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King's Lead Hat
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A cartoon illustration of a surprised King waking up in bed and discovering the lower half of his body is an upside down mirror image of himself. Caption reads "The King's card game hadn't been just a dream after all."
(is an anagram of Talking Heads)
@bitslayer, I did not know! My chum is always singing it.
Flaming Tardigrade (fire bear)
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Metal tardigrade statue with flames coming from the limbs
Went to SOAK over Memorial Day weekend, had a good time hanging out with friends new and old. Great art.
this is excellent
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.
shit, it's may?
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screenshot of a tumblr thread in which @thatadhdfeel writes, "OH FUCK APPARENTLY IT'S ADHD AWARENESS MONTH http://www.adhdawarenessmonth.org/"
@arachnocapitalism writes, "Not to be That Girl but not realizing this until halfway through ADHD awareness month is like the most ADHDmeta thing I've ever seen"
@themarchrabbit writes, "We have an awareness month?"
@squeeful writes, "shit, it's may?"
@thedinodad writes, "OH SHIT"
@arachnocapitalism writes, "Not to be That Girl but not realizing this until halfway through ADHD awareness month is like the most ADHDmeta thing I've ever seen"
@themarchrabbit writes, "We have an awareness month?"
@squeeful writes, "shit, it's may?"
@thedinodad writes, "OH SHIT"
Thankfully, it's in October this year!
Snake I saw on a walk
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Leica M10 x Voigtlander Heliar 50/3.5
Yesterday my son and I were reminiscing about a youtube video we had seen many years ago called "crazy old man kicks a snake." We found the title hilarious at the time (and still). I can still find the video, but saddly not with that title: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
My dad, in his 70's rode in the open back of his old Ford F150, from Riverdale, Utah, to Ogden, Utah; in tightie whities only, because while irrigating his father in law's field at 1 AM, kicked what he thought, was a black and white cat. His clothes never again saw the light of day.
@ba Haven't seen that. But it unjarred the memory of the "Dog yeets snake" video. https://www.youtube.com/watch...
M*A*S*H! Remarkable, Memorable Scene (1980)
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"We were so alive back then... it was something."
Watching the MASH DVDs with the laugh track turned off, it's an entirely different show.
compost bin aka skunk feeder
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A compost bin made of wooden pallets. It has a screened in top. It's in front of a garage with a cinder block lower level and a dark blue shingled upper level with some paned windows above it. In front of it is a lot of grass and forget-me-nots and some dandelions
I've never lived in a place where composting wasn't just "hucking stuff into the wild backyard" but this place has a compost bin and I've tried to get good at using it. Vermont says you're not supposed to toss out food waste anyhow. This bin was full when I toured the house and I specifically mentioned to the realtor that I'd need it emptied before I moved in since an empty compost bin was worth a lot more to me than a bin of compost (I am not much of a gardener). We had what I hope is our last frost this past week and the forget-me-nots are out in earnest and I just thought it looked so nice. The skunks have burrowed in to the back of it occasionally and I pretend not to notice.
I hope you end up on as good terms with your skunk(s) as my friend Josh, who has one living under his front steps. Josh calls out "Hi, Skunky!" and the skunk obligingly waddles off. Never been bothered by it. It even hangs out with his cats sometimes.
mfw
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That's because they're hiding the salami.
@ardgedee Hehehehehe
Does this Clown taste a little funny to 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.
I've got a mule, her name is Sal!
Turn around, *ssholes!
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A father and teenaged son read an interpretative sign while seemingly ignoring the majesty of nature along the Deschutes River Trail in Bend, Oregon.
Deschutes! It's the Deschutes!
@mcmjolnir fixed it. Autocorrect bit me in the ass.
@ba duckin autocorrect!
Drill Press Chris
Vigilante Cabin
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White clapboard forest service cabin with a shake roof. To the left is a moderate sized Engelmann spruce. The cabin is located in the upper Ruby River Valley between the Gravelly and Snowcrest ranges in SW Montana.
I had a big plan to ride 180 miles in SW Montana this weekend, starting and ending at Virginia City. A burgeoning lung infection had other ideas and I scrapped the ride about 8 miles in. So lemons, lemonade, etc, I decided to camp out at my initial destination (Red Rock Lakes NWR), then promptly got a flat tire. I had a fun problem of driving 110 mi on an interstate at 50 mph on a donut spare to get to the only open tire shop open on a Sunday, or get stuck until today when tire shops opened back up from the long weekend. Anyhow, the spare held, and I made it to Vigilante Cabin, my destination for night 2. Lots of lemons this weekend, but of all worked out pretty ok ultimately.
3-7-77
Vindication!!!!
tuesday
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Tramell Tillman dancing in Severance
This fits exactly with The Bird That You Can't See.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 also with Dancing On My Own by Robyn
Gardener Chris
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Chris and I are still working on images for my master final project. Next week I have an informal presentation to the tutors. A month from now it’ll be in exhibition!
This is technically a “botched” image from the set we took yesterday. The flash didn’t trigger. Because it’s outside and I’m pushing the film to 1600 iso, the image didn’t expose to black. I really like how it turned out! It doesn’t work for the series but I like it on its own.
Gear nerdery: Hasselblad 500 c/m, 85 2.8 at f8, 1/250 shutter, tri-x 400 pushed to 1600. The flash that didn’t fire was a godox tt350 (great little flash, needed batteries). I used a godox trigger with a sync cable.
This is technically a “botched” image from the set we took yesterday. The flash didn’t trigger. Because it’s outside and I’m pushing the film to 1600 iso, the image didn’t expose to black. I really like how it turned out! It doesn’t work for the series but I like it on its own.
Gear nerdery: Hasselblad 500 c/m, 85 2.8 at f8, 1/250 shutter, tri-x 400 pushed to 1600. The flash that didn’t fire was a godox tt350 (great little flash, needed batteries). I used a godox trigger with a sync cable.
His face being in the shadow is very anonymising, and gives me a vibe of someone doing the "invisible" work that just gets done when you're not looking.
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.
Snail race
The Shopping Cart Theory
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Personal pet peeve but I am sure many here will share this view.
Picked up via Anon Opin (which I think is the same guy behind b3ta)
https://mastodon.social/@anon_op...
Picked up via Anon Opin (which I think is the same guy behind b3ta)
https://mastodon.social/@anon_op...
Yes, it's the b3ta guy, who also does fesshole.
hard agree
The Krenek, or Yanamamo do not return their shopping carts. They more return the Amazon, in it's original condition.
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Banana Synthesizer
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
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.
The Big Sherrin
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Big Aussie Units Series #74
The Big Sherrin - Ungarie, NSW
An AFL footbal, in the home of the Danihers, Ungarie. The town is famously known as the birthplace and hometown of the Daniher brothers—Terry, Neale, Anthony, and Chris—who all played for the Essendon Football Club.
Posting this one in honour of Neale, who passed away yesterday from MND. He was an icon of Australian football as both a player and a coach. the coach of the Melbourne Football Club between 1998 and 2007, and also held coaching positions with Essendon, Fremantle and West Coast.
He is also the 2016 Australian of The Year
Vale Neale.
Have not visited
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
The Big Sherrin - Ungarie, NSW
An AFL footbal, in the home of the Danihers, Ungarie. The town is famously known as the birthplace and hometown of the Daniher brothers—Terry, Neale, Anthony, and Chris—who all played for the Essendon Football Club.
Posting this one in honour of Neale, who passed away yesterday from MND. He was an icon of Australian football as both a player and a coach. the coach of the Melbourne Football Club between 1998 and 2007, and also held coaching positions with Essendon, Fremantle and West Coast.
He is also the 2016 Australian of The Year
Vale Neale.
Have not visited
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
If I might go a step further @Argie and say that Neale Daniher spent the last decade or so, since his diagnosis, publicising MND and inspiring people to raise funds to research this horrible nervous disorder.
Without Neale Daniher, I'm sure most of the Australian population would not know what MND is, let alone contribute millions of dollars to try and help find a cure.
He was a solid footballer and a reasonable coach but a giant among men.
Without Neale Daniher, I'm sure most of the Australian population would not know what MND is, let alone contribute millions of dollars to try and help find a cure.
He was a solid footballer and a reasonable coach but a giant among men.
@roonie 100% yes to all of that 👍
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!
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
I recently bought tiny Sasquatches to hide in forest service cabins.
ECMA-42 Printer Character Set Definition (1973)
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print sample of a simple 7-pin dot matrix character set, upper case characters only
Like dog tags.
I can hear it just by looking.
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samesies
Me stumbling face first into relationships I’m not prepared for
Melanie
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A woman standing in front of a building in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, wearing the "Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon" medal.
Melanie, my sister who has lived in Japan for 30+ years, received the "Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon" the other day. It's the highest honour that can be given to a civilian (non-politician). She received it for "Contributions to the Australia Japan relationship and economic development". As part of the ceremony she had an audience with the Emperor, who she said "was very short".
Melanie is the little urban overachiever of our family. She's on the boards of Asahi, Mitsubishi Estate and Kawasaki Heavy Manufacturing, in addition to knowing just about everyone in the world. She regularly sends photos when she's out with various Heads of State.
I just happened to have a trip to Japan planned when the award was announced, so I got to represent the family. Unfortunately not allowed to be part of the official events, but we had plenty of drinks with friends afterwards.
Melanie is the little urban overachiever of our family. She's on the boards of Asahi, Mitsubishi Estate and Kawasaki Heavy Manufacturing, in addition to knowing just about everyone in the world. She regularly sends photos when she's out with various Heads of State.
I just happened to have a trip to Japan planned when the award was announced, so I got to represent the family. Unfortunately not allowed to be part of the official events, but we had plenty of drinks with friends afterwards.
Congrats to your sister!
おめでとう!
BTW, for someone who is both (1) a woman and (2) a foreigner to achieve that level of corporate success in Japan is truly impressive. (For example, here's the Board of Mitsubishi Estate: https://www.mec.co.jp/en... )
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!
