

    I would need to check out what the law says about allowing other people’s comments, but I like the idea of providing a space for a certain kind of dungeon lurker.

    If I should do it, I will not announce it. Let it develop organically, like an ecosystem.

    Source: From my after‑hours blog codeandcanvas

  • codeandcanvas:

    codeandcanvas:

    Getting really into Destiny 2 lately, and so far, it has been a blast.

    The music, the artwork, the lore, is just right: a well‑designed world with well‑designed elements, all fitting together.

    And you know what? Playing a game mostly played by dads and moms is a relief: maybe, after all, there is hope for adult media offering mature entertainment through its themes, rather than its visuals and scenes.

    A ‘complete package’ in what I would call recreational (electronic) media (after the Irem rebranded meaning) has always interested me the most: a solid art direction is invisible, because it makes a thing complete. Roleplaying games, tabletop games, video games. Nerd stuff.

    Incidentally, on the topic of video games, I have been looking for ways to get into R-Type (finding archived manuals has been fun) and a variation of Mega Man as well, but that is one of those slower processes.

    Slower processes are slow because if you try to speed them up, they end up consuming so much energy at once, you are basically incinerating yourself. I prefer catalyzing at room temperature.

    So far, I am enjoying my summer break quite a bit.

    Reblogging for troubleshooting <3

    In order of occurence:

    my security measures for my social archive made xmlrpc.php inaccessible, which causes the IFTTT applet doing the archiving to fail with 404

    I fixed that.

    renaming the automated archivist account on the wordpress subdomain has not yet been reflected in IFTTT, which causes the applet to fail with 403

    I fixed that.

    Perpetual testing and note‑keeping is kind of what I do in these situations: I sort of have a manual for these things I build online, and it keeps growing.

    Now everything should work as expected.

    Source: From my after‑hours blog codeandcanvas

  • Using social media for finding interesting projects and people is basically what using the web has always been about, so I decided to untether what I write and do on social media sites, and archive it publically in one place. #asca

    Source: From my Twitter  MarioBreskic

  • Before I jump off of this thing again, here is something I’ve learnt since last you read anything by me in the clear: I am much more relaxed understanding that the people who “tell you like it is”, do “some real talk” and “who know what’s up” have turnt that into a job. #acas

    Source: From my Twitter  MarioBreskic

  • Using social media for finding interesting projects and people is basically what using the web has always been about, so I decided to untether what I write and do on social media sites, and archive it publically in one place. #acas

    Source: From my Twitter  MarioBreskic