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Jul. 8th, 2024 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavlink roundup, STEAM edition?
- there's a digital art museum online called Obelisk. technically it's a series of articles but the presentation of Art History (that can be organized by artists/themes/timelines/movements) is so well done it feels intuitively like walking through an art museum intellectually. there's enough images and history you can click around for hours. it is really hard to show an emotionally truthful snapshot of a ton of artists in a constrained environment, but it does it somehow?
- google also has something similar called google arts & culture that's just as much fun to click on; i'm on a random photo-journalist article about hong kong's neon lights. grudgingly giving google this one lol
- got completely suckered into reading this iranian gamedev/art director's medium articles after stumbling on some of his works on sketchfab ... he has some really well written articles like this intro to color theory post which is genuinely a college-level course posted for free, his reading list of 2023, and proceedurally generated chinese landscapes in blender that look like a spitting image of Okami's art direction. some of the posts can get really technical really quickly if you're not somewhat into 3D rendering, but his articles were surprisingly approachable.
- didn't think those silly uquizes could get close to an actual art form, but what color is your lightsaber is so deceptively well written that it feels like a really good twine/multiple choice adventure game. genuinely gave me chills in the "story" / sensory cocktail approach, and didn't feel fandom-y... if you like the more abstractly evocative KOTOR2 / star wars legends stuff, you'll like this (I got violet).
- interesting interview of Taaki, who's a type of old school hacker / cyberpunk-y figure that feels like an endangered species today. in addition to open source favorites, he has a few interesting paragraphs of talking about how he went more of your "college styled anarchist" to recognizing the nuances of bureaucracy/hierarchy in power especially after being in a warzone for a few years. fair warning it can get a little dude-bro-y at times but i thought it was fun.
- i've had 'a survival guide for Unix' in my bookmarks tabs forever; another old school hacker's guide on linux-y systems. kind of wish i had this in advance of getting my first linux as it's that perfect mix of simple for a true beginner but gets advanced quickly enough. so many guides have tons of level of theoretical cruft or assume way too much of a beginner but this mix was fun.
- there's a digital art museum online called Obelisk. technically it's a series of articles but the presentation of Art History (that can be organized by artists/themes/timelines/movements) is so well done it feels intuitively like walking through an art museum intellectually. there's enough images and history you can click around for hours. it is really hard to show an emotionally truthful snapshot of a ton of artists in a constrained environment, but it does it somehow?
- google also has something similar called google arts & culture that's just as much fun to click on; i'm on a random photo-journalist article about hong kong's neon lights. grudgingly giving google this one lol
- got completely suckered into reading this iranian gamedev/art director's medium articles after stumbling on some of his works on sketchfab ... he has some really well written articles like this intro to color theory post which is genuinely a college-level course posted for free, his reading list of 2023, and proceedurally generated chinese landscapes in blender that look like a spitting image of Okami's art direction. some of the posts can get really technical really quickly if you're not somewhat into 3D rendering, but his articles were surprisingly approachable.
- didn't think those silly uquizes could get close to an actual art form, but what color is your lightsaber is so deceptively well written that it feels like a really good twine/multiple choice adventure game. genuinely gave me chills in the "story" / sensory cocktail approach, and didn't feel fandom-y... if you like the more abstractly evocative KOTOR2 / star wars legends stuff, you'll like this (I got violet).
- interesting interview of Taaki, who's a type of old school hacker / cyberpunk-y figure that feels like an endangered species today. in addition to open source favorites, he has a few interesting paragraphs of talking about how he went more of your "college styled anarchist" to recognizing the nuances of bureaucracy/hierarchy in power especially after being in a warzone for a few years. fair warning it can get a little dude-bro-y at times but i thought it was fun.
- i've had 'a survival guide for Unix' in my bookmarks tabs forever; another old school hacker's guide on linux-y systems. kind of wish i had this in advance of getting my first linux as it's that perfect mix of simple for a true beginner but gets advanced quickly enough. so many guides have tons of level of theoretical cruft or assume way too much of a beginner but this mix was fun.
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Date: 2024-07-13 08:45 am (UTC)also that obelisk museum is STUNNING wow.
excellent links as always ty <3
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Date: 2024-07-13 05:43 pm (UTC)