Blocks

Image spreadsheet experiments.

Begin again.

Working on live edit text fonts.

Experimenting with limited color palettes as a way to make disparate images feel like they belong together.

The new wave of generative text models is impressive. It's also an opportunity to think about the purpose of reading (or listening to) information. Can generative models satisfy what I want from these activities? What do I want, really?

Why listen to an interview

I like interviews. I like reading and listening to interviews with authors or thinkers I like. When I listen, I think I'm generally looking for ways to understand their ideas better. If I've read their writing, then I've probably heard the distilled version of the argument. The cleanest and the best they could come up with. That's great, but sometimes it can be so clean it's hard to find a way in. Informal interviews, clumsier and with more digressions, can provide another way in, the messiness can be welcoming. It also helps remind me the author is a person, lessening the gulf between us. We're all just people trying to figure things out I think, there's comfort and closeness in that for me.

Pipe Dream From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkV8PqlMwNc

source and destination

Left to right.

Figuring it out.

Experimenting with choosing brush source by proximity.

Panels.

Zoom zoom.

Added a brush preview. Fortunately/unfortunately also got an idea for a new layout set-up that I'm probably going to pause this to try out.

Added a brush preview. Fortunately/unfortunately also got an idea for a new layout set-up that I'm probably going to pause this to try out.

Multiple samples.

Got the freeform grid behavior going again. Last time it was in three.js to get nice zoom and pan, this time I'm sticking with the DOM.

To build a prototype, you must first build a window manager (not really, but I guess this time).

Connecting.

More drag experiments.