Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore YouTube video by Like Stories of Old

I recently watched this essay again from Stories of Old. A very refreshing takedown of modern ‚cinematic‘ visuality and a precise critique of slop. can reaally recommend it: youtu.be/tvwPKBXEOKE?...

a diver from behind with two yellow floating balls in their hands

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The image is from two weeks ago testing our interface in Croatia!

#diving #ocean #ecology #animals #unity3d

snorkeling person in wetsuit, underwater gopro photo

Testing out some underwater 3D-avatar experiments in the mediterranean!
#unity #diving #marinebiology

title screen of our presentations currently. Motion Capture #Data from two wild #fish + #touchdesigner

Last week’s workshop on the difficulty of perceiving animal behaviour, kinematics, perceptual realism and using machine vision data in Unity.

#animals #fish #behaviour #math #science #gamedev

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Same meme format as before, but it now shows the spearmint plant asking evolution to give it high menthol content to help it deter predators, and the cavemen excitedly yell "mouth cool" and instead of being deterred we ultimately got spearmint gum.

Same thing happened to the plants that produced menthol, probably also a deterrent to keep mammals from eating them, as menthol binds to our TRPM8 receptor that primarily senses cold (lack of heat). That's why we like cooling mint flavors so much!

you ever think about the worlds that were that you will never know?

Two data-driven 3D fish-avatars in #Unity, displaying a recorded interaction of wild cichlids in Zambia 🧪
The green dots above their bodies is the spine #data that the ML model extracted from the video...

tablet with a running software that I developed. Title saying “Cichlid Playback 2.0” and a 3D model of a cichlid fish on a grey background

Going to Croatia to do some technical underwater tests with this thing, before it will be used in experimental setups at Lake Tanganyika…

@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
#science #ecology #gamedev #animals #evolution

when I get sad and frustrated with future predictions of #ai bros online, I go back and watch this doc again

why use google at all?

Flyer of a research workshop on ‚Notations‘ featuring drawings from architect Bernhard Tschumi

Next week @ignaciopaulin.bsky.social and I will present our team‘s recent work on behaviour notations in this supercool workshop from the ‚Immersive Models‘ research group at ETH Zurich!

@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
@ethz.ch
#animals #architecture #science

‚the owls are not what they seem‘

🧪Before the day begins, meerkats share a unique ritual. After emerging from their burrows, they spend up to an hour "sunning" to warm up for the day. During this quiet time, they produce soft, tonal "sunning calls". Just standing, sunbathing, and calling. But why❓ #bioacoustics #meerkats #kalahari

Motion Extraction + some nice shading
Wild Australian #fish seen from below, shaded in #touchdesigner

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour

Movement data from two real fish from Sambia + 3D model in Blender/Unity + Motion Extraction post effect

From my ongoing research at the Behavioural Evolution lab at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour: thejordanlab.com

#animals #fish #gamedesign #unity #gamedev

insane

Testing isovist geometry visualisations in Unity
#game #gamedev #unity #architecture

All of this. And I find I particularly recognise the 'vanquish insecurity'.
Ursula K. LeGuin pinpointed the 'unmeasured desire' for unassailable safety as one of the chief drivers of evil in the world.
And Christ, yes, I'm seeing it so much. In my personal life and in politics too.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

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I love the way art creates more art by existing. It's like a microdosed religious experience. You get moved to creation.
If I see an amazing painting, I have to paint. If I read a great comic, I have to make comics. Good art awakens something inside of you that you have to let out.

out on #bandcamp!
soundcloud: on.soundcloud.com/q2NEhmyhUUzu...

wohooo, thanks!

Stockholm Kartell's discord server has a channel called, roughly translated, Desirable Lifestyles. Here are some posts, and some lifestyles to aspire to.

dul-x, by LooT track by LooT

My new track dul-x will come out on the 29th on Bandcamp and Soundcloud! :)
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Nice opportunity to dive deeper into the topic of the exhibition. What an honor to be showing our work on Sophie Teuber-Arp next to such crazy fellow artists!

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