After Effects 26.2 is live! Some big updates this morning: ⭐ Object Matte ⭐ Displacement on 3D Meshes ⭐ Quick Apply ⭐ Proportional Scrubbing ⭐ Import SVGs as Footage helpx.adobe.com/after-effect...

My 10-year-old was showing me “protective pet“ videos. It was disheartening to see how much of it was AI slop but also promising in how well they were able to spot all the tells. “Why would there even be a camera there?” “Did you see the leash go through the table?”

New @weheart.games came in! Excited to get Crownfell to the table!

“Why are we here if not to try to make the lives of others better.”

Evergreen: bsky.app/profile/shut...

Artists, I want you to hear this and embrace it: you're amazing. I love you and I want you to keep making art. Don't listen to anyone who tries to tell you it isn't as important and necessary as it is.

"what's the plan?" my goodness - beyond self-parody at this point WHAT'S THE PLAN? YOU'RE DESCRIBING THE ARTISTIC PROCESS YOU BOZOOOOOSSSSS

Puzzle at the children's room of my local library. Absolutely enraging. (And yes, that's the "proper" order, there's a printed template underneath the pieces.)

If you still have a Ring camera, you may want to think about replacing it with something a little less Continental Panopticon. www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

I’ve never been more invested in a sport I really don’t understand. #curling #olympics #teamusa

If you want to know what's going on in Minnesota, I recommend following & listening to Minnesotans. I recommend reading the articles we share. Believe us when we tell you what's happening. Check out stories from local outlets & this curated list of stories: www.standwithminnesota.com/stay-informed

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

I can’t believe y’all are going to make me post like an adobe apologist… - New releases for Animate are stopping in Mach 2026 - the app will still be available to download thru March 2027 - as long as it will run on a host system, you can keep using it just like the other old versions of apps

I keep saying this and obviously it applies to any place where there's a headline-grabbing crisis/war/situation/etc: What you see in the news stories about the Twin Cities, even the deep-dive articles, is a *fraction* of what's actually happening. Countless other stories untold.

Whoa, click through to download the famed 2003 “Directors Label” DVD collections of music videos by the masters (Gondry, Romanek, Jonze, Corbijn, Cunningham, etc) with commentary & extras, seemingly uploaded by Directors Label for the 20th anniversary. Incredible resource!

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Christi Noem should testify under oath in Congress and explain why she lied about the facts around the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

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.