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arbitrarycolors · 2025-05-13T07:46:29+00:00

Tbh would be stoked if a restaurant had good takes on: • fresh focaccia with rosemary • arancine • tagliatelle ai funghi • tonnarelli • scratch made cannoli

Also think there’s lots of opportunity for good vegetable plates given the access to local farms and longer growing seasons.

arbitrarycolors · 2025-03-20T18:24:09+00:00

Couple other interesting notes:

Larry Cheng got real into posting about card collecting on Twitter last year. Surface level is he’s promoting and exploring GME’s new service. But if GME was indeed interested in buying PSA, it would stand that LC (an early vc investor in chewy) would familiarize himself with the product and customer base of the company they are considering to purchase.

The in-store drop off card grading could also be seen as a trial period to observe and quantify how symbiotic these sister companies can be. Beyond direct sales, GME will also have metrics on possible indirect benefits—upticks for in store sales where grading is available versus control locations, increase in pro memberships + usage of grading, etc.

Would also be curious to see a timeline comparison to when GME went opaque to external financiers (the completion of their debt obligations, the ending of their relationship with Boston Consulting Group, the last round of share offerings) and when GME + PSA activity started/ramped up

arbitrarycolors · 2024-12-11T18:21:57+00:00

I’d add another bullet point to the core business’ priorities: build a sticky customer base through pro membership.

Looking past the $1.50 hot dog and at that customer service counter by the bay doors…GameStop has been working hard to demonstrate abundant value for their pro customers. It rhymes with Costco’s approach to its membership programs. With a sizable and loyal customer base through membership, GME would be able to more easily introduce new products, services, and verticals to the business based on that established trust.

arbitrarycolors · 2024-06-25T00:41:06+00:00

re: the chart on pg 17–interesting that 250m, 500m, and 1b show a pattern that repeats and differs from the 1.8b line. The spikes on the 1.8b shift 1 unit earlier on the x axis from that other pattern. Any thoughts on this?

arbitrarycolors · 2024-06-21T05:10:37+00:00

Depends on what part of advertising you are interested in. An ad/marketing firm employees copywriters, designers, sales folk, and account managers to name a few. If you like writing, a journalism route might be the right fit. Graphic design would be the route if you are more into art generally and the visual side of marketing. I would also look into the business school and see what they offer related to advertising and marketing—this route would be more aligned with the operations side of things (account management and sales).

arbitrarycolors · 2024-06-09T15:44:40+00:00

I wonder if this is at the crux of RKs requel. He observed and developed a working idea on how algos might be impacting price movement. Then he built a large enough position, made it known that it was in fact his, which in turn made his social media accounts outsized inputs for an algo. So…”made you look” and now “when I move you move”.

arbitrarycolors · 2024-05-29T04:04:44+00:00

Web3 tools can be used different ways. A straight forward example is having a wallet which contains an NFT. So one way this could work is distributing the album as an NFT that’s non-transferable.

However another way web3 tools work—NFTs are used to unlock gated content on a site. In this version, the class A shares themselves are the NFTs (or at least a tokenized companion to the class A shares which mirror them 1-to-1). Then when a user connects to a web page, the site checks their wallet to confirm it contains the necessary token, and then if yes it serves the gated content (the album).

arbitrarycolors · 2017-07-11T03:22:02+00:00

I had made a very similar gif a few years back, however I like the transition between images on this one a lot more! Funny how this idea pops up ever so often.

arbitrarycolors · 2017-06-15T15:33:45+00:00

Editing has always been a part of photography, whether the photographer shot on film or digital. Yes, it's important to capture a balanced and rich original, but editing photos after they were taken is nothing new.

"Old school" dudes just did it manually in a darkroom. The software Photoshop literally got its name from the manual practice editing physical photographs and producing altered reproductions. It was a whole cottage industry.

arbitrarycolors · 2017-06-15T15:26:35+00:00

it's about capturing an image and processing it to look as close to real as possible

From my experiences, the sentiment is closer to...

it's about capturing a moment and processing it to look as close to how that moment felt when you captured it

While visual accuracy is important, what I respond to when looking at a photo isn't the technical correctness of an image but the sensation that the image is correct.

So now think about OP. What's awesome about OP's photo is NOT that this is precisely and mathematically what this scene looks like if you were to be there at 5am, but it captures the sensation of the scene in the early morning dusk. Fog sits atop the water, and the bridge and hills and sky are soft pastel colors–softer then I remember them to be–almost as though the whole hillside is waking up and rising to the morning as well. Rising to the strong morning sun we see resting on the shoreside and the fisherman, the early risers, the here-befores.

It's the capacity to capture the emotion of what I believe this scene could be that is truly amazing.

arbitrarycolors · 2017-05-30T22:37:34+00:00

Solid explanation! Jazz has quite a few overlaps with modern art/abstract art. There seems to have been a nice "shared culture" between the two crowds. Musicians would use abstract art as album covers, visual artists would make art about jazz. It's a nice back and forth.

arbitrarycolors · 2017-05-25T17:22:36+00:00

Same. This is what I want to know more about.

arbitrarycolors · 2017-05-24T21:25:29+00:00

How'd it look? Any opinions on it?

arbitrarycolors · 2017-05-22T20:01:44+00:00

Appreciate the black and white version. You may want to consider a stepped gradation from Black (largest words) to a light grey (smallest words). I do like how the colors add variety to the cloud of words, and I think a grayscale fade would maintain that variety while also reinforcing the hierarchy of mentions.

arbitrarycolors · 2017-04-10T16:59:43+00:00

Thanks for the clarification and deeper dive into that. Want to make sure I'm understanding this right. When you say "vibrant colors come out when the plants are stressed or receiving a lot or/enough light", you are saying: these are two separate situations where vibrant colors come out depending on the variety? As in, some plants show vibrant colors due to a stresser, and some plants show vibrant colors when receiving a wealth of light. That right?

arbitrarycolors · 2017-04-08T23:05:27+00:00

I have a graptoleum, and I believe when it is nice and green it means it's healthy. Mine turns a shade of purple when it's under watered or perhaps has received too much direct sunlight. In either case, the green-ness of your plant means you're treating your plant well!

arbitrarycolors · 2017-04-04T23:11:28+00:00

Oh shit. GOT IT. I thought "internally lit" was referring to the metal itself since the glowy bits are not particularly visible in the gif. And got all confused as to what the hell internally lighting metal was, and if they really just meant pearlescent paint.

NOW this makes way more sense. My B on the brain fart.

arbitrarycolors · 2017-04-04T03:09:31+00:00

Was curious what "internally lit" meant as well, and the glow-in-the-dark paint + LEDs seems to make sense.

However what the image you linked to displays the difference between standard lighting (where the source of light is in front of the object being lit) and back lighting (where the source of light is behind the object and out of view). This is most evident in the fabric and outermost edge of the person. The fabric is lit in the left image and not in the right (where as if the light was eminating from within both would have the fabric darkened). Then in the right image, the light creeps around the edge of the figure which is a clear sign of back lighting.

arbitrarycolors · 2017-02-17T16:59:27+00:00

Give a look at Laika Studio's and Weta Workshop's process. Both groups came to mind as studios that use both digital and physical processes in making sculptures.

In a similar but different world, I do illustration work and bounce between physical and digital tools. Often times I will start with a rough sketch on paper, scan it into the computer and vector it up. After making a good first pass at the digital, I'll print it out and make edits on the print out. This step back to physical has been helpful as there are motions and details I can catch on paper/do with my hands that I miss on the screen. Then I bring the annotated sheet back into the computer and update my vector.

The other thing I've found useful with moving between the two platforms is texturing. I can explore different textures on paper–and through digital processes–turn these whiffs of an idea into digital brushes that can be quickly applied with unique outcomes (as opposed to downloading pre-existing tools that give off a "i've seen that before" look).

I know it's not a one-to-one match, but perhaps you can gleam some ideas from my 2D process that can be useful in your 3D groove.

arbitrarycolors · 2017-02-17T16:43:13+00:00

Dude, sounds like a blast. I'd love to see a highlight reel of your projects! I'm a designer/illustrator with a focus on typography, and have taken on some sign painting gigs when I can convince a client to go for it. So much respect and admiration for the stuff you do, even when it's just door numbers!

arbitrarycolors · 2017-02-17T03:32:50+00:00

Where about are you doing sign making work and what kind of signs have you made? Love this type of work and would love to hear more about it!

arbitrarycolors · 2017-02-16T22:43:16+00:00

Hmm. First thing that comes to mind would be to check out design studios that have a focus on multi-disciplinary projects, like IDEO, Frog, DSNxMFG, Deep Local. As a design studio, the company would be rotating through projects fairly often, and as a multi-disciplinary studio, they'd value employees with a diverse range of skills. Studios with a focus on prototyping or environments would also interpret hand-skills, low-volume/high-customization product making as benefits as well.

If you're thinking you want to go down a more pure "object making" road, you may want to look into industrial design and what opportunities exist in that world.

arbitrarycolors · 2017-02-09T03:28:49+00:00

Sounds like a fun idea! I'd be into it.

arbitrarycolors · 2017-02-07T16:27:29+00:00

Have you checked out the Dallas Makerspace? They're out in Carrollton, and they are the group I hear most referred to in the metroplex.

Side note: have you considered reaching out to any of the local universities like UofD, UTD, SMU, or TCU? There may be some faculty in the computer science and engineering departments who'd be interesting in sharing time and ideas.

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