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- Hemispheric Views 162.mp3 What would it sound like if Jason had to have an entire hemispheric views episode to himself? Just talking to himself, a conversation alone. Well, let's find out. Alright, and we are back. Episode 162. We were talking before show about a couple of things and so we had to hit record quickly so that we could make sure we get them in there and I think Andrew's first topic is super interesting. The um he posted this where'd you post this on I think it was on maybe Mastodon, something like that. It was called the AM dash a m dash not m dash am dash so this is I'm gonna try to recap what this is correct me if I'm wrong, Andrew, but it the their website says introducing the and Dash unmistakably human unusable by AI. So at first I'm like, wait, what? What does that even mean? I don't really get it. So in typical fashion, I guess we'll say two questions for you. Um The first one is i if it's text, I don't I'm not really grasping how this is something that use if it's text. It seems like if AI is good at anything it's it's uh stealing and reproducing text. So that's my first question. And I guess tangent to that, if it's not text and it's somehow like a weird picture, that just seems like that's gonna fall apart super quickly altogether. But anyway, second question uh for you specifically Andrew since you're the a subject matter exper Doesn't have this font installed. I think it's a font from what I can tell. So you create this masterful piece of writing, you send it to me, I don't have the font. What do I see? Is it just like a normal dash? I I don't really get it. So I I don't wanna dismiss it immediately. It just kind of feels like a solution for a problem that's that's maybe way bigger than itself. Um I I love the whole, you know, middle finger to quote him. quote AI or whatever, but I'm just not really grasping how this is going to accomplish that. But as always, I may be incredibly wrong on this. So I don't know. Has anyone else maybe listening heard about this are you using it I would love to know more about it or maybe even things like this like are there other tools or things like this where they're being created specifically to kind of thwart this? Like outside of the whole like poisoning data sets and all that, which I think is great. And awesome, but this is this is a little different. So super interesting. I think uh thanks for for sharing it, Andrew. Anything else on that from you? No? Okay Media corner. Next topic, media corner. You're right, Martin. It is Media Corner. And the movie you shared we have not seen yet, but you keep raving about it. Uh the room, I believe is what it's called, so I think we're gonna discuss that probably in the future. Uh Martin's the only you're the only one that has seen it. You you won't stop telling us how great it is, We will maybe we'll get together and we'll we'll do a a movie night and the two of us will watch it and then we can discuss it. Um but yeah, you're right. I had a movie that I had watched um on the plane actually. On the plane back, I think. Did I watch it going there or coming back? I think it was on the way back. I don't recall, but it doesn't really matter. Uh the movie is Exit 8 or the Exit eight, I think is the actual title I think. I think it gets shortened to exudate usually. It's actually a movie and a game. I'm sure, well, I know the two of you have heard me talk about this already, and I won't shut up about it. Probably anybody that knows me is like, oh good, we get to hear about this. again But maybe there's like three people out there that haven't heard me talk about it. So the Exit 8, uh, like I said, it's a movie and a game. It was a game first and then a movie afterward. And I actually did it in the reverse order where I watched the movie first. Like I said, on the plane, and then played the game later uh after getting home. And the premise is is very simple. It's a short movie. Um it's probably a kind of a really short game too it's uh I the Wikipedia says it's a walking simulator which that sounds super lame I get it but stay with me um the Through a Japanese metro station. So you're walking through the hallway. Um, if you've ever seen one or walked through one, it'll be immediately familiar to you. And the idea is that you're walking through a finite section and when you go through it, you're looking for kind of things that are out of place or what they call anomalies. And if there is an anomaly, the idea is you turn around and go back the other way. And if there's not you. continue forward. That's basically it. It's very simple. I realize it sounds super simple, but it gets it gets really cool, the different things that happen. I think you could probably consider it kind of a horror genre, but I I'm not super into that, but I I wouldn't say it was like really scary or anything. But anyway, I played the game now, I watched the movie. I thought the movie was done really, really well. Um it I think it fits with the game very, very well. I think doing both is pretty fun. Um I don't know if Make sense to do one or the other, but it's a cool movie, it's a cool game, and I would say give it a give it a look. I think it's something just if nothing else, way different than anything else that you're probably watching movie-wise. So there you go, the exit 8 double feature media corner, both a movie and a game. Yep, exactly. Yeah, you're both gonna watch it. I see. Sold both of you already. Fantastic. And with that we end media corner. Yeah, totally. You could pff spot on Andrew. You were so right. Sometimes you need to make a check.list Good segue. And sometimes that checklist is on a pen and paper. So fortunately or unfortunately, I was on vacation in a place that has Probably an infinite number of notebooks, pens, pencils. It's kinda I feel like it must be like a like a a pass a rite of passage to get pens and pencils uh from Japan and I did just that and I probably went a little overboard or maybe underboard cons you know for some of the pen people out there but I wanted to bring a couple up because it's pens and paper. Who doesn't love that? I got A notebook, a new notebook, couple of pens, and some markers. Yep, I know, it went crazy. Yep. Exactly. I know. You're totally right. A plotter notebook, I didn't even know what this was. I had I mentioned it in the um uh Halstead does a does a analog tools meetup if anybody doesn't know about that already. And there's a I think it was it was on Discord, like we were, they left Discord, they're doing a signal chat now, which is cool. And I had mentioned it in there and I had d I know nothing about any of this and I mentioned this plotter thing which was new to me and I I think I've joined joined a cult without even knowing it, which is good. Could have multiple cults uh under your under your belt. So I've got a plotter notebook with all kinds of cool paper and stuff. Um I got a a couple of different pens. I got a a a Zento signature pen. Didn't know anything about this but apparently that's a false sought after pen that you can't find anywhere. I Was lucky enough to find one. And then finally, this other one called a fine lighter fine point pen. Probably saying that wrong. I don't remember who makes it. I'll put it in the show notes, of course. But it is the weirdest pen, and by weird, I mean best feeling writing I've ever wrote with it's like a ballpoint ink pen but a felt tip that's I don't know. It's a har I don't know pen words. But uh it is just a phenomenal writing experience. It's got a great like green light gr not light kind of a kind of a mossy green ink. It's incredible. I know I'm I guess I'm a pen person now. Slash analog, I guess, you know, there's slash save for Andrew. If I had, you know, links to these that I could sell them, I would, but I don't. But slash analog has a list of all the the weird stuff that I Uh yeah, that's Pretty much it. I didn't I'm not gonna go line by line of every single thing I got, but uh pens and paper. Who knew? Oh, and pencils. Did you know they make pencils as well? Crazy. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I would I think I think so. Yeah, I mean it's I'll give you like two out of five points on the segue, Martin. It's the transition to photography is kind of analog in a way, even though it's digital photography. But we'll we'll give some leadway there on that. You've had better segues, but that one's pretty good. Okay, yeah, we can we can go into that that topic next, I guess. Martin has been just hounding me, asking me all kinds of questions about how the photos went on the trip and cameras that I used and all that stuff. He's he's eager, eager and waiting. I told him nothing. I kept him in the dark 'cause obviously Save it for the show, is is what Andrew always says. Yeah, exactly. So I got a couple of things here. First one, uh, my review, my in-depth, like substantial review of the X2D2. And here we go. It's time for the segment within a segment that you've been waiting for. It's expensive camera reviews with Jason. An unparalleled feast for your ears. And it's it's strap in because it's gonna be it's gonna be really really intense, okay? So X2D2 review by me starts now. Image quality ten out of ten. Hardware ten out of ten. Software. One's tough. Digital camera software is usually not great, but for this, 10 out of 10. And finally, strap lugs. Zero out of ten, the worst strap lugs ever used on any camera in the history of photography. And that's it, that's my review. A lot of tens and uh a very, very hard zero. Uh Yeah, exactly, and you're exactly right, Martin, leading into the peak design rope strap that I picked up while I was there, which conveniently enough attaches to those horrific um strap lugs. New New new uh camera strap from Peak Design. Love Peak Design. Been using their stuff forever. The rope one I really like. Um, the biggest change though is the actual connection to the little anchor points. They've been kind of I'll say chunky. In the in since they basically were made, they have a new design now where they're really, really sleek and thin, which is awesome. They get in the way less, they clang against your stuff less. The only difference, or the only thing that I think people are gonna maybe not like is you've you kind of grow muscle memory for the old one after having used it for years and years and years. And this one you have to kind of undo a bit differently just by the nature of how thin it is, the back kind of of spring part that would hold the anchor in on the old one was all self-contained in it because it was so thick. Now that it's thin it actually protrudes out the back when you're ejecting the uh the lug or the uh anchor. So you just have to it takes, you know, I'm this is not this is not making your life hard, but it's just something to be aware of if you're kind of taking it on and off a lot that you kind of gonna have to change the way your fingers work a little bit. Um Um but other than that I think it's it's a little bit more A phenomenal strap, it's really comfortable. And that new low profile design, I think, is super cool. Yeah. It's the only one I use now. Yeah, I don't the other one I have which it has orange on it, and I still don't use it, so I'll probably probably end up selling it or or giving it to somebody or something. I don't know. Oh yeah. Yeah, that good point. The pictures. What do I do with the pictures? So I took somewhere around like fifteen hundred photos or something like that between the X2D, the um the GR3, and just my phone, you know, um, I think it was like 1500. So what I did is I dumped those all into uh Photo Lab and I did a I did a first pass, just a quick like red light, green light. If it's obviously just crap, just get it out of there right away. So I did that as a full pass doing that. That got rid of a good amount. Or, you know, ones where it was like I was taking a a picture of something to just remember like where was our luggage locker or whatever? Like that, I don't that doesn't need to stick around. No one cares about that. So I went through and did a quick red light, green light on everything in Photo Lab, got those all out, eventually exported those all to a folder and I 1200 after that. And now I'm in the process of going through and actually doing, you know, cropping, straightening, correction. I'll definitely do some more getting rid of, because obviously twelve hundred photos is stupid and that no, you don't need that many. So hopefully I'll get a couple good ones. I'll post some to Glass of course and and Flickr, I'll have a Flickr album and and etc. All the other all the other places. I'm trying to like put photos in less places. I just I don't know what those less places are yet, but we'll see. Yeah, so that is um that is I guess camera photography corner per Martin's request. There you go. And I think with that, the only other you guys keep asking me so many questions throughout this episode. I feel like I've been just talking the whole time. We haven't even heard from you guys. So I'm gonna flip it around and just kind of remove the rest of these topics that I have. had and maybe throw something your way and see what you think. So let's say um let's see so in general I'd say like do you have any opposing views or or you know dissenting opinions about whether or not our show colors are blue and orange. So I just wanted to give you both like proper floor time. time to speak your piece on on if you have any disagreements to the colors being uh very clearly blue, orange, green, uh, and well of and black, of course. So I will go to uh I'll go to Martin first to say anything he has to say about that. Go ahead, Martin. Mm-hmm. Good to go with the the description as given. We'll see uh Andrew, what do you have on this topic? Okay. Well, it seems pretty unanimous. I mean, we've given you you know ample time to answer. You've had uh free you the floor was yours, so I guess from here on out we'll just agree. that that's the colors and uh we'll move on. So thank you guys both for uh that spirited debate. And with that, I think that's probably episode 162. I think this has been a I think this has been a tight 45. If I check, it looks like we're right at 45 minutes. Yeah. So I think with that, we'll say see you next time for 163. Yeah, okay, here we go. And three, two, one, stop. Right, I just tried calling him again, Andrew. Where do you think he is? What's Jason doing? I have no idea. Wait. Do you reckon he's in the right call? Is there a different link? Oh look, I don't know either. I'm not waiting anymore, so let's just start the episode without him.