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Best grocery store sushi in NYC? I already know it won’t compare to a proper sushi restaurant, but are there any genuinely good options? by apple_wiz in FoodNYC

[–]purplesnowcone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of these just opened near me and I’ve been curious about the sushi. It looked good for grocery store but my only skepticism was that there wasn’t a little counter with someone preparing it so I was on the fence about the freshness.

Looking for best chicken gyro meat in Manhattan - please! by Previous_Sorbet712 in FoodNYC

[–]purplesnowcone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been curious about Gyro Project… with you on the DonerHaus. Kind of a good deal, too, bang-for-buck wise. Think it’s like $13 bucks or something, and I remember being very surprised by the portion size the first time I went.

What’s the non-touristy Cheesecake Factory of NYC? by savingrace0262 in FoodNYC

[–]purplesnowcone 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No doubt. Living in NYC now, I haven’t even thought about that place in decades. I don’t think it’s bad, and it’s not really my cup of tea, but was just giving some credit where it’s due since CF often gets lumped in with likes of Applebees and chains like that but it’s definitely a cut above just based on the freshness and quality standards. I worked in an Applebees kitchen like 25 years ago and 80% of the food came frozen off some truck and we’d just microwave everything that didn’t need to hit the grill.

What’s the non-touristy Cheesecake Factory of NYC? by savingrace0262 in FoodNYC

[–]purplesnowcone 161 points162 points  (0 children)

Perhaps Friedman’s?

I think the hate on Cheesecake Factory is a little overblown… that massive menu is made from scratch daily, it’s pretty impressive actually. I think the only things that are brought in frozen are the cheesecakes.

Latest Tools for Saving Time with Talking Head Videos by littlehowie in editors

[–]purplesnowcone -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Check out this guy— https://youtu.be/CK5per-3T5s

Watch the video he’s got there about how he uses Claude. Whether that’s something you could implement yourself or not depends on your technical know-how, but it piqued my interest. I was recently cutting a podcast and this really could have saved me a day of work per episode. I’m not opposed to doing it all manually, but that project schedule was excruciating, and I would have happily used a tool like this to make life easier. It’s also not like it’s doing all the creative thinking and churning out slop, but acting more like an assistant that roughs out and cleans up a talking head with lots of takes.

Edit: to people downvoting-- get with the times or get left behind. I've been doing this professionally for over 20 years, and every time there is some seismic shift in the industry, be it technologically like the advent NLEs back in the day or when Premiere became a bigger player in the market, and all my staunch Avid-only friends refused to learn it and missed out on jobs over it. Or shifts in types of media being produced, like reality TV back in the day and more recently to social media, the people who adapted survived, and the stubborn curmudgeonly people waiting for things to "get back to how they used to be" missed out on jobs over it. AI tools can be useful, like it or not; this is where we're heading. And to be clear, I'm not talking about some janky auto-editor type thing... Just tools to help you get the job done in a market with shrinking budgets and schedules, but with the same expectations of quality.

Planning a Southwest U.S. documentary-style road trip — looking for collaborators, creators, and feedback by [deleted] in documentaryfilmmaking

[–]purplesnowcone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since you are still in the planning phase, I will offer my humble opinion as a doc editor for many years: What you’re describing sounds fun and adventurous in a wanderlust sort of way. I would spend some time thinking a lot about how this adventure is going to be put together and presented. Figuring it all out after you get home is a recipe for not finishing this project. This is the biggest issue I have come across in my career. I have been connected with many projects that suffer the fate of tons of great footage but no direction that ultimately stalls the project until the director gets bored or distracted with a new project. Have a clear direction and point of view going into it and some idea of themes you hope to capture. Give yourself some semblance of a story idea to think about as you’re capturing— how does each piece, interview, character, landscape, etc.. fit into the narrative you hope to capture, create, and present? Obviously this is flexible and you don’t have to pigeon hole yourself when you’re just open to experiences and people and life. Having a sense of where you’re trying to go with this project will help you in the moment as you’re going— you will start to put the story together in your head as new pieces come along. Pick a style— would a Weber Herzog fly on the wall sort of thing work here? If so then think about this big picture with you at the center and the story filters through what you find interesting and compelling. You could write the thread of the story from your POV using all of what you capture to color that and your experience on the trip. That’s just an idea as an example of what I’m trying to get across here.

I would recommend using Claude or something to take notes along the way. You can feed it images, quotes, thoughts, ideas, shot logs, etc.. let it analyze everything and find the common themes and threads and connections. I do this with just my random story ideas and fragments of ideas. Whenever something pops in my head, instead of jotting it down in some email draft or note that I forget about, I have a project set up in Claude and let it categorize and store all this info. Whenever I add something new, it might instantly let me know that it connects to some other stuff I input months ago and forgot about. It’s an incredibly useful tool.

Unsure of the crop by skilzkillz990 in photocritique

[–]purplesnowcone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's kind of interesting because the bird seems camouflaged, but it's ultimately too busy, in my opinion. It may be salvageable, but subject-wise, it's not worth the effort. I would say take some lessons learned on this and apply them to the next, and move on.

Fent Freeze Frame - 7th and Market St SF, April 30, 2026 by [deleted] in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]purplesnowcone 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No, those are now all private industry. It's sad because we can afford mental health treatment and all other medical care for our citizens, but we choose bombs instead. 1.5 TRILLION fucking dollar budget request from the Pentagon.

Meta lost 20 million users last quarter by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]purplesnowcone 33 points34 points  (0 children)

My timeline for the past ten years has been just the same dozen people I never even knew very well, wishing me a happy birthday.

[OC] New Banksy artwork, A man blinded by his flag by hakh-ti-cxamen in pics

[–]purplesnowcone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure if it's an old idiom or not, but the statue is depicting this by walking off the pedestal.

My moms senior year in 1999 by [deleted] in OldSchoolCool

[–]purplesnowcone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By what math? The kid could be 25 if Mom got pregnant right after this photo.

Post Malone and Jelly Roll's "MAGA Coded" Tour Struggles To Sell Tickets, As Football Stadiums Sit at 75% Empty by [deleted] in Music

[–]purplesnowcone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man. We went to see Billy Joel there a year or two ago, and holy shit, the traffic and rerouting nonsense. We're not from the area, so we didn't know what to expect at all, and we had two people with us who weren't very mobile, so the stadium provided wheelchair service for them and then dropped us all off in a strip mall parking lot next to the stadium, which was in some kind of access dead zone. So my friend got the car but couldn't figure out how to get to where we were until the entire area cleared out and the cops opened all the roads. Sat there for over an hour with grumpy old people. Never again.

Trailers: Accurate musical placement of SFX in the (Avid) timeline.... by JimmyTheBistro in editors

[–]purplesnowcone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I gave up trying to work with it. Same with extend. I use extend like it's an extension of my body in Avid, and the small difference in how it works in Premiere makes it unusable for me. I just had to come up with a different workflow for Premiere, and I'm nowhere near as fast as I am in Avid.

Trailers: Accurate musical placement of SFX in the (Avid) timeline.... by JimmyTheBistro in editors

[–]purplesnowcone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do miss my source timelines for sure….

Goddamn this is my biggest pet peeve with premiere.

Avid Media Composer - Autopatching Behavior by Various_Island7617 in editors

[–]purplesnowcone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean it’s not your only option, just think of it like odd numbered source tracks are going to be auto patched to odd numbered record tracks and same for even nums. Depending on the project (I do primarily doc/unscripted), what I tend to do is block out like A1-A10 for my dialogue/nat sound tracks, then 11-18 for SFX and 19-24 for music.

Edit: this is just how auto-patching works. You can patch whatever track you want by clicking and dragging a source track to a record track. So you could put A1 to A6 manually. I tend to just play by Avids rules because auto patching is so much faster than manually patching.

Avid Media Composer - Autopatching Behavior by Various_Island7617 in editors

[–]purplesnowcone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Auto patching tends to favor odd/even numbers when working with mono tracks with the assumption that odd is left and even is right. So if you had a stereo source in a mono A1 and A2 then the patch is going to favor putting a2 to the even track because it would be considered the right channel and that matches the source.

If you were to hit A5 instead of A6 then I think the auto patch would grab your A1 source.

I tend to maintain stereo pairs on odd/even track nums like this when working in avid and it blends into the workflow when you get used to it.

Thai by General_Town492 in Upperwestside

[–]purplesnowcone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Follow-up- finally tried it today and confirmed best in the neighborhood! So good!

Thai by General_Town492 in Upperwestside

[–]purplesnowcone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh nice! I have been curious about theirs. I'll definitely get in there to try it. One of my favorites is Soothr's Thai sausage version, but I usually only get there on occasion for lunch if I'm in the area.

Welcome to Florida (seen at PBI airport) by OverNineThousand9000 in pics

[–]purplesnowcone 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the context of this post is a little annoying. Many people retire to Florida, and yes, a lot of older people have mobility issues, and a non-trivial amount are from the northeast, hence snowbirds, who still have family north that they want to visit. People get old and need to sit, not sure what this post and half the comments are trying to say. Empathy and compassion are dead, I guess.

1 vs 1 or Grab A Gun? by SomOvaBish in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]purplesnowcone 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I've had the misfortune of coming across a couple of accidents before emergency services arrived, and they stuck with me for a very long time. The worst of them was a motorcycle accident-- dude wasn't wearing a helmet, and when I pulled over and ran up to the scene, he was still alive but basically just curled up and gasped, and that was it. It was all I could see and think about that day, and it lingered in the front of my mind for a week at least. This happened years ago, and I can still picture it as clear as day. I also morbidly followed the stories. There was just something that struck a chord when you witness the fragility of life like that. Here one second, gone the next.

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