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"html": "<blockquote>\n <h2><a href=\"https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-digital-color-sludge\"></a></h2>\n\n <p>If you watch a lot of movies and TV shows, you might have noticed that over the last few decades everything has gotten a lot more \u2026 gray. No matter the kind of story being told, a sheen of cool blue or gray would wash over everything, muting the colors and providing an overall veneer of serious business.</p>\n\n<p>So many TV shows and movies now have a dull filter applied to every scene, one that cuts away vibrancy and trends toward a boring sameness. Every frame\u2019s color scheme ends up feeling the same as every other frame. And when there are so many projects using similar techniques, you end up with a world of boring visuals that don\u2019t stand out.</p>\n\n<p>The best term I\u2019ve read for this comes from incisive film Twitter member Katie Stebbins. She calls it the \u201cintangible sludge\u201d \u2026</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This lengthy essay featuring reams of historical context and various theories on why so many modern movies & TV shows are noticeably desaturated along with a brown/amber or blue/green color wash is a <strong>must read</strong>. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve thought a lot about. And it\u2019s interesting Emily St. James mentions the <em>The Matrix Resurrections</em> as a startling counter-response to this trend (and to the original Matrix trilogy for that matter) because that really struck me as well\u2026though didn\u2019t surprise me in the least\u2014I fully expected the new movie to feel as much like <em>sense8</em> as its direct predecessors.</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019m <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/articles/ice-cream\">now on record</a> saying I have a great love for a highly-colorful aesthetic\u2014though apparently even in this new digital world (and perhaps even more so because of it), so many filmmakers feel like the way to look more \u201ccinematic\u201d is to desaturate everything and avoid any significant colors popping out of the image. I can only hope more and more creators in the industry start to realize they can\u2014and at times most definitely <em>should</em>\u2014embrace vibrancy without fear of professional blowback.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/movies\">#movies</a> <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/tvshows\">#tvshows</a></p>",
"text": "If you watch a lot of movies and TV shows, you might have noticed that over the last few decades everything has gotten a lot more \u2026 gray. No matter the kind of story being told, a sheen of cool blue or gray would wash over everything, muting the colors and providing an overall veneer of serious business.\n\nSo many TV shows and movies now have a dull filter applied to every scene, one that cuts away vibrancy and trends toward a boring sameness. Every frame\u2019s color scheme ends up feeling the same as every other frame. And when there are so many projects using similar techniques, you end up with a world of boring visuals that don\u2019t stand out.\n\nThe best term I\u2019ve read for this comes from incisive film Twitter member Katie Stebbins. She calls it the \u201cintangible sludge\u201d \u2026\n\n\n\nThis lengthy essay featuring reams of historical context and various theories on why so many modern movies & TV shows are noticeably desaturated along with a brown/amber or blue/green color wash is a must read. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve thought a lot about. And it\u2019s interesting Emily St. James mentions the The Matrix Resurrections as a startling counter-response to this trend (and to the original Matrix trilogy for that matter) because that really struck me as well\u2026though didn\u2019t surprise me in the least\u2014I fully expected the new movie to feel as much like sense8 as its direct predecessors.\n\nI\u2019m now on record saying I have a great love for a highly-colorful aesthetic\u2014though apparently even in this new digital world (and perhaps even more so because of it), so many filmmakers feel like the way to look more \u201ccinematic\u201d is to desaturate everything and avoid any significant colors popping out of the image. I can only hope more and more creators in the industry start to realize they can\u2014and at times most definitely should\u2014embrace vibrancy without fear of professional blowback.\n\n#movies #tvshows"
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My thoughts on this amazing essay for @voxdotcom by @emilyvdw. She writes:
> So many TV shows and movies now have a dull filter applied to every scene, one that cuts away vibrancy and trends toward a boring sameness.
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I hope the many tech companies with .to domains (including the one I work for) will help out however they can with the humanitarian efforts in Tonga right now.
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"…that tells you, when you measure JavaScript, it fundamentally changes some of its characteristics — in this case, that's its relationship to the GZIP algorithm.
That just goes to show that JavaScript is a form of quantum-computing!!" @heydonworks 💖 youtube.com/watch?v=ga_byU…
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"text": "\"\u2026that tells you, when you measure JavaScript, it fundamentally changes some of its characteristics \u2014 in this case, that's its relationship to the GZIP algorithm.\n\nThat just goes to show that JavaScript is a form of quantum-computing!!\" @heydonworks \ud83d\udc96 youtube.com/watch?v=ga_byU\u2026",
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I've been shouting this into the void for a while now. I guess it's worth one more shout. We are waaaaaay overdue for some serious introspection about why we have structu...
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Bizarre realizations in note taking:
The tattoos on Leonard Shelby's body in the film Memento act as a physical #zettelkasten of information stored on skin rather than index cards. He uses his permanent notes to supplement his fleeting memory to solve a murder.
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“You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don’t you?” (Good Omens)
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I worked at Apple for 8 years and we YELLED about Microsoft for doing this type of anti-user, blatant market protection dirty trick in the 90s.
My how the tables have tu...
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"text": "I worked at Apple for 8 years and we YELLED about Microsoft for doing this type of anti-user, blatant market protection dirty trick in the 90s.\n\nMy how the tables have turned.\n\nOh, and don't even TRY to say this 'protects the user'\nNarrator: it doesn't\ntwitter.com/slightlylate/s\u2026",
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What rights do #VentureCapital funds typically have in #web3#crypto#coin investments that other coin holders don’t? I assume they will insist on the same as in non-crypto investments, like board seats, senior liquidation rights etc? Anybody know?
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Honeycomb on call teams have an SLO of not getting paged more than twice a week, or having to work an incident outside of business hours more than once every six months.
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"text": "This is brilliant! Thank you for sharing. I\u2019m going to take this back to my teams \u2764\ufe0f"
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"text": "Honeycomb on call teams have an SLO of not getting paged more than twice a week, or having to work an incident outside of business hours more than once every six months.\n\nWe were burning out our people, so we had to call a halt to the flurry of changes."
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