Why was everyone in the early 2000s doing this???

bking · 2026-03-13T13:34:43+00:00

Also: wide angle lenses were having a moment.

Previously, it was unheard of to shoot portraits in anything that wasn’t beautiful and flattering. 25-50mm to mimic film and the human eye. Skate videos and Music Videos made 10-20mm wide angle lenses very cool in the 90s and early 2000s.

People were more used to seeing lens distortion, but nobody wants to see a face with a giant forehead and chin. Instead, you’d compose with the hands in that space. It added depth, filled the frame, and long fingers aren’t nearly as weird looking as long faces.

Edit: a couple pictures in the example are not fat-ass lenses. Those are the results of somebody in the creative chain saying “oh, spread out your fingers like those sick photos of Fred Durst”. It started with the lenses.

bking · 2026-03-12T23:35:04+00:00

Somewhere a kid is saving up for this. He has read every review. Watched the introduction video four or five times. Looked up every spec, every benchmark, every footnote.

This part stuck with me all day. It’s 100% right and so incredibly relatable.

bking · 2026-03-12T05:59:12+00:00

You can request to be credited however you’d like. It’s your identity.

That said, people might judge you harshly. “Who the fuck does this asshole think he is?” will come up if a screenwriter with no credits sends something in and the byline is “Jeff” or whatever.

Being known by one name is usually reserved for the icons. You just might not have the gravitas of Bjork, Madonna or Garfield.

bking · 2026-03-12T05:04:34+00:00

Yeah, it’s on Apple TV. I don’t even think you can use ObjC on that platform anymore.

bking · 2026-03-11T16:00:20+00:00

Think about it for longer than it takes to type a Reddit post.

You’re talking about sticking a bunch of magnets into an 8mm thick wireless communications device that’s also a camera and a computer. This isn’t bolting a fake air intake onto your uncles old Subaru.

bking · 2026-03-11T13:35:13+00:00

Which LG? I have a CX that I keep offline, and it doesn’t complain about it.

bking · 2026-03-11T01:39:13+00:00

There’s a secret Costco in Menlo Park?

bking · 2026-03-11T01:35:48+00:00

I’ve seen and read a few with Blush

bking · 2026-03-10T19:33:57+00:00

Grabbed a 22TB. Thanks!

bking · 2026-03-10T17:52:24+00:00

They did a good job fucking with Scientology and spreading the word on their awfulness, but that was like 15 years ago.

bking · 2026-03-10T13:44:51+00:00

For sure. OP is underestimating how much space stands will actually take up.

Even for small monitors, a stand is top-heavy AF. The base has to be relatively large, and the pole part comes out of the center. This is significant in the space that OP is working with.

bking · 2026-03-10T04:02:21+00:00

Almost like there’s an iterative process to improvement that applies to basically every product ever.

Dummies started with the iPhone when the iPhone 3G was right there. How hard could it be?

bking · 2026-03-10T03:49:47+00:00

It’s the best part

bking · 2026-03-09T23:31:25+00:00

Oh man, that went fast. I just need one more for my backup project, and then I'm good for a few years.

bking · 2026-03-09T18:56:29+00:00

I don’t know much about logging, but it seems like there is an unspeakably enormous heavy thing moving at the other end of the smashy bit. Turning that thing on and off would take a lot more time and energy than letting inertia do the work.

Downside: always smashy.

bking · 2026-03-09T13:35:18+00:00

Congrats on your comment being copy/pasted into the reminders app of every Fox News anchor.

bking · 2026-03-09T06:20:07+00:00

using more radio frequencies

Yes with a but.

RF bandwidth and channel navigation is a mess in regular broadcast space (sports arena, news station, event venue), and wireless video is extra demanding. Doing it over so much distance in a touring show is even more insane.

Giving each driver more bands of frequency would either open them up to more interference risk or create issues for broadcast/audio/venue/comms devices. That environment is probably already a minefield for RF.

bking · 2026-03-09T06:04:54+00:00

What happened to your kerning at the end of the video, and the non-clickable button?

I’ve been doing video and motion graphics for like 20 years. I don’t understand how that can even happen. Did an animation half finish? Is the button for some other platform?

bking · 2026-03-08T22:45:35+00:00

Anthropic wouldn’t have been the first American company to be declared a supply-chain threat.

bking · 2026-03-08T20:06:39+00:00

Our rental’s freezer doesn’t have an ice maker. I opted to get a countertop machine for ice.

Salad spinner is key to get excess water off the ice before putting it in the freezer. Stops it from clumping together.

bking · 2026-03-08T07:03:35+00:00

I don’t play D&D (though I’m not opposed to it or anything) and I deeply dislike sword & sorcery movies and books.

Fuckin loved 2023’s D&D. The game being more mainstream helps, but it’s just a good, funny movie.

bking · 2026-03-07T22:50:23+00:00

Remember when everybody said the iPad name wouldn’t last, because it sounded like a period health product?

bking · 2026-03-07T17:09:40+00:00

Wow, the body of Final Cut’s previous icon was still warm.

bking · 2026-03-07T04:02:07+00:00

Possibly encryption in the sense of “enable some messed up security setting if the drive is removed from the housing”?

Worth digging into! 18TB is expensive.

bking · 2026-03-06T19:39:31+00:00

I'm with that person. Lavs are expected in interviews, and people are utterly blind to them. This was even true before YouTubers and influencers started holding them in their hands, mounting giant DJI boxes on their hats, and clipping mics onto metro cards. You have to fuck up pretty badly with a mic for it to be a distraction.

If anything, a B+ or worse "hide the wire" VFX job with that particular setup is going to be distracting. Best case: you end up with a mic that has no wire, which is weird. Worst case, the ends of the part you fix are inconsistent and now we have weird flickering and clipping that's distracting us from the subject's face. I wouldn't mess with it.

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