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February 17, 2020
— the video was heavily inspired by late ’70s/early ’80s animation like Heavy Metal and Watership Down #
February 14, 2020
— it downloads the models real-time from Google Poly #
— a beautiful Twitter bot moment #
— a wild rise and fall from its 2017 launch to 2.4 million peak concurrent players in 2018 to complete collapse #
— like Lil Miquela and Ami Yamato, Melody never breaks character #
— hacking an arm prosthesis to a modular synth to make thought-controlled music via @garbageday #
— their AR app plays animations around the moon seen through your phone’s camera #
— he didn’t own a smartphone until three years ago #
— the remarkable creation tool can be used for game development, 3D rendering, music, animation, and more via mailchi.mp #
— Dr. Davis is the mother of the actor who played Dutch in RDR2 via Nelson Minar #
— I was lucky enough to get to know Eric when we were both at Yahoo, just a super kind and cool person via Web Curios #
— this year’s Oscar-winning live-action short film via Web Curios #
— Janelle Shane asked GPT-2 for some new Valentine’s Day slogans #
— comic strip generated from articles about millennials killing things via Web Curios #
— run your BASIC tweets on a virtual BBC Micro via Web Curios #
February 13, 2020
— web app for creating patterns via @adrianholovaty #
— Neal Agarwal visualizes income streams via FlowingData #
— Travis moved on to disrupting health inspections via Nelson Minar #
— a community of women who believe they’re genetically destined to be alone, while their male counterparts deny they even exist #
— interesting to see the different norms and expectations around attribution between different apps #
— spearheaded by the CEO of Fyre Festival marketers and professional plagiarists, Jerry Media aka fuckjerry #
— Chooseco’s also been going after indie game devs on Itch.io via mailchi.mp #
— it uses their virtual credit cards, which can also be used for no-risk free trial signups #
— new site for the immersive design agency behind Jejune Institute and Latitude Society via @lindadong #
— Nicole He fine-tuned GPT-2 to generate interview questions and new lyrics #
— brilliant stunt to subvert the horrible precedents set by recent high-profile music copyright infringement cases via mailchi.mp #
February 11, 2020
— a social network simulator for iOS where you’re the only human with millions of bots obsessed with you via @billychasen #
February 10, 2020
— including text, images, and audio, presumably impacting a large swath of the pre-2010s web #
— with interviews from the team and behind-the-scenes photos and digital renderings #
— 24 years later, it’s now re-rendered in 1080p 60FPS video from the original 3ds Max source #
February 7, 2020
— stretching machine-generated parallax with the 3D Ken Burns effect to its limits #
February 6, 2020
— experimental app to turn hand-drawn sketches into music and synthesizers #
— or, more accurately, free fan-made apps that mimic the Mario Paint aesthetic #
— slated for this April, excited to see what they come up with #
February 5, 2020
— multiplayer pixel art #
— newly-launched publication from Politico’s publisher covering “the people, power and politics of tech” #
— get texted the credentials for a mystery site daily, first person who figures out what it’s for gets to keep it #
— Rachel Binx’s new open-source web store project #
— the new podcast from Song Exploder’s Hrishikesh Hirway, telling stories of creative partnerships #
— very good webcomic about a vampire and werewolf in love, from the creator of Sarah’s Scribbles #
February 4, 2020
— using Gigapixel AI for increasing resolution and DAIN for interpolation #
— explore 3D maps from classic games in the browser, including Katamari, Psychonauts, Mario Galaxy, and many more #
— their commitment to a dumb joke is part of why I love them so much #
— 0.01% of Google Photos users attempting to export, but who knows how many that was #
February 3, 2020
— now they just need to get rid of those crickets #
— a delightful, practical look back at how CSS evolved via Jeremy Keith #
— visual novel where the core interaction is making coffee drinks for customers #
— for more on Doomer memes, see the MEL piece by Miles Klee #
