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Visakan Veerasamy Profile picture
@visakanv
Apr 29, 2021 • 12 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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i feel like somebody might've done this thread before but there's something funny about how like the nolan batmobile aesthetic went on to reverberate thru so much of product design FOR MEN, just like how zimmer's inception Bwongggg is in all movie trailers now
my casual instinct/guess is that this was sort of influenced by the stealth bomber. you know, the... [googles] Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk.

very distinctive, looks like it's from a video game with low polygon count
as people are saying, the blocky aesthetic of the F117 was a consequence of the limitations of the hardware – much like Lara Croft's ol' blocky titties
and as brian eno pointed out, once a limitation is transcended, it will be romanticized. you see kids on tiktoks and fancams etc doing this right now with artificially grainy fancams meant to look like VCR footage


interesting to observe how the honda civic has evolved over my lifetime
the evolution of advertising might be even more revealing
everything has to be cinematic now, everything has to be IMAX, everything has to be sexy, thrilling, swoosh

of course then you get supernormal stimuli burnout. it's like the loudness war in audio. something has to give
your car must now look like a battlestation from which you can drone strike your enemies, otherwise what's the point
here's the entertaining thing for me though: when it comes to actual performance on the battlefield, both US Army Rangers and goddamn ISIS agree that Toyota pickups are the best
thinking also about how they turned all the power rangers into ironrobocopman in the 2017 movie reboot

everything just has to look more like a murderbot
digressing but I'm thinking *also* about how they gave spiderman – your friendly neighborhood spiderman! – a goddamn super-surveillance portable palantir NSA tool
they even made robocop more robocop ykwim

more lens flare

they somehow strip away even more of the human

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Feb 27
there's a phenomenon that everyone here must be familiar with by now, but I feel like it hasn't yet been given a really good name. it's the relegation, demotion, debasement of in-person reality in service of media/content/feeds/socials. i'll start collecting examples here
the first example that comes to mind for me is kesha being a public nuisance in japan in 2012 to promote her song, not really to the people around her, but to the people who'd watch the spectacle online

this is another good example to point at to describe the phenomenon I'm talking about– when the wrestling match itself becomes secondary to the photo opportunity. reality is relegated to a mere backdrop for content creation. all the world's a stage...
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May 2, 2025
one thing about the japanese, they will develop a special interest in something and then do it better than you
the chief sculptor of the sagrada familia basilica is a japanese guy Image
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Mar 26, 2025
there are several interesting things to be said about the mass Ghibli event

First thing is that people don’t often know in advance what they’d want out of a tool until they see it for themselves. “generate any image you can think of!” draws a blank for lot of people
so lesson in there for anybody making things; customers/users need more guidance than you might think.

Second thing is I think this is an ongoing preference cascade and consensus cascade, at least some of the people who are adamantly anti-AI concede this is a cute/fun use case
for a lot of people this is the first time they’re like “ok fine I want one for myself and heck the whole timeline is doing it so what’s so wrong if I do it too”

I think this is probably a good thing. I think it gets more ppl interested in art and visuals etc
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Feb 26, 2025
favorite subreddit I’ve discovered in a long while, /r/thatsabooklight, where people point out the mundane origins of movie props Image
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a lot of futuristic weapons turn out to be painted toys Image
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a lot of futuristic interfaces turn out to be audio/visual equipment Image
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Feb 24, 2025
i haven't really bothered to make a deliberate effort to grow my twitter following or to write bangers etc in years, but i still have a clear sense of how to do it and i've advised other people who wanted to do the same, and witnessed them succeed. here are a couple of thoughts
one of the most important things you have to remember, especially if you're still a small account starting out and trying to get more attention, is that people aren't reading your tweets in isolation. your tweets are showing up as a 'beat' on a timeline
so if your tweet is something that's moderately unclear or confusing, or has too many details, or the sentiment is too complex, people's likeliest response is to scroll past it

this changes once people know you, care about you, believe that it's worth the effort to decipher you
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Feb 21, 2025
there’s a thing I often wish I could explain to people… but hilariously, it fits the same pattern I’m trying to explain:

a lot of the most interesting, valuable things you can do are things that have very small windows of opportunity Image
so in the case of matchmaking, a beginner matchmaker might think it’s a matter of finding the best possible people (according to some set of metrics) for the best possible people.

but the expert matchmaker will tell you that actually timing and seasonality etc matter more
in something like football you might think that the player with the most stamina, best striking ability, etc is the strongest

but the guy that scores the most goals is typically the guy who is most sensitive to the situation. Messi famously just walks around the pitch Observing Image
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