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March begins. A discussion space for the "Sounds of Diaspora", as well as a film fundraiser for the Sherborne Health Clinic. Open house Wednesday and Thursday. Links below.

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Iftar dinner, LLM group meetup, felt needling workshop, portrait photography course. Hands on intro to Falcon GX, New Line to the Socratica Symposium, and a Friday night Wiki Speedrun Tournament. Links below.

Ahmed Saleh (@saleh_digital), Steven Yuen (@steven_yuen), and Gabriel O’Flaherty-Chan (@_GABRIELOC) of Falcon (@falcon_ide). Falcon is a new design tool for curious designers. Their team is based in the West End of Toronto. In this episode, we explored the games, tools, and software that shaped each of us growing up, from Doom and Zelda to Macromedia Flash and KidPix, and how those early experiences rewired our understanding of what computers could be. We discussed Falcon’s approach to building creative tools: the idea that anything can be anything if you expose the right primitives, the concept of mutation as a design principle, and why the beginning of the creative process deserves far more attention than the optimization at the end. Along the way, Gabe walked us through ray tracing from first principles, demonstrated geometry nodes in Blender, and showed how Falcon can turn math into fire, visuals into audio, and signals into whatever you want them to be. We talked about why most design tools today are built around optimization rather than expression, the false thesis of simplicity, and how the dimensions of the tools we inherit quietly become the boundaries of what we think is possible. This is a conversation about software, self-expression, and how the tools we use shape the world we live in. The Other Stuff is hosted by @internetvin — filmmaker, entrepreneur, and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New. The Other Stuff #32 — Falcon: A Romance of Many Dimensions — Timestamps 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:42 Doom and id Software 00:16:14 Open World Games 00:36:05 Ray Tracing 00:45:14 Blender Demo 00:50:07 Early Web 00:56:20 Macromedia Flash Era 01:00:34 2Advanced 01:10:52 KidPix and Expressive Tools 01:21:03 Mutation in Design Tooling 01:30:41 Node Editors and Falcon 01:44:45 AI and Creative Tools 01:49:59 Craftsmanship and Intent 02:00:50 Worldview Over Technology 02:09:03 Making Fire with Math 02:17:28 Information Density 02:28:40 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Ticket 1: Departs on Saturday 21 at 3:30pm from New Stadium (Toronto) Ticket 2: Departs Saturday 21 at 10:30pm from Centre in the Square (Kitchener) Ticket 3: Departs Sunday 22 at 4:30pm from The Tannery Building (Kitchener)

New Line 2026 A transportation service that will be bringing you directly from Toronto to the Socratica Symposium on the weekend of March 21. Returning on both March 21 or 22. Departing and return trips are purchased separately. Reserve your seats below.

Video editing workshops, a creative writing series, and more throughout the week. Open house on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Links below.