hey this modulation-by-texture stuff seems to be working! excited for what this means
v buckenham
@v21.bsky.social
hello again made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use also i have a website: v21.io
reading this and thinking about that pizza video i just watched and enjoyed on here
This is such an great feature (Rebecca is great!), and I've been thinking about it for a few days. IMO, "Influencer" in the ten-years-ago sense was really a LOT of jobs (spokesmodel/copywriter/etc.) but now it's morphing, at least in part, into "intentionally annoying person" which feels worse.
open weight models seem to have a trend of matching frontier models within about 6 months, and it's possible to remove the guardrails from them
Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
Played with this at @emfcamp.bsky.social and it's amazing. So much fun and so easy to dive into and explore 😀
announcing: picodevil, my new tool for livecoding visuals by chopping up video with patterns picodevil.com
announcing: picodevil, my new tool for livecoding visuals by chopping up video with patterns picodevil.com
picodevil
picodevil is here to help you livecode visuals! let's chop up some videos with patterns!
picodevil.com
i was on TSLOG! talking about Helix, which i reckon has the same great ethos of luring you into taking just one more risk as Brough's broughlikes, but smoothly realtime.
All Systems Brough - HELIX We're joined by @foddy.net, @iznaut.com, and @v21.bsky.social to discuss this classic spiral-action shmup-like about staying alive, the 8th game in our yearlong coverage of @smestorp.bsky.social's wide-ranging catalogue. secretlives.games/all-systems-...
We need to get a handle on how this "coding" thing is creating addiction patterns. Some of my friends spend their nights and weekends on it. It's getting in between them and their families and social lives. They're even defining other people's worth solely in terms of how much those people code??
Overlapping context-specific communities, on a whole spectrum of public commons to cozy private spaces, all interoperable in a global network — yeahhhh we've got a big opportunity here!
Everyone Fled the Feed for the Group Chat.
We don't KNOW what comes next. But looking through the 'streams' we can see 'archipelagos' rising ...
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announcing: picodevil, my new tool for livecoding visuals by chopping up video with patterns picodevil.com
picodevil
picodevil is here to help you livecode visuals! let's chop up some videos with patterns!
picodevil.com
Really excited to teach a shaders class at @sfpc.study this fall! For visual oriented folks without a maths background that want to explore making art with code **Signups til Aug 10th ** scolarships available. Join me and @jonbrodsky.bsky.social at sfpc.study/sessions/fal... Poster: @identikitten
raided my cache of old stickers and decorated my laptop. now, I have a strict no logos policy for my laptop, which rules out most videogame stickers. but two snuck through - can you identify them?
Hey this looks cool as heck and really fun! IMO making things as described in this post is a kind of digital touching grass, and to do it collectively and examinedly is even better
new blog post: blog.vbuckenham.com/announcing-t...
then he lands, and the feet nudge-right logic stops running bc he's not falling. and so his right-side pixel nudges him out *left* again. but if we've been sucked in enough that the head pixel can now bonk, we can generate more "falling" frames and get sucked in further:
Here's a full demo. It's close to being ready but there's One More Thing I need to get done...
Interactive fiction ereader update! Eenk now supports images (both inlined in the story, and as cover/thumbnail). All from a standard ink file that the IDE compiles in one click and can transfer to the device via USB :)
new blog post: blog.vbuckenham.com/announcing-t...
Announcing: Tools for Creativity at the School For Poetic Computation
I'm running a class for the School of Poetic Computation! It's about making creative tools. Nick Murray is going to be my assistant teacher. Applications are open til Monday 10th August! Let me expl...
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another video production fact for you today: every episode of Friends shown on British television was played back 4% faster than it was filmed (for framerate conversion reasons)
is this one of those secret US/UK cultural differences? "watch with baby" screenings are totally normal here.
is there some future competitive advantage with college admissions if you deafened your child to Ludwig Göransson
something I don't really understand: why people get so excited by seeing film prints of movies which were edited using a digital intermediate
Painting by Gustav Klimt. ‘Tannenwald I’ Pine Forest I,1901. Oil on canvas. Size 90 x 90 cm.
The live-action promo for the original Appleseed OVA has some wonderfully 80s-ey techie data screens sprinkled through it.
I think this mini series is the consistently funniest "comedians doing a gameshow" thing I have seen: youtu.be/Zfp-rcAvHr0
Demi Lardner Made The Most Cooked Game Show 🤯 Ft Becky Lucas, Michael Hing [SYWWAPP]
YouTube video by Grouse House
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when people say that a film didn't use CGI what they mean is that the CGI was done well
THE FALL has 9x3D artists credited in the 54-person VFX team. Fuck off with this "Allergic to CGI" claptrap
I'm actually here for it (although in principle the same grindy endless design sensibilities will persist into the demakes, I'm sure)
something horrifying has come to me in a vision