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"Introspectrum"

except when the video content itself is art etc. but yeah

If you spending more time making content about your art, than creating your art, you’re a content creator.

@avstorm Love These! The laptop–opening part is my favorite.

New animation on Apple's homepage

@KITKAT Alright...

Help us find them. Use the Stolen KitKat Tracker. Link in bio.

@Jason I’d rather hear this perspective from a regular person without any speculative and financial bias with AI, than from another investor. The truth that no evangelist will ever say is: WE DON’T KNOW, but we’re always trying to figure it out and it’s worth having a positive outlook.

Here’s the truth: we’ve already reached AGI — we just haven’t implemented it broadly. Millions of jobs are being lost as we speak. Entire careers will be retired. The rich and powerful investors and founders who implement AGI will get bizarrely rich beyond what makes sense. It will break people's brains on both sides. It’s gonna suck for a lot of our friends and family, who aren’t obsessed with their careers, because things are moving so fast they won’t have even left the starting gate by the time the awards are handed out. We’re gonna have to solve for a lot of second- and third-order effects, some of which will suck (job loss) and some of which will be awesome. AI will create free/cheap energy, free education, cheaper and better food, homes that build themselves and medicine that makes you as healthy as a 30-year-old when you’re 100. … change is hard, but humans are the most adaptable species nature has ever created. We can figure it out.

it's all about

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@oprydai so did blue light

i often think about this..

I don't desire many physical objects anymore, but this one's one of the few exceptions.

Forever on my wishlist: 🔴 Leica M (RED) 2013 edition 1/1 by Jony Ive & Marc Newson

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@PeterTarka 2021 pandemic was a low point, now 2025-2026 is this worst year for me, by far. This solo business is exhausting, the highs and lows are extreme and almost never smooth, and it requires a lot of strength and perseverance. One of the biggest things it taught me.

2023 was the worst year of my career. I was earning more when I was 19-20 years old. Not a single project for 9 months. I posted about it at the time- a lot of people reached out. Some wanted to work together. Most of those conversations disappeared as quickly as they started. Applied for many Art/Creative Direction full time roles- not a single call back. I was lucky that I’d earned solidly in the years before, so I could push through it. Burned through a lot of savings and seriously considered leaving London for good. On X you mostly see people flexing with money and putting price tags on their designs. Reality is different and a lot less colourful most of the time.

@vanschneider I see what you did there! In an extractive system, creative people of that profile get hired both for their own "brand" and even more so because of the momentum that they build over time, as the machine is in full swing, that the clients and collaborators want a piece of.

You stand out online by having a “thing.” A certain style, a specific voice, a schtick or a skill that catches the eye of a few people and eventually snowballs you into notoriety. It’s how YouTubers rise to fame, how artists gain an audience, how social media influencers grow their community. You zero in on something niche that draws a circle of people around you among the masses. Then you have the audience, and they are waiting for more. They first saw your pranks on YouTube and they want more pranks. They started following you for your 3D brushwork and they expect more of it. So you do what you did the first time. The audience applauds for an encore. You do it again. You release another prank, another piece of art, another UX tutorial, another video, just like the ones you promised your people from the beginning. Time passes. Your audience has grown and your persona has solidified. You’ve built yourself a bigger stage, but the performance is the same. You started out doing your “thing” from natural interest and pure passion, but now you have to feed the machine. Churn out the videos, the artwork, the jokes, a mile a minute. This is what we came for. Give us what you advertised or we’ll chase you off the stage – or worse, forget about you altogether. When you’ve developed a persona or brand online, your audience is your client. Whether we pay you for what you do or not (and we likely don’t, at least not directly), we are the patrons of your work. Your clients or patrons don’t come to you because you seem nice, or because they want to do you a favor. They come because they saw something you created before, and they want something else just like it. You start out by slowly building your platform, laying the bricks over and over again, until you look around and see you’ve walled yourself into a prison. As humans we are colorful and multifaceted, with varying interests that grow or wane over time. Yet when we create an online persona for ourselves, it’s typically focused on just one aspect of who we are. In the effort to grow that persona, we suppress our many other interests and dimensions of our personality. To get ourselves in the door, we have to flatten ourselves to one dimension. And once we’re inside, it’s hard to get back out. Ultimately, we become bored, tired and disenchanted with the thing that brought us attention at the beginning. But starting from scratch doesn’t seem feasible. Introducing a new side of ourselves would surprise or even upset our audience. Reinventing our persona altogether now seems forced and disingenuous to the people who have watched us from the beginning. Stepping off the stage entirely is terrifying. So where do we go from here? For newcomers, the answer may be to share your many interests and keep your persona fluid from the start. Make the unexpected, the expectation. But for those who have been feeding the machine so long it’s swallowed them whole, that solution comes too late. Maybe you've doing the same schtick for so long, you’ve forgotten how to do or be anything else. Or even if you tried, maybe your audience doesn't want to see that other thing from you. Maybe you’ve aged out of the game. Maybe you've outgrown your audience, or your audience has outgrown you. An audience can quickly become a mob. They may cheer for you today and chase you off the stage tomorrow. And yet, whether they're clapping from their comfortable seats or not, the only audience there when the curtain closes is you.

@JonathanZawada @SydOperaHouse @Procreate @tim_cook Beautiful work, and what a canvas - congratulations!

So excited to have my work shown on the @SydOperaHouse as a part of Apple’s 50th birthday celebrations! All of my animation was made frame by frame in @Procreate - the 1st piece of software since blender I’ve fallen for. Thanks @tim_cook for sharing!

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@dannyjpwilliams Yes, it’s basic stuff

Be honest... does anyone actually know what these do?

@imkylelambert I still use Clear... It just does what I need with no extra nonsense

if you know, you know