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

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cmrn @cmrn.co · 16/09/2026
As a certified pet peever of people incorrectly using 'a part' and 'apart' interchangeably... WWF nailed this proper contrast.
WWF Facebook post. "Look closer. Nature isn't just out there. It's in here too." WE ARE A PART OF NATURE / NOT APART FROM NATURE.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 08/09/2026
This fence makes cool shadows. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
Shadows from a fence that look like an elongated checkerboard/brick-by-brick pattern
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 04/09/2026
Oroborous shark
Oroborous shark, lineart in blue, pink shading.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 31/08/2026
Made a custom drippy liquid-metal inspired mirror yesterday. Pretty stoked with how it turned out. #design #3dprinting #interiordesign #art #productdesign #trippy
Close-up of a custom black 3D-printed mirror with an organic, melted liquid-metal-inspired frame and dripping details. Warm side lighting highlights the rippled surface texture and casts a large distorted shadow onto the wall behind it.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 30/08/2026
Art project of the day: turn this awful dollar store mirror into something cool.
A selfie in a packaged dollar store mirror on a bed. Ugly bulbous frame.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 30/08/2026
I cannot even remotely start to comprehend what the value proposition of this is supposed to be, unless it’s purely satire.
Tired of AI slop? 
Try Ai curated by Scandinavias best designers.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 30/07/2026
Letter board of the week: LET YOURSELF (OUT) There’s so much focus on “finding yourself” but that’s a complicated and overwhelming brief to tackle. What if it’s already all in there and you just need to stop getting in your own way.
A letter board stating “let yourself out”
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 12/07/2026
My favourite thing about preorders is forgetting they exist. Looks like I got some @ibogost.com reading to do now!
The Small Stuff by Ian Bogost
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 08/07/2026
I mean, yeah sure I guess
Google: Half-marathon

Box: Half (-marathon) = -21.097494 kilometers
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 29/06/2026
Or honourable mention to this site that let me choose my path to Canada
Confirm your country 

You have accessed the website of: Canada
[That's right. I want to stay here] 

But it seems that your country is: Canada
[Go to the website of Canada]
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 26/06/2026
Been playing with a lot of image treatments lately, and this flash trail / drag effect has been one of my favourites. (Before → After, with the layer stack on the after.) Optional: add as much grain as humanly possible #graphicdesign #design #photoshop #photography
2 cloud figures on a lamp2 cloud figures on a lamp

Editing instructions: 

Layers (bottom to top):
1. Original | Normal
2. Path blur | Lighten *toggle "Centered Blur depending on desired effect"
3. Original | Pin Light
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 22/06/2026
Whimsby’s World ☁️ Head In The Clouds Excited to get this one turned into a figure for the desk. #3dprinting #blender #design #character #characterdesign #3d
Whimsby - Head in the Clouds. A human-like figure with a cloud head standing on a cloud and holding a balloon
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 21/06/2026
Can't get enough of my lil cloud friend, Whimsby ☁️
3d model of a cloud figure standing on a cloud
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 18/06/2026
Mac Miller quotes recreated in his handwriting style
"Be you. You'll be fine." — Mac Miller"Music is a beautiful thing" — Mac Miller
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 09/06/2026
But joke's on it, I didn't crop my screen recording from yesterday so I WILL rebuild 😤
A screenshot of a Mac dock, and a real Mac dock, one customized and one the factory order.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 09/06/2026
My dumbass just got 'delete system32'd by Google's AI overview. Macbook dock froze, didn't proofread the command, and the summary it gave was actually for resetting it to factory 🙃
[DO NOT FOLLOW] Google's (incorrect) summary to reboot the doc.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 02/06/2026
“Wait you guys are getting paid actor” But instead of Will Poulter’s name, I get an LLM’s soliloquy.
Google search “wait you guys are getting paid actor” 

AI response: As a purely artificial intelligence developed by Google, I am definitely not an actor and I don't get paid! I'm just a computer program doing my best to help answer your questions and chat with you.
Yahoo
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 14/05/2026
Stoked to flip through these new books this weekend
Flip The Script by Christian P. Acker, and How To Build a Goddamn Empire by Ali Kriegsman
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 14/05/2026
Who would have thought the playlist of my most played song ever would have so many good songs
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 06/05/2026
I feel like you could just push this ad for every niche and run up field-specific sensitive data 🤑
“ChatGPT for Canadian Litigators.”
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 29/04/2026
I don't have that glyph, but somehow... that still lands.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 22/04/2026
In the most Canadian turn of events ever, my package got marked as “damaged in the mail” by Canada Post and… it smells exactly like maple syrup on it.
A package, double-bagged and flagged by Canada Post as “damaged in the mainstream”, covered in a sticky light yellow/brown substance appearing to be maple syrup.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 16/04/2026
Whimsby ☁️ #character #design #3dprinting #photography
Whimsby — a small human-like figure in a hoodie and overalls with a cloud head. One smaller multi-colour version, and large black version.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 10/04/2026
🐦🚩🏮🌸 #photography #photo #fujifilm #nature #canada
A seagull sitting on a railing, with buildings behind, a mini lighthouse(?), and a bench and picnic. Triangular colourful banners, with translucent shadows on grass below.A cracked, round 'EXIT' sign in a wooden corner, all red. A pink cherry blossom tree over a striped umbrella, yellow building, and black menu board.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 10/04/2026
Are you really holding a camera if you don’t take a selfie in every reflective surface you see?
Blurry window selfie, layered star lights, mural, and car
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 08/04/2026
Can’t skip over the season without some Mini Eggs…
Mini egg cookies
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 07/04/2026
Current photo of me working from home
A picture of a kid gaming in front of a TV, early 2000s.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 01/04/2026
"This combines a car crash with a train wreck" goes unreasonably hard and will be added to my repertoire.
A clipping from an article, reading "The Brennan Center for Justice, which sued to block Trump’s 2025 election executive order, said in a statement Tuesday: “Our government’s citizenship lists are incomplete and inaccurate. The United States Postal Service is overburdened and inadequate. This combines a car crash with a train wreck.”"
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 27/03/2026
It's like playing Operation every time you try to image search...
A Firefox screenshot showing "Search Image with Google Lens" pixels above "Set Image as Desktop Background..."
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 26/03/2026
Aspects of Artlist I've never used: AI The homepage:
A screenshot of the artlist homepage, with the word "AI" on every possible category, banner, and callout.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 25/03/2026
📍 Salt Spring Island (pt 2) #photography #photo #fujifilm #canada #nature #bc
Rocks, with a distant doc and railed platform, birds sitting on it and in the sky.A light sandy beach with a horizontally striated rock wall, with trees at the top.A rocky/sandy beach with big trees and a tucked away wood house.Sun peaking onto a rocky beach, with a tree blocking the foreground, and distant layered land and clouds in the back.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 24/03/2026
📍 Salt Spring Island #photography #photo #fujifilm #canada #bc
A photo off the side of a ferry, with a weathered white railing and loudspeaker, and ocean and distant treed shoreline in the background.A docked silver boat through the folliage, with a weathered dock and crane visible. A marina with a white and blue boat front and center, shot through trees and blossoms.An ocean photo with rocks and a seagull in the foreground, distant shore and sky.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 24/03/2026
I wish I brought my actual camera on this farm tour, the animals were posing it up like crazy
2 herding dogs beside a golf cart, with a baby cow looking
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 16/03/2026
Letter board of the week: PURPOSE IS BUILT You don’t find your purpose by sitting around and waiting for it. Purpose is not the reason you start. It’s what grows after you commit.
A letter board displaying “PURPOSE IS BUILT”
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 12/03/2026
New pens, who dis
A LAMY AL-star fountain pen and a LAMY AL-star rollerball pen.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 11/03/2026
Music is back on the menu 🕺
An interior photo of a car, now featuring a CarPlay display
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 11/03/2026
Had to run the simulation to decide if it's worth fixing my speakers IRL.... it is.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 17/02/2026
I am too suggestible to have seen this, I must go buy a cat
“Roman centurion kitty helmet” 3D print, with a picture of a kitten is said helmet
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 13/02/2026
Letter board of the week: RAISE THE STAKES It’s easy to get overwhelmed and try to step away from anything high stakes, but counter-intuitively, playing for no stakes is even more exhausting. Find what you want to do. And give yourself no choice but to step up and make it count.
A letter board displaying “RAISE THE STAKES”
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 06/02/2026
Project that's gonna be abandoned in a week, of the week 👀
STOREFRONT SUPPLY, on a textured paper/collage background
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 01/02/2026
"Remove old versions" who?
Adobe After Effects 2022
Adobe After Effects 2023
Adobe After Effects 2024
Adobe After Effects 2025
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 01/02/2026
📍Bucerías, Mexico #photography #photo #fujifilm #bucerias #mexico
A hat stand out of the back of a car on a street with colourful hanging decorations, and various bystanders aroundA pretty outdoor table setup in the sunlight, with fabrics, table cloths, and decorations, simpleA bridge with 2 horses in the shade under it, with a bike chained in the foreground and people passing over the bridge, with some older buildings in the backgroundA beach setup with overlapping umbrellas, and a stand at the front where a man holds a seafood platter, and a lady holding a child reaches into a cooler
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 20/01/2026
It’s funny how true this is of every hobby — what you see “on the box” is such a small part of the actual experience, every time.
DigTraditional3992, posted 6 hours ago. Title: “Simracing is a weird hobby. simulator.” Body text reads: “I started AC sim racing in July 25. over these 7 months. Instead of learning driving and racing. I learnt fps, factors affecting fps, role of cpu, gpu, how DD is better than gear wheel, VR headset and what affects its frame time and hours of endless tweaking, Reddit posts, YouTube videos. Now I ended up building a full fledged pc on my own.. I wanted to learn sim racing but I ended up learning building a simulator.” The post shows 47 upvotes and 31 comments.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 14/01/2026
Early nomination for colour of the year, sponsored by shouting into the void:
#AAAAAA
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 14/01/2026
Premium features in 2028:
A mobile app screen titled “Premium Plus Pro++” showing a list of paid feature add-ons with prices. Items include: “Disable Deepfakes (1 week)” for $6.99, described as preventing other users from generating results using your likeness; “Fully Delete Post (per post)” for $1.29, marked as on sale, described as fully removing a post instead of greying it out; “Disable Moderation (1 hour)” for $8.99, described as allowing posts without moderation or filtering; “Hide an Ad (3-pack)” for $2.99, noting that other ads from the same company may still appear; and “Modify Any Post (per character)” for $9.99, described as editing any post on the platform without notification. At the bottom is a dark section labeled “Prefer Dark Mode?” for $4.49, which darkens the user interface by 20 percent and shows zero out of five upgrades applied.
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 07/01/2026
Pretty stoked with how my lamp prototype came out. #3dprinting
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 02/01/2026
Design job postings are getting fucking depressing 😅
Job posting 

"Are you an experienced graphic designer eager to shape the future of AI? Large-scale language and vision models are rapidly evolving, and their ability to understand visual creativity depends on high-quality training data. With your design expertise, tomorrow’s AI can learn to recognize layout principles, evaluate visual hierarchy, interpret color theory, and understand the creative decision-making that drives exceptional design. That training data begins with you—your professional insights will help power the next generation of AI."Job posting 

"We are looking for a Marketing Designer to help train and improve cutting-edge AI models. You’ll assess and enhance how AI systems understand, generate, and evaluate design work — including interfaces, layouts, visuals, and user experiences.

In this role, you’ll use your design expertise to evaluate AI outputs, provide detailed feedback, and help refine the model’s sense of aesthetics, usability, and creative quality. Your insights will directly shape how the next generation of AI tools supports designers."
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 31/12/2025
Tis the season of rest and recharge
The dog sleeping beside me on the couch, paw in the air like he don’t care
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 06/12/2025
1.6MP against the world (Kodak Charmera takes on concert) #photography #photo #concert #charmera
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cmrn @cmrn.co · 05/12/2025
I fear I had no choice but to buy a Kodak Charmera 📷
A photo of a yellow Kodak Charmera sitting on the box
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