cmrn

cmrn

@cmrn.co

this is my journal of occasionally useful thoughts. design. marketing. creative. photography. discussion. in-house marketing designer (currently 🧦). weekly new hobby starter. 🇨🇦 https://cmrn.co

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cons of my phone case: it makes it slide off things pros: it protects it

No, no, I’m sure once you bail out the bailout of the bailout’s bailout, it’ll all bail out.

Customer service surveys need a "my agent was good, but every other part of my experience with the company was horrendous" option

Haha the agent I just had on the phone must keep losing their bonuses to this problem. "There's a survey ABOUT ME coming. Fill out HOW I DID. If you have comments about the COMPANY put them ONLY AT THE BOTTOM"

Just a reminder as it's that season in a few places right now: FUCKING VOTE

Nothing makes me want to commit theft quite like loss prevention profiling me around a store

Why would you buy an iron when you can get a virtual assistant who's good at frequency separation on standby

Oop, made it 5 days before my screen protector shattered.

I'd still kill for AI stock image search. Don't generate anything, but find me an existent image that's as close as possible to what I describe.

I don’t think twice at all doing street photography with my camera, but for some reason with my iPhone I feel like an absolute creep.

Was really excited to get an iPhone with standby mode until I realized it doesn't.... let you do anything useful? I just want it horizontal with my notification center somewhere, which I assumed would be the obvious default. But now I truly don't get who this is for or what the intended use is.

YouTube A/B testing is going crazy lately, there's so many videos I'll save for later, but then I see them again with a completely different title and thumbnail that feel like a whole different topic.

If I could go back in time a few years, man I wish I bought more external drives.

As a certified pet peever of people incorrectly using 'a part' and 'apart' interchangeably... WWF nailed this proper contrast.

"Here's a video I took of a creep that was recording someone without consent"

Pessimistically, it feels like AI is destroying the appreciation for art in the world. The hopeful logic is that it reinforces the role, need, and impact of real humans in art. But practically... every beautiful thing I see now just has a comment section accusing it of being slop.

The only feature I want from the foldable iPhone is having TouchID again...

I don't care how much you use the word "on-device" or try to make yourself the privacy hero, "deeply personal intelligence" feels way more like a threat than a value prop.

It's so fucking cool to see people you inspired to do something surpass you at it

Stickers makes Lego go from the most chill activity ever to high stress rocket science.

2032: Yes, your glasses have cameras in them, but don’t worry: you'll never have access to the footage. That would be an invasion of privacy. It’s only for corporate data collection, location tracking, facial recognition, database building, and may be sold to additional partners at any time.

Made a custom drippy liquid-metal inspired mirror yesterday. Pretty stoked with how it turned out. #design #3dprinting #interiordesign #art #productdesign #trippy

Art project of the day: turn this awful dollar store mirror into something cool.

I cannot even remotely start to comprehend what the value proposition of this is supposed to be, unless it’s purely satire.

For small businesses, AI has lowered production costs but created huge uniformity. For larger brands, the capability of AI has become the concept, which... usually greatly lacks concept. So paradoxically, trying to "stand out" with AI has converged marketing into something very bland and uniform.

Googling fragrances but you need to add "English" to the end every time so it doesn't give you entirely French results.

Well well well, if it isn't the Adobe "please don't cancel we'll offer you half price" offer showing up again.

I feel like I both intuitively understand colour grading, and am 30 years out from ever remotely understanding colour grading.

I swear every corporate ad I get on Instagram sucks, but every music promo I get is the most fire artist of all time.

My favourite hobby is scrolling through Figma too quickly and crashing my laptop because it maxes my memory.

I'm working on a hardware project and there appears to be $100 of scope creep every day 😅

Which when you put it that way, I wonder what registrar or host I'm even using

My neighbour got in trouble for making the complex smell like weed so now they’ve found a new strategy: make the complex smell like weed and incense.

Frequency separation has to be one of the most useful techniques to have in your back pocket for editing photos.