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Ario Jafarzadeh retweeted
The cinematography of You Can See Everything was designed to tell the story through human faces. Lots of unusual choices:
- Ultra high length zoom lenses allowing cameras to shoot ultra-tight shots of faces without being close to the subjects. Weāre talking breathtaking 250mm zoom lenses. Youād normally see these at sporting events.
The subjects would have no idea just how intimate these shots were going to be.
- Low apertures giving creamy bokeh that separates the faces from the scene.
- Distinctive vintage color grading by Damien Vandercruyssen that makes Elizabethās sharp blue eyes pop off the screen. It also makes everyone look a little bit evil. Nathanās grey hairs seem to really pop.
- An aspect ratio of 4:3 instead of the usual 1.85:1 seen in most movie theaters. the result is that faces fully fill the screen. (I found the resulting letterboxing to be annoying, but I get the art of it).
Ario Jafarzadeh retweeted
Be Nathan Fielder:
> grow up in Vancouver, Canada
> join your high school improv group alongside Seth Rogen
> graduate with a commerce degree in 2005
> decide accounting isn't for you
> start doing comedy
> land a correspondent role on This Hour Has 22 Minutes
> create a segment called Nathan on Your Side
> give real people increasingly ridiculous advice with a completely straight face
> turn the concept into Nathan for You on Comedy Central in 2013 at 29
> spend four seasons convincing real businesses to try increasingly absurd marketing schemes
> sign an overall production deal with HBO in 2019
> convince them to fund The Rehearsal
> build an exact replica of a New York bar so one man can practise a conversation
> co-create The Curse with Benny Safdie and cast Emma Stone
> return to The Rehearsal in 2025 and spend over two years learning to fly
>actually pilot a Boeing 737 carrying more than 100 actors
>secretly spend three years filming convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes
> co-direct You Can See Everything with Lance Oppenheim
> convince A24 to release the nearly three-hour documentary
> make it for roughly $7 million
> open in 2026 to $15 million from just 855 cinemas
> sell out more than 2,000 screenings in one weekend
deliver the biggest non-music documentary opening in over 20 years
nice
Ario Jafarzadeh retweeted
What if Spotlight actually understood the meaning inside your files?
DigUp is an open-source macOS menu bar app powered by EmbeddingGemma 2 that brings 100% local, multimodal semantic search to your Mac.
Instead of searching for file names, you can use natural language to:
šø Find specific scenes in your photos
ā³ Jump to the exact timestamp in audio or video
š» Search through your codebase by intent
Everything runs locally in a single vector space.
MILION: Malleable if (u) like it or not
Introducing TrellisWM:
The Fractal Window Manager for MacOS
Its how the desktop should have always been.
Download at
TrellisWM.app
Ario Jafarzadeh retweeted
224 people already registered for this week's session!
Iāll talk through the background from creating the internal design sandbox at Sublime, then demo the open-source tool I've built, Design Studio, and share it with attendees so you can give it a try. Weāll also have time for questions.
People who come to the session will be the first to get access. Join us!
Ario Jafarzadeh retweeted
I am going to make a group chat full of people hacking insanely cool things onto hardware.
Reply or retweet and Iāll add you to the chat.
I have discovered $50 amazon photo frames to be the PERFECT home display screen
They can be rooted, updated to run a modern browser, have WiFi and can be powered from USB
1280Ć800 resolution with a nice touch screen
I detailed how to hack these yourself in my latest video
wesbos.com/hacking-smart-phoā¦
Had Muse & Grok Bot attend today's Figma webinar in my steed. Both did a great job of taking notes and preparing me a deck summary (links in this thread), but that's not what this tweet about.
It's about the stack of knowledge worker tasks dwindling by the day until we reach 0.
Grok Bot: docs.google.com/presentationā¦
Muse:
docs.google.com/presentationā¦
@grok who did a better job?
Agreed, this is the new paradigm everyone will be moving to, as we see today with Dots
I think fundamentally we've ~now arrived at the correct form factor for mass consumer AI:
It was never going to be Google's search box but with AI, and a left-hand list of Chats was a 18mo experiment that has reached 100M users but won't be the thing that will scale to 1B users for next 10yrs ā
it will be messaging with a single bot, occasionally split to specific bots for special areas of work/life.
Still ton of innovation to be done, e.g., in the botsābots collab mechanisms, credentials, computer use, and generally optimizing the heck out of everything ā¦
ā¦ but the form factor has settled; the iPhone Classic has landed; the News Feed has been established.
Great... Muses, Bots, and now Dots... is this what software is now? I mean, it was always like this, but the time scale moved from months, to weeks, to days
This feels like some kind of milestoneā¦ a prominent AI can ātake overā when *it* deems you or the situation warrants it
Ario Jafarzadeh retweeted
One major advantage of building code prototypes: I donāt have to present them.
I can send someone the link, ask them to use it, and just watch.
That gives me a much cleaner read on what works and what doesnāt because it strips out the bias that creeps in when I have to explain a static design before someone's actually experienced it.
