We started "Distance" back in 2020. More than 900 hand-painted frames and a long list of talented collaborators later, it's finally done.
Written by Nate DiMeo and originally published in The Memory Palace, it tells the story of Samuel Finley Breese Morse: his years as a painter, his personal story, and the path that led him to help shape one of the most important inventions in modern communication.
It had its night on the big screen in in September where it won "Best Canadian Short" at the Spark Animation 2026 festival. And now its on FrameRate: https://t.co/Lm9qWrxn6s
@jessperate@GammaApp “The CFO’s 17yo nephew will be producing our marketing videos.”
“Let’s make the logo pink. And without the icon.”
“You can’t do that, our logo is orange and the icon is an inseparable part of it.”
“Of course we can, we’ll just A/B test it and see which one wins.”
Both real 🫠
BOMBSHELL: Motaz Azaiza admits he filmed Israeli hostages being beaten in the streets of Gaza on October 7, and deliberately never published it, to protect the identities of the people beating them.
He did post other October 7 footage that day, celebrating the attack. He quietly deleted it later.
Azaiza is an influential "photojournalist" from Ghazza. TIME named him to the TIME 100. He was nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. CNN, the Guardian and Sky all interviewed him.
Ms. Rachel Griffin-Accurso, who has 16 million subscribers, made a video for preschoolers introducing "my friend Motaz." She deleted it later.
Two weeks ago, he did a 3 hour and 38 minute interview in Arabic.
He made a number of EXTRAORDINARY admissions.
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nice way to build an interactive mascot ↓
- gen character expression sheet
- gen video of them looking 360
- use llm to extract frames
- create sprite
- hook up to pointer (js + css)
this let's you raise fidelity 🤙
sometimes 9 frames isn't enough
This recent essay from @craigmod on consciousness and meditation and language is the most thought provoking thing I’ve read in some time.
https://t.co/IVQbLYKf1j
The core message of Hannukah is not Hallmark card pablum about light in the midst of darkness.
It is about Jewish warriors victoriously fighting their anti-Jewish persecutors, defending the faith and Jewish sovereignty over Israel, Jerusalem and the Temple.