Author: Brian Dys

  • Testing Figma Prototype Animation and LottieFiles

    This semi-rabbit hole exploration started this laid-back Saturday morning when I saw that Shotcut has an update that supports JSON animations. That’s when I found out about LottieFiles where you can get free animations that are downloadable as JSON files. It’s interesting to know that I can now add vector animations in Shotcut, however, the…

  • Reading List: Week 3, June 2022

    Our tendency to overestimate how much attention people are paying to us is a result of seeing our own perspective as the only perspective. If we’re feeling a strong emotion, we assume other people care about how we feel as much as we do.Farnam Street

  • Reading List: Week 1, June 2022

    The most important thing about writing is discovering novel and non-trivial truths, and determining which of your truths is most important—then imposing order, hierarchy, and linearity—through judgment, decisiveness, and will.Justin Murphy

  • Reading List: Week 5, May 2022

    It is crucial to focus on the similarities and the goal that brought you together, and not on the differences. We should always keep in mind the contributions we can make and the impact and difference we can bring. And, most importantly, we should never be afraid of speaking up.Moreangels Mbizah

  • Reading List: Week 4, May 2022

    Your time and space are limited. Remove, give away, throw out things in your life that dont spark joy any longer in order to make room for those that do.Kevin Kelly

  • Rasyon ng Inspirasyon

    Rasyon ng Inspirasyon on YouTube Rasyon ng Inspirasyon on SoundCloud Just several months after the covid lockdown of 2020, I was already in dire need of hope. While in a life and death, sink and swim situation, a figure appeared on TV who gave me goosebumps that indeed I can rely on the government that…

  • Enhancing a Guitar Recording in Audacity

    What I’m showing in this video is a microphone recording of a guitar that’s why there’s an amount of noise. To enhance it, I apply noise reduction and normalize in Audacity.

  • Reading List: Week 2, April 2022

    Unlike photography, nothing is ever in a painting by accident.Simon Sarris

  • Tara Kiss

    From a simple coda in the song Tingin Ngiti, comes the birth of another song, Tara Kiss. They are related yet independent. I felt like I wouldn’t have given it justice if it were to remain within the main song. It’s a story about how we, as a couple, are wooing each other after an…

  • Reading List: Week 1, April 2022

    By denaturalising everyday professional practice and by throwing surprise into the mix, purposeful serendipity is therefore perhaps another way of emphasising the serious playfulness of successful information discovery: the harnessing of surprise, delight and unexpectedness in the everyday.Luke Tredinnick, Claire Laybats