Ben Hoh

Thrower of spanners. Doing whatever comes after human centred design at Studio Thing. Mastodon: @[email protected]

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@OvercastFM I really miss Concourse, but understand. I encourage you to experiment with sizes and weights of San Francisco in your new design to achieve the level of awesome that you achieved with the old font, though!

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@pinot Objectively true! But especially when they’re yours.

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How often, I wonder, is our more-than-human environmental humanities moment the academic and human equivalent of white people being enthusiastic about “exotic ethnic food”?

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Waiting for Villeneuve’s Dune is… hard. As Dr Kynes says (in the best line of the novel), “I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.”

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one reason i love working with sound and listening is because things unfold and i follow. listening is antithetical to novelty and ego. there is no beginning or end. sound moves, and in moving with it, invites humility because there are no definitive answers to be found

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@kevinbaker Steve Wright’s Storming Heaven might be an interesting take.

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“Movements that seek control over existing institutions give them a new legitimacy, and also render their contradictions more acute. Changes in management are not revolutions.” — Ivan Illich

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@claudiablb Ha, maybe. I’m late to the “iPad as main driver” trend, possibly influenced by you.

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After many weeks on an 4:3 iPad, going back to a MacBook Pro’s weird ass 16:9 screen is… dysmorphic.

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Downloaded a knitting project management app for my daughter. Only in 2020.

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@shane_marble Undertale. Naw.

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This makes the destruction of Vulcan at the hands of a time-travelling Romulan in the Kelvin timeline sheer epic, tragic irony.

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All Romulans are from the future.

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Assimilated Romulans cause submatrix breakdown because they've evolved a defence mechanism to artificial life. In the future.

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"Stubborn Northerners" don't have ridged foreheads because of some variant mutation from the past. They have it because they're the remnants of Vulcan in the far future.

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Think about it: Romulan myths are "the news"; "I remember you from tomorrow"; they can somehow convince people to do the unthinkable to prevent a worse future. They think it's worth destroying the Martian shipyards because _they're already refugees_. From the future.

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🔥 Hot off the press: “Piss, Bread and Circuses” https://t.co/uif6YJKTtV (via @revue)

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I’m sorry, @pinterest, but this new dedication to huge-radius roundrects is content-hostile. Remember what your platform is actually _for_?

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Design learnings: yeah, I know they’re called “thumbnails”, but I find that keeping my hand-drawn thumbnail sketches smaller than a *hand-span* allows them to really flourish. There’s a kind of optimum proportionality to them.

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🔥 Hot off the press: “Death and Revival Revisited” https://t.co/CvbcJxHxnY (via @revue)