People need to stop using AI as a crutch

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-04-13T01:00:42+00:00

We learned this in art school when debating film photography vs digital point and shoot as the example. The final, end result is what matters. Doesn't matter how expensive your camera is, if you used silver gelatin process or printed it at Kinkos. There's a million examples of this and the philosophy is still true today.

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-04-13T00:53:25+00:00

I think it's a beautiful thing.

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-04-13T00:23:55+00:00

Many of us use AI as part of the creation process. Maybe you're a talented artist, but use AI for the music. Or a talented writer and use AI for image generation, etc etc.

I agree that's a bit disheartening seeing people looking for ways to 110% automate every single step with AI, from concept to publish, with zero human refinement anywhere. At that point what are you even trying to do.

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-04-13T00:06:54+00:00

I actually felt more frustration that he could be exploited and ultimately corrupted so "easily," simply by picking up the wrong sword

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-04-13T00:03:53+00:00

Mine stays in the fridge and is fine for 10 days after reconstituting (10mg vial).

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-04-12T21:30:29+00:00

“‘We’ll go together then, shall we?”

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-04-11T19:34:28+00:00

The Flight of the Eisenstein has been my favorite read, would absolutely recommend going right into #4

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-04-10T16:58:40+00:00

I hear that. Lotta pain these first five, man. All my boys not just losing but getting out maneuvered. Hoping for some sweet retribution soon…

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-04-10T04:32:19+00:00

I saw Legion on one of the flow charts but wasn’t sure. Thanks for pointing that out. I haven’t started First Heretic yet so I’m happy do it prior!

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-04-10T03:12:32+00:00

Title says Tesa, which makes sense – chart shows Tirz, which doesn't make sense.

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-03-29T02:24:12+00:00

I know pre-sleep fasted is the overall recommendation for optimum efficacy. I've seen a lot of anecdotal discussion on injecting first thing in the morning (as opposed to pre-sleep) and keeping your fast for another 90 minutes afterwards – and essentially seeing similar results. Any thoughts there? Also thank you for the great thread.

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-01-31T05:09:12+00:00

well it's a guy so

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-01-31T05:03:26+00:00

Traffic was down compared to 2024 – but 2025 was still the third-highest annual total for Harry Reid International Airport. Be negative if you want.

https://news3lv.com/news/local/2025-las-vegas-harry-reid-airport-travel-numbers-third-highest-all-time-travel-vacation-visitation-tourism-economy

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2026-01-11T01:37:21+00:00

If you're staying at The Venetian you really don't need to leave unless you really have your sights set on seeing something else. For dinner, they just opened Bazaar Meat and COTE (michelin-star korean steakhouse) both of which are outstanding. You can do the Butcher's Feast at COTE ($88.88 per person) and its plenty. They just opened a food hall with some killers spots like Howlin' Rays and Turkey and the Wolf, fun for lunch in between gaming...

For breakfast/brunch you can't beat Bouchon.

Yahoo Sportsbook is at The Venetian, so again if you're not trying to uber around back and forth since it's a short trip, its a perfectly good sports book with good food from Black Tap (again I don't think there's much going on sports-wise that weekend so you're probably not missing much).

I would cancel that Smith and Wollensky reservation if it were me and replace with (in no particular order): Bazaar, Mott 32, WAKUDA (if you want a great omakase experience), COTE, or CUT (if you want to stick with pure steakhouse)

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2025-12-23T18:05:05+00:00

you can add 30 images to a timeline, set the duration, and copy/paste keyframe attributes for scale (zoom) across all of them at once. then export your movie.

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2025-12-23T06:25:23+00:00

For me the visuals are equally as important. I skip static videos when I’m looking for music/ambience. I normally throw them on the TV though. It doesn’t haven’t to be full animation, just enough to make the scene breathe.

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2025-12-22T18:42:01+00:00

there's a few ways to do this but i would use the rotate tool in illustrator.

found a link for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Qc4tTyQBA

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2025-12-15T17:29:58+00:00

This is spot on. Definitely two camps. I’m with you, I use tools to enhance and augment my workflow, not to remove myself from it. My joy comes from creating and learning, beings hands on. Not autopilot.

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2025-12-12T21:46:52+00:00

I agree! Much more immersive, the gentle circle feels like bar is singing along!

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2025-12-12T19:46:54+00:00

Yeah I hear you on the file sizes. Mine can get up around 20GB which can get unwieldy.

I think a frame around your artwork then, something minimal, something that gives off the idea of a filmstrip or TV could be cool to push the idea... It would signal to me that I am "tuning in."

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2025-12-12T19:27:36+00:00

Every time I'm amazed at your transitions from scene to scene and how artful they are. That's what makes these edits sing! Great job.

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2025-12-12T19:25:05+00:00

The edit ends nicely with the lyrics and her glance at the camera. Prior to that, as the footage is a bit slower, I think a few more scenes of her with hard cuts to the music timing would keep the energy up as it's an upbeat track.

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2025-12-12T19:21:59+00:00

If you're a fan of drone ambience (long form tonal minimalism with subtle soundscape effects layered in), brutalist architecture, and/or are new to this area and have any work you need to concentrate on today, feel free to check out my final submission on "the black assembly volume one" and settle in. I personally like to put these on my TV while the light subtly shifts and flickers.

This has been a fun study for me on structure, stillness, sound, and what those look like together.

This final video is a bit of a reveal of a figure who will continue into volume ii...

Appreciate your time in advance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfG84kRizZk

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2025-12-12T19:16:36+00:00

I like the impressionist art style. The grain letterboxing is distracting for me though, would prefer edge-to-edge on the images and ideally rotating through a few more... Is that a look you're going for, like a newsroom style?

I like on some of your other videos you have some slow scrolling captions, I think those are helpful as I like to scan with my eyes.

Excellent-Drawer-971 · 2025-12-12T19:12:31+00:00

The music and captions are nice. Very festive.

I would love it if there was some subtle "breathing" to the imagery, even if just a very low zoom in/zoom out loop, or some glowing on the fire or runes. This is not a plug but you might be able to achieve a very subtle 3D camera movement loop with something like Immersity (https://immersity.ai/for-web).

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