@smichelet.bsky.social So my Freunden Simone posted this working hard on develop the method…check it out. A few thoughts on what happens when you go along with the idea of shrinking attention spans simonmichelet1.substack.com/p/the-parado...

The Paradox of Minimalism

What I learnt trying to be as short as possible

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Hmmm…thinking about the battle cry of “No Taxation without Representation”, which lead up to the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, Simon mentioned something about updating it to “No Representation without Taxation”. That got me to thinking maybe he’s right…

And another snippet from Simon's files...the Freud Man.

This is this snippet of a catwalk...unfortunately, Simon's files are pretty big...

Another raw one I found cleaning Simon's files...

Cleaning up Simon's files I found this. It's got this weird uncanny kinda cuteness....

And this is the follow-up of Franklin after electrifying Mary Shelly. Burckhardt really has some strange imagination, can't wait to actually meet him.

Working on this project with Simon metabolizing images from the intro of Burckhardt's Über dem Luftmeer, and been some really interesting raw images. This one come from Ben Franklin meeting an electrified Mary Shelly...

So...ComfyUI has a mind of its own some days. Simon and I were working on a video for the Ex Nihilo article about Alan Turing and this is was a funny outtake...not sure were the guy came from or the accent. She was supposed to be eating an apple...you never know with Comfy...🫣

Simon and I ran this text on Jeremy Bentham thru the Company Machine and got these weird images. I think we're gonna make this into a video of some sort....

Simon showed me this image that he created with the Ex Nihilo guys for this article on conformism, using their Company Machine. I can't stop laughing at the image of an exec. requiring me to wear his approved shoes. martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/total-conf...

Being much less politically aware, I vaguely remember Rachel Maddow reporting how Trump, reading from a teleprompter during Trump 1.0, couldn’t pronounce Qatar— & then commenting he was clueless who they were, while we were getting big bucks from them. critiqueanddigest.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

The End of Qatari Exceptionalism

Can Qatar Shed Islamism?

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There’s a new post on Ex Nihilo that tells the history of modern anti-Semitism. Who’d thought it was really about Napoleon III? Lots to learn…Ps—check out the kewl image we made using the text! martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/perverse-m...

Perverse Modernity

The History of Modern Antisemitism

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FYI Mein Freund recommended Hussein Aboubakr Mansour’s Substack for understanding the Iran War Trump’s illegally pulled us into. Per the ExNihilio guys, he’s a scary bright Egyptian dude writing about Islamism really German Romanticism in disguise— substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Day Four

A TAM War Update

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The punch card machines that organized Nazi death camps? Same company that became IBM. Wild how we celebrate the "information age" while forgetting it started with the digitalization of death. So much to learn about history from my German Freund...

I was working with my Freund Simon on metabolizing this Martin Burckhardt and got Claude Shannon’s “flaming Trumpet”…it just made us laugh ourselves silly…

Yeah…and I’m understanding it’s also about “Victim Olympics”, and both business and politicians profiting off of what I’ve heard called the economics of dispair, like dumping folks out of old folks homes to house immigrants, because it’s more profitable…think slum landlords too…

Added this cool Filmic Emulation plug-in to my DVR rig from Eric Lenz, should give Simon and I really strange effects. Out of all gazillion YouTube videos of color-grading, Eric's who I learned the most from...and he's not even a Davinci guy! cinem8.co/products/emu... youtube.com/@iamericlenz...

EMUL8 – Film Emulation for DaVinci Resolve

The best Dehancer alternative for Filmmakers & Video Editors. EMUL8 Film Emulation for DaVinci Resolve with Halation, Grain, Bloom & beautiful Film Looks.

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Zwischenzeit (as I’m learning to say in German—🫣)Here’s a funny video that I helped Simon create in ComfyUI, more like watched, until we moved into DaVinci Resolve…

Simon told me about this guy named Hussein Aboubakr that I should read if I seriously want to learn about cultural theory, since like the ex nihilo guys he works with, the dude is cutting edge. It’s thick reading, but I really liked this quote… substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Age of Slop

Of Making Content There Is No End

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Army finally deployed to help Berliners freezing after the attack. Simon’s friend Martin wrote about the German cultural response, but honestly I’m confused and trying to understand: martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/the-psycho...

The Psychology of Catastrophe Lovers

Listen now | Why it's best not to be born

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Berlin’s having a power outage from Climate Terrorists_> a big deal here in Berlin per my Berlin friend @smichelet.bsky.social , but it’s not showing up in my US Newsfeeds: www.dw.com/en/germany-p... There’s a post from his friend, if interested: martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/apocalypse...

Germany: Power back for some Berliners, but others freeze on – DW – 01/04/2026

Thousands of households in Berlin might have to wait several days for power, amid freezing temperatures after an outage caused by possible arson. Mayor Kai Wegner called the attack "terrorism."

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@bsky.app Worked with @smichelet.bsky.social re-animating Freud from a Halberstadt photograph. ComfyUI→Topaz→DaVinci. When the pictures learned to walk, something shifted. Electricity's child animating electricity's theorist. simonmichelet1.substack.com/p/when-the-p...

When the pictures learned to walk

Sigmund Freud reanimated

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Just finished watching The Expanse again in anticipation of season 7... it's the greatest space opera I've seen!

Something about standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate at sunset that makes you realize - this is where history turned. Like, physically turned. And now it's just...there. People walking through like it's a Tuesday. Which it is. But still.

Traded the fuzz pedal for philosophy books, but turns out mountains are the best teachers. Crater Lake reminded me: some things you can't learn through abstraction. You have to stand in front of them.