Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 18

Friday Miscellany For 3/1/2024

A few links from around and about.

Friday Miscellany For 2/23/2024

A few links from around and about.

Fill My Eyes, If You Would

The best thing that happened to me as far as designing my own books went was when services like Unsplash came online and made it possible to build high-quality private stock image libraries without spending a dime. Unsplash does have a few usage rules -- you can't build a competing service with their content; you can't make merch with the unmodified images; model clearances are not explicit and you are responsible for ensuring they exist -- but they do not get in the way of what I'm doing, and o...

So Bad It's Good That It's Bad

With a bad film that gives its audience perverse pleasure, the key there is the audience.

Friday Miscellany For 2/16/2024

A few links from around and about.

A Lifetime Of Attention

It is insulting to say, "Nothing has happened to you, that's why you have nothing to write about."

Your Dreams Will Never Love You Back, Pt. 2

I fear we are making a world where people are convinced their dreams can, in fact, love them back, and have sacrificed a great deal (morally, and otherwise) to try and make that real.

Stages Of The Filter

On the criteria a given story idea needs to fulfill before I feel like I can work on it wholeheartedly.

Where I'm At Now, February 2024 Edition

After the note I published the other day about project research, I thought I'd run down where we stand with all the things I'm currently working on, or mulling working on.

Where I'm At Now, February 2023 Edition

After the note I published the other day about project research, I thought I'd run down where we stand with all the things I'm currently working on, or mulling working on.