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I love how the fans are the actual exclusive marketing team for a good film. Paathu kathukonga Tamil filmmaker broskies.
for any of us who thought the curiosity projects of Internet 1.0 are dead (StumbleUpon, obsessive personal websites, endless rabbit holes)
it’s actually the reverse.
they’re so back. and blooming in a hundred wonderfully unexpected directions.
in this case:
extreme niche (horror films as a mirror of society)
×
rigor (film theory + deep research with @GeminiApp)
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brilliant storytelling (@NanoBanana for ai art & argon in @antigravity for interactions).
Love it!
Lesser known academic theory about horror/sci-fi movies is that they’re often used to externalise society's deepest traumas into monsters and dystopias.
So I used Argon to tap into cultural symptomatology and psychoanalytical film theory to create this website which traces 100+ horror/sci-fi works and the social themes that they actually mirror across 7 eras.
Enjoy your days upto the Halloween with this project!
culturalcanary.ai.studio
Used Gemini for deep research, Argon in Antigravity used Nano Banana to generate the movie figurines + create the build, AI Studio to add the final finishing touches.
more examples - xitter.cf/DilumSanjaya/status/21…
Hardware looks scary until you break it down into small steps. So I built an app that takes you through Arduino one circuit at a time.
Made with Opus 5.5
learn-arduino-red.vercel.app
more examples - xitter.cf/openmys/status/2112965…
As an AI hardware founder in Shenzhen, I sift through tons of smart devices daily. Most of them are pure noise.
So I spent the last 2 months putting together almost every single AI hardware project on the market that is actually worth seeing.
Click into any product to get its official website + GitHub repo.
Enjoy! 👇
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These look like real Braun gadgets, but they're app icons! Lu Yan and Zhiyi Zhang designed the Rams System Icons as a tribute to Dieter Rams. The little camera one is my favorite.
abduzeedo.com/lu-yan-crafts-…
The great counter culture swing is on.
Wired earbuds. Baggy pants. Hand sketched art. Stationary. E Ink. Kodak Photo Filters. Kodak itself.
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I’m always impressed when people discover new heights in a career path that everyone assumes has a “cap”.
Nathan Fielder was already the new hit “Silly Camera Guy.” Every few years a new one emerges after people get sick of the humor of the last guy—like Sasha Baron Cohen, Eric Andre, Tim & Eric, and Tom Green.
But what’s remarkable is that he used his 15 minutes of fame to break out of “Silly Camera Guy” and prove that he is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
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Looking at some of the takes on the hyperlocal service marketplace, I can share three reasons why consumer marketplaces can look like cash guzzlers in the early part of their journey.
1. Supply precedes demand - Supply is built ahead of demand. Utilisation currently will be, but you still need to pay for capacity to serve the unpredictable / growing demand.
2. You lower the cost of trial to open up the funnel and often subsidise the user journey until a habit is formed.
3. Fixed costs are generally front-loaded. The in-house tech team and infrastructure needed to serve a few thousand users is not materially different from what you need to serve a few million.
I haven’t looked at the underlying numbers, and can’t comment on what is justified.
But surprised by the reactions to the absolute burn numbers. High upfront burn is almost a feature of building these marketplaces.
Questions on end state unit economics are probably more relevant than just the size of burn.
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The tips that i find most useful for my writing are entirely from tumblr and this is one of them
Good point. The counter culture to cringe is deadpan.
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Seiko put a television on your wrist in 1982. The TV Watch still looks like a piece of retro-futurist technology.
Tamil Cinema - New Wave Alert 🚨
It's a common feeling among Tamil cinema lovers right now that it's been a long time since we’ve had so many exciting Tamil films running in theatres at the same time.
The last time I remember feeling this way was around 2012–14, when films like Pizza, Soodhu Kavvum, Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom and Jigarthanda were coming out one after another. It really felt like Tamil cinema was on the cusp of a new wave.
Now, 10-15 years later, I can feel some of that excitement again.
There’s something wonderful about the kind of original stories and films coming out right now.
It's beautiful to see the mix of filmmakers behind this. People from that earlier wave, like @karthiksubbaraj and Balaji Tharaneetharan, are back to making incredibly exciting content, while a whole new generation of filmmakers and writers has emerged - Raja Laruppasamy, @Dir_SivakumarM @MathiMaaran and Ashwin Ravichandran amongst others.
This time, the opportunity is different. Audiences are already watching films across language boundaries. And with the combination of social media, and global OTT catalogs, a movie can quickly escape the confines of a region and find audience globally.
There’s a feeling that something special might be happening again. And perhaps, this time, the wave could become much bigger.
We really need to have this excitement translates into commercial success too.
So - like many other folks are saying - we should all try to watch at least one or two films from this current crop in theatres. Talk about them, recommend them, promote them online. And when they arrive on OTT, help them travel further.
Manifesting a new wave for Tamil Cinema ✨
#TamilCinema #Kollywood #BaththaInTheatres #ModhaRathri #Dorothy
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I am going to make a group chat full of people hacking insanely cool things onto hardware.
Reply or retweet and I’ll 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
1280×800 resolution with a nice touch screen
I detailed how to hack these yourself in my latest video
wesbos.com/hacking-smart-pho…
It's a common feeling among Tamil cinema lovers right now that it's been a long time since we’ve had so many exciting Tamil films running in theatres at the same time.
The last time I remember feeling this way was around 2012–14, when films like Pizza, Soodhu Kavvum, Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom and Jigarthanda were coming out one after another. It really felt like Tamil cinema was on the cusp of a new wave.
Now, 10-15 years later, I can feel some of that excitement again.
There’s something wonderful about the kind of original stories and films coming out right now.
It's beautiful to see the mix of filmmakers behind this. People from that earlier wave, like Karthik Subbaraj and Balaji Tharaneetharan, are back to making incredibly exciting content, while a whole new generation of filmmakers and writers has emerged - Raja Karuthasamy, Sivakumar Murugesan, Pugazhendi Madhimaaran and Ashwin Ravichandran amongst others.
This time, the opposition rtunity is different. Audiences are already watching films across language boundaries. And with the combination of social media, and global OTT catalogs, a movie can quickly escape the confines of a region and find audience globally.
There’s a feeling that something special might be happening again. And perhaps, this time, the wave could become much bigger.
We really need to have this excitement translates into commercial success too.
So - like many other folks are saying - we should all try to watch at least one or two films from this current crop in theatres. Talk about them, recommend them, promote them online. And when they arrive on OTT, help them travel further.
Manifesting a new wave for Tamil Cinema ✨
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A big thank you to Kerala for showering #Baththa with so much love! ❤️ I truly wish I could be there with you all, but I’m sending my love from afar. Keep the love coming and continue showering our film with your blessings! ❤️🙏
#BaththaInTheatres