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Fall into a nutritionally complete breakfast
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An aluminum spiral staircase of extreme minimalist design in the corner of what appears to be a dining room. No handrail and small step surfaces make the staircase appear very dangerous to use.
There is one for sale on 1st dibs for $42k
My knees!
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), dir. Tim Burton
First thing that flashed into my head.
First thing that flashed into my head.
see ya later snapchat
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^ Pictured above: Billionaire Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel went to Coachella with his supermodel wife, and then two days later laid off over 1,000 employees. I was one of them. So was my entire team of about 40 people.
We were the Bitmoji team at Snapchat, and except for a few people in LA, our team was completely eliminated. Acquired by Snapchat, Bitmoji remained, at least in spirit, a somewhat semi-autonomous republic within the larger company. But eventually the Bitmoji founders departed or were ousted, along with some long-time artists, and the corporate tech tentacles slowly creeped in to smother what was once a quirky creative team. I joined part way through the process, so I got to taste that fun/creative culture, but also witness its decline.
Honestly, we were all there by accident - artists, animators, and illustrators hiding in the corner of a Tech Company, quietly shocked at the generous salaries and benefits (and free lunches) we received, a contrast to the poor-paying studios and freelance illustration gigs that had come before.
The 5 years I spent there were amazing and horrible. Amazing because (1) Big Tech Salary, and (2) I got to work with some of the most fun, creative and intelligent people. No dead wood on this team. It was also horrible, because ultimately I was just making digital crap to keep users' eyes glued to an app and its advertisers. The pressure to perform and scale production was really high. I lost sleep and gained weight, and got to suffer from anxiety for the first time.
And now suddenly it's done. We're all out. Ostensibly "because AI", despite the fact that we barely used any AI in our creative pipelines, and only for non-creative tasks. I didn't lose my job because of AI, I lost it because of the *idea* that AI could do it all. And of course because Snap's stagnating stock price needed a boost.
It's honestly a relief. I've spent the last month relaxing and decompressing; I had accumulated a month's worth of unused vacation anyway. I'll eventually try to figure out what's next, but for now I have a generous severance to give me some breathing room. I'm free now, as are my fellow artists. I'm happy they can go use their creative gifts for things that are hopefully more meaningful to our society and culture.
thanks for reading my brain dump mltshp friends. That concludes my ted talk.
We were the Bitmoji team at Snapchat, and except for a few people in LA, our team was completely eliminated. Acquired by Snapchat, Bitmoji remained, at least in spirit, a somewhat semi-autonomous republic within the larger company. But eventually the Bitmoji founders departed or were ousted, along with some long-time artists, and the corporate tech tentacles slowly creeped in to smother what was once a quirky creative team. I joined part way through the process, so I got to taste that fun/creative culture, but also witness its decline.
Honestly, we were all there by accident - artists, animators, and illustrators hiding in the corner of a Tech Company, quietly shocked at the generous salaries and benefits (and free lunches) we received, a contrast to the poor-paying studios and freelance illustration gigs that had come before.
The 5 years I spent there were amazing and horrible. Amazing because (1) Big Tech Salary, and (2) I got to work with some of the most fun, creative and intelligent people. No dead wood on this team. It was also horrible, because ultimately I was just making digital crap to keep users' eyes glued to an app and its advertisers. The pressure to perform and scale production was really high. I lost sleep and gained weight, and got to suffer from anxiety for the first time.
And now suddenly it's done. We're all out. Ostensibly "because AI", despite the fact that we barely used any AI in our creative pipelines, and only for non-creative tasks. I didn't lose my job because of AI, I lost it because of the *idea* that AI could do it all. And of course because Snap's stagnating stock price needed a boost.
It's honestly a relief. I've spent the last month relaxing and decompressing; I had accumulated a month's worth of unused vacation anyway. I'll eventually try to figure out what's next, but for now I have a generous severance to give me some breathing room. I'm free now, as are my fellow artists. I'm happy they can go use their creative gifts for things that are hopefully more meaningful to our society and culture.
thanks for reading my brain dump mltshp friends. That concludes my ted talk.
Onward and upward!
When I left my job at JP Morgan the sudden drop of cortisol in my system turned into losing ~10lbs in as many days.
Hopefully the break is refreshing and fulfilling and leads quickly and easily into the next project which is hopefully more fun and fulfilling than the last! Lachaim!
Hopefully the break is refreshing and fulfilling and leads quickly and easily into the next project which is hopefully more fun and fulfilling than the last! Lachaim!
oof, man, i'm so sorry, but also... escape velocity! i'm glad you have some runway to consider your options now. vibing for a much more fulfilling next stage for you.
...everyone in the USA knew...
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In architecture school I wrote a paper about how Cincinnati was consistently behind the curve in adopting new modes of transportation - canals, rail, subway - and how if it had been more forward thinking it could’ve risen to much greater prominence.
In retrospect it was my first taste of the discipline of planning, and if I’d recognized that sooner I might have saved myself a lot of trouble floundering in design. Bit of irony there I’d never noticed until now.
In retrospect it was my first taste of the discipline of planning, and if I’d recognized that sooner I might have saved myself a lot of trouble floundering in design. Bit of irony there I’d never noticed until now.
I had no idea Johnny Canal was based in fact. Holy cow.
RIP Sonny Rollins
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Black and white photo of several dozen people clustered on and around a brownstone staircase in Harlem in 1958. People present include Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, Charles Mingus, Lester Young, and Art Blakey. There are also about a dozen young boys, plus Count Basie, sitting on the curb in front of them.
Rollins was the longest-surviving musician in the Great Day in Harlem photo shot in 1958. Actual end of an era.
Full list of musicians (jaw-dropping!) plus additional people who missed the photo session:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
I sometimes wonder about the kids in the photo. What kinds of lives had they managed to have?
Full list of musicians (jaw-dropping!) plus additional people who missed the photo session:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
I sometimes wonder about the kids in the photo. What kinds of lives had they managed to have?
A friend of mine claimed to have sold him an ounce of weed when he played at Oberlin; he said Rollins' wife was mad about this.
The Big Sherrin
Antique Selfie With 2D Babe
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Black and white photograph in Savannah, Georgia, 1969, created by Lee Friedlander. He takes the picture of a picture cutout, leaving future viewers with a self portrait of the artist, in reflection.
Savannah, Georgia, 1969
Lee Friedlander speaks of the medium with humility, as if his photographs are simply gifts he has been fortunate to receive, but the more closely we look the more keenly we see just how carefully he guides us through the photograph into life itself.
#photography #LeeFriedlander
https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...
Lee Friedlander speaks of the medium with humility, as if his photographs are simply gifts he has been fortunate to receive, but the more closely we look the more keenly we see just how carefully he guides us through the photograph into life itself.
#photography #LeeFriedlander
https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...
Hello 1974!
oooh, cool! i had not seen his work before, thank you!
...so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.
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Pontiff on point.
We could do with a bit of Galadriel's girl power too, afaic, but I never would have imagined the Pope quoting Tolkien.
I wonder what the old man would have thought of that..?
Or AI for that matter, lol.
We could do with a bit of Galadriel's girl power too, afaic, but I never would have imagined the Pope quoting Tolkien.
I wonder what the old man would have thought of that..?
Or AI for that matter, lol.
AI is clearly the work of Morgoth. As orcs are an abomination of elves so is AI art a perversion of the creative spirit within humans.
@m3moellering whoa.
@MackReed That may have been before my morning cuppa…
Snail race
office chickens update: now i am become the whimsy distribution vigilante
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a 2x2 grid of square images, depicting an assortment of tiny translucent resin animals. top to bottom, left to right:
1) a sealed plastic bag containing the various figures
2) the figures in a pile on a blue couch
3) the figures sitting on top of a MacBook, sorted in rows by type and color, with the frogs, chickens, ducks, and rabbits in frame.
4) a pink chicken, pink whale, white rabbit, green frog, blue ducky, and yellow mushroom sit on a windowsill with trees behind it
1) a sealed plastic bag containing the various figures
2) the figures in a pile on a blue couch
3) the figures sitting on top of a MacBook, sorted in rows by type and color, with the frogs, chickens, ducks, and rabbits in frame.
4) a pink chicken, pink whale, white rabbit, green frog, blue ducky, and yellow mushroom sit on a windowsill with trees behind it
@kittons sent me a giant bag of tiny chickens (and whales, and frogs, and rabbits, and frogs, and ducks, and mushrooms) so now i can join in the tiny creature distribution.
dropped two on the counter at my favorite coffee shop yesterday. am now looking forward to lightening the otherwise insane week by hiding a few at work.
previously:
https://mltshp.com/p/1RQ19
https://mltshp.com/p/1RPES
dropped two on the counter at my favorite coffee shop yesterday. am now looking forward to lightening the otherwise insane week by hiding a few at work.
previously:
https://mltshp.com/p/1RQ19
https://mltshp.com/p/1RPES
my brother was doing this last year up in Truckee. he have me a ghost, probably because i hadn't seen him in over ten years
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samesies
Me stumbling face first into relationships I’m not prepared for
the way it goes
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It’s almost as though the only thing all these situations have in common is that they are profitable to business owners and capitalists. But surely I’m missing something.
Well said, but no one should still be using that website, so zero stars to whoever this is
it surgers again!
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A surger, or overlock, sewing machine, tools, and a piece of fabric with an overlock stitch on it
It's been several replacement parts, between five and seven hours of messing with it over three maintenance attempts, at least five YouTube videos, literally locating the original manual, and enough cuss words to get me thrown out of a Walmart, but it actually makes a locking stitch again.
sandwich
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Vienna sausage and mayo sandwich on white bread perched on paper towels
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
Needs more squeeze cheez
I used to do the liverwurst and onions.
I support this.
I went to Sonic Temple
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Smiling doofus with allergy-smitten wife
I generally avoid big multi-day festivals as typically there are not enough bands I want to see to justify the cost. However, the stars aligned this year. Nearly every band I wanted to see was playing on my birthday. Spent about 10 hours there and it worked out to about 8 bucks a band in the end. My wife was a trooper, she was having allergy issues and is not a crowd person, but she also had a good time when it was all said and done.
working with images in Word
Crime Alley
Bike Trail Wildlife
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Snapping turtle on bike trail framed by handlebars.
Did a 35 mile ride on the bike trail this morning. While I was tempted to stop an pet the couple of kitties I saw along the way, I thought it bet not to pet this guy.
hazard kitty
I don't condone homocide
(Portland) Oregon Trail
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You have died of Disishairy
Is this the human equivalent of a clear cut?
i just wanna know if … no, never mind.
@MackReed
It does. I’m sorry.
It does. I’m sorry.
Public Enemy
Great Blue...
Toot!
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A sign reads - Magic of Art with the “o” being a spoked wheel design. The lettering below reads Tatto and Permanent Makeup
From Imgur
I think I went to school with this kid...
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I did a couple of plays with Morgan Shepherd, and he was quite fond of doing that sort of thing.
years ago, a classmate of my son’s in 7th grade had a tooth about to fall out, so he jumped up on a lunchroom table, howled like an animal, brandished a pair of pliers and yanked it out. As blood ran down his chin, everyone shrieked and grownups hustled him off to the principal’s office where, a few hours later, his mother managed to prevent his expulsion. Fun times.
my mother had a teacher in grade school that would take out her glass eye and set it on her desk when she needed to step out of the classroom, telling the kids "she'd be watching them so behave yourselves"
doot doot
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Sonny Rollins - On Green Dolphin Street (1968)
at last
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illustration captioned "Improved lifting and spanking machine" showing a blindfold man using it to spank himself
Which Silicon Valley has reinvented as agentic AI
…beat a path to your door, etc
I’ll take a hundred…
The Economy Rectangle
Family vacation!
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Grey-haired old man, his pretty wife and genius son take up a row of an airplane, in flight.
My kid just graduated HS, and will be bussing tables and interning at a chemistry lab at NU this summer, before heading to University of Illinois in the fall (Chemical Engineering with a music minor). My wife starts a 6 month contract in a week from Monday that will involve a lot of travel. I’m slammed at work with 50-60 hour weeks likely through October.
But first, a week in Central Oregon!
But first, a week in Central Oregon!
I like the idea of bussing tables at a chemistry lab.
Sounds like a fun, fulfilling just time! Congrats and enjoy!
Sounds like a fun, fulfilling just time! Congrats and enjoy!
What a delightful crew!
Have a great time!
hazy shades
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An eerily blurry scene: a tree with long, thin, wavy branches stands against a white sky. Hanging from one of the branches is a crude swing with nobody on it. The entire scene is rough, grainy, and rendered in shades of dark blue, gray, white, and tinges of green. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
Nice one!
The subject matter of Ray Bradbury’s short story “And There Will Come Soft Rains” takes place this August. Just saying.
I’m reminded of the story anytime I see a shadow of a child at play. It’s five quick pages and available here:
https://www.btboces.org/Download...
https://www.btboces.org/Download...
Starting my first mural on Monday
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Photograph of a blank wall on the side of a housing block. The wall is about 3 stories high.
More than two years ago, one of my neighbors suggested to me that I should paint a mural on an ugly wall at a square down my street.
It took me forever to scrape enough courage together to get funding from various kinds of places. But I managed. I got the money. I got the permits. I got the scissor lift. I got the wall renovated and plastered. I got the paint and a colleague that is going to help me. And it should be ready by June 13, because then it’s going to be officially opened.
I found the whole process rather nerve-racking because all in all it’s about €18,000. But my goodness, will I be happy and relieved once it’s done.
It took me forever to scrape enough courage together to get funding from various kinds of places. But I managed. I got the money. I got the permits. I got the scissor lift. I got the wall renovated and plastered. I got the paint and a colleague that is going to help me. And it should be ready by June 13, because then it’s going to be officially opened.
I found the whole process rather nerve-racking because all in all it’s about €18,000. But my goodness, will I be happy and relieved once it’s done.
This is awesome! I can't wait for updates!
Ooh, this is exciting!
This is going to be massive! I hope you have fun while working your arse off!
