I absolutely believe that success on these platforms as a curator demands damn near 176% ownership of posts. That means making posts look like they came from YOU.
This can look like:
1) RTs without actually adding “RT” or clicking RT button
2) adding logo watermarks to images(even though YOU didn’t hire that photographer or take that picture
3) Not including links to actual source.
While all of these actions have something questionable, it is this last one, not citing sources, that disturbs me most.
Every barber shop and beauty salon from Maine to Mexican borders got a system of vetting information. It starts with:
Was YOU there???
Did YOU see it???
Who was there???
Who YOU hear it from???
Who or what institution YOU get information from MATTERS.
If they do not show YOU or link YOU to their source in some shape form or fashion, it should be immediately tagged as:
1) Bullshyt, 2) Propaganda, or 3)Fake News.
Thank YOU. This has been another OWL’s Asylum public service announcement. For more, hit that Follow button.
1. I created all of the individual files including a table of contents in an .indd.
2. I created a Book (.indb) with all of the .indds in it.
3. I then went back into the .indd containing the table of contents, clicked Layout>Table of Contents and then saw that the “include book documents” box which was not previously available was now available to be selected.
As an adult, I too shamed those who are naive. I too lost a certain respect for lofty words anchored in hope. I also sought a religion of concrete and substantive vows.
Until I ran out of options.
Some dreams have substance.
Some dreams have mass.
They exist at that turning point. They grow in patches of fire that burn our fears. They are watered by tears that do not fall.
There is a physical form to those dreams. Those dreams we pull on like rope when that waking hour work jeers at us. Those dreams that we lean in on like that rope pugilists square their fortunes in. Those dreams that sound like a familiar voice on our side of rope tugging along with us.
No, our world is still made of blood and those thirsty to taste it. But there are dreams that can silence heart beat if listen.
Big ideas with purpose and sweat nurturing have depth and volume. There is a weight to dreams we design with accountability.
Dreams big enough to sail to moons on. If only we trust them enough to sacrifice our small steps towards them.
I was watching that new Rings of Power show, and the opening credits have these abstract shapes forming and reforming in sand. They seemed strangely familiar, and I suddenly remembered I'd seen them before, they're Chladni figures! (1/x)
Because Tolkien's legendarium has all those fictional writing systems, you might think they're just, y'know, magic runes or whatever. And some are sort of familiar, like this tree maybe? But most are abstract, and strangely organic. (2/x)
But I somehow remembered seeing these before, in Ernst Chladni's 1787 classic, Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klanges! I saw it for the first time when the @PublicDomainRev featured it- (3/x)
And they are organic, because it's a natural phenomenon! Sand really will form these patterns when the surface its on resonates at the right frequencies, which is what Chladni was studying (building on an earlier discovery by Robert Hooke).
(4/x)
It's really magical to see it happening live, these complex shapes seem to just form out of nowhere. Here's a real Chaldni figure produced with a violin bow:
(5/9)
As I understand it, the sand gets jostled around by the vibrating sections, but along 'nodal lines', it doesn't vibrate, so the sand settles there. You're sort of seeing a cross-section of the wave vibrating the plate.
(6/9)
But so yeah compare that video of the real Chladni figure forming with the show's credits (here's a sample), and I think it's clearly what they're trying to evoke-
(7/9)
I think this is a surprisingly cool deep cut, and spot-on thematically. In Tolkien's legendarium, the creator god Ilúvatar sort of creates the world out of music. The beauty of these figures is just a physical manifestation of the harmony of the 'Music of the Ainur'?
(8/9)
I'm honestly amazed something so symbolic and thematic made it into production past the Amazon studio execs, who presumably were like "we're thinking something Game of Thrones-y? Maps and all that?"
So, well done to whoever was responsible for it!
(9/9)
Well, now I *do* know who was responsible for it! The studio Plains of Yonder put the sequence together, the creative director was kind enough to respond. And their site provides some background as well, check it out-
🙏 thanks for the wonderful breakdown of the titles. More info on the inspiration we pulled from Tolkien’s writings for the title along with the full credits of the team who brought it to life. Behind the scenes coming soon. Cheers! https://t.co/2c7j6Vy0Rx
It seems the prompt they received was "simple, stark and beyond anything we would have thought of" and not, as I alleged, "something Game of Thrones-y, maps and all that". But I was right about the music of the Ainur at least!
