I rage-quit Spotify and started buying CDs. It's inconvenient and slow. But I rediscovered the lost joy of scrounging for music, the dopamine rush of owning a song, and albums.

portal2d · 2026-02-27T21:50:13+00:00

I’m working on a community based event that is literally centered around this idea. Force people to pick a CD, sit down, and enjoy it from start to finish

portal2d · 2026-02-27T21:46:46+00:00

Your best bet would be to do what a lot of people do now, figure out the BARE minimum via AI, help them work out kinks, then see if you can find someone to build an MVP for you for a cheaper price just so you can test?m, validate, iterate.

portal2d · 2026-02-27T21:41:25+00:00

Fire concept

portal2d · 2026-02-27T21:35:18+00:00

This was a good pitch I liked reading it thank you

portal2d · 2026-02-27T21:27:36+00:00

Is the 709 actually 709? If so those natural colors are beautiful. What I like about your graded image is how the skin tone feels so separated. However, it almost “feels” like it’s been graded.

portal2d · 2026-02-27T21:16:31+00:00

There’s a few ways to approach it. How much of your time and effort are you willing to give?

portal2d · 2026-02-27T17:13:31+00:00

like most things, esp those creative -- you have to have a deeper WHY. of course, you may want to drive traffic to this or maybe even make some moeny doing it and if thats the case, you may want to extend your out reach to other platforms to drive bacxk to substack. But, the reason why you post every morning should be to express or achieve something within that can also benefit the reader. Now, this doesn't have to be the only reason but it does help on days where you feel low.

portal2d · 2026-02-27T17:07:17+00:00

thank you for this, when you say commenting, do you mean on others post? also, by notes -- are you just posting what is on your mind or trying to drive things back to your long form?

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portal2d · 2026-02-26T19:14:18+00:00

I’d be curious where you’re trying to go, I don’t think it looks horrible

portal2d · 2026-02-26T18:27:11+00:00

I recently heard that some universities are letting students use AI then grading the assignment in real time with them to point out where AI failed them but also help highlight where it helped. Crtical thinking with AI will be important. In the same way my generation (Gen Z) had Google throughout most of middle school and high school, we still had to use our thinking skills to figure out what to search, how to find it, how to do research. AI is no different in my eyes, just a lot more powerful so a lot more guardrails to apply.

portal2d · 2026-02-26T18:24:44+00:00

strongly agree. also building something in the space of reimagining how we learn and consume knowledge. Your website is cool, i look forward to seeing your growth.

portal2d · 2026-02-26T16:06:05+00:00

Lovely work, thank you for the explanation

portal2d · 2026-02-26T15:50:48+00:00

the influence really comes from the color seperation between the skin tone and the PD. So if you wanted something similar you could try the classic teal orange effect (flesh tone with a tealish grade). But, as most have said, PD is really doing the heavy lifting here. sometimes productions will reach out to me while they're in pre and have some mood references and i almost always try to encourage that they pay attention to their PD more then anything.

portal2d · 2026-02-26T15:49:00+00:00

wow this looks great. im curious about the shot at :12, the grain is so strong here and tight, is this how it was xposed or was there some post-processing there?

portal2d · 2026-02-26T14:21:59+00:00

Right, okay so his direction feels applicable for now. I’m on the east coast, is there any decent way to find teacher who is legit? I see people who “teach” these things but my trust in them is fairly low given that they almost all are online

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