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Me: I would like to create a 30 second video please.
Adobe: We need to cache 800 GB immediately.
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@iowahawkblog
I called in a pizza a few weeks ago. My call was sent to a call center. I showed up at Pizza Hut. No order for “Phil.” Turned out the guy had taken my name down as “Steel.”
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Dear
@nytimes
in seventh grade I spent twenty minutes messing with SmarterChild on AIM. Should I fax you the transcripts?
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@Casey
I once went to a book signing of his, and I said, "My mom really loves you." And then he made this expression that somehow managed to hit on my mom, across space and time.
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“People have always feared new forms of communication. Ask Gutenberg.”
<- lede to my article about Squirlsh, the new content platform where teenagers hit strangers with maces made from squirrels
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Every sad personal essay is, like, "I escaped the trauma of that morning to find...redemption."
Then the bio's like, "Ms. Smith currently works at Raytheon in the Blowing-Up-Puppies division."
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Law & Order turns 25 today, as does the greatest sound effect in TV history
http://t.co/0RSgd5bn7Y
http://t.co/BOSOHbjlyb
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Did you know London's wealthiest people have built underground lairs? As Prof. Roger Burrows puts it, this is a battle between the haves and the have yachts.
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The debut video for the new Wordle!!! Thank you for giving my life a new routine
@NerdyAndQuirky
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Today's my six year Vox anniversary. Please celebrate my work by visiting this 2015 post about which politician looks the most comfortable with puppets.
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I worked on an episode of “Explained” (Vox’s Netflix show) and it’s out today — it’s eSports 101.
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Hey, so how did Christmas trees go from being something they only did in Germany to something the whole world does?
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heard cinema is in a slump - has hollywood considered making a love letter to the movies?
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Felt real discombobulated from traveling but found a good spot to recover.
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Oppenheimer will be the greatest opportunity for hat-focused content since The Adjustment Bureau (2011). It also starred Blunt and Damon. Is there a secret Hollywood Fedoragenda?
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How did they trace a cholera outbreak in 1854? The whole story is told on a map.
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I got to interview the legendary trailer editor Bill Neil and focus on one question: How do movie trailers work?
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The filming thing I'm most excited about right now is "negative fill," even though it sounds like what people call me behind my back.
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In our intro to eSports you’ll meet (in order):
1) Silver fox genius
@djWHEAT
2) KOF superfan
@HellPockets
3) Gaming legend
@thresh
4) NALCS mastermind
@RiotChopper
5) John Madden 2018
@RiotJatt
6) LoL mastermind
@Ghostcrawler
It’s all here:
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Have you ever watched Queer Eye and wondered, how do they find these people to give makeovers? I got to speak to the casting director about it — and it was a different process than I expected.
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Every LinkedIn post is like, “I remember holding my Brother’s hand as he died, and it taught me an important lesson about b2b sales.”
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New video about the bridge design that helped win World War II.
Alternate title: How to beat Hitler with an Erector set
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This year, I got to dive into the world of professional tag. It covers everything from broadcasting, to parkour, to how a new sport is born.
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New video! How do they make CGI skin look real? There are four big factors, and each one is a unique challenge for artists.
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So...why did Frank Lloyd Wright love these windows?
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These days, video game rocks involve a lot of real life photography:
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Exclusive BTS on my most recent video. See where it ended up here:
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Subscribe! Bell on! Sam's work is like a video version of The Economist - a briefing that makes me smarter every time I sit down with it.
Search Party is live and our first stop is 📍England's Premier League
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Ever wonder why so many suburbs look the same? It's all part of the plan.
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I worked in the greatest office of all time.
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the only path to success in media: getting people to yell at you for tweeting stuff like " i only eat pizza with chopsticks," or "sandwiches are better pets than dogs."
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Computer, it's time to accept the truth: it's just not going to happen.
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Rotoscoping was a tech breakthrough that enabled amazing creativity.
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My addiction to posterized time in After Effects has encroached on real life.
It takes me 7 seconds to blink now. 11 stuttering seconds to hug my children. Crying, I wave to the mailman like a Ray Harryhausen monster.
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It's my eight year anniversary at Vox.
Celebrate my work by gazing upon the Weinermobile patent.
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Last night, I did a remote interview where I was on a iPad screen, kinda being held in someone's lap. I was like a little interviewing baby.
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Hey we won a Webby for our rotoscoping video! Here's our five word speech. We normally chant this every night at midnight, in black robes.
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Do you know about the oil patterns on bowling lanes? It will change your game.
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So, the original Game of Life was dark. Really dark. But there was a reason.
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My current video has 127 After Effects compositions (and counting), either a sign of my epic ambition or gross incompetence.
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For my latest video, I got to learn about (and make some!) HDRIs.
I heard some cool stories and got to understand a great tool that started off with Christmas ornaments and gazing balls.
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The most absurd enhance is becoming real!
Love this problem statement! Reconstruct the world from retinal reflections:
The original paper from 2004 by Nishino and Nayar was a super inspiring example of creative research for me:
Great to see a 3D version of it!!
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Some sad news today for my family. Taking a break from Twitter. Connect with those you love.✌️
(40 minutes later)
Remember how hard it was to get a straw in your Capri Sun?!? 🤪🤪🤪
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Are shipping containers overrated? Are they fun? Are they an affordable housing solution? I tried to answer these questions (and got to stay in one).
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It's time to explain the Stanley cup. Nobody else has gotten it right.
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Your TV is still trying to ruin your picture - but there is a happy ending.
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Today's my seven year Vox anniversary. Please celebrate my work by visiting this 2015 post about vomit bags.
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You see, Don’t Look Up isn’t about a comet - it’s about what happens when an editor gets drunk and uses up all the stock video credits for the year.
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YouTube is removing dislike counts, so get in while you still can.
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Stop motion began with an insect collection and a dream.
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So I've been hearing a lot about Steamboat Willie but was curious why it was ever a hit in the first place. There's a very specific reason.
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General: "Mr. President, you have to make the call."
Gravel-voiced President: "Do it. Rasterize the layer."
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You've probably been lovvvvving the World Cup (go Morocco!) but wondering - why don't they pick up the ball or throw it? It's time to go deep on some FIFA rules...🧵(1/57)
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Me at Adobe rehab: "What if instead of stabilizing our warps, we stabilized ourselves?"
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If you’ve ever wondered why American Gothic is so famous, there’s a reason.
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So...why are those rectangular panels on EVERY NEW BUILDING? There is a reason.
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Vox had a crowdsourced video topic, and the lore of Filthy Frank won. Here’s our video:
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How did Los Alamos become...Los Alamos? Hopefully this video offers some Oppenheimer and Manhattan Project mooring before you see the movie.
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In Florida, engineer Dan Spinella makes incredible Fresnel lenses. People want them because they're beautiful — but they're also the breakthrough that made lighthouses work much better.
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So...why is AI Art bad at hands...still?
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How art history can be a gateway to fruit history...courtesy of a very weird watermelon.
http://t.co/DXQqOek9VM
http://t.co/IDlNRpCmHr
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I always wanted to do an overview of slow-mo in movies. It turns out it was there pretty much from the beginning.
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How did we get beautiful glass windows and walls? That aesthetic breakthrough is, really, a technological one.
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There was a brief period in time where, to be famous, you literally had to have this hairline.
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@Lin_Manuel
my friend
@WaitWings
just launched the definitive Superbia doc - he interviewed Larson’s colleagues and even pored over the Library of Congress papers. Think you’d like it.
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Every example of "good" sports writing is like: "A cold wind blew. Pops lobbed the ball into my cool mitt. Mickey Mantle was dead."
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@ezraklein
On the other hand, saying certain good behaviors are "just like JJ" is a powerful incentive.
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Remember, your narcissism is bound only by your imagination.
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So what comes after the green screen? I got to speak to
@charmainesmchan
about some specifics of her amazing job. It's kind of at a new frontier for VFX.
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What happens when you try to build homes like cars? Lustron was the attempt to do just that.
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It's kinda crazy how in college you have nearly unlimited information, millions in electronics resources, and incredible athletic facilities, but you're like, "I will spend today listening to an RA talk about self-respect so I can get free garlic bread."
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"Hollywood" didn't have to be in...Hollywood. The movie industry almost moved to Florida.
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Ever wonder how audiobooks come together? We were lucky enough to have a narrator read our story — and break down her process.
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90% of educational TikToks are somebody who snorted a pixie stick and skimmed Wikipedia.
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If you want a preview of my next Vox video series, I currently have a 50GB TikTok dataset sitting on my hard drive.
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We see a lot of Dr. Fauci now, but it's an earlier crisis that shaped his career.
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Cool thread on just how creative people can use a technique like rotoscoping in totally original ways.
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Subscribed!
Big professional news: After 5 years at Vox, I’m going independent!
I’m launching my own show on YouTube + TikTok. Journalistically rigorous, genuinely optimistic explainers about tech that could change our future.
Introducing… Huge If True 🧵
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This is not the point, but this is kind of an impressively cinematic scene/shot.
NEW:
@SpeakerJohnson
on CBO score for his Israel aid package: “Only in Washington when you cut spending do they call it an increase in the deficit”
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People are so disappointed in me when I say Newark is my favorite NYC airport. But the heart wants what the heart wants...
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Will AI kill the greenscreen? It's complicated.
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The Shining (1980)
In Kubrick's classic horror film, the director imagines what would happen if a guy had to work from home for a couple months.
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Gulf, bay, or harbor? This map explains all those confusing geography terms.
http://t.co/bLjwgPKHvM
http://t.co/6DSDK0HRqw
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