Going to be noodling over your "Fire and focus" piece this weekend. We have a fireplace in our house and it's been a joy for us that grows over the years as we use it more and more. There's not much better than listening to records by the fire on a Saturday night and now that I think about it, that's what we did growing up too...
Going to be noodling over your "Fire and focus" piece this weekend. We have a fireplace in our house and it's been a joy for us that grows over the years as we use it more and more. There's not much better than listening to records by the fire on a Saturday night and now that I think about it, that's what we did growing up too...
Also, I had to stay in a hotel for an extended period recently attending to a number of family crises and one night, the TV not being on just felt like this overpowering, dominating black abyss in the room.
Roku stick and Yule log on Pluto TV solved that problem and was comforting but strangely so—until now, reading yours and Jacob's posts explains that quite a bit!
I still love a good Yule log. I used to have an 8-bit Yule log on my Mac mini — I liked it because it was abstract so it wasn’t even an attempt at simulacrum
But there was enough there to remind you of a fire, maybe? This kind of reminds me of the discussion of representing faces in Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.
Going to be noodling over your "Fire and focus" piece this weekend. We have a fireplace in our house and it's been a joy for us that grows over the years as we use it more and more. There's not much better than listening to records by the fire on a Saturday night and now that I think about it, that's what we did growing up too...
Also, I had to stay in a hotel for an extended period recently attending to a number of family crises and one night, the TV not being on just felt like this overpowering, dominating black abyss in the room.
Roku stick and Yule log on Pluto TV solved that problem and was comforting but strangely so—until now, reading yours and Jacob's posts explains that quite a bit!
I still love a good Yule log. I used to have an 8-bit Yule log on my Mac mini — I liked it because it was abstract so it wasn’t even an attempt at simulacrum
But there was enough there to remind you of a fire, maybe? This kind of reminds me of the discussion of representing faces in Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.
Found it! https://hammertail.itch.io/pixel-fireplace