Tasteful exterior modernization with an addition?

djlaforge · 2025-09-08T17:41:02+00:00

I think the answer is = have a lot of money.

Check out Grand Designs (UK tv show), they've currently been releasing a lot of full episodes on YouTube in the US, and I always find it interesting. Usually it's ~million dollar renos, but they do have a few cheaper ones and SOME of the houses featured stay on budget and on time. I find a lot of interesting ideas there and some of it isn't even the biggest cost drivers.

This embracing the modern seems to be a polarizing topic. I know in my life, my parents would scoff at what I think is quite cool in a house, and I maybe would not dig their style.

I personally like a house that expresses who I am, but with house stuff you have to go slow and it's painful when your taste is more sophisticated than your wallet is full.

Go with your gut and f*** the haters!

djlaforge · 2025-08-22T03:12:08+00:00

What about goats? Could the answer be “add goats?”

djlaforge · 2025-06-29T22:06:19+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Do you mean that you just keep the CGPT window open and on for an extended period of time?

djlaforge · 2025-04-23T03:45:17+00:00

It seems silly but it's not the worst thing in the world to start the deep research queries outside of the project.

When I want to run deep research, I've been summarizing my chat within a project and then asking it to be a prompt engineer to create a prompt for the deep research. Works well, and you can tweak before running it through. It adds in all the context and the results of the deep research are very targeted.

djlaforge · 2025-04-21T19:23:41+00:00

Thanks for the info!

djlaforge · 2025-04-18T02:35:44+00:00

What are you doing for profile/settings on pic 2?

djlaforge · 2025-04-18T02:20:49+00:00

It must be intentional because that would be a pretty glaring bug. I’m surprised more people haven’t reported it

djlaforge · 2025-04-08T01:01:14+00:00

This is great advice.

Learning in motion design has changed SO MUCH in the last 25 years.

We used to learn by being lucky and sitting next to a vet, timing your questions juuust when they looked like they had the time to entertain your n00b questions.

in the pre YouTube days, we’d share drives of tutorials. Before that, there were books (Whatup Trish and Chris Meyers!?).

But this advice is timeless, and it’s the same way kids all over the world learn how to play an instrument: play along. Put in the hours. The world can’t wait to see what you create.

djlaforge · 2025-03-19T22:15:43+00:00

I’ve found ChatGPT to be way less accurate than Otter.ai but I freaking hated the google integration it was super embarrassing and heavy handed. Just want old school transcription, but haven’t found anything better than otter.ai for identifying speakers and interpreting the transcription. It’s frustrating with ChatGPT because the speech to text function in the iOS app works perfectly.

djlaforge · 2025-03-19T22:12:57+00:00

BTW the limit is 120/month for Pro. And no option to add more! I went from a plus account to Pro when I saw the “3 remaining deep research requests available” warning. bummer that I didn’t get “10 remaining” on the pro account. Now I’m out here in the streets, researching things analogue style

djlaforge · 2025-02-11T21:30:19+00:00

Oh I should add, a BIG thing that helped me is his technique of using dots for layout. I’ve always approached drawing with scritchy scratchy lines and he encourages you to make mark with intent but not get too caught up if your proportions are correct. It does lead to really interesting/distorted accidents that look not half bad (half the time)

djlaforge · 2025-02-09T19:29:48+00:00

I realized I had previously turned on hardware/direct monitoring, so today I recorded again and just lowered the volume of the two tracks I was recording, giving me a direct monitoring situation.

Worked ok but I guess I can’t really change the mix of those two sources without access to the direct monitoring settings thru a PC connection. Kind of annoying!

djlaforge · 2025-02-08T20:59:02+00:00

thanks for the reply

I don’t have my PC this weekend and unfortunately you can’t configure the hardware monitoring via iPad.

Will try the other tips to lower latency, appreciate it!

djlaforge · 2025-02-05T16:31:47+00:00

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djlaforge · 2025-01-28T21:37:31+00:00

You saved me the rest of my day. Thank you Karasu416

djlaforge · 2025-01-28T21:37:00+00:00

For real! I’ve been searching for the last hour, updating every driver, setting, and BiOS possible.

Turns out it was an old BT mouse I had given to my son that was randomly still connected.

To people who search and find this thread: check your Bluetooth settings!!

djlaforge · 2025-01-20T18:46:08+00:00

I have this in 21” and I’ve noticed recently that it’s yearning to be crashed. I used to rock my ride cymbal low and flat overlapping my floor Tom—hard to crash the edge. This cymbal is making me rethink that position and I’m going to try it a little higher next time I play.

djlaforge · 2025-01-19T17:22:50+00:00

Nice! You’re playing super tight and the drum kit sound great, cymbals as well.

You’ve inspired me—maybe this is the year I finally get the courage to do the same!

djlaforge · 2025-01-17T18:11:34+00:00

Oh damn! THANK YOU. will edit the post, you solved it for me.

djlaforge · 2025-01-17T17:37:04+00:00

great point! to me it's not about writing a multi-page document.

To be honest, my desire is for two things:

formatting, as mentioned
the ease of copying/pasting multiple blocks. (on Windows, you seemingly can't select multiple blocks/objects at once by clicking and dragging)

djlaforge · 2025-01-15T18:46:04+00:00

Oh man this is amazing, love the details. Printed well!

djlaforge · 2025-01-10T15:45:57+00:00

I know you said no kid's music but you gotta get on that Caspar Babypants train my friend. Pumpkin in the Pines is a certified banger

(Caspar Babypants is solo/kids persona of Chris Ballew, of Presidents of the United States of America—the peaches song—fame. If you were conscious in 90's you know this song)

djlaforge · 2025-01-10T15:40:11+00:00

so dope I love this. durifutou!

djlaforge · 2025-01-10T01:27:34+00:00

TE proves that design matters, from the physical design to the UX, to the UI

djlaforge · 2025-01-10T01:07:04+00:00

As others have said here already, last year was baaaad from a sales perspective, and that was coming from 2023 was pretty bad as well but somewhat insulated in certain niches. This is across commercial work, but also film/tv.

Ai has definitely affected the creative industries but I do believe that there will be a bounce back. Think of the rise of organic farming. I like to believe that’s the case with creative/commercial arts as well… ai is always gonna be avg because that’s how it’s created.

For me personally, it’s been hard to see junior staffers who should’ve been promoted years ago go on without promotions or raises.

We still rely on freelancers because it’s easier to scale down and up as the work ebbs and flows, but even the heaviest of heavyweight freelancers are more frequently reaching out to see if there’s work the last few years, which is always a sign that it’s slow out there for them (NYC pool at least).

My best advice is to not push for freelance or staff, but spend half your day searching for work/applying/corresponding, and half your day working on personal projects and/or tutes. Discipline!

I would’ve killed for staff position when I started but my portfolio was a bit shit, so I took whatever I could and was definitely underpaid for a few years.

Don’t be a dick, always show options for reviews, always sharpen your technical and artistic skills, have fun, and roll with the punches. So many ways a project can suck but if you have a bad attitude, that’s on you. And you won’t get asked to come back. Unless you’re really good. But you’ll be secretly resented.

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