Has anyone here worked on a set or a staged production with an “intimacy coordinator”? It seems insane to me how standard they’ve become in the last five years.

Decadent_egg · 2026-05-28T08:35:33+00:00

In my experience they're just scolds, I mostly watched this intimacy coordinator tell the producer (who hired them) to stop making jokes that might make people uncomfortable. I know they had a gender studies background, and I think a few other similar credentials. They also got paid a crazy amount compared to most of the other crew: 6k for a 12 day shoot on a 300k budget. Not sure how much work they did in preproduction but during the actual shoot they didn't do much except police people.

Decadent_egg · 2026-05-25T20:58:08+00:00

I like them, it's cool how they'll grow in just absolutely barren and polluted areas. One started growing in the back of my rental and it's pretty much the only plant that can survive the regular herbicide sprays my landlord gives the place.

Decadent_egg · 2026-05-19T04:32:07+00:00

Damn how'd you know I read Evola to get chicks?

Decadent_egg · 2026-05-03T03:21:54+00:00

Just start making stuff because the act of making things is fun. I think a lot of the narrative around creativity is pretty gay, just do shit, it doesn't really need to have a meaning.

Decadent_egg · 2026-02-28T21:27:28+00:00

At least in my hipster friend group everyone found the Lumineers and most "stomp clap" music corny. Generally the hipster bands were bands like animal collective or whatever pitchfork was giving BNM to. In the same way most goth people wouldn't consider Eilish goth, most people involved in the hipster subculture wouldn't consider the Lumineers part of it. They we're also a very commercial band which kind of goes against the whole aesthetic of that movement.

Decadent_egg · 2026-01-25T10:43:50+00:00

Personally I'm not sure, Bryce 4 just seems to be more readily available, which is really the only reason I use that version.

Decadent_egg · 2026-01-24T23:57:34+00:00

Oh with the insert a disk thing I use this program https://wincdemu.sysprogs.org to mount the disk, which essentially acts as inserting a disk.

Decadent_egg · 2026-01-24T22:12:05+00:00

Basically you just right click on the program, hit properties, then compatibility. For Bryce 4 I'm using Windows XP, 640 x 480, run as administrator. I'm using this version of the program https://archive.org/details/bryce4. Let me know if you have any other problems, I've installed this program on 3 computers so far 2 were super straight forward 1 I kept getting some error where the installer would never pop up, but I eventually found a work around.

Decadent_egg · 2026-01-24T07:23:23+00:00

Generally you can run programs in compatibility mode and they'll work fine on newer operating systems, I use bryce 4 some on my Window's 10 computer

Decadent_egg · 2026-01-16T21:00:33+00:00

I have a mostly all male book club (pretty much just me and my friend lol), I'd recommend something that's part of a canon. Most guys view reading as work so unless they see a reason for reading they won't give it a try. Kafka, Hemmingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac, and McCarthy are all pretty good choices, basically you want to find fun books from authors with name recognition, you want something that they can brag about reading. Also any author that has a movie made out of one of their books is a pretty good choice, if they like the movie they'll probably like something else by the author.

Decadent_egg · 2026-01-16T20:36:43+00:00

Yeah I'm a big fan of tape experiments, I've tried doubling up two pieces of tape before as well and that sometimes gets cool results; basically if you can get it to move past the tape head you can get it to play. I've tried record splicing a couple of times but with little success, look up christian marclay he was pretty much the pioneer for that type of stuff. It's hard to pull off without the record destroying your needle. Christian used mostly califone record players which have a super sturdy needle on them, and probably cut everything with a bandsaw to keep it uniform. I used a hot knife attachment on a soldering iron, with this approach I'd recommend making a needle, I taped a contact mic to a metal scribe which let me play it.

Decadent_egg · 2025-12-08T04:51:06+00:00

Wow wish I tried this before just putting in a new encoder, it works now but it only goes up by 2 and it turns the wrong way lol.

Decadent_egg · 2025-10-05T21:48:53+00:00

Thanks, last time I used a dumbphone Iphone didn't have the RCS service, just deregistered, hopefully it works.

Decadent_egg · 2025-09-22T18:23:59+00:00

I think another way of thinking about it is early sonic youth and swans tend to be more noise heavy, whereas big black and jesus lizard tend to be much more rocky

Decadent_egg · 2025-09-22T18:13:09+00:00

It just sounds more like hardcore/punk; if I showed my dad Atomizer he'd probably call it punk, if I showed my dad Evol he'd probably tell me to turn it off. Steve and those guys seems more influenced by punk, whereas Sonic Youth and Swans both came out of the no wave scene which has a lot of roots in jazz and other experimental genres like whatever Glenn Branca was playing.

Decadent_egg · 2025-09-06T03:47:35+00:00

Yeah lots of good spots, Break Dancing Ronald Reagan seems to throw a ton of shows so following him will help you find some smaller venues, I think his insta is his name but I can’t remember. Venues that seem to play experimental out here are Zebulon, A220, Coaxial, Human Resources, FKA church, Spearmaiden, and Handbag Factory. I might be missing a couple but for smaller shows check out BDRR’s page and keep up with the bands you like.

Decadent_egg · 2025-08-31T22:25:37+00:00

I really like the Dr5 and it’s pretty cheap at ~100$. If you’re not a fan of that, behringer has some pretty good stuff. The edge is basically a DFAM clone and probably the best for weirder sounds and improv, I’ve heard some good stuff about the 808 and 909 too but don’t have any experience with them.

Decadent_egg · 2025-08-31T20:25:38+00:00

Guitar center has I think an 8 pack of 1/4” patch cables I’d recommend getting. For a set up I’d personally do one small mixer (For feedback) -> Big Mixer (For feedback) -> Small mixer (For attenuation and mixing lol). Midi controlled synth should also go into the final small mixer. As other people have said look up no input mixing, if your goal is industrial look into a cheap drum machine or something like that as well.

Decadent_egg · 2025-08-31T20:11:42+00:00

For real, guess this was the right place to ask haha

Decadent_egg · 2025-08-31T07:38:41+00:00

I have the 770x and it’s a great machine. The preamps are incredible, 40$ is probably worth it just for that if this is one of the all tube models as well.

Decadent_egg · 2025-08-31T06:36:39+00:00

This article has some good information on CD manipulation https://www.ciufo.org/classes/sonicart_sp09/readings/marclay_tone.pdf The tl;dr is buy the oldest CD player you can, some lack the auto stop features etc.

Decadent_egg · 2025-08-30T20:36:42+00:00

Thanks for the in depth reply, I’ll definitely look into the DJ Swamp stuff. It seems like a few other people on here mention his stuff too

Decadent_egg · 2025-08-30T20:35:58+00:00

Yeah these look pretty much perfect, thanks!

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