Lee Black

ASCII SVG + Type Engine @framer component is finished and now submitted to the marketplace. Will be dropping on our studio store tonight.

Sorry to say that the parcels I had planed to send to the United States (5 in total) will not go out. Costing almost 100€ to ship each parcel. Crazy. Europe wide parcels all sent out. I’ll donate the 5 US parcels to some lucky audience members at the Eclectic Sheep Tiny Concert tonight. Really sorry. It’s so hard to justify spending more for shipping than the actual content of each parcel. Plus 500€ is just mental for international shipping. Large poster tubes also increase the price considerably.

@messycables1 @framer Yeah, I get it. Thats why 15 years ago I stopped putting it on my CV and preferred to hire people who just more efficient and better at it than me. AI though has changed the landscape.

@mrblackstudio @framer i learnt early versions of html/css (book literally thrown at me). wasn’t much good at programming logic so also decided to leave to the pros and concentrate on design. wish i was stronger on the dev side, but is what it is. you mange to do great work with the skills you have.

Viduliser made in @framer Workshop. Play any song, or feed any live instrument and it analyses and reacts in real time. It’s now become so unique that you’re basically never seeing the same frame twice. Which was always the goal. Under the hood: Live audio analysis Beat triggered movement 24 frequency band splitting Random time triggers living within the frequency logic Splined visuals across image, text, video and GIFs Video frame skipping Video playback in any direction Custom mode logic Sound driven transitions Submode switching (up to 10 submodes) Parent shell to child scene architecture As the sounds build, the visuals keep evolving with them. This clip is only showing 4 child modes. So far I’ve built nearly 30.

@robably__ Adobe Illustrator

Trying to remember the name of a specific ai design tool but I can’t find it cuz there’s so damn many of em

@Crownzdesigns 100% 🫶

@mrblackstudio Your brother would probably love knowing the guitar’s still part of family nights. It ended up exactly where it should be

Analogue night tonight jamming with my 16yr old. I taught her Lucky Man by The Verve and she taught me A Horse No Name by America. This guitar (1985 Yamaha FG—470S Flying Bird edition) was passed down to my brother from my Dads ex wife’s ex husband (yeah it’s complex). All the way from Seattle. Then I inherited it after my brother passed. When I got it, the neck was broken in two places, and the body completely smashed in. I paid a German Luthier who not only restored it (fixed neck breaks, new fret board, complete new front body, and conversion from right to left hand), he also preserved all my brothers stickers, and put them back into position once complete. It’s been around a year since I picked it up and played. It has such amazing action, and my brother is in there somewhere. He was such a talented singer/songwriter writer.

@naturalmapping Absolutely. His master recommended he didn’t take it on, and at one point he thought he wouldn’t manage it.

@mrblackstudio that is some insane reconstruction work 😳

@JJGerrishDev Cracking collection 😍

@mrblackstudio Beautiful guitar and a lovely story behind it man, glad it could be fixed with so much attention and love. Nice to see a fellow designer guitarist here! Have fun jamming 🙌🏻

Yes when I said I’m not a coder, it was a conscious choice I made around 15 years ago. I self taught myself actionscript, html, css, and lingo back in the days from around 1999 onwards. I was never good in the sene of being a true engineer, and design was always my first love and main focus. I know my way around. I understand how to plan and design architectures and so on as I’ve worked on many self made products and amongst Lange engineering teams being the bridge between design and tech. Let’s just say I’m highly technical, and perhaps obsessive on details. AI has just made it more possible to build and iterate super fast. But I’m still not a good engineer I think. Or let’s say I think I’m better at design than engineering haha. IDK. I’ve been building stuff for so long. Even as a kid I’d reverse engineer electronics and make new designs/toys from them. I’m not right haha 😝

@mrblackstudio @framer very left field ;) stunning visuals. so if you’re not a coder, how do you build all these things in framer?

Lastly, how it should be played by no other than Greg, my brother. One of his own written songs.

Fully restored. All stickers in tact.

@downtownberlin @framer THanks Georg. For now it's not commercial and being built for a live synth/looping gig I'll play in November. I might commercialize it though at some point.

@mrblackstudio @framer That’s pretty cool. Sooner or later I want one of these.

@framer Another version with video, images, and text passing through a 3D Dither engine. This is 3 child mode components running in the main engine.

@wiamxyz @framer No it’s private for when I play live gigs. Sorry.

@mrblackstudio @framer Building a website for a music producer at the moment, this would look awesome! Are you planning to sell this component?

@jh3yy @webcreaterfrm30 Plaaaastic! So nice!

reminder that you can also create lighting effects with a little css + svg filters <feSpecularLighting> + <fePointLight> bound to pointer position 👨‍🍳

@LinusEkenstam Definitely reach throttling going on. I had a few posts recently that should’ve gone ballistic, but it seems a 48h cap is put on to stop it happening. They also really don’t want anymore people getting creator status. Feels like organised suppression.

This is how the algorithm can completely destroy your reach over night. This is the last: Left: 3 months Right: 2 weeks Super consistent 85-95% drop on all metrics. everything after a viral post going ballistic, I tried everything, cool down, delete low quality posts, block bot accounts. Kept posting after cool down, nothing really breaks through. Short hot takes 🛑 Long form with good signal 🛑 Viral potential post 🛑 Core audience value post 🛑 What bothers me here is that 48h after posting a mega viral post I get suppressed back to the Stone Age. This follow previous situations I’ve had with the grok powered algorithm. Where it feels like tweepCred falls far below a certain level, and you’re locked into a low reach prison with every effort to break out is making it harder and harder to do so. I’m asking for transparency on what we can do as content creators when this happens. I don’t want to spam my way out of this. I’d like to know, if I did something wrong, how I can address it, take the responsibility of algorithmic suppression for what ever the length is. But this limbo is most likely going to make me leave the platform.

@LinusEkenstam Yeah your post was the first I’ve seen in a while. I’ve also noticed strange anomalies. I did step a bit back also, hence not in the replies so much. I tried a few times to reignite the algo in the last 6 months but it feels like a dead end.

@mrblackstudio It’s extremely annoying, I feel for you dude. It’s unbelievable when you put in the work and then, you’re getting the boot. I mean it’s been I while since I’ve seen you in the replies too, and also why i’m I no longer following you? another anomaly

I’ve been here since 2007, 19 years. I’m about to give up on X. For the third time in <12 months my account is under immense algorithmic suppression. No reach. no nothing. I get punished for being a good person on the platform. In the past my account has been “miss labeled by grok” or “i did not do anything wrong, they did”. Stuff that’s been completely out of my control. This time feels just the same. Nothing breaks past the great algorithmus. I’m a premium+ user. I provide value and have posted tens of thousands of useful posts on here. Yet my account is pushed into “limbo” where posts get throttled down. Super low view count, and no clear pathway to get out of it. For the last 2 weeks, nothing gets close to reaching you, my followers. I’ve seen this before and I know the pattern far too well. It’s a place where many people basically throws in the towel. There is something seriously wrong with how the reach suppression works on here. I post daily, 3-6 times, it’s part of my routine, have been doing so for years. You build momentum, you provide value, and the cycle repeats, until, something breaks out of your network (OON reach) then the algorithm slams you with the biggest breaks ever, throwing your account into reverse. If @xai and @nikitabier is listening they should really think hard about why stuff like this happens to users that really want the best for this platform. At the very least, surface insights inside of creator tools area that shows if and when something has gone wrong or happened to your account that can inform us about wrong doings or simply surfaces issues. That way people like me that spends an unhealthy amount of time on here can better understand why I’m getting punished. I’m extra under the weather this time. It just zucks to be fair.

Wrote about this recently. Good guys getting suppressed whilst the “take good guys work, throw into an AI machine” and repost is getting all the credit. Not to forget the blatant thieves downloading our work and getting more credit than the original artists. Sad.