Nick Fox-Gieg
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Nick Fox-Gieg
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Lightning Artist Toolkit Overview (2025)
Video documentation of my dissertation defense, 10 April 2025.
vimeo.com
Defended my PhD this April, and now the dissertation's published--a pipeline for integrating volumetric video and hand-drawn 3D animation, PyTorch and ONNX ML tools for Blender and Unity. Video highlights and link to PDF:
vimeo.com/1083818611
vimeo.com/1083818611
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When GenAI was first getting hot, a lot of 3D artists were like, "okay, now make it U/V my models."
How's that coming along? Anyone know?
How's that coming along? Anyone know?
December 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
When GenAI was first getting hot, a lot of 3D artists were like, "okay, now make it U/V my models."
How's that coming along? Anyone know?
How's that coming along? Anyone know?
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Most mad scientists are actually mad engineers, at least as commonly portrayed
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Most mad scientists are actually mad engineers, at least as commonly portrayed
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Looking for an *L.A. based* artist who (against all odds) has time for a poster gig before the end of the year.
It's for a science + art event.
We can offer $500 for the gig.
Dreadfully sorry about the timeline. Link a portfolio if you're interested, I'll delete this post when we found someone.
It's for a science + art event.
We can offer $500 for the gig.
Dreadfully sorry about the timeline. Link a portfolio if you're interested, I'll delete this post when we found someone.
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Looking for an *L.A. based* artist who (against all odds) has time for a poster gig before the end of the year.
It's for a science + art event.
We can offer $500 for the gig.
Dreadfully sorry about the timeline. Link a portfolio if you're interested, I'll delete this post when we found someone.
It's for a science + art event.
We can offer $500 for the gig.
Dreadfully sorry about the timeline. Link a portfolio if you're interested, I'll delete this post when we found someone.
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Can we get a picture of the guy who's taking the picture of this guy who's taking the original picture? There's no way he's more swagged out than this guy, but we need to be sure.
December 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Can we get a picture of the guy who's taking the picture of this guy who's taking the original picture? There's no way he's more swagged out than this guy, but we need to be sure.
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Every generation will reinvent <table> formatted webpages, the peak of civilization
Was reminded of a Gen Z media artist trend I love which is using Google Sheets as a personal website or CV when I hit a Gemini popup like "get deeper insights from this spreadsheet" man these are cells of mostly GIFS
December 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Every generation will reinvent <table> formatted webpages, the peak of civilization
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this isn't the point but it is funny and kind of a broader point that the focus of the subhead is "architects" and then they replaced what was, in the original photo, labourers.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
this isn't the point but it is funny and kind of a broader point that the focus of the subhead is "architects" and then they replaced what was, in the original photo, labourers.
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I like that I’m seeing more news stories about measles with pictures of people with measles instead of pictures of doctors with cartoonishly large needles stabbing children.
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I like that I’m seeing more news stories about measles with pictures of people with measles instead of pictures of doctors with cartoonishly large needles stabbing children.
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tired: coal in your stocking
wired:
wired:
December 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
tired: coal in your stocking
wired:
wired:
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fwiw i think carol’s doing a great job but as a physicist one of those assholes would immediately be joining me in a faraday cage.
and then if that didn’t work we’d be taking a field trip to the former site of the sudbury neutrino observatory, 2.1 km below ground
and then if that didn’t work we’d be taking a field trip to the former site of the sudbury neutrino observatory, 2.1 km below ground
December 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
fwiw i think carol’s doing a great job but as a physicist one of those assholes would immediately be joining me in a faraday cage.
and then if that didn’t work we’d be taking a field trip to the former site of the sudbury neutrino observatory, 2.1 km below ground
and then if that didn’t work we’d be taking a field trip to the former site of the sudbury neutrino observatory, 2.1 km below ground
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Old enough to remember when the Time person of the year was You and the cover had a shitty little mirror
December 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Old enough to remember when the Time person of the year was You and the cover had a shitty little mirror
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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the guy who directed Netflix's crackling fireplace video has a whole bunch of credits for crackling fireplace movies, over decades
actual auteur
www.imdb.com/name/nm59938...
actual auteur
www.imdb.com/name/nm59938...
December 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
the guy who directed Netflix's crackling fireplace video has a whole bunch of credits for crackling fireplace movies, over decades
actual auteur
www.imdb.com/name/nm59938...
actual auteur
www.imdb.com/name/nm59938...
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POV you are going home with no marbles
(Alt text, black and white photo of a boy and a girl holding marbles toward the camera with expressions of grim determination)
(Alt text, black and white photo of a boy and a girl holding marbles toward the camera with expressions of grim determination)
Northwest Marbles Championship (1950)
Source: Hennepin County Library
Hyatt repeated his 1949 victory at 1950 Northwest Sportsmen's Show. L to R: Hyatt, 12, and Jarvis, 11 (runner-up and winner of girl's competition)
Source: Hennepin County Library
Hyatt repeated his 1949 victory at 1950 Northwest Sportsmen's Show. L to R: Hyatt, 12, and Jarvis, 11 (runner-up and winner of girl's competition)
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
POV you are going home with no marbles
(Alt text, black and white photo of a boy and a girl holding marbles toward the camera with expressions of grim determination)
(Alt text, black and white photo of a boy and a girl holding marbles toward the camera with expressions of grim determination)
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Early Christmas present for the Open Brush community. v2.13 has just been released with tons of amazing new features. Powerful plugin system, .vox and @openblocks.app import, publish to @viverse.com and lots more. Free and open source forever!
docs.openbrush.app/release-hist...
docs.openbrush.app/release-hist...
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Early Christmas present for the Open Brush community. v2.13 has just been released with tons of amazing new features. Powerful plugin system, .vox and @openblocks.app import, publish to @viverse.com and lots more. Free and open source forever!
docs.openbrush.app/release-hist...
docs.openbrush.app/release-hist...
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in the 1990s videogame magazines had ads like this but it was literally exactly like this complete with the food and jeans leaving you trying to figure out what game it was advertising, then at the bottom in fine print it'd say aero the acrobat and something jarringly sexist for absolutely no reason
May 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
in the 1990s videogame magazines had ads like this but it was literally exactly like this complete with the food and jeans leaving you trying to figure out what game it was advertising, then at the bottom in fine print it'd say aero the acrobat and something jarringly sexist for absolutely no reason
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
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it's so funny that Games Workshop went in twenty years from a company that made games you got beaten up in middle school for enjoying to now being the 67th most valuable company in the United Kingdom
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
December 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
it's so funny that Games Workshop went in twenty years from a company that made games you got beaten up in middle school for enjoying to now being the 67th most valuable company in the United Kingdom
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
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This place is a message
and part of a system of messages
pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us
We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture
This place is not a place of honor
no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here
nothing valued is here.
and part of a system of messages
pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us
We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture
This place is not a place of honor
no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here
nothing valued is here.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
This place is a message
and part of a system of messages
pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us
We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture
This place is not a place of honor
no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here
nothing valued is here.
and part of a system of messages
pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us
We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture
This place is not a place of honor
no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here
nothing valued is here.
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the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
I appreciate "Pluribus" as contemporary satire a little bit more each time my brain automatically appends ", Carol" to error messages like these
I plugged in a webcam that wasn't working, and windows showed a notification asking if I needed help, and this page popped up!
it's kind of impressive just how much unhelpful information is present in this window lol
it's kind of impressive just how much unhelpful information is present in this window lol
December 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I appreciate "Pluribus" as contemporary satire a little bit more each time my brain automatically appends ", Carol" to error messages like these
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At the moment, sadly not. This was possible because of the existing success of getting OS 9 running on unsupported G4s.
G5’s have proven quite elusive in getting the Classic Mac OS running on them natively in any form.
G5’s have proven quite elusive in getting the Classic Mac OS running on them natively in any form.
December 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
At the moment, sadly not. This was possible because of the existing success of getting OS 9 running on unsupported G4s.
G5’s have proven quite elusive in getting the Classic Mac OS running on them natively in any form.
G5’s have proven quite elusive in getting the Classic Mac OS running on them natively in any form.
I wonder if this can work on G5s--lots of those cheese graters still kicking around, potentially a great way to restore classic MacOS-based art
This really shouldn't be possible, but here we are. A Mac Mini G4 running System 7.1 on bare metal. This is genuinely ridiculous.
Watch the stream VoD to see it in action (SSW7 booted up for the first time at the 3hr45m mark) www.twitch.tv/videos/26355...
Watch the stream VoD to see it in action (SSW7 booted up for the first time at the 3hr45m mark) www.twitch.tv/videos/26355...
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wonder if this can work on G5s--lots of those cheese graters still kicking around, potentially a great way to restore classic MacOS-based art