richardmurray

I.V.D. zone (The Intragalactic Violence Deaccretion Zone) 
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Soon for the Savory Pie 
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MY REPLY ON THOUGHTS TO AMERICAN PSYCHO

I admit I have never considered american psycho , the film, feminist or masculinist, but about a financial privileged white young man who is addicted to his ego and passions to a murderous intent, but so much so his acknowledging reality is unknown . I love the fact that the original woman who preproduced this was kicked out and christian bale did it without revenue gain.  But I see your point that Bateman has aspects that is relatable to women while I also see that American psycho found that beautiful place of writing where it can be taken  14:%6  hahaha love your tarantino knife:) I think one thing you miss is slavery. The slavemaster was the original wealthy class in the usa. and this was a role for white men from  wealth only.. white women were only objects,  to be pretty to look at and use for breeding , while non whites were usable at gun point, pure commodities. slavery is mostly illegal but the culture of the white enslaver lives on. A culture where violence is legal plus acceptable. The problem in the usa is the desire to delete enslavement as one of the two core usa's cultural elements, the other being genocide, stops people from embracing ho genocide + enslavement survives in the usa, in various mutations 27:06 the bathroom scene:) makes me laugh:) 32:05 I don't know , I think male or female , the book really opens up any director/screenwriter artistic approach, I don't think the book will be interpreted into film the same way by any two directors/screenwriters cause it can go many ways. 

 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXIX5nr8syo

 

 

 

 

MY REPLY ON THOUGHTS TO OUTING
your argument was proven by the 15th minute five times over. the guy is obsessed with the person. I admit I never heard about him in any of his guises or any of this till your channel, but your point is correct. This isn't about information but some form of outing. 

URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlUWtyedZHo

 

 

THOUGHT TO KRULL  THROWING STAR- the glaive... the pentaive
why does your krull throwing star have such a wide base, and no retractable blades. and you guys throw it by the blades not the handles. https://youtu.be/Jp6zmsmkqSk?si=blxPwhXRJPFMa4df
i want to defend the krull throwing star, colwn weilds a sword and dagger in the movie and never used the krull throwing star until the big boss and the many enemies where the krull galive can be redirected at projectiles and redirected at objects midair
 

URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW9e6FrdBDw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REPLY TO SPEEC ON  "POOR THINGS"
I have never heard or read anyone say the hayes code is a  needed guide to male directors. 
19:09 good point on the dominance of the image of the baby grown woman. I just learned of the terms born yesterday beauty
20:30  I have to admit I disagree with the idea of the lead female character being so sexual. I don't think a child brain will allow an adult body to perform the way depicted.
23:54 angelica's point:) 
26:54 I argue the black and white movies did the sexualization of the gender bend frankenstien though lets be honest, frankenstien's monster  in  film was never Mary Shelley's  frankenstiens monster. he wasn't this ugly man. the monstress must remain fuckable, well said:) 
31:!6  the world doesn't go to technicolor when a women sleeps with a man:)  [ a joke]
32:11  good point, the writer/director missed one there
33:47 well done, the speech of the actress makes your whole point, that is the proof beyond anything. I doubt the actress said that accidentally. 
36:55 great point on duncan, raffallo got a good role there
39:55 did anyone ask the director why the end change? I love the book change much better. and she is right, the book ending shoud had been for the film. but i wish someone ask the director or team why not the book ending? 
URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTRLRpgZtSc

 

 

 

REPLY TO A SPEECH ON LOLITA
The first problem with books that deal with mature/nsfw/erotic/sexually uncommon or illegal activity is films visual aspect tends to force a sale. 
1:35 interesting, I find it interesting as a writer that she is bored with the book, from Humbert's dialog, or the 60s film in that it was boring to her as well. 
2:25 Adrien lynn, lolita lays in the wet grass:) hilarious, it is a like a tease in the movies. 
2:29 Shelley Winters, great thespian
3:49 she says not all stories are made for every medium. I don't know. 
Didn't know not one obscene term is in the book. It isn't erotic but a journey of the pedophile. I love the care of the author to restrict himself from going erotic or displaying. It is easy for most male writers to sooner or later , go descriptive. 
5:42  I concur to the videographer, this story needs care, i can't deny it can be quick but t
6:03 Nabokov said," he wants pure colors, melting clouds, .. no girls.... settle for immaculate white jacket with lolita in bold black lettering.. one subject i am emphatically opposed to, any representation of a little girl"
by two years, the Stockholm Sweden, the region where an author of a little book originally titled , "why men hate women" , is from, made the first cover where a little girl is present. I think that is telling to the nature of various communities. But I pause. 
7:49 the 1959 Turkish version:) I don't blame Nabokov for laughing, this lolita is older than the man:) 
8:24 the film changes the visual covers of the book ever after
the ninety pound four foot tall lolita in the book is dead and the "grown girl" who acts lascivious takes over the cover. 
Good point how the covers seem to be of lolita's mother, not lolita, which is saying what? 
10:14 She makes a convincing point of James B Harris as the source of the problem. 
12:31 the hayes code prohibited a lot and Nabokov composed a 400 page screenplay, after first saying no. 
I concur to Nabokov. if lolita has a relative, that supposedly cares, how can she get married to this predator.:) 
14:23 The MPAA said it was too immoral, but Harris said that in the usa it was and still is legal for a girl of 12 to marry a man of Humbert's age as long as she had the parents consent. but they dropped the marriage plot line. And made lolita 15 not 12. 
15:24 I concur the 60s film couldn't let lolita be viewed as a girl. a pure girl, not late teen.
16:30 Nabokov thought Catherine Demongeot from Zazie and the metro would be the ideal, but while it is legal for a child looking like demongeot to marry a grown man in some states in the usa, Hollywood would never pronounce that to the larger world. 
16:48 great point from how Nabokov saw Dolores Hayes opposed to Hollywood. 
great split screen showing how Humbert's view is stronger than Dolores's reality. 
17:45 While what Harris said may be deemed insensitive, financially HArris is right. People are self righteous. If you show an honest relationship between a grown male and a child female , however negative, it will kill the film. The book is about an adult male who takes advantage of a child female who is alone in the world. and the negative path that he is on that drags others around him. The book  isn't meant to be an upbeat story. And film, especially USA film, always goes upbeat. Look at song of the south. You will never realize the terror that black people live with surrounded by all powerful whites in the usa. Past the silent era, the usa film industry is a myth machine and when it comes to white identity or usa identity or white male identity, outside independent films, it always supports non criminalizing or displaying negatively, the usa, white people or white males. 
18:25 proven point, harris mad elolita an international underage sex symbol. 
19:08 sue lyon and james b harris real life Humbert/dolores scenario needs to be a movie. 
20:14 the tragedy of films like lolita is the people involved never escape the film because the film has a greater range than the bok and all the various tribes against or for the book based on its themes attack constantly. 
Her contract had her supposed to do five or six movies but she spent years promoting the film. 
21:45 Sue lyons the thespian says no 14 year old girl should be in this film as this character,
23:00 great point on abuse between mature or immature. A murder on film is not a real murder, no matter how it may look and while i oppose the videographer, i think those who desire violence like such scenes. But, a story about relationships between a child an adult, become solid interpretations of said relationships and if negative their abuse. A parent helping their child go to a camp ro school is a scene between a child and an adult, but it is generally positive. but a scene with a man ripping the clothes off a girl who lays their... pleasantly, is candy for such a crowd of adults that want to do that. 
24:32 This videogrpaher's point is great, a thespian female child acting like an abused female child , even though it isn't a real experience, is a fake experience that is too dangerous for children, and historically female child thespians. she gives a list of names.: brook shields/sue lyon/dominuqe swain/nina sivari/natalie portman.
Natalie Portman's admittance that her first fan mail ,after her first film "the professional" ,was a rape fantasy, a countdown on her radio show when it would be legal for her to sleep with, movie reviews talked about her budding breast. 
28:35 The videographer makes a good point, the two other films that she recounts that deal with the topic of an adult sexually abusing a child are from books that are told from the perspective of the abused, the child. But lolita is from the perspective of the abuser, the adult, sequentially, the desire, the lust to the child has to be in that story, not the fear from the child or confustion from the child but the eagerness or passion from the adult to the child. and thus different films,
30:45 Great that the woman in the film mentioned , bel powley,was 22 playing an 18 year old. 
31:45 great contrast between the diary of a teenage girl film and euphoria show
32:41 The videographer makes the point, supported by another, Roxanne Gay of ugly Beautiful, that, the problem with lolita in book or video form is that the narrative angle is the primary problem. At the end of the day, the angle of view isn't the child but the adult... and thus while a book can be read , even in a group, the ability of a video to be shown and absorbed makes it far more... delicate or dangerous to evade promoting the behavior of the adult abuser. 
I do not think any subject matter is out of bounds. I despise birth of a nation, song of the south, gone with the wind, but I don't have a problem with it being shown. The art world isn't meant to make people comfortable. The art world is not meant to fight culture wars. it is a place for all views all visions, yes that includes the southern slaver, the nazi, the british general. It isn't meant to be legal or civilized or caring. It can be , but it can be all opposite.
Everyone has the right to tell any story, it may not be good, it may not be gentle and yes it may trigger, yes, it may trigger , but that is ok in my eyes. 
35:17 I agree, the creative process in a book, a book of fiction besides the authors has no creators. But films involve far more, are  much more collaborative and in terms of female thespians that are children, child thespians male or female, their involvement in such a film project is... historically negative. I will be open minded and say that a good example hasn't been made yet, where a teenage female hasn't had an abusive time portraying a female character that has sexual interactions with males.
35:51 great point about the modern media's ability to have common folk make their own videos which mimick or mirror or imitate film visions and generate community plus wealth around behavior that is at the least dangerous. 
37:11  Tom Bissel's point the videographer shares is key. The hunger games or Lolita films prove that the media focuses on messages against the books point. but I argue many movies need to use the term inspired by not from . The Hunger Games isn't from the books but inspired by, the lolita films are not from the books but inspired by. The Lolita films legally must cite where they came from, the books, but they need to specificy they are not from the book, they are truly loosely inspired. 
41:21 I give Jeremy irons credit,  a wise male actor never touches this film, he is brave. 
42:01 Nabukov said it best here what lolita is and the fact that both films or most similar films that focus on the mature person's angle of perception are unable to convey this is key.
This point is present. Humbert is unreliable. 
44:34 Lauren Groff makes a good point. The film needs to groom the viewer in the same way the book groom the reader.
45:54 the videographer closes with an honest quote from Tom Bissel , from his book Nabokov's rocking chair. Few starving writers would say no to writing lolita as a screenplay but it is on average an experience that will harm a child thespian. 

IN CONCLUSION

I think one thing she doesn't  state explicitly but imply is the power of a great producer. Writers/directors have in their nature a desire to tackle challenging stories. Yes, make money, but sooner or later, most artists: illustrators, writers, singers , dancers, directors want to tackle topics that will always create varying crowds about them like interracial relationships [birth of a nation/song of the south/guess whose coming to dinner]/historical assessments[gone with the wind/pocahantas/1492 conquest of paradise]/illegal or criminal abuses between individuals[lolita/] . But producers who are the bank, the money, should be more concerned with the result of investment and beleagured female child thespians , in my opinion, isn't a positive return on investment. 

As I saw this I thought the screenplay , if you are going to do the angle of the abuser, you can't have the four foot 90 pound female in the film directly. In a book yes, it is words, readers, no matter their nature can imagine,and yes, some males will imagine with all the fornicative violence that will frighten the civilized, but in a film such a character will require a thespian , now i admit, it is possible to make a computer generated character that is of the appearance of a human female child but... any child who looks like her will be attached in the larger media so... I argue it goes down the same path , albeit with less immediate consequence. So don't ever depict Dolores visually, but she can be heard. And the Humbert character can interact with her absent her viewing. It takes skill but it can be done. And Lolita can be present as Humbert's imagination through drawings and can be made unreliable by other characters interactions with him about his representations of lolita. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qw1d7aKZOo

 

 

horror ai

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Mushroom perspective

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The LAst Reincarnations  - jiausiku
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Mister Mxyzptlk's Mysterious Mix Up  
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I have said this for years, the way in which things are engineered is the true flaw but the reality is, engineering to be repaired, engineering to be adjusted is not financially as profitable in fiscal capitalism as engineer to throw away and buy new. 

 

It’s Time to Design for Repair

 

By Dale Dougherty

 January 15th, 2024

A Conversation With Jude Pullen

Trying to repair almost anything can be a frustrating exercise. Repair is made more difficult by the way devices are designed and the ability to repair a device could be improved greatly if different design decisions were made. This moment in time demands a new generation of designers, engineers, and makers to consider how to make products that can be more easily and safely repaired by more people.  

My guest on this episode is Jude Pullen, a creative technologist from the UK. “What’s really exciting, both about technology and creativity, is putting them side by side and seeing why we do things and considering what we can do given the capabilities of technology and our own imagination.” Pullen’s curiosity about why he couldn’t easily replace the batteries in his headphones led him to explore the reasons why repair has become even more difficult over time. He wrote a multi-part series called “The Fight For Repair” on Design Spark.  [ https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/the-fight-to-repair-intro ]

The global Right to Repair movement was featured in Make: magazine Volume 80 last year,  The War on Repair.

 

 

 

TranscriptDale: + Jude: 

Dale: Welcome to MakeCast. I’m Dale Dougherty, and my guest on this episode is Jude Pullen, who is a creative technologist from the UK. And our subject is really repair and and how to think about that. 

Jude has been on a journey to figure out why so many devices are difficult to repair. It started when the battery in his headphones died or would not take a charge. And he’s written a seven part series on Design Spark about what he did and what he learned. And a lot of it has to do with batteries. The general takeaway is that repair is made more difficult by the way devices are designed and perhaps could be, alleviated somewhat if they were designed differently.

The insight is behind really a global right to repair movement to change the way things are manufactured and actually designed, engineered, and manufactured. One major point that I think Jude makes is that we would all benefit from considering the repairability of a device before we buy it and not wait until it’s failed to determine whether we can repair it or not. 

Sometimes we call it extending the life of a device, and I think a lot of makers have closets full of devices, some of which no longer work, but they hope that there might be a repair for that someday. So Jude, before we start talking about repair, tell us a bit about yourself, your background and interests.

Jude: Yeah. Thanks so much, Dale. This is terrific to, to be on the show. Yeah, probably I grew up being a sort of tinkerer, a maker. I think I recently just put a little anecdote out there to say I very nearly electrocuted myself at the age of nine, taking apart a mains radio and then basically touching the aerial with my finger and I realized that it improved the reception and I got, over the channel from the uk, I got French radio, which was amazing. But yeah, it coulda cost me my life. That story since putting it out there, I realize most makers, and indeed probably a lot of your audience, can relate to that, even if dare I say, I feel like I narrowly escaped a Darwinian selection there.

I don’t take it lightly, and I think certainly being a dad, I actually take these things probably more seriously than I ever have in my life. But really the beginnings of that curiosity, I would love to say that I just landed a dream job at Dyson, Sugru, and Lego, but actually that came many years later after a disjointed struggle through trying to first do a chemistry degree working in a butcher’s, horticultural specialist, and a statistician for the council.

I really have had a sort of a bit of a shaggy dog story of getting into, finally, what I believe to be basically the best job in the world, which is getting paid to be creative, explore things, and occasionally put something back out there which other people find useful, or so I hope. Yeah. 

Dale: I love the phrase creative technologist.

I don’t know how you get to be one necessarily, except through that, what you call the shaggy dog route. I think that’s what’s really exciting, both about technology and creativity, is putting them side by side and seeing why we do things and considering what we can do given the capabilities of technology and our own imagination.

Jude: Yeah, very much and I feel, for anyone who’s new to the phrase, it’s one of those sort of how do you introduce yourself type of questions I’ve found it incredibly hard to describe what is being done. Basically, I like playing with cool stuff, but of course the professional in me is you need to sound a little bit more astute than that, so I tend to describe it as saying, I either take essentially cutting edge technology, and I do the hard thing, which is make it very simple and easy for teams, especially sales and marketing, to know how to go out there and create it into a product or an experience, and conversely, I work with companies, and I guess this is the polite way of saying it, I basically am really good at finding new life and giving a fresh twist to old technology and capability which they have at their fingertips and, giving it a new lease of life, reframing it.

I would say companies like Nintendo do this incredibly well. Actually, a lot of Nintendo stuff starts out not being on the cutting edge. Actually it’s a really clever twist of something that’s actually quite established. And then really, as I said, back to that earlier point, the joy is getting to a point in my career where I can be taken semi seriously and have a degree of repeated success with, companies big and small to basically deliver something, on time, on spec, on budget, as they say.

Yeah, I’m still pinching myself and hoping this ride keeps on going. , Make Magazine has obviously been a continual touchstone in all of those things and indeed hats off to Mike and Keith who gave me my first my first break and I bought my first camera with the proceeds of those two articles.

That’s great. Yeah, there’s a lot of love from all those years ago. That’s great. 

Dale: I wanted to hold up this was our issue 80 last year on the War on Repair. And so we’ve, we care about this and we’ve covered it. It’s an ongoing story. It’s not something like it’s the new release of a product and it has a certain window.

It’s, it is really trying to create a change throughout not just the industry, but really society and how we think about these things. I love that you talked about falling down the rabbit hole because so many of us have probably figured out something like what you did with the headphones. And it just went on and on trying to figure out why you couldn’t do something. So why don’t you just talk from the beginning of you had a pair of, what, six year old headphones? 

Jude: Yeah, sure, anyone can look this up online, but, I won’t overly point to things for people on our podcast and listening just to the audio, but basically I’ve got a pair of fancy noise canceling headphones, which are about six years old.

And. essentially, other than being a bit, cosmetically battered, they’re basically tip top, and I know that because, spoiler, I ended up repairing them. But at the time, the little battery inside them, and again, we can check this out online, but basically it’s one of these little pouchy lithium polymer things with a couple of wires and some of the Kapton tape around it. That thing basically went kaput and ceased to do its thing and hold a charge, as you said earlier on.

I realized I hit this point of going I want to keep it out of landfill, and I want to fix it, but I realized that there was something almost quite– I realized I was on the cusp of going– this is part of a bigger discussion. The question that really got under my skin is, how did a company, and this is not to berate Sennheiser, because Bose, Sony, all these other companies all share a similar, should we, issue, at this time and place, is that they are not designed to be easy for people like this reader slash listenership of make to just, crack it open with a screwdriver and change out the battery.

I wanted to know, from an empathetic point of view, Why is that? Why is it so difficult? Why isn’t it as simple as just changing an AA battery? Why is it more complicated than that? And I wasn’t trying to go on a sort of holier than thou crusade. I genuinely would spend time interviewing people from all around industry, consumer marketing. And I really just wanted to understand why the right to repair was so difficult and hence that’s why I called it, dubbed the whole series “The Fight to Repair” as it is both a crusade but also an accurate observation of the task. 

Dale: We elevated it to war, but it’s the same idea.

Jude: You always get carried away, you guys, don’t you? Exactly. 

Dale: Give us , if you don’t mind, just a primer on batteries, this is so much to do. This is only one component that can be repaired, but it’s a vital one.

Jude: For anyone who isn’t familiar with it, the irony is that and again, I’ve got two batteries here, but I think people listening will be able to have a mental picture, is that one of them is the old school mobile phone batteries. If you’re old enough to remember, they’re in a little box, and they have some terminals, and you click them in, and you click them out. I grew up with those. I had my first phone when I was 18, and I was like, hey, how did we find our way where those don’t exist anymore except in products like Fairphone, we’ll come back to that later.

And why is it that we have this little, foil pouch with some wires coming out of it and a little PCB? And essentially, the way these things work is that essentially they’ve got electrolytes, a bunch of funky materials inside it, obviously including lithium, and it creates a charge between the two sort of polarities, that’s what gives you your battery.

I’m obviously grossly oversimplifying this but interestingly it also has some little things like a temperature sensor, a thermistor in there, to make sure the thing doesn’t overheat. And indeed, that leads us to one of the problems, why the general public is not encouraged to just crack these open willy nilly, is the problem with heat is that you can get what’s called thermal runaway, and anyone who types in lithium polymer battery and fire into YouTube will see why these things are so dangerous, as they really go off like a firework in some cases, and there have been tragic sort of outcomes to these.

I should be really clear that, this whole series is not a please have inexperienced have- a-go people just, casually take things apart. It’s an interrogation of who should be allowed to repair things and why, and indeed, can we meet people in the middle of making it so that, the battery is safe enough to be interacted with by someone who isn’t a skilled engineer.

So that’s something which I think the legislation touches on, but maybe we won’t jump the gun and we’ll get into that later. 

Dale: What’s the difference between the one that has a foil wrap, it has some wires coming out of it? Why is that even designed differently than that original cell phone battery?

Jude: The simple thing is that this process of these little foil pouches, which they come in, that the thing that you’ll realize, and if you look at some websites, some of them actually boast having over 5, 000 different SKUs, meaning variations that you can purchase.

And that’s because the mechanical setup to basically fold these little things like, bedsheets can be done so easily by the process that you can just have pretty much any size you want. Whereas when you get into these little sort of containers you either need to basically form a aluminum pocket, which is what is actually around this underneath the sticker or you need to roll it in plastic or something like this.

Essentially what we’ve really found ourselves in is these little pouch designs of the lithium polymer batteries. They’re extremely cheap. They’re extremely versatile in terms of size and manufacturability. And that has almost become our undoing. Is that we’ve somehow gone from having a standardized range, which speaking as a product designer, I can’t see why we’re not in the hundreds of variations, but we’re actually in the tens of thousands, and probably more than that, it’s probably hundreds of thousands. I just feel that is a sort of, just a gratuitous proliferation of too much choice. 

Dale: Even when you opened your headphones and took out your battery, finding its replacement was not easy. 

Jude: Exactly. Of course, being an engineer and having sourced components before professionally I’m aware that, essentially these things have serial numbers on and you can diligently type those into Google or whatever and you’ll eventually come up with something that is recognized as a particular part and sold by a supplier.

Interestingly, you will also have lots of fakes, which are aware that these things are sought after, and so you can buy a battery that says AB 123, doesn’t mean it is AB 123 part. It doesn’t mean it’s genuine at all. Part of my interrogation was also to play a little bit deliberately going through the motion of let’s see what happens if I order direct from China via AliExpress. What happens if I get it from eBay? What happens if I take my chances on am*zon, as opposed to going through a sort of, –and this isn’t a plug, but obviously, RS is a slightly more rigorous, to put it mildly, vendor of these sorts of things, you’ve got Allied in the States, McMaster-Carr. All of these companies go through much more checks, it’s fair to say, to make sure it’s the real deal. The technical data sheets come with it, and there’s, of course, a price increase in that guarantee.

Dale: What happened when you ordered those different batteries? 

Jude: I’ll be completely honest, that in the short term, there wasn’t actually much discernible difference that I think would create significant problems.

And the reason I sound a little bit like, there’s clearly a but coming, is that doesn’t mean that if you use it for two years, they’re all going to stay on the same sort of performance curve. I do have this on pretty good authority without bias, just from speaking to so many other engineers, that often that’s the reason you go with quality with a lithium battery, is because if you are a reputable brand, you’re just gonna have it blow back in your face because you’re gonna get basically product complaints, returns, and, a really bad problem on all these review sites. But I’m not gonna lie, if you are a fast fashion tech company, knocking out a cheap little Bluetooth speaker, and you know that because it’s so cheap, no one’s really gonna make a big fuss about it if it dies in six months or a year. The sad truth is, there’s a big market and a lot of money to be made in that sector.

And I think that is a little bit where we need legislation to just, as they say, curb that enthusiasm. Because it just isn’t really the best of what consumerism should be. I’m not someone who says we need to live on top of a mountain with hair shirts, but I do think there’s genuine problems that are gonna come back and bite us in the behind with these sorts of just hoping and praying that if you send it to your recycling center that it all magically just turns out perfect.

The fact is it’s a very complicated and torturous path to get all that stuff back. 

Dale: So almost backing away from your headphones, you were able to figure out that problem and solve that, but it interested you that there were all kinds of problems out there.

Jude: Exactly.

Dale: There were some big patterns out there that you were beginning to see. You went to Hong Kong, you went to a disposal site in the UK. What were you looking for? And what did you find? 

Jude: And just before anyone goes, wait, you’re supposed to be all environmental and you went to Hong Kong, I would just quickly say I was visiting my wife’s family, who we haven’t seen out there in nine years. I would like to think there was a slight exemption but also, dare I say, because we were out there for a month, my wife won’t mind me saying, for me, the lines between work and play and exploration are pretty blurred anyway.

So naturally I hit a few people up and said, hey, can I come visit the university? I spoke to a wonderful expert, Dr. Lawrence who just really took me through some of the basics. But also, I wrote it up as a slight tongue in cheek title, I admit. But just actually, is there conspiracy theories? Is this all planned obsolescence? And so I actually loved getting into the detail of, the answer is, it’s a little bit of truth and a little bit more complicated than that, as you can imagine. There is an economic model around companies not being incentivized to keep something alive for 10 years if you can’t recoup that in some way.

At the same time, it isn’t completely Mr. Burns level of maniacal evilness either. So it’s a little bit more prosaic than most people would probably care to realize unless you’re in the profession. And as you alluded to, I visited, much closer to home, I should say, just a happy train ride away for a couple of hours to Sitting Bottom, good name sorry.

Dale: Sitting Bottom?

Jude: Although, Bill Bryson actually has a collection of all these names, which I’m sure that name could probably exist. But actually, yeah, it’s Sitting Born. But, excuse me, I’m losing my train of thought. But yeah, that’s basically the UK’s largest electrical waste and disposable and reclamation site called Sweep Kusakoski, and it’s a Finnish origin group, again, Scandinavians, high five on all this stuff. Basically they do a phenomenal job of taking your household electrical waste, basically putting it in a giant Will-it-Blend style blender, smashing things to pieces. Yeah, I kid you not, it’s just got huge industrial trains that fly round. It’s basically, in terms of kinetic energy, it’s like a bomb. It just destroys things like microwaves almost instantaneously, puts them into little pieces which then can be magnetized or not; flotation tanks, all that sort of stuff.

 I took some video footage of this. It’s absolutely extraordinary. But the, actually the takeaway was that you can’t do that with a battery because you lose all the good stuff. Basically. So what they do is they need designers, desperately, to make it so that they can pull a battery out of there nice and easy.

Having a clip that allows the battery to disconnect, or, as we said from our earlier conversation, good old fashioned, mobile phone style batteries that you can just pop out without any special tools. It’s such an interesting provocation that, just to say to designers, look, I know it’s convenient, I know it’s the status quo, I know it’s how you do it, in quotes, but if there’s any possible way you could just not glue batteries in, or make them so that they’re easier to take out and disassemble, I genuinely think it’s a better user experience, but also it’s incredibly important for end of life.

I can’t stress that enough. I really feel having visited this place. It just feels almost irresponsible for anyone who calls themselves professional with designer or engineer, not to take this stuff more seriously in their work. 

Dale: It’s a kind of purgatory where you pay for the sins of design.

Jude: Yeah, absolutely. It feels I know I sound a little evangelical, but, I’ve said in previous podcasts and interviews that I think engineers and designers should study ethics. We put doctors through the same, you know, ability to make a rational decision which has a lot of nuance, and a lot of ramifications for making a decision.

One of the most powerful statistics, I’ve seen was from Boothroyd and Dewhurst, which is described as the Design for Manufacturing and Assembly Bible and it basically said that a designer’s cost might be 5 percent of the end cost of the product, but it represents 70 percent of the choices that are made in it, so 70 percent of the impact.

Many designers are like, yeah, damn I’m not a millionaire, and you’re like, yes, you are a very small cost, but actually your impact of making a good or bad decision, making a environmentally careless decision, or making something that’s as progressive as you possibly could, within the constraints of your company, the finance, all those sorts of things.

And again, this is not a plea for perfection. This is not a plea for godliness of design. This is saying, can you just incrementally improve year on year? Which is actually very much the sort of tenets of B Corp. classifications, the companies that are acknowledged for being progressively sustainable.

It is not asking you to be perfect on day one. It is asking you to keep raising the bar and keep educating yourself. So much of the journey that I’ve put together here is deliberately saying, three, four months ago, I knew very little. This is actually my journey of self teaching, and also getting taught by people who know more than me.

That’s basically the arc of the series, and why it’s a Shaggy Dog story is because I made stupid mistakes and I got confused sometimes, as well as learning. 

Dale: Would you also talk about beyond even extending the life of devices through repair, it really is what happens to them when they’re done, when they’re no longer useful? That has a cost. Disposal is not something that’s usually baked into the product price itself, right? I once talked to someone, I thought it was a fascinating thing is, and I don’t think that I’ve seen much traction on it, but you talk about manufacturability, and it’s like taking raw materials with a design and creating something, and I don’t know what they call this, but it’s like “de-manufacturing.” It’s almost taking that thing that was made and decomposing it into as close as you can, the original materials so that it could be reused again, not just like shredding something and making some kind of a thing out of that, but actually saying that material itself, that thing could be a component going back into making something new.

Jude: Totally, and I don’t know whether we’re thinking of maybe the same example or something different, but I seem to remember seeing, I want to say Nokia, did a project with MIT don’t quote me on this, but basically the notion was if you put it in a 70 degree oven, the phone, the solder and all those sorts of things wouldn’t melt, but all these little catches and special clips would thermally change in their property, and the whole thing would ping apart. And so it was like a sort of real magician’s ta-da moment. 

Now I’ll be honest and say, I think that is something that really captures the imagination. I think we should absolutely continue to look at things like that. But at the same time, I would imagine if Sweep Kusakoski, the recycling plant was here, they would probably say Yeah, it’s good, but actually, if we have a choice between a very exotic, unusual plastic that has crazy properties, or you just keep using ABS, PETG, stuff that we can actually get money back from, because it’s saleable, and also it doesn’t contaminate the vats that they’re creating, I could see a counter argument to that. Again, I’m not qualified to answer that definitively, but I think one thing I’m picking up as a continual trend from all these interviews I would almost say, don’t overthink this.

It really is as simple as strangely, my earlier training at Dyson, we used to use a lot of screws, not just because it was good for end of life, but it was really good for maintenance. If you needed a repair person to go out and fix something, which is good for the user, and creates a secondary economy around maintenance and service, just as we do with cars.

But also, it’s that thing, when it gets to end of life, it can be disassembled. The moot point, which we are circling around here is, at what point will legislation encourage companies to make it possible that a non qualified person, i. e. member of the public, could reasonably interact with this in a safe way?

And I gotta be honest I feel that this is a strange thing, the more you look back at history, I have more questions. Instead of, what’s the new technology that’s magical and gonna fix this, to how did we move away from being able to wire plugs up? You’re old enough to remember that if you got a plug, you could unscrew the back, let’s say something went wrong, A, you could change the fuse if you’re in the UK; I appreciate it’s different in America. But that was considered a job that a general public person could do, and still is in the UK, and yet it feels like that has shifted to a point of, oh no, you can’t possibly do anything, and it’s all sealed in, and I appreciate there is a safety imperative for that, but I think that something has got lost with throwing the baby out with the bathwater, as they say.

Dale: You also talk a bit about modular design, and the cell phones. All I can think of is in the 70s or 80s, if you really liked stereos, you wanted components, not an all in one, 

Jude: The hi fi separates. 

Dale: You made choices about those things and you plug them together and, you got better sound rather than an all in one device. And I think modular design is like we become familiar with the components that go into something and those components may degrade, but we could replace them. 

Jude: Completely, and I think actually it’s a good talking point that modular design, and again, I’m sure people can point out the outliers in this, but I would say as a rule of thumb, modular design makes sense for products which have an expected long lifetime.

I don’t believe anyone who buys hi fi separates is throwing those out every two years because their contract has ended like we do with mobile phones, right? There’s something broken about that business model. Hi fi components separates are generally, that was where most of my student loan went when I first got to uni is straight away on that. So I feel that it’s a sensible and quite environmental model that you can literally upgrade But also you would totally eBay or sell that other thing to try and recoup some of that money. I hope there’s a resurgence and a consumer enthusiasm for feeling that things can be switched out. Now, I guess I would say that It’s really hard to do that for things which are very cheap, because the simple fact is you need design, you need a degree of understanding of how to build those interfaces, right?

And also, there’s a business model. If you’ve ever bought hi fi cables, they charge you a pretty penny for the things that wire up these things at the back, right? So I think it’s also looking for the holistic opportunity for companies to realize how do we still remain, y’know, as a great interview of mine with Andrew Carr, he says people forget that it’s important that sustainable businesses remain sustainable.

And he’s obviously meaning the economics of this. So it’s a bit of a tightrope walk, but I hope to summarize your point. I guess what I’m saying is, it’s not a one size fits all, it’s a shrewd business decision that says modularity can work for some examples. But I do think brands can really explore it with a lot of return and customer enthusiasm and love.

Dale: The cell phone is the smartphone, if you want to be more specific, it’s the emblem of this device that has tremendous complexity and we can’t really repair it. Apple is changing its tune a little bit but it’s, it really is all the market incentives are to replace it every couple of years.

In America, a lot of the cell phone carriers have a campaign. They say the new phone is “on us,” and meaning like they’re giving it to you for free, and It’s just a really ridiculous thing. When I was thinking in terms of repair, the repair is on us. That thing that you’re in a broader sense of us is when you return that your older cell phone, when it’s still decent, it goes somewhere, right? And someone has to figure that out. 

Jude: Yeah, and I think that’s a really complicated thing for companies to disrupt. I don’t know, I’d be curious to know how big the brand’s and product Fairphone is in the US. I certainly am aware of it in the UK, but I’m not gonna pretend as if, every other person I know has one.

It’s very niche. It’s very early adopter. 

Dale: No, I haven’t heard of it, really. 

Jude: Yeah, exactly, and that is, for anyone, do check out Fairphone, and I think they have two products which especially interest me, and of course, one of them we’ll get onto later, but there is a phone, and the promise is that they try to do the best that they possibly can, within this time and place to look at the components, so to avoid things like child labor, conflict minerals in the Congo, all of this sort of stuff, and obviously recycling as much as possible.

I think, if I’m going to be brutally honest, it’s a really good acknowledgement that part of the reason people will still stick to an iPhone, if they have started out in Apple’s ecosystem, is that the Apple iPhone is more than just a phone, it’s baked in to this interoperability and fluidity and seamless connections, which of course is by design, that’s the point, so it makes it very hard to go outside of that bubble.

Of course, if you’re in Android, you should totally check out Fairphone. But I would say, interestingly, the other product they make, is the big headphones, like the ones you’re wearing and I was trying to repair myself, they are not captured by this ecosystem or operating system. So consequently, to cut to the punchline, I’ve looked at reviews in terms of price, noise cancelling capability, battery life etc.

I can’t think of any conscionable reason your next pair of over the ear headphones wouldn’t be Fairphones, Fairbuds, because it just is literally the same price for a thing that you can repair, as opposed to a thing you really can’t. I’m not being paid, I’m not being sponsored, there’s no bias, but really spending three months interrogating this?

I think it’s a terrific thing to have a standalone project that isn’t caught up in an ecosystem, it’s not locked in. I really hope designers start to take pride in this, and another company to mention is Frameworks, which do laptops with the same mission, pretty much, that you can, and again, you’re old enough to be like, wait, deja vu, we used to change out RAM in computers, who knew?

Lo and behold, it is indeed possible to do, and you still have a nice, lightweight, sleek, modern, high performance laptop. These things are possible, and I would say to anyone who is starting out in their career, or indeed anyone who’s feeling they’re getting a little bit rusty, now’s the time to back these companies.

Having gone from big, extremely capable companies to also working in startups, I think it’s great to take some of that knowledge and muscle and intelligence, and then apply it to some of these companies that really need a boost from that expertise. The time to be a designer working in sustainability and taking this stuff, I think this is one of the most exciting, moments in our history. It really is. I think we’ll look back on this as a seminal moment. , 

Dale: Like how do we get an edge into this engineering and design process? How do we find people that begin doing some of this, and they do more of it, and it grows?

Jude: Yeah. 

Dale:You close with recommendations for people who are designing and engineering electronics, and some of them are really specific, and that’s useful in that way, but maybe you want to touch on some of those. 

Jude: Yeah, and I think I mentioned, I actually took a picture of this little portable speaker, which for anyone who is just listening, this is in part 7.

But basically, the product essentially has a lithium battery inside it, which we can just see at the back there. This is completely easy to get hold of another one. It’s even pleasantly got a little JST clip, which means you don’t have to unsolder the wires to change it out. What sort of drives me crazy is that they’ve glued it in for simplicity, and when it could have just had a little clip. I’ve done a fair bit of injection molding design. It’s not because of the tooling angle and blah blah blah, you totally could have put this in with enough tension and it would have stayed in place, and the two things are coming together.

No reason it’s going to slide around. It’s just disappointing that we can’t apply that thinking in an early stage. So this isn’t me berating this company. This is actually saying it’s a call to engineering leads to say, Look, it’s not even about my blog, but things like this should be passed around internal companies and said, Hey, it really doesn’t cost us anything else and it’s good for the environment.

We should go ahead and do it. And I think, What’s important, it’s that thing of being excited about taking the first step. As with so many things in life that you think are going to be impossibly hard, once you get going, you get into it. Your team gets excited and goes, oh, that wasn’t so bad, we didn’t even lose money, in fact, we made money and we’ve got really nice reviews about it.

And then it’s okay, now should we look at things like percentage of recycle in injection molding plastics? My point here is that you don’t have to do it all in one product but just keep chippin away at it. Keep building up. 

Dale: Your general point is screws and clips are better than glues.

Jude: Yeah, you know that’s it. In fact, that’s a nice slogan. I may steal that from you. It’s a good rhyme

Dale: Screws not glues. 

Jude: Some of the stuff most designers If you ask yourself Do I want to take this apart later because i’m refining the design? That more often than not is probably a good thing for the end of life and indeed the consumer interaction. I am happy to acknowledge that If you make everything modular, it does actually end up having a counter effect, and you end up using more materials, and hence actually creating a problem for the environment, because you put too many clips and bells and whistles.

So this is where you hear the phrase life cycle analysis come into play, and that’s basically the grown up version of saying, let’s not just entirely go on gut instinct and intuition. Maybe let’s look at the numbers and see how these things come out. I still would say for anyone, be a little bit circumspect if you think that you only need an LCA to apply common sense.

As we said, screws, not glue. That, that doesn’t need a full blown LCA to realize that. More often than not, that rule of thumb will be true. And the same thing with snap fits. If you make snap fits so that once they’re snapped, they are impossible to get open, common sense tells you actually you can have snap fits, and if you maybe put a little detail or a little witness so that people go, Great, I can just put a few cocktail sticks around it, and poof, it comes off and I don’t shatter the design.

Those things are not actually fundamental changes to the product. They are just making it more viable to be repaired, serviced, or interacted with. So I think that’s the sort of thing I’m petitioning for, is not to get into a sort of pedantic debate about the minutiae of, wait a minute, but if you have a connection, ICs and microchips are one of the most problematic things, blah blah blah blah, I get it.

Go read the LCA report for a Fairphone. It gets into that detail really fine microscopic level stuff, and Fairphone are very honest about saying where they think this is a little bit of a grey area; we don’t know the exact thing. But I think, to circle back to the point that you said.

A little bit is just applying a sort of common sense of don’t just bodge it together. That’s really what we’re saying here is good design looks like good design. We all know it when we see it, right? 

Dale: I don’t know if this makes sense to you, but in some ways it seems to me that the right to repair movement and open source are after similar things, and in terms of disclosure making things available. Most people who use open source code are not contributing to that code or writing that code, but they benefit from those who do and are able to do that.

And I think that is similar in the right to repair. It’s not just Oh, I would never repair anything, so I’m not interested. You ask your brother in law to repair it for you or you go to a shop to repair it. There’s some way to get to yes on that question of can it be repaired if it’s possible. It isn’t just like making it for the masses and this everybody You know, we have closed things. We have open things and yeah It’s a recognition that there’s real value for the open things, you don’t necessarily get to wipe out all the closed things, but you’re trying to look for an ecosystem that has some balance in it. 

Jude: I think it’s fair to say that, y’know, Not all decisions in life are economic, or totally rational.

 I’m old enough to remember when organic food was starting to build up, and, boy, it was not cheaper. It was like double, triple the price. And now, I’d say it’s at the point where really there’s not too much difference between organic and non organic milk.

It’s one of those things where I think we have to hold our nerve through the initial building up of economies of scale and all these sorts of things, to realize that, yep. sometimes it is going to be a little bit more expensive, and we need to invest in it in those early days.

We need to champion the things. But again, as I said the point I made with Fairphone’s headphones, they’re actually the same price as the sort of equivalent competitor in Sony and Bose and Sennheiser. So I do think that we shouldn’t automatically assume that better means that you’re getting absolutely hammered in terms of price.

That’s where we need reporters, bloggers, journalists like yourself, actually going, hey, guess what? This is great, and it didn’t even hurt, in quotes, financially, or in terms of it being substandard, or some sort of, hair cloth equivalent, where you go, yeah, it’s green, but it’s kinda crap, really.

And I really think we’re turning a corner, and the good designers are flocking to companies like this, to go, yeah, let’s really get some David and Goliath energy going here. And I think that’s an exciting place to be in those environments. 

Dale: That’s great. Is there anything we haven’t touched on that you wanted to cover?

Jude: Gosh I would say the legislation is something that, it’s not a quick read on part six, but I would say the takeaways, and I’m not going to profess to be absolutely flawless on this, takeaways were, we find ourselves in this slightly problematic area where most people who work in technology know that legislation lags behind what is in the bleeding edge, almost by definition.

It takes time to write these complicated universal documents. So consequently, when you look at the legislation, it has a problematic statement as to my eyes, which is that a product should be designed to be repaired by public. Or, and the key word is or repair shop. Now, if I were a big company who made phones, who, let’s say, will remain nameless, that means that it’s tantamount to saying you don’t actually have to design it so it’s easy to repair.

You can make it repairable. By God, is it going to be difficult. And so basically there’s no economic incentive, no self-respecting person would want to spend ten hours and buy $50K worth of machinery, just to say they can fix a phone screen. So it becomes You know, tantamount to being non viable.

And I think that, for me, would be the cynical interpretation of what the legislation is doing. And you’ve got two options. You can either use that loophole and exploit it, but I think that’s where you start to have to question the values of the company that you’re working at. And I do think, especially the people listening to this sort of podcast, I would like to think if they’ve been paying attention to anything that you’ve been saying over the decades, it’s kinda to be better than that, right? No one’s saying, don’t go without food, don’t have a profession. Man, there’s a lot of good jobs out there that that you can actually walk the talk. And I think that’s so much of what I’ve been trying to put forward into this attempt of one person’s muddled journey through this. I come out the other side realizing, of course, it’s harder than it sounds, but truly believing there are footholds where you can start to make genuine progress without making terrible sacrifices to your own personal livelihood, but you are making a huge contribution to the planet and the ethos that surrounds those things.

Dale: I was going to ask you what makers can do. This is a great call for experiments, to try different things. And yeah, it’s to say, yeah, you’re not Goliath, but you can do small things that, stones throw away that might make a difference, that show what’s possible in repair or design or any of these areas. We need more people researching this stuff, just like you did.

Jude: I think research in the least academic way of that sort of connotation. I think research is also building it and seeing if it makes sense in your hands. If you try and do something, does it make sense at the end of the day?

One of the things I would love to see, and again, this is somewhat of an open challenge to people, is I was observing how we’re getting into a real pickle, that if you want to put a rechargeable battery in something, the circuitry doesn’t know how to tell easily whether that is a non rechargeable battery, a nickel metal hydride battery, or in terms of AA, you could actually buy the 14500, which has the same form factor, but is in fact a higher voltage lithium battery.

And so the point is, having a trapdoor that says — stick any battery in here you like, doesn’t exist, and the reason it doesn’t exist is because there isn’t this all in one circuit. So I would say, to people listening to this, if they’re a smart electronics person, I would say this is an invention that’s crying out to be produced, and I think that is just something that occurred to me through going through this process. I guarantee you if anyone tinkers around long enough and, really looks at the products around them, they’re gonna see other opportunities to innovate.

And I think that’s the key, really, is that, the ideas come from getting stuck into it. It’s not sitting in front of, a search engine waiting for a great idea. It’s everything that your magazine has stood for all these years, which is the ideas come by doing, not by stroking your chin and putting the worlds to right from your armchair.

Dale: It is an immersion in, immersion in these worlds, that you care about them and you, there’s so much to explore and trusting that what is worth seeing, what you’re doing is worth doing, 

Jude: I think it’s that thing that people get enthused by seeing someone take a first step.

And for me, this is, I don’t consider this a home run. I don’t even feel I’ve got to first base, but what’s so great is loads of people are getting in touch going, this is a great first step. Can we help, do you wanna come work on this? And I think that’s the thing to really underscore here is, sometimes just making a little bit of noise, the reciprocation of other people’s enthusiasm for something that is latent and in people. It’s just so exciting. 

Dale: Thank you, Jude, for talking to me today and sharing this with our readers. I’ll put links to your articles. They’re very detailed and lots of interesting images showing teardowns and choices and things.

Thanks for talking to me today and good luck to you as you continue to fight for repair.

Jude: It’s a real pleasure, Dale. Thank you.

 

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Frog and Toad the knitted series

 

@indiarosecrawford AD| Frog and Toad go camping! #AppleTVPlusPartner I've re-created some scenes from the new season of Frog and Toad! I had so much fun making this video and I hope it brings you some joy Season 2 of Frog and Toad is out now on @Apple TV ♬ original sound - India Rose Crawford

 

 

@indiarosecrawford Spring cleaning with Frog! #frog #knittedfrog #cottagecore ♬ Pennies from Heaven - Louis Prima

 

 

@indiarosecrawford Frog Paints a Water Lily Pond #knittedfrog #frog #painting ♬ Magical Fantasy - Dmitriy Sevostyanov

 

pain was under the bureaucracy of general franco from the 1930s to the 1970s, and said bureaucracy had laws that made speech limitations legal. the constitution made in 1978 givesthe following,

 

The following rights are recognized and protected: the right to freely express and spread thoughts, ideas and opinions through words, in writing or by any other means of reproduction";
"The right to freely communicate or receive truthful information by any means of dissemination whatsoever. The law shall regulate the right to the clause of conscience and professional secrecy in the exercise of these freedoms".

 

 what is my point? In the same way the thirteenth amendment outlawed slavery everywhere but prisons while slavery still exist in the usa today in various human trafficking schemes or through the prison system which was never outlawed or the civil rights act exists since the 1960s but phenotypical inequality is rampant in the usa today. Canada supposedly has equality under the law but native american communities in canada today are being oppressed so....Every government got a set of laws, that don't mean a damn thing to the people abused under those governments. 

 

yeah ok, one of the problems in modern humanity is people confuse respect of the enforced law or gratifications of convenience with friendship/comradery/or something similar. The majority of people in spain are white and most of them are from the basque or catalans don't care for each other, let alone those outside their set. so you can only expect this. Yeah, cheering for foreigners occurs, the law enforced stops violent acts. but cultural change doesn't occur these ways

Dune part 2 like the first dune film from villaneuve is visually stunning, an excellent use of special effects. as for the story... well,, I am not the biggest fan of the story, I read the book. .. my biggest issue is the emperor, I don't like his character design. .. anyway, the key here is the producers of hollywood have a financial model that suits them. Publicly traded firms are on the constant demand to earn more and more profits. the problem is, no art genre can always produce an increase in profits. so the producers have to lower their overall yearly spending + make financially cheaper films. The modern financial environment makes the approach of a year of highest budget films a wise financial decision but the producers+ accountants of hollywood don't know any other way to make the increased revenue demanded by stock markets. 
my reply to the following comment [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZgNz7UXTqU&lc=Ugwrx3jK86_8-t0-2154AaABAg ] 
your point is huge and video reporter missed that point, name me a director who will pass up a big budget, but do you as a director love the content? villaneuve loves dune, he admitted he liked the 80s dune, he admitted he though the jodorowsky 70s concepts are cool. sO villaneuve is ahuge dune fan and that love is what is exhibited, which reacts very well to dune fans. and can pick up others.
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that scene in the first movie when he cries out, somebody help me, his father is the one that was needed.  His mother , himself, his sister aren't victims , the fremen aren't victims, the heroes journey is about the hero, the key to dune is this is the people's journey. At the beginning  of a people anywhere at anytime  plans/schemers/organizations exist that begin the people's story. And the mechanics and powers of the infancy of a people, create inevitables that can't be undone. The easiest example for me is the USA. the usa started as colonies of the british empire, born out of genocide, mixed with a multiracial set of whites unlike anywhere else, financed by an enslavement of a specific people...this has led to inevitables. The love hate relationship blacks have to the usa, the sense of destined entitlement by whites, the cycle of immigrants groups forcing change, these elements are inevitable. the fanatacism to the declaration of independence by those who want to justify the usa and block it from negative criticism, the zeal to the constitution by those who want to keep human actions in the usa bound to a legal code. The people in dune were started by the bene gessirt/the guild/the emperor and the chaom, a senate, of planets, all these things lead to inevitables.the hyper manipulation of the bene gesserit got beyond the bene's control and wrapped every on predicted collisions, the bureacracy of choam and its battleground nature led to constancy of blood feuding betwen the harkonnen side atreides which led to both sides fighting each other even when they are blood bound to each other through personal unions paul is a harkonen + an atreides , the addicted guild led to the wild expansion of the community absent change in organization which led to the mass wars, the emperial family as the centerpiece of responsibility allowing the bene gesserit to manipulate from shadows and never take most of the blame for their actions allowing the guild to expand and be unconcerned while never considering the danger in their ambitions, allowing the houses in the choam, from atreides to harokonnen to fight each other but never assume responsibility ... good point on the doctor.  ... your reading voice:) so sentimental:) .. leto wasn't making himself a monster, he was filling a role that was inevitable, he kept the responsibility that his father tired of and turned his back on. .. good point on story, paul and leto have become legends as gods/human/greats which all have an inhumanity in how they are described by other humans. 

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I think one angle few talk about is the fact that the last atreides is duke leto and the last harkonnen is paul's mother. Paul, his sister, aul's children are all half breeds. It is liek when the york + lancaster became the tudors. I argue, paul isn't an atreides nor is his sister. The way the atreides or harkonnens speak about each other , i argue neither would accept someone with the blood of either in their community. I know this goes away from the discussion of paul atriedes labeling or quality as a criminal but I think part of the problem is duke leto + lady jessica aren't viewed for what they represent... the end of the atreides/harkonnen feud and the beginning of the new bloodline built between them in paul/his sister/ paul's children with chani. Yes, the baron/ the beast/feyd are alive but the reality is, the feud is over. with paul and his sister, the two bloodlines are fused so if the harkonnens had won, then the mixed bloodline of paul + his sister holding both atreides/harokonne is dead and the atriedes line goes completely extinct. so the question isn't the future of the atreides but what will the atreides/harokonnen combined bloodline be like, the combined bloodline that has controlled arrakis for a long time, no matter who were the shepards. and with all the manipulators or schemers about they aided in turning the path of the combined bloodline into a series of three regals: paul/his sister/his son who each are consumed by the negativity/dysfunction around them

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For me I don't see any taking for grantedness. I think it is far simpler. The problem in the usa is that you have a populace over 300 million who are culturally disconnected and in such an environment for every person that is looking for individual freedom plus  acceptance or a meritocracy there is another similar in all racial ways except the race of culture that desires collective freedom plus acceptance or  a tiered system for their groups benefit. 

The style of integration + segregation in the usa has always been about one thing, power. 

Sport was segregated for the same reason everything was, whites wanted the benefit of underclasses [native american/black/non white europeans] to uphold their community + financial economy. People forget, the negro leagues, black tennis players, black basketball existed. segregation never stopped black people from doing things, Jim thorpe existed yes? it stopped non white european people from accessing white european wealth or limiting it financially by non white european wealth, all which supported white european power. And the same to integration. As the kerner commission, mostly held by white people said correctly, all institutions in the usa including the federal government, need an overhaul, to delete the negative racial biases. Integration's form in the usa is another white european power scheme. In the black populace in the usa during the period commonly called segregation [ which in my view was merely another form of integration] Black people had a financial aristocracy, the talented tenth right? There has always been a small populace of wealthy blacks in the usa, the only change from the british colonial period to now is the amount of wealth the black financial aristocracy in the usa can achieve and their overall heritage makeup. 

 

Steven Barnes is how i found this post and this is what he said 

To me, part of the reason sports were segregated was that people understood that you can game the results of tests, and schooling, but the body is what it is, can be developed without external cooperation or approval far more than can the heart or mind. And that if we ever entered that arena, there would be nothing to stop us from demonstrating excellence. And of course, people who think dualistically would have to deal with the possibility of superiority.
And since coordination is kinesthetic intellect, that opens that door to an entirely different, and even more disturbing range of possibilities:
People who preach superiority are afraid of being inferior.  The schoolyard bully can beat up the "brains" and end up working for them a few years later.
The implications are fascinating.   But I'll stay with "equality" as my go-to for race and gender.  To do otherwise would be understandable...but would be the thought patterns of my enemies.  Won't go there.

How does this impact the artistic landscape, and who will ultimately define the future of this digital renaissance?

The good news in modernity is who defines anything culturally is not as limited as in the past. In the pre internet age, all to often the lack of recorded media by individuals, the ability of one community to dominate the media sphere at every aspect meant that what is defined as art or not, what is defined in general is controllable by a few to their betterment. Today, and going forward if resources remain at least as they are today, the media world will always have various voices that will keep all perspectives alive.

 

Does this commercial focus dilute the essence of art, or is it merely a modern adaptation of the age-old struggle between artistic purity and financial necessity?

I don't think it is a struggle at all. The problem is defining what is or isn't art is always something that is unarithmetic, it can not be made into anything attributed to numbers, at least real numbers. Human beings will always be able to have a differing opinion on what is art, what is not art, what commercial activity is allowable or acceptable or injurious to an objects determination as art. If anything, what is commonly called AI just adds another talking point to those who wish to define what is art or what is not art. If you stop trying to define what is art or not art and convey what you like or not like, then the conversation goes away from what is or isn't art but simply how any piece of art relates to various folk, which is more clear cut, not arithmetic, but no longer trying to reduce human imagination to what some humans want.

 

Will it be those who wield their tools out of love for the art, or those who view their canvases as commodities?

Both will, all always do. No art form at its greatest extent of definition dies, Diminishes yes, but not dies. Yes, many native american ways are dead, most native ameriance ways are dead, but not all of them. Maybe 99% of the native american ways are dead, but the one percent is alive. Nippon had taiko drummers, China with all the piano forte love, had traditional instrument players. Their are stuill gullaha nd geechee speakers descended from blacks living off the coast of the carolinas. Cultural ways will live on. Now if the question is, who will be more common in the future, that is explainable.

When the usa obtained illegally stolen land that was called the louisiana purchase by some, most of the people of new orleans spoke french. But anyone could see overtime, french would be less spoken. The usa federal government even set up a governor and mayor with the intention of reducing the prevalence of french in new orleans later on. But, anyone with eyes knew, french would become spoken by a small minority in the future of new orleans and that is the modern truth. so, Who will be stronger. Currently, those who use computer programs to make art they have always wanted to see but don't have the skill or time or inclination to learn techniques is at a high growth rate, so are those who see said ability as a chance to make financial fortunes through said art. Both are growing. OVer time, financial value always lessens, yes resurgences occur, but over time most always do any art for the creative love, not the commercial ease. Notice I said ease, making money from art doesn't mean you make enough money off of art to be financially secure or safe.

 

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Ask Eddie

7:55 Eddie: unromanticized suicides are not good ways to end movies
9:27 Eddie: Fatal attraction [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Attraction ] is more film noir to eddie than basic instinct[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Instinct]. 
I think Romancing the stone [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romancing_the_Stone ] + jewel of the nile where Michael Douglass mirror movies to fatal attraction or basic instinct
11:55 Eddie: if it has a science fiction setting it isn't film noir, not science fiction, even if it has noir elements. Some say invasion of the body snatchers. Speculative science fiction is something else, ala bladerunner [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner] 
12:59 Eddie: "dark city" is a science fiction noir, but nothing from the black and white film era. 
13:42 Ann Hockens: Flesh and Fantasy, is an example, like night of the hunter.  [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Hunter_(film) ] 
Eddie: It is fantastical. 
14:56 Eddie: he has talked with universal to combine "flesh and fantasy" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesh_and_Fantasy ] with "destiny" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny_(1944_film) ]
16:47: Eddie: do you think Night of the Demon [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Demon] would be more noir if they don't show the demon?
20:25 Ann: What are the best car scenes in film noir?
Eddie: all the driving scenes in they live by night [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live_by_Night], the chase scene at the end of side street[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_Street_(1949_film) 
21:47 Eddie: that is why gun crazy scene was great, cause you didn't see that until cameras got smaller, you can put them into cars.
26:42 Eddie: tom cruise , tom hanks and other actors directed some episodes in Fallen Angels [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(American_TV_series)] 
28:30 Eddie: we still have things from the classic era we want to save so you think 1990 it would be taken care of but
31:30: Eddie: am I planning on a second round of noir bar, danielle wants to see a vermouth cassis recipe [ https://www.thespruceeats.com/vermouth-cassis-recipe-759272] in a future book, the drink is in the damned that dont  cry[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Damned_Don't_Cry], and the unsuspected. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unsuspected] 
32:45 Eddie: A vermouth cassis is a sweet italian vermouth with creme de cassis which is a blackberry liquer and soda water
33:47 Eddie: being hungarian the correct pronounciation is michael curtis. Kur-teg is really his name. 
34:45 Eddie: when his daughter tells you it is das-iell, not dashell hammet, it comes up all the time. 
Ann: the director Melville, but I heard people pronounce it mel-veel. 
Eddie: You are absolutely right. People Jules Dascent, He is a new yorker not french he is July Dascent. Trying to put a french on it is silly... But after watching noir alley for five years, and I say mul-er, but i see many people saying it mueller. But that is not my name. My father's name was vokinic. Son of the wolf. It is the name on the birth ceritificate. Muller became my father's legal name after writing professionally. His grandfather was from Dalmatia , my grand father on my mother's side , german jewish. 
39:58 Ann: My favorite radio theater, academy award theater and they did a twenty five minute version of the maltese falcon, an impressive piece of radio play . They expected people to see the people to have seen the movie or read the book. A radio adaption of "shadow of a doubt" with  cary grant playing uncle charlie, which was wierd. Lux radio theater[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux_Radio_Theatre], she is not a huge fan. It is such an ego stroke. 
She found cecil b demille ... Jack BEnny did fabulous adaptations. Like the lunch counter murders. 
43:01 Ann: they didn't adapt the movies, but they adapted alot of woolrich [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Woolrich]. if you like noir that is the best. 
45:46 Ann: sorry wrong number was a Lucille Fletcher's [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Fletcher] original script, came from there. She wrote another one with a real freaky story, with vincent price and ida lupino. The film is [Fugue in C Minor -> https://archive.org/details/440601 ]  
47:21 Eddie:  It is a piece of music written for noir alley, by a musician named reed hall, and it is called noir alley theme,.
51:05 Ann: I want people to learn about firesign theater [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firesign_Theatre]
53:22 Eddie: MEn's health magazine, they asked me about Sugar,  what makes the character of the private detetive, eternally popular .What makes this a popular fantasy figure for guys.
54:15 Eddie: Sugar[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_(2024_TV_series)] uses more clips from film noir than any other show.  
55:33 Ann: Ripley, remember when you said, eddie, that is was ai and green screen. He is writing an article about it. She thought it was high contrast cinematography. The next issue of american cinematographer is going to have his article on this. It was all shot on location. 
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Interview with Edward g robinson's daughter

 

 

Happy Summer Invitation
My summer memory are the collection of great memories in video game arcades. I chose this one cause of the arcades I remember most, most were small in old places. But I enjoyed them. Many nice memories , alive in the summer. This reminds me of going into one from the front door, when empty. 
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1060635939

 

Woman In A Fruit Dress
I was inspired by another artist and thought, let me make my own, woman in a fruit dress
Mine
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1060633523
the inspiration frm  ov3 
https://www.deviantart.com/ov3/art/Synthography018-1056374153

 

Daily Deviation Glory July 2024
entry from the feature 
my thoughts to the entry
What is this made out of? How long did it take? What are its dimensions? It can help to tell folk who see it here. 

I notice the potion to make lead into gold. A dark green seeing stone into the future of course. I notice some great tomes: the  Delomelanicon written in mayan glyphs , the Necronomicon predating Narmer, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in braille, a the book of vishanti transcribed by doctor fate ,  an object I need to get my hand on a tiny seeing stone made from the nine tail fox, which shows you the numbers you will see in the future no matter the source,  and my personal favorite item's in the guardian's home is the shell of oshun, which allows you to hear all the treasures in the sea. 

I wonder where the guardian flies to when the moon is closest to the earth
entry image from @kokili
https://www.deviantart.com/kokili/art/Guardian-1033675765
feature U.R.L. 
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apricot earth

version 1
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1059364304
version 2
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1059366210
poll
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great craft

 

 

 

Da fragments group banner

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1058470329

goggled woodpecker

Making a map- graphite
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1058367507
making a Green man-ink
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1058364648
making a Green man-colored
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1058376807

 

self survey - questions and answers

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1057764275

Honest Artist Challenge- questions and answers
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1057760670