It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

I don’t care for Frey, but I do appreciate that he did not mince words, calling a DHS statement ”bullshit” and this quote on live broadcast…

“Simple, low tech and effective” is how I’m trying to do anything these days.

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

I love when things are done the hard way for the sake of the craft.

Look what I just resurrected! hilariously the date only goes up to 2020. Next step is to see if the time Flip Mino HD sensor has any exposed pins to circuit bend…

Yo! I’m at lightbox, boothing with MAKE, a studio from MN. I’m also giving a talk about directing Sunny Side Down on Saturday at 1:30. Say hi!

I've said it before, but this video on VFX is truly amazing. @tvaziri.com describes this work in such an educational and joyful way. And with lots of space movies, which is a nice bonus. Thanks @adamlancegarcia.bsky.social for this video 👍

Nine Inch Nails “Art is Resistance” flyer (2007), with some thoughts on what it means today that came up in my recent Q&A. #NoKings ✊

The worst dark design patterns are in school photo and yearbook ordering sites. Ordering a year book and “upgrades” are spread across three different confirmation pages, all of them selected by default and would have added over 50% to the price.

I forgot about tumblr. Looks like one of mine is still up at least, and set up as a subdomain on my site because of course I would do that. micro.conigs.com

the one thing i like about generative ai is when it is wrong. because it is always very, very funny. it is so confident and so enthusiastic while failing, like the very best clown. so, i'm here to tell you that there MAY be NOTHING FUNNIER than asking ai to do ASCII drawings. here's donald duck:

i don’t like or understand ai. but it’s wild to see this person, who clearly DOES understand it and obviously knows a LOT about it, be repeatedly told they are stupid? i think a lot of bluesky thinks the simple solution to discomfort is bullying which is so weird given we were all surely bullied??

If you missed out on the hardcover for @rob-sheridan.com’s glitch art book, there’ll be 75 more hardcover copies on Tuesday 10/7! I barely made it in for one of the 200 signed hardcovers, so it’ll go fast. But softcover is still available too!

Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score. Seems fitting since yesterday was the 30th anniversary.

On this day in 1995 “Hackers” hit theaters. For whatever reason it’s become part of my identity (just ask anyone on the @nicemoves.org discord). I wrote down a few thoughts on the 30th anniversary: coni.gs/posts/hacker...

On this day in 1995 “Hackers” hit theaters. For whatever reason it’s become part of my identity (just ask anyone on the @nicemoves.org discord). I wrote down a few thoughts on the 30th anniversary: coni.gs/posts/hacker...

Finishing up a new personal blog post about a certain film on it's 30th anniversary to release on Monday… #Hackers #HackThePlanet

Hey so, no. www.theverge.com/news/768842/...

Remember when the entire internet was niche, flawed websites full of a self-selected set of smart, funny, and creative people, instead of every website needing to take over all human social interactions or be deemed a failure? Man, those were the days!

Got IKEA or pretty much any flat pack furniture? Get a bike tool like this. It has almost all the different hex sizes used along with Philips, flathead, and a few sockets & wrenches. No need to have a drawer full of random IKEA pack-in tools for random fixes.

Never used Premiere this early but it reminds me of Media100 with the A/B track and the only way to make transitions was between them.

If you DM/GM any TTRPG, at least get Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master! It’s a great prep philosophy. Then take a look at all the other Lazy DM books and Forge of Foes.

I don’t know AJ… but they get it. Also Hackers will have been released 30 years ago on September 15th. Perfect opportunity to watch it for the first or 100th time!

QCP 2035, pretty sure with this faceplate, in 2000. I was jealous of my Nokia friends with Snake. All I had was Brick Attack.

TIL Dexter Holland, the lead singer of The Offspring, finished his PhD in molecular biology 8 years ago, after pausing his post-graduate studies to focus on the band. His doctoral thesis was directly related to recent HIV research. “I find math just as exciting as I do punk rock.” More of this!

Said me in the last ≈12 hours: “This is what the whole internet used to be, and should be again.” [email protected] “The new tools are trying to summarize everything but this is rebellion.” -Adam, @battleaxedotco.bsky.social “Not clever, but you’re adorably dumb.” -wife I accept all of them.

“And on a personal blog, no less! Kids, this is what the whole internet used to be, and should be again.” Rob gets it

My wall finally has art! A couple months ago I painted my office wall painted and put up most of the art prints I own. Here’s a write-up of what’s on the wall including appearances by @rob-sheridan.com, @heikala.bsky.social, Kevin Dart, and David Fincher. coni.gs/posts/whats-...

Cactus Club spending money that it’ll almost certainly never recoup, just to make its venue more accessible is the coolest thing. Jack White, who does not live here, randomly chipping in $20k is the second coolest thing milwaukeerecord.com/music/shout-...

Every few months someone reads a terms of service and spots the *basically necessary* copyright license that any site that handles 3rd party content HAS TO HAVE to avoid getting sued out of existence by awful copyright lawyers and freaks out. Mike here explains why.

As someone who works in video, I endorse this message

Finally realized with the 13" iPad Pro size feels just right… it’s an open A5 notebook. No idea why it took me like 9 years to realize this!

Copilot is Microsoft’s Siri: pretends to be helpful on the surface while barely being able to do anything you ask it.

Starting to play around with Hugo to create a static site for a personal blog… and it’s kinda fun? Going to have to resist the urge to endlessly tweak designs. Definitely reminding me why I didn’t like web design in the first place.

Made it out to banning State Park in Minnesota this weekend. Wolf Creek Falls was small but a nicely tucked away view. Digital gouache with @maxulichney.bsky.social Retro Pack in @procreate.com #digitalart #mnstateparks #hiking

Hearing Post Haste described as the 📁🐐 has made my day! Jon at Digital Rebellion has done great work keeping it up to date after all these years. This all started as an internal studio tool I wrote in AppleScript back in 2008-ish. www.digitalrebellion.com/posthaste/

I painted a mini for the first time at a friend’s party… this will either be the only one I ever paint or the first of a very expensive hobby… #dnd #minipainting

Decided to put a reel together with a few creative direction projects at work. This spans quite a range from explainers to full online courses with a mix of interactive activities. Enjoy this brief preview of what I do. conigs.com #mochat #postchat

This is headcanon now. I feel much better about Never Ending Story.

I opened a link to LinkedIn and accidentally clicked off to my home feed… within 0.3 seconds I was reminded why I don’t spend much time there

Woobles: expensive but fun and breaks crochet down in a way I finally understood. Time to graduate to regular yarn and patterns, though

One thing you can do today that is in your control: Back up files. Back up your work email (just in case). Back up photos you care about. Save your favorite memes offline. Get another hard-drive for backups. Back up files.

New fun thing from Good Boy Ninja to kill a little time for motion designers… #mochat #motiondesign www.keyframes.fun

Nic Dean & I just launched a monster tutorial covering new text style expressions capabilities in After Effects 2025 & the HUGE difference they make for creators of templates. We also talk with John Colombo from the AE team, who created an awesome free preset! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG8U...

📢 PSA Lot of bad things happening. But just because people post happy things doesn’t mean they don’t care. Personally, I want this to be my happy place to escape the bad things and recharge. So if I mute, unfollow, or even block you it’s not personal. Just putting up some guard rails. 🌈 ⭐️

More art, less doom.®

We need a new, clean start to the worldwide web… Google’s Page Rank + Gen AI Slop have made looking for anything practically useless.

Another weird day. Here’s some collage-y puppet eyes I made during lockdown.