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Thailand Travel Log Pt. 2

It’s my first morning in Thailand. Yesterday we got some coffee (I got lychee iced coffee - so good) and for dinner ate crispy pork belly which was transcendent. On the flight I ended up watching A Brighter Summer Day and Beau travail. Two very different films. Both good.

Thailand Travel Log Pt. 1

Over the next six days, I'll be traveling to Chiang Mai, Thailand, to interview some missionaries that the church supports. I thought I'd keep a small travel log here for the heck of it. I don't know if I'll keep up with

The pier at Seacliff is going to be demolished.

The pier at Seacliff is going to be demolished. I know a lot of people grew to dislike the pier. I get it. It’s old. It’s decrepit (esp. post-being-cloven-in-twain earlier this year). It literally stinks up the neighborhoods around it. The SS Palo Alto, a cement ship, intentionally

🎮 Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, 2019 - ★★★★

Quite fun. Story’s alright but mostly sits backseat to the gameplay. I grew up on the Jedi Knight games so it felt really good to get back to that type of Star Wars game. Nothing is quite as satisfying as force pushing a bunch of Storm Troopers off a

🎮 Return of the Obra Dinn, 2019 - ★★★★½

Really spectacular. A perfect game for this stormy weather. The voice acting and sound design really elevates it to an impressive narrative, but the core loop is just purely addicting. I saw one review compare it to Sudoku which is surprisingly accurate. Like Clue meets Sudoku. I will forever remember

The Wes Anderson Tolerance Index

Was talking with a friend about The Grand Budapest Hotel and came up with what I call the WATI (Wes Anderson Tolerance Index). Weights your ratings of his films/shorts/ads based on runtime and averages the scores out. I have a relatively high WATI of 0.83. Feel free

🎮 Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, 2021 - ★★★★★

The best writing of any game I’ve played, hands down. The world is so fascinating and original, textured and many-faceted. It takes a long time to get through (esp. with the voice acting - I can’t allow myself to cut people off) but I actually enjoyed taking it

Really good post from Owen Dennis, creator of the late great Infinity Train, on the focus on existing IPs in entertainment

At this point, the obsession over IP’s has been digging so deep that studios are pulling obscure IP’s out from decades ago that no one has ever heard of, which completely negates the original point of doing reboots and remakes of old IP’s in the first place.

The unexpectedly wonderful sensation of conforming an edit using Difference blend mode.

In my video editing work, sometimes I need to make sure two videos match up perfectly, frame to frame. This could be for a variety of reasons, but today it was because I was conforming an edit that was done in Premiere Pro, to finish it with color and audio

Big Thief stole my heart

If you aren’t yet acquainted with Big Thief and by extension Adrianne Lenker, I suggest you have some acquaintin’ to do. They make delightful music that walks the line between folk & rock & electronic & country & most of the subgenres within. Their latest album has been on