More Pics From Yachats

Just wanted to take a few more of my phone snaps and post up here from our trip this past weekend to Yachats. These are just from the a old iPhone which has made me do some research on the new cameras coming out in the 17. Kinda interested from a RAW file perspective.

New portfolio posts.

Just added a few more things to the portfolio here and on Behance. Included some Before and Afters as well to check out.

Houdini Doodle

Just tweaking some stuff from a recent tut I was following.

WeTransfer : Cancel Now. Massive rights grab.

e here at danklife have been pro WeTransfer since they pretty much started. For sending out files to clients and sharing work, it was a very easy, “post it, send and link and forget it” kind of service. No permissions to manage, no, “Running out of space” to manage by hand, etc…

Then we noticed they were sold to a somewhat slimy Private Equity group and were keeping an eye on it in case they started doing the shitty stuff Private Equity does. The uploads started failing a bit more, but whatever, we could live with that. BUT they just did a HOLY SHIT massive rights grab on anything you post on there with a TRANSFERABLE license. Which means, yeah, we can sell your shit on Getty or other stock sites. Yeah, my clients will love that.

Anyways, cancel your accounts now. Here a screengrab of the updates terms and a link to the video Jeremy found where they talk about it.

Tumblr Dump.

Here ya go, have a few random ass tumblr blogs I like.

rrrick

thememedaddy

wilwheaton

memwhore

morganathewitch

And a sampling of their fine wares.

How to forage for food on the Oregon coast

Mussels right on the beach? Yes please! First link has the OPB video. Can’t find a way to embed it into the blog.

“The Pacific Northwest has one of the most abundant tidal ecosystems in the world. The ocean conditions are cold, murky and nutrient-dense, conditions that provide fuel for life on shore.

Alanna Kieffer studied marine biology and eventually left a career in marine research to start her own business – Shifting Tides – where she teaches people how to forage for food in the coastal ecosystem. “

Chris Hedges on America entering the “Trump Phase” of late capitalism

Chris Hedges on America entering the “Trump Phase” of late capitalism

“College is just how well I can use ChatGPT at this point,”

I am not a fan and everything I read just seems to make AI worse and worse and worse. And I used it for band flyers in the past.. BAd Dan….

“Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College. ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.”

Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (Sarah’s name, like those of other current students in this article, has been changed for privacy.) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”

The Theremin!

Full disclosure, one of my bands has a lot of theremin in it ;)

“Eyck agrees that the sight of a human body manipulating invisible electromagnetic fields adds to the theremin’s otherworldly aura. The fact that it sounds like nothing so much as an unhinged soprano – listen again to the original Star Trek theme – adds to the unsettling effect.

“You don’t tune it to the A from the piano, but you tune it to your own body and to the surroundings,” she says, citing something called “body capacitance”. In this way the instrument is unique, “except for the voice, but that’s inside you”.

“With its sci-fi antennae bristling left and right, Russian physicist Leon Theremin’s novel invention of 1919 remains the only musical instrument you play without touching anything. “Aerial fingering” was the technique devised by the inventor’s original Lithuanian prodigy, Clara Rockmore, in the 1930s.”

Hoodini Doodle: Hexagon Particles

Was messing around with this tutorial by Caskel and just pushed it ever so slightly further by adding motion blur to the particles in Redshift. Just kinda following along so not that different than the the tut. Kinda a relaxing little piece though. Really great tutorial as well.