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"It's something that happens in every PowerPoint presentation everywhere throughout the world. It's the most moronic thing ever."
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"That's why I really believe that you don't need a huge studio with assistance. All you need is a piece of paper and the just the right pencil. Pentel P209"
"This semester we're teaching you how to tie knots and take photographs and how to use a furoshiki, which is a Japanese traditional cloth that's used to wrap a gift or to carry something."
"Work the problem until you get stuck. Give up immediately and move on to another problem, another project. Work that problem until you hit a wall. Move on to the third project. Work that project and problem until you hit that wall. Then circle back to the first one."
"my favorite is Uncle Bumble which is AvE Analog Versus Arduino. He's my favorite podcaster. He does breakdowns of machines and he's the smartest idiot on the internet"
"That movie American Gigolo had just come out and there was this fashion designer, this relatively unknown fashion designer named Giorgio Armani made these clothes for that Richard Gere wore"
"One of the great things about getting to work with Nike is that it's an amplifier for the values of the studio, but on a larger scale."
"the values of like the Dead Kennedys perhaps were the most impactful about issuing consumerism and issuing the idea of finding our identity through our consumer products"
"I got to go to Home Depot and rent one of those giant hammers that are really expensive and it was going to take two hours."
"ISRU is In-Situ Resource Utilization and it's a protocol that NASA's been working on since the late 1950s during the invention of the Cold War."
"I went to the Museum of Modern Art for the first time when I was in college, and it's not where I come from."
"this relatively unknown fashion designer named Giorgio Armani made these clothes for that Richard Gere wore. And there were these elaborate shots of his closet in Beverly Hills"
"the thing that's maybe most valuable to come away from this podcast or reading Finding Ultra"
"including Photoshop and Procreate and any digital medium or maybe words depending on what the idea is"
"including Photoshop and Procreate and any digital medium or maybe words depending on what the idea is"
"It's something that happens in every PowerPoint presentation everywhere throughout the world. It's the most moronic thing ever."