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by masona 2y ago
By design. An element of randomness in the reward drives creators to put more and more content into the Skinner box.
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by masona 5y ago
The first time definitely has a novelty to the experience of getting in the tank, settling, then floating. Then towards the end of the first session you really start to feel comfortable. Second time around you really get the max relaxation.
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by masona 5y ago
The fine art market has been doing this for decades by using auction records to set prices.
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by masona 5y ago
It was like this for me until I muted any word that was remotely political. All of a sudden it was like a toxic fog had been lifted and I could see clearly again. The article really undersells the importance of muting words. It changes ever
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by masona 5y ago
You answered your own question - it's a play for the next generation. My kids bounce between a multitude of shared digital spaces (games, chat, social, videos etc) and they would be right at home at some kind of metaverse that would br
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Museum of Forgeries(moforgeries.org)
2 points by masona 5y ago|0 comments
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by masona 5y ago
Coming up with food photos for the Futurist Cookbook was one of the most fun projects I've ever done: https://annawilliams.com/VORACITY/CONTROPASTASCIUTTA/1/thumb... It's amazing that Marinetti made
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by masona 5y ago
Reminds me of Jonathan Harris's 2007 project 'We Feel Fine.' http://wefeelfine.org/methodology.html When I did some work on sentiment analysis using tools like Crimson Hexagon, it always felt like the data wa
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by masona 5y ago
Getty already offers free images through embeddable content as well as brand partnerships, so it's natural for them to want a fresh injection of great work. Especially since their library has been rather stale for so long. It's ha
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by masona 6y ago
In the art world it's a pretty straightforward formula: -Buy out the estate of a 3rd tier artist who once drank a beer with a famous artist -Created slick marketing materials written by an art critic who was paid a lot of money to hold
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by masona 6y ago
A comment on HN the other day referred to this as the 'moral crumple zone:' how responsibility for an action may be misattributed to a human actor who had limited control over the behavior of an automated or autonomous system. See
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Webwaste: A Plague of Useless Images(alistapart.com)
1 points by masona 6y ago|0 comments
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by masona 6y ago
That would definitely make sense if all the shots were from the same angle. We designed/built a nursery that could accommodate shooting from all angles so that all the different shots would look like they could be in different places.
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by masona 6y ago
Exactly. The thing is, even shooting tethered with medium format, the pipe just isn't big enough to keep up and the computer and/or capture software gets bogged down, too.
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by masona 6y ago
It's not about fps, though the shutter was really fast since babies move a lot. That was hard to balance with the lighting because we couldn't fire strobes since it would freak them out. Basically we were shooting a lot of capture
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by masona 6y ago
The resolution is fine if you're in close like we were. But then you lose out on the room details which were needed the final composition, hence the CGI extension. The resolution is only a problem if you shoot pulled back and then try
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by masona 6y ago
That's what the photographer was shooting and it is definitely not big enough to pull back and crop in later. The only way to get files big enough is to shoot medium format, but you can't because the files are too large for rapid-
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by masona 6y ago
The article covers a lot of territory but I can say from experience that the limitations to current CGI techniques mean that automation is still a ways away. I produced all the shots for a global diaper company that is on shelf today. The p
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by masona 6y ago
When I worked in an art gallery in Union Square in SF, we had a client coming in from China to look at an original Chagall. The problem: the crate was arriving from Switzerland only an hour before the client. When it got there we raced to u
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by masona 6y ago
I sent this to several of my friends who are professional photographers and all they could say was ‘shhhh don’t give away our secrets.’ It’s all about the light. Really beautiful demonstrations.
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by masona 6y ago
The biggest opportunity for disruption is the checkoffs. >These types of programs represent an already existing framework of farmers ‘paying’ for this type of knowledge. This model has proven scalable, even more so with the internet and
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by masona 6y ago
I've been seeing a lot of that lately on Twitter: accounts post inspirational quotes/images about being an entrepreneur and 'transparency' about how much money they've made. Always followed by a link to their Gumroa
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by masona 6y ago
Working at an agency that mostly did CPG work for P+G, I remember how so much of the design work was about catching someone's eye on shelf: how to stand out in a sea of packaging. Millions (and millions) of dollars were spent trying to
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by masona 6y ago
The best way to start generating income is to change your mindset. Instead of asking other people, all of whom have found their own specialized niche that will never be applicable to anyone else, step away from the computer and look around.
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by masona 6y ago
>The quality of the shoe you buy is the necessary determinant of how well it will perform. Is that really true if the mind is what makes it so? Product advertising convinces you that you can do a thing, so you succeed. Emotions are much
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by masona 6y ago
The paper uses the word 'information' throughout as some kind of agnostic store of pure facts, as if you could break down any product into a black and white description of its fundamental reality and/or benefits. I spent seve
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by masona 6y ago
> A game is something that you opt into doing because you want the experience of playing it. Labeling every obstacle you run into in life, a game quickly robs the term of any meaning. This strikes at the heart of the pernicious trend &#x
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by masona 6y ago
This new 'quarantine work' is just an awkward retrofit - those positions (and their managers) were never designed to work remotely in the first place. I spent 4 years remote in a position designed for it, and it was still a challe
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by masona 6y ago
I always wanted to be able to play a version of Red Dead Redemption where you just build a homestead, ride your horse and play through the story with no killing.
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by masona 6y ago
As a small part of a massive digital transformation project last year, it was clear to everyone involved that no amount of good organizational design could succeed without significant adjustments to organizational behavior and culture. We m

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