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Creativity on stereoids: Ian Hubert about building worlds in Blender. This video is packed with fun information but it's also very fascinating to see his approach in seeing and noticing the world and then replicating it in Blender with very creative approaches and tricks.

Kevin Smith describing why they shot Clerks in Black & White: They couldn't afford a proper lighting setup and didn't want the green tint from the fluorescent lights.

A very nice example of the saying by Jesse Driftwood:

The way you solve for mistakes are your style

https://mygranddadiskeepingbusy.com/

A lovely little blog where someone posts their granddads journal entries from 60 years ago. I'm often wondering what people in the past must have thought or felt, so this blog is a little gateway into that. A gateway to simpler times, maybe?

Such a cool video about skiing. I'm not interested in skiing, but this makes me want to go out and do something. The video's shot on Kodak 16mm, which gives it a very cool look. It also perfectly highlights again how the image quality isn't all that important for a video to be good.

Such cool, simple Punk Rock. Makes you feel good. Also the guys seem very relatable to me, they're not rock stars, they're not the cool kids, they're just your regular run-from-the-mill guys. Love that.

cool-retro-term

cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.

Retro is cool these days. Here's a terminal that's retro.

http://www.righto.com/2024/08/minuteman-guidance-computer.html

This is a perfect demonstration of how I hear music: oftentimes (electronic) music creates these images in my head: something bouncing, something emerging, or looming. Or in this case the falling and recovering of the airplane.

source

https://luggagelosers.com/

A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing right now.

Python Mocking 101: Fake it before you make it

@patch("module.mock_function")
def test_thing(..., mock_call):
    mock_call.return_value = {"foo": "bar"}

    module.mock_function(a, b, c)

    mock_call.assert_called_once_with(a, b, c)

ds{count}{motion} // delete the surroundings
cs{count}{motion} // change the surroundings
ys{count}{motion} // add surroundings

Surround things in vscode vim

https://www.devever.net/~hl/traintoilet

What I love about this is that this person paid attention to their surroundings. They tried to understand the most ordinary thing they encountered. Yet this makes clear that even those things had to be designed by someone. Somebody had to make an effort and figure out a system on how to lock a train toilet. And this hack somewhat pays homage to that.

https://timberfestival.org.uk/

Map of the sounds of forests all around the world.

paulstretch

Stretch any sound to the extreme. Example with the Windows 98 startup sound.

https://lettersofnote.com/2012/02/15/i-love-my-wife-my-wife-is-dead/

Richard Feynman's letter to his dead wife. Austin Kleon recommends reading obituaries for motivation. This goes in a similar direction. Maybe this is sort of the same but four couples?

https://www.elletownsend.co.uk/blog/posts/blog-with-eleventy/

How to create a blog with 11ty