Chandan Mahapatra

@projecthailmary Do watch the movie in @IMAX if you are able to, as other screens might not do justice to the beautiful visuals

.@projecthailmary Can we please get the Sandra Hüller cover of Sign of the Times? The movie was amaze amaze amaze 👎👎👎

@DANIELPEMBERTON @BFI Movie was great and so was that score!

Snuck into the @BFI IMAX on the weekend and was blown away by how the 70mm IMAX print looked and sounded.. Such a buzz seeing a totally full cinema just all locked in. Very special memory.

@auchenberg Or actually make it work/do something useful

Thought: Microsoft should kill the Copilot branding, and start over.

good visual design requires restraint and restraint is rarely preserved when a committee is involved

I think its high time we got Gorillaz on Tiny Desk

@davidhoang @chrisalbon @sarahookr Awesome! What did you think about the "city's unique culture"?

@chrisalbon @sarahookr Relatable haha. m.economictimes.com/magazines/pana…

As someone who has had a few things go viral that should not have, I feel for @sarahookr here lol

@robynxpark I have been trying to use Notion as a CMS if you wanted to check it out - github.com/ChandanMahapat…

question for folks who’ve set up blogs on claude-built sites: what’s the simplest way to add a lightweight cms? ideally it’s easy to publish/edit posts, add images and embedded content, requires minimal maintenance. notion as a cms? something else?

if you’re building software meant to be consumed by humans, take the time to actually design it AI has a design smell because it’s “designing” via code. we can tell!

If there’s one thing that Hollywood can do well, it’s Hollywood. Wonder Man. Great show

gg

@designertom This is the way

We turned down a massive contract with Higgsfield after seeing their behavior. It’s a large part of why we had to cancel our Tokyo Design Forum shoot. I’m still extremely sour about it. Tech displaces jobs. But being proud of it by way of agitating those being impacted is the dumbest way to operate. We are not only rushing to find ways to help people transition to new tools and teams, but we’re not partnering with companies that don’t share this goal. Sometimes that means we have to axe meaningful projects. Okay by me.

If it’s anything like the book people are in for a treat

@wesbos Nope, became unresponsive really quick

Last time I opened a complex file like this in Figma it became unresponsive. Had to switch back to illustrator Has that improved? I’ll see if I can dig up the file

@vamsibatchuk Really cool!

i keep making map apps and it's so much fun. one another ai studio experiment that shows dinosaur fossil sites around the world. pick your favorite dinosaur, get a vintage-style map to see where they've been found across the world, the full field survey record with weight class, bite force, the works. aesthetic i was going for = a 1920s expedition archive.

This. But vibes based on story might change. It has been fun till now

never expected this image would sum up the AI state right now.

The future is here

THE BIG REGRESSION My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented them a house nearby. It’s new construction. No one has lived in it yet. It’s amped up with state of the art systems. The ones with touchscreens of various sizes, IoT appliances, and interfaces that try too hard. And it’s terrible. What a regression. The lights are powered by Control4. And require a demo to understand how to use the switches, understand which ones control what, and to be sure not to hit THAT ONE because it’ll turn off all the lights in the house when you didn’t mean to. Worse. The TV is the latest Samsung which has a baffling UI just to watch CNN. My parents aren’t idiots, but definitely feel like they’re missing something obvious. They aren’t — TVs have simply gotten worse. You don’t turn them on anymore, you boot them up. The Miele dishwasher is hidden flush with the counters. That part is fine, but here’s what isn’t: It wouldn’t even operate the first time without connecting it to an app. This meant another call to the house manager to have them install an app they didn’t know they needed either. An app to clean some peanut butter off a plate? For serious? Worse. Thermostats... Nest would have been an upgrade, but these other propriety ones from some other company trying to be nest-like are baffling. Round touchscreens that take you into a dark labyrinth of options just to be sure it’s set at 68. Or is it 68 now? Or is that what we want it at, but it’s at 72? Wait... What? Which number is this? Worse. The alarm system is essentially a 10” iPad bolted to the wall that has the fucking weather forecast on it. And it’s bright! I’m sure there’s a way to turn that off, but then the screen would be so barren that it would be filled with the news instead. Why can’t the alarm panel just be an alarm panel? Worse. And the lag. Lag everywhere. Everything feels a beat or two behind. Everything. Lag is the giveaway that the system is working too hard for too little. Real-time must be the hardest problem. Now look... I’m no luddite. But this experience is close to conversion therapy. Tech can make things better, but I simply can’t see in these cases. I’ve heard the pitches too — you can set up scenes and one button can change EVERYTHING. Not buying it. It actually feels primitive, like we haven’t figured out how to make things easy yet. That some breakthrough will eventually come when you can simply knock a switch up or down and it’ll all makes sense. But that's at least 20 years down the road. It’s really the contrast that makes it alarming. We just got back from a vacation in Montana. Rented a house there. They did have a fancy TV — seems those can’t be avoided these days — but everything else was old school and clear. Physical up/down light switches in the right places. Appliances without the internet. Buttons with depth and physically-confirmed state change rather than surfaces that don’t obviously register your choice. More traditional round rotating Honeywell thermostats that are just clear and obvious. No tours, no instructions, no questions, no fearing you’re going to do something wrong, no wondering how something works. Useful and universally clear. That’s human, that’s modern.

Man. Such a shame. First movie was definitely a banger. Almost perfect casting