joesteel

joesteel, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

I don't know if this is a thing here on Mastodon for non-dev-jobs, but I'm looking for remote #VFX work. I have a bajillion years of compositing experience in film and TV.

Most recent experience includes compositing supervision for HBO's “Julia” season 2 (check out episode 5), Broken Lizard's "Quasi" for Spotlight/Hulu, and compositing artist for “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F" #getFediHired

https://artofjoe.com

joesteel, 8 months ago to random

PSA: Go to Patreon, log in, go to your Settings -> Account, and decide whether you would like Public and Community profiles enabled. Because they just enabled those for you.

joesteel, 6 months ago to random

Amazon Fire TVs have found a new and annoying way to slap you in the face with ads - The Verge

“A new update now auto-plays ads on startup…”

I used to recommend the Fire TV Stick to price conscious consumers a few years ago, but I can’t possibly recommend it to anyone these days. Hopefully none of you bought this stuff as gifts for people. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/1/23984444/amazon-fire-tv-autoplay-ads-on-startup

joesteel, 10 months ago to random

Anyone else miss the flying toaster screensaver?

anyone flying GIF

joesteel, 7 months ago to random

The Walt Disney Company to Purchase Remaining Stake in Hulu from Comcast - The Walt Disney Company https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-hulu/

joesteel, 6 months ago to random

No matter how you feel about Sam Altman, or his firing, or AI, I think it’s safe to say that we should all rely heavily on these people and use their services as the underpinning of any technical endeavor
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo

joesteel, 6 months ago to random

Apple Removed Trump Comments From Robert De Niro Gotham Speech - Variety

(via @powerllama) https://variety.com/2023/film/news/robert-de-niro-apple-censors-trump-criticism-gotham-speech-1235810832/

joesteel, 10 days ago to random

What a curiously dispassionate post on The Verge about their parent company signing a deal with OpenAI. It’s interesting that they posted about it in a way that lumps it together with the other deals and there’s no statement from The Verge’s famously opinionated leadership about what this deal means for publishing, journalism, and the open web.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167072/openai-content-copyright-vox-media-the-atlantic

joesteel, 11 months ago to random

I don’t argue that Mastodon is for everyone, or that people who don’t like Mastodon are wrong, because that makes me sound like some change-averse jerk. How you feel about using a social network is up to you, BUT I would really encourage you to examine what you’re expecting. I expect to replace time spent on Twitter with time here, Discord, and Instagram. It’s worked for me. If I expected this to be a 1:1 drop in replacement for Twitter I would have no social networks to use other than Twitter.

joesteel, 2 months ago to random

It’s time for a new AirPort – Six Colors

New post for members and non-members alike! No longer will you have to scrounge around for a penny for my thoughts. (You should still subscribe to Six Colors for the other stuff.)
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/03/its-time-for-a-new-airport/

joesteel, 5 months ago to random

Check out @glennf reminiscing about Yahoo Pipes! https://retool.com/pipes

I really liked it at the time. I couldn’t tell you a single useful thing I did with it, but just messing around in the interface was great. (I love nodes.) Also this article was the first time I heard that there was an internal build of a node-based Automator at Apple. Wild.

joesteel, 4 months ago to random

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/10/24026571/slack-catch-up-mobile-messaging-app

joesteel, 4 months ago to random

ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. are putting together a juggernaut sports streaming app - The Verge

lol. Well, It’ll be fun to see the ways they fuck up working together this time around. https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/6/24064007/espn-fox-warner-bros-sports-streaming-partnership

joesteel, 10 months ago to random

SAG-AFTRA strike starts at midnight.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sag-aftra-strike-called-hollywood-negotiations-collapse-1235517703/

joesteel, 25 days ago to random

Some thoughts about the Google I/O stuff.

https://joe-steel.com/2024-05-14-Gemini-In-Gemini-Out.html

joesteel, 11 days ago to random

I heard this from @glennf and just tested on an Apple TV with tvOS 17.4 and a 10 minute screensaver interval and no YouTube screensaver kicked in before Aerial at the 10 min mark. The YouTube app version is 4.22.01 so it doesn’t appear to have recently updated. Something server side, maybe? Can anyone else report back if they’re still seeing the YouTube screeensaver (reference: https://joe-steel.com/2024-04-12-YouTubes-Screen-Stealer.html)
https://twit.social/@glennf/112516465986519972

joesteel, 6 months ago to random

Verizon’s new Netflix and Max bundle costs $10 / month with ads - The Verge

With ads. Don’t get excited.

Begun, the bundle wars have.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/4/23987425/verizon-netflix-max-bundle-price-myplan)

dmoren, 9 days ago to random

Just heard our local news anchor spoonerize it as the “Hump Trush money case” and that is all I will be calling it now.

joesteel, 22 days ago to random

Shy Kids has constructed two short films for OpenAI where it uses “VFX+Sora” with accompanying breakdowns of the source Sora output, and what they did to make the video clips “work” in their montage narrative. If you’re doing this much work to prop up the output, and it still looks bad, then what the hell is the point? To say nothing of how tone deaf it is to showcase this during a huge VFX industry downturn. Bananas that they’re proud of this.

https://youtu.be/mQG7vN8UYLU

joesteel, 17 days ago to random

My “dos and don’t’s” opinions on presenting“AI” at WWDC based on the messy competitors and the rumors so far.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-dos-and-donts-of-ai-at-wwdc/

joesteel, 17 days ago to random

lol
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/22/amazon-plans-to-give-alexa-an-ai-overhaul-monthly-subscription-price.html

joesteel, 5 days ago to random

Disappointed The Verge, and Sean Hollister are platforming Palmer Luckey. Maybe the CEO of Raytheon will have a Game Gear emulator they’d like to hawk, or maybe another fascist weirdo will have a sick titanium Atari Lynx.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170572/modretro-chromatic-game-boy-color-palmer-luckey-price-release-date

joesteel, 19 days ago to random

Folks, I'm beginning to suspect that incredibly problematic, monomaniacal, libertarian tech-bros running companies is potentially a bad thing.

ry, 14 days ago to random

My four thousand dollar bar prep program logs me out daily and doesn't remember my preferences. At least I only have to use it every day for nine more weeks