if i didn't consistently do much better work than anyone else in my role (and in a lot of other roles) & provide value in ways entirely outside my job description, i'm the kind of disabled person they'd have fired w/in a year, and they know it.
once i was told "we wouldn't want two of you". 🙃
extremely frustrating knowing that, after 5 years, while i am easily top-10 at my workplace of ~120 in terms of technical knowledge (all self-taught) and familiarity with our internal systems and practices and am respected by my co-workers, i still make less than new hires to almost any other role.
happy earth day fellow earthlings
(animation i made on 🌍 day 2022)
my man i should not have had to come to your desk to point to the specific boxes that needed to be ticked in the acct settings to make shit work the way my manager's manager requested from you & i translated into the language you ostensibly speak. nor should i have to make walkthroughs for it wtf?!
i'm really fucking annoyed about this. the guy who admins our databases & all our 3rd-party accounts straight up told me that—while i was actually clear and correct in describing what i needed from him at the start—in the future i need to provide step-by-step walkthroughs contextualizing my tickets.
ourobouros of shit
i suppose my chances of getting taken seriously on IT stuff by the AI-addled guy w/ the admin privileges are likely made much worse by the 100-odd co-workers, managers & execs using AI to troubleshoot problems & then describe them to him.
someone actually knowing something is made inconceivable.
really weird how—after going back and forth all day with this guy—when he implemented the specific admin-permissions-required changes i laid out in brief bulleted points at the very start of our exchange everything actually started working.
IT support at work has gotten so much worse since our IT support guy started feeding support requests into gemini and telling us to try its "fixes".
not only are the fixes unhelpful, but our IT guy's ability to listen when issues are explained and steps taken are described has atrophied.
i did not know anyone out there was giving their kid a first name spelled in the latin alphabet without vowels.
inching ever closer to a formalist-manifesto-and-introduction-to-elements-and-principles-of-design zine.
ime formalism is a very good way to discern what it is an artist cares about without knowing a whole lot about them, and to connect with people moving in different contexts from one's own.
somewhat tangential, but some of the most pleasant conversations i have with artists—frequently on encountering them and their work for the first time—start from observing how they've applied elements and principles of design to produce a given effect in their work.
god i wish i could share some of the names i encounter on a daily basis in the course of my work without it being a massive breach of privacy.
ever listen to Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird?
those colors look fantastic! is that violet and aqua? mint?
A test print of the “dark mode” light-on-black 2 color riso I’m trying out with this
friend of a friend watching Utena for the first time: when you watch it a second or third time you'll realize the nanami filler episodes are not actually filler at all, even when they recycle footage.
hands holding a small, folded up comic, titled Marginalia with a medieval dragon-snail creature on its cover.
Today's my birthday and I'd like to share a new comic with you, it's called Marginalia. It's a love letter to all the weirdness of medieval manuscripts, and you can read it by unfolding a single sheet of paper!
1/5
Panel of a comic. My character looks serious and says: I have an important announcement. I've decided to retire from art and hand over my comics career to my protégés.
A panel of a comic. My character points excitedly to two cats bored looking cats, one striped and one black. She says: My pet cats, Matzo and Latke! Let's see their work!
A panel of a comic. Inky paw prints are smeared across it.
A panel of a comic. My character wipes away a tear dramatically and says: Exquisite. The cats look at each other in confusion.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter #aprilfools
apart from the ratio between upper arm to forearm and the size of their fingers, it's almost uncanny how similarly bats are proportioned to humans.
human arm extended with paper mockup of costume bat wing costume accessory with leading edge supported by wire extending from wrist, approximately double the length of the arm
proof of concept
some of my favorite horror is highly stylized. some of my favorite horror commits to continual escalation in tension, skipping any interludes of "normalcy".
it's how techniques are combined to produce effects in audiences that matters, not the specific techniques.
counterposing moments of grotesquerie, violence and the supernatural to mundanity is a technique that appears in a lot of horror, but it's hardly the only way to write good horror.
and representation of mundanity is hardly incompatible with formal stylization!
there is not a scene in The Devils—even in its more intimate and even sweet moments—where the staging or dialog does not remind you of its artifice.
and, Ligotti's writing is, well, very idiosyncratic in form and subject. i'm not sure i'd describe any scene he's written as "normal".
on the heels of re-watching Ken Russell's The Devils and in the midst of reading Thomas Ligotti's collected short stories and, uh, could not disagree more.
i don't do Big Symbol just little symbol i'm a professional.
to state the painfully obvious, a story (or any creative work for that matter) is literally an assemblage of symbolic forms.
claiming to aim "purely to entertain" is an admission to doing the bare minimum with regards to working with symbols. it betrays incredible triviality and lack of awareness.
À la recherche du pain perdu
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