For anyone interested, the story of how he was able to film by candle light[1] is a really interesting bit of engineering in the pursuit of art.
1. https://neiloseman.com/barry-lyndon-the-full-story-of-the-fa...
out of context but I love it
We built orb. Video shows building orb... there is no great reveal at the end no crescendo.
We built orb and that's it.
Love it.
If they released the full project files to the public we could render our own HD remasters as we please.
Ages ago I saw a work that was (I think) a piece of art that reused many phones for their screens to show things in sync. I don't remember if they were early Android phones or if it was done before with screens of feature phones. But the work here reminded me of that.
Imagine we only had facts/specs of equipment in advertising, and all these people maliciously using your own psychology against you, had productive jobs where they contribute more resources/services to the world.
Steam is one of the good companies, but when I see this much effort go into marketing, it just makes me think of waste. There is poverty, environmental degradation, cancer... but hey: Look cool video to convince me to buy something.
It is much more likely that the type of leadership that splurges on marketing would, if forced to put the money somewhere else, direct it to something else that directly serves their own personal needs. So if C-suit can't boost their personal brand by ordering expensive marketing, they'll more likely to spend on ostentatious offices or expensive company cars rather that headcount in in-house testing departments or getting technical writers to work on documentation.
> We figured we would need about 100 Steam Decks to pull this off. And as luck would have it, we had that many old OLED prototypes laying around the office.
Because VFX can show anything, a synthetic video tells you nothing about the actual brightness of the screen. Which was their whole point: "Then, as we began to the see the new screens around the office, we were shocked. We knew we'd spec'd bright, OLED screens, but these things were EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT. Startlingly bright."
Yes but this seems much more fun
It seems more like Chris Rock’s joke about driving a car with your feet.
Many would hire an agency to create an ad for you but that would 10x the cost, not to mention dealing with the opinions of an outsourced creative director...
> This is tripping at the finish line
It sounds like the only person tripping here is you.
I don’t know, maybe just live with your existing screen?
It’s not like it’s mandatory to have the latest version of something, and it’s pretty common for companies to iterate new versions with improvements.
Now the OLED is out, they're discontinuing the LCD models. Good thing I got two then! Feeling pretty vindicated about this.
It's all a matter of perspective. Be happy you snagged one of the rare, discontinued SKU ;)
... Eh?
