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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 22/09/2026

Thought I'd get back into reading physical books so I opted to get some nice and easy breasy reading material. Heard lots of good things about this one in particular! #HouseOfLeaves

Grainy square photo of the book and dustcover for Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 21/09/2026

A big protest coming. Snipers setting up. I do hope my mind is exaggerating.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 17/09/2026

Artax's death in Neverending Story comes to mind.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 14/09/2026

close... but not exactly what I wanted... hm... need to sleep on this one. I have some thoughts on how the uneven top could be done. But that thought involves 3D shapes. Which the #VOP cannot do.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 14/09/2026

Just realized that a famous early 90s title sci fi action sequence was done with a technique very similar to the one in Superman (1978). Initial test here with just a holdout matte and an outline matte is very promising but I need to get back home so I can remove the glow filter from the VOP...

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 10/09/2026

You know. I am still such a smalltimer in the business of the social medias and content creation that whenever I see follower or subscriber count go down, I kind of wish there at least was the common courtesy of a dramatic exit so I knew what pushed the person over the edge. I want to know.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 09/09/2026

Isn't it a bit ironic that there never was a #MaxHeadroom production aimed at #IMAX venues where framing had to factor in extra headroom to prevent neck strain for viewers? #TotallyOriginalThought

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 08/09/2026

There's something oddly soothing in seeing that this number is evenly divisible by 8. And I am quite sure that at least some of you are humans!

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 08/09/2026

Intended highlights: AI MCP, MultiCams, Immersive 360 Video. My Highlight: THANK DOG, THE PLAYHEAD STOPPED JUMPING AROUND!!! #DaVinciResolve

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 07/09/2026

mmm... grids photographed with the VOP looks cool!

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 30/08/2026

Trying out previz in Blender for an upcoming build. And I'll say this... if I can get even close to the finish I am envisioning. Then this thing will look quite nifty on a HiFi shelf.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 26/08/2026

I thought that tonight might as well be as good night as any to finally get to rewatching Rocky Horror Picture Show. First time now since that one time I saw it on a grainy dim TV broadcast in the 90s. Now in glorious HDR, HD, Technicolor and 5.1 blasting sound. I've been missing out...

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 25/08/2026

It may be just me showing my age and ignorance. But Snapchat is probably one of the worst User Experience for a social media I have ever had. Any time I open it. I literally cannot close it fast enough again. And no. I have never opened Tik Tok. All I see from that platform keeps me far far away.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 25/08/2026

When I watch a youtube video, and they show a blue screen and say that it's a green screen, or vice versa... I wonder what else is so sloppily overlooked by content creators reading their scripts blindly.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 21/08/2026

Apparently, according to google. It is the yellow one. And now have understood the point of the post. Namaste.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 19/08/2026

It took less than a frikkin day. It took mere hours. Josh, are you one of my followers?!

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 18/08/2026

I must confess. I missed the story on Trump, the catering truck and Air Force one. Nowhere have I found context to the event that combined those three things. And at this point I'm too afraid to ask, so I'll just wait for the Josh Johnsson recap.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 12/08/2026

I just want to remind anyone eligable to vote in Clacton that tomorrow is Bin Day! Make it happen! And keep the silly people out of office. Vote for Count Binface! If not for decency or democracy, do it for the memory of the Boaty McBoatface debacle!

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 09/08/2026

Question for the void. Which motion picture standards institute decided that short form video content HAS to be vertical 9:16? I really want to know. And I also want to sue them for the heinous crimes they inflicted on all we have ever learned about the arts of visual composition.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 31/07/2026

When I look at a bicycle and my brain stares into the eldritch horrors of the Blind Idiot God Azathoth.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 27/07/2026

A thought, that's probably not novel outside my head, materialized. That the current trend of plucking in famous youtubers to make striking movies resembles a bit how Orson Welle's, the theatre and playwright director and prolific radio voice got his infamous contract with RKO and made Citizen Kane.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 26/07/2026

time to update the profile image, I thought.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 23/07/2026

I must stress that while I am excited to see the results from the experiments. I also must reiterate that I did not make the rooster depth map myself. The downloaded jpg I used is the one here. Googling the image didn't give me who made it. Tons of uploads seem to exist of this rooster.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 23/07/2026

I had a shower thought a couple of days ago. If I did a sort of filter sweep of a greyscale input image with the VOP. I should be able to do pseudo-3D renders using depth maps and height maps. So. A little coding. A googled image of a depth map rooster. And 16 hours of exposures later. Result:

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 21/07/2026

I confess, that as an anime lover, I do not watch many anime nowadays. But I'll say this. 3 episodes in. And my jaw still drops at the level of animation Science Saru pulls together in the new #GitS show. Like... The whole opening that I gather was a BahiJD joint? Hats off to the masters, indeed!

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 21/07/2026

Nice photo, it is-... Eyyyy waitaminute!

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 17/07/2026

Reminds me of how Bob Hoskins had to act like he was handcuffed to Roger Rabbit by having a real set of handcuffs that had its links stiffened straight. One end hanging empty in the air during filming until animators got to drawing in the rabbit.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 17/07/2026

Whenever I want to look up something about the new Nolan movie. My fingers types it with two d's ... Is that strange of me, or is my brain telling me I should finally go and test out ye olde adventure game?

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 14/07/2026

Why, yes... that one scene was absolutely necessary for the plot! #GitS2026 #MotokoKusanagi #SummerVacation

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 13/07/2026

finally. My website now can do darkmode. As a heavy darkmode user myself. This has been a big gripe with my latest iteration of my website. jmalmsten.com

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 10/07/2026

Something something something... That foreground tree... I chalk that up as my first ever happy little accident. I mean. Just going off memory of various episodes for techniques. Looking at a finished #BobRoss as the sole guide. I will call it a decent first try! #ArtSky #JoyOfPainting

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 08/07/2026

to be fair... lots of shots in the film wasn't shot in scope, they were shot on 65mm and VistaVision. But yes. I am pretty certain that that particlar frame is a regular 2x anamorphic scope image.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 07/07/2026

I'll just say, this is Shirow's Major, not Oshii or Kamiyama's. Ok. It probably is MokoChan's as well. But still. We've seen the stoic silent contemplative major for so long that going back to the source feels so refreshing. Even as a big fan of the earlier characterizations. Except Arise.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 07/07/2026

Normally I am the guy who says an adaptation needs to not hold anything from its source as holy. But, seeing the Major return to the manga's Stylish, Violent, Goofy, Irreverent, Bitchy (and quite a bit Horny) tone On top of masterful animation. And sound. At least for S1E1. It has my attention!

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 07/07/2026

That's a, uh, uhm... oddly specific number to celebrate?

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 07/07/2026

"people over there vote for a guy with a goddamn swastika tattooed on his chest?"

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 05/07/2026

Dear Dog help me... I'm beginning to understand how to use Reddit.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 05/07/2026

Just finished watching Severance s2. Just found out that there will be a s3. I'm a bit taken aback at that reveal. As the final ep of s2 was so delightfully frustratingly ambiguous in the ways of Patrick McGoohans The Prisoner.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 04/07/2026

Currently running a 2hr+ job through the VOP prototype and thought I'd look at how much the Pi could be struggling as I have maxed the VOP out with using all three layers. The Pi 4B here has 4GB of RAM. During the job it's using at most 1/3 of the CPU and well under a gig of RAM. Acceptable, yes?

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 30/06/2026

To quote the good book:

Chapter 1

The story so far:
In the beginning, the universe was created.
This had made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 30/06/2026

Heard Set McFarlane optioned Dungeon Crawler Carl for a TV show, so I might as well try out the audiobooks. 1 hr in: Dammit, it's an ISEKAI! 8 hr 30 min in: ... and I'm enjoying it?!

Book cover for Matt Dinniman's first book in the series Dungeon Crawler Carl. The Titular buff carl and the fat cat Princess Donut runs towards us and the title while a big Goblin piloted killdozer pursues them. On top there's the tagline "The apocalypse will be televised" with WILL in red letters for emphasis.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 29/06/2026

Yesterday I realized that Nolan's The Odyssey is about a friends and family not trying to get Matt Damon home. And a quick google revealed that I'm way late on this joke.

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jmalmsten.com @jmalmsten.com · 26/06/2026

Apparently there's some kind of cup going on right now?

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