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Things 2025 Q2: Constraints, Polarised light, Kuleshov, Infohazards

Artists vs. Constraints The medium of any given art form creates restraints or encourages certain properties in the art itself. For example, movies and theatrical productions are somewhat constrained in duration by the capacity of the human bladder. Paintings tend to be painted at certain scales that are easier to perceive, to distribute, and to […]

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Things 2025 Q1: Muji music, Russian disinformation, Reincarnation

Exercise for the reader, part 1 I found this very simple two-part thought exercise incredibly powerful. It’s more effective to separate the parts out, so I’ll post the first here and the second at the end, along with the source. In your next life you can choose to be reborn as anyone, with any job, […]

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Things 2024 Q2: Project Lyra, Baseline Scene, Singularity

Correspondence on dancing and music in movies Last time I spoke about temp tracks, and the use of an end-of-film dance sequence as a nuanced way to wrap up a narrative. Tarim points out that Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver (2017) is an excellent contrast to a temp track, in that it has many sequences precisely […]

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Things 2024 Q1: Dancing, Temp tracks, Creativity

LEGO is doing okay This nice visualisation of LEGO group annual revenue shows that after a lull in the late 2010’s, there has been incredible growth since 2020 – presumably somewhat assisted by pandemic lockdowns? As someone who enjoys LEGO but is running out of storage space, I’ve been trying out BrickBorrow for the last […]