Here’s some really old banner works edited by me.. not especially proud or satisfied with them at all tbh, they’re quite bad imo BUT it was years ago and I had to start somewhere lol 👏🏻😂
Anyways, I think throwback of old stuff I’ve made is kind of cute and fun plus it helps me realize and understand rhat I actually have developed my editing skills further.
War, disease, division—things aren’t looking too rosy for humanity at the moment. But thanks to Microsoft, at least we’ll be listening to Stevie Wonder after the apocalypse. The tech giant is partnering with Elire Group to etch the world’s music onto glass plates, and bury them in a remote arctic mountainside to ride out the end of the world. The Global Music Vault will share space with the Global Seed Vault (better known as the Doomsday Vault) in Svalbard, Norway. The Doomsday Vault houses the largest collection of agricultural seeds on the planet. The Global Music Vault aims to match its neighbor seed for song. Whereas seeds are prepackaged, music is not. So if eternity is the goal, what’s the best medium for the job? Your laptop or smartphone won’t do. Hard drives last about five years before they start to fail; tape is good for no more than 10 years; and CDs and DVDs last 15 years. Microsoft was already working on a long-term storage solution—a technology critical for purposes beyond music—known as Project Silica, when they partnered with Elire. The team can encode music with super-fast laser pulses that etch 3D nanoscale patterns into thin three-inch quartz glass wafers. Each wafer holds 100 gigabytes of music, or a little over 2,000 songs. They may soon hold a terabyte and eventually 10 terabytes or more. To retrieve the data, the team shines polarized light through the glass, and a machine learning algorithm translates the patterns it picks up in the glass back into music. Now, about eternity. The plates can survive baking, boiling, scouring, flooding, and electromagnetic pulses. (No word on shattering or zombies.) Microsoft estimates the plates, and the data they house, can live up to 10,000 years. “The goal is to be able to store archival and preservation data at cloud scale in glass,” Ant Rowstron, distinguished engineer and deputy lab director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, told Fast Company.
At work today I wanted to get with my boss to move some stuff. I knew he was unloading a truck and walked around to to see what the hold up was. I was surprised to see the truck driver and a kid, probably about 12 or 13 years old trying to buckle a strap around a pallet of mulch and the boom of the forklift. Sometimes the bottoms of pallets collapse making the loads unstable. Over the years I've picked up lots of fallen bags of mulch. Nobody likes to do so. The plan with the strap worked and my boss managed to put the pallet in line with the rest of them.
Anyhow I told the kid that seeing him reminded me of a song--this song. I don't think he'd ever heard it, but it is a song I hope he hears one of these days.