“Everything Is A Remix,” right? Or, if you prefer, it’s an homage—as Star Wars arguably was to The Dambusters. Anyway, genius steals, blah blah, and this is a fun set of juxtapositions & tropes:
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Adobe VP. feat… Wu-Tang Clan?!
What the what? From Sébastien Deguy, founder of Allegorithmic & now VP 3D & Immersive at Adobe:
I don’t communicate often about that other part of my activities, but I am so glad I could work with one of my all time favorites that I have to 🙂 My latest track, featuring Raekwon (Wu-Tang Clan) is available on all streaming platforms! Like here on Spotify.
Perhaps even more surprisingly, it slaps! 👏

Video lovers: Adobe’s hiring a Community Relationship Manager for Pro Video
If this sounds like your kind of jam, read on! From the job description:
What you’ll do:
- Share your knowledge, passion and experience of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects with video makers.
- Engage daily with communities around professional video wherever they are (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) in two-way conversations, representing Adobe.
- Be active and visible within the community, build long term relationships and trust, and demonstrate that knowledge and understanding of the users to help Adobe internally.
- Build relationships with leaders in the identified communities.
- Establish yourself as a leader through your work and participation in time-sensitive topics and conversations.
- Answer questions and engage in discussion about Adobe products and policies with a heavy focus on newcomers to the ecosystem.
- Encourage others through sharing your personal use of and experimentation with professional video tools.
- Enable conversation, build content and speak about Adobe tools to address the specific audience needs.
- Understand the competitive landscape and promptly report accordingly.
- Coordinate with other community, product, marketing and campaign teams to develop mini-engagements and activities for the community (i.e. AMAs with the product team on Reddit, or community activities and discussions via live streams, etc.)
- Work closely with the broader community team, evangelism team, and product teams to provide insight and feedback to advocate for the pro video community within Adobe and to help drive product development direction.
Designers: Come design Photoshop!
Two roles (listed as being based in NYC & Denver) are now open. Check out the descriptions from the team:
—————————
As a key member and thought-leader on this team, you’ll be an integral part of exploring and influencing the next generation of Adobe’s creative tools. Together, we are forging a new class of experience standards for desktop, mobile, and web products for years to come.
You will (among other things):
- Seek/design the “simple” experiences and interactions that influence our growing portfolio of creative tools. Empower users to delight themselves.
- Partner closely with fellow senior designers, product managers, senior engineers, and other leaders across different teams to bring new products to life.
What you’ll bring to the team
Must-Haves
- A minimum of 5 years of industry experience in product design with a proven track record of success
- Experience (and a love of!) solving complex design and technology problems using systems thinking
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate a multi-level problem space and strategy behind design decisions
- Creative and analytical skills to advocate for and support research, synthesize, and communicate insights that encourage design opportunities and product strategy
- Passion for understanding how creative people do what they do and how technology plays a role in the creative process
- Experience establishing user experience patterns across mobile, web, and desktop products within connected platforms
Adobe UI role: Sr. Staff Experience Designer, Premiere Pro
My video teammates (including the one I married) are attempting some groundbreaking, audacious stuff, and this newly open gig is a great chance to dive in with them:
This role will lead projects across various workflows from editing, audio, color, graphics and motion. You will bring your future-looking ideas to life with your designs, prototypes, and storytelling toolkit. You are a strong advocate for the customer because you can relate to their needs and understand the power of design and story to transform.
You will use your experience in post-production and experience design to paint the future vision of the products, but also love getting down into the details of shipping new builds and setting the example for shipping work with high quality.

Metal Machine Music 🤖
Just weird & silly enjoy to share here; enjoy!
Adobe plans to make Photoshop on the web free to everyone
It’s been great to connect my former Google & Adobe teammates, helping them deepen the companies’ ongoing efforts to build up Web tech & enable deployment of demanding apps like Photoshop. Meanwhile the PS team has been working to make the app accessible everywhere:
The company is now testing the free version in Canada, where users are able to access Photoshop on the web through a free Adobe account. Adobe describes the service as “freemium” and eventually plans to gate off some features that will be exclusive to paying subscribers. Enough tools will be freely available to perform what Adobe considers to be Photoshop’s core functions. […]
“I want to see Photoshop meet users where they’re at now,” [Maria] Yap says. “You don’t need a high-end machine to come into Photoshop.”

“Thank God ‘E.T.’ Sucked,” revisited
Recently Atari creator Nolan Bushnell reflected on the 50th anniversary of the company, giving me occasion to reflect on how Atari’s decline very indirectly paved the way to my joining Photoshop. Here, 10 (!) years after I first shared it, is the brief story:
The stars aligned Monday, and two of my favorite creative people, Russell Brown & Panic founder Cabel Sasser, got to meet. Cabel (who commissioned Panic’s awesome homage to 1982-style video game art) was in town for a classic games show, and as we passed Russell’s office, I pointed out the cutout display for Atari’s notorious 1982 video game “E.T.” Russell had worked at Atari back then, and I rather gingerly asked, “Uh, didn’t that game kinda suck?”
“Oh yes!” said Russell–and thank goodness it did: if it hadn’t, Russell (and hundreds of others) wouldn’t have gotten laid off, and he wouldn’t have gone to Apple (where he met his future wife) and from there gone to “this little startup called ‘Adobe.'”
If that hadn’t happened, he wouldn’t have snatched my neck off the chopping block in ’02: I was days from being laid off post-LiveMotion, and it’s because Russell saw my “farewell” demo at his ADIM conference that he called the execs to say, “Really–we’re canning this guy…?” And, of course, had that not happened, I likely wouldn’t have met Cabel, wouldn’t have been introducing him & Russell, wouldn’t be talking to you now.
Of course, we joked, if it weren’t for the three of us talking just then, we’d be off experiencing some wonderful life-changing strokes of serendipity right now–but so it goes. 🙂
Insta360 announces a new 6K camera
Hmm… for $800 (!) the quality had better represent a big leap over existing hardware like the One X2. The lack of comparisons in vids like this isn’t filling me with confidence:
How-to for app developers combating misinformation
Although it’s just one piece of a large puzzle, the Content Authenticity Initiative is working to help toolmakers add content credentials that help establish the original of digital media & disclose what edits have been done to it.
If you make imaging-related tools, check out this in-depth workshop exploring Adobe’s three open-source products for adding CAI support:
Content credentials, currently integrated into Adobe Photoshop, will now be available for other products and services through three simple open-source tools. Dave Kozma, Eric Scouten, and Gavin Peacock from the CAI team will show off the new JavaScript SDK, Rust Toolkit, and Command Line Utility. CAI Lead Product Designer and C2PA UX Task Force Co-Chair Pia Blumenthal will walk through the UX guidelines, use cases, and trust signals these new tools enable.
A warp-speed tour of DALL•E synthesis, variations, and editing
The AP joins the Content Authenticity Initiative
Adobe & partners in fighting disinformation have continued to grow their ranks, and it’s great to see the Associated Press coming on board:
With reporting from 250 locations around the world, AP is a key addition to the CAI’s mission to help consumers everywhere better understand the provenance and attribution of images and video.
“We are pleased to join the CAI in its efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation around photojournalism,” said AP Director of Photography David Ake. “AP has worked to advance factual reporting for over 175 years. Teaming up to help ensure the authenticity of images aligns with that mission.”
Full-stack engineers: come work with me!
We are building some rad stuff (seriously, I wish I could show you already) and would love to have you join us:
We are looking for a versatile and passionate Senior Developer to join us and help drive full stack, complex component implementation. You’ll play a key role in architectural discussions, defining solutions, and solving highly technical issues. Our team builds both cloud services (Python, and C++) and web experiences (Javascript, typescript, web Components, etc …) . The winning candidate for this high impact role requires a deep knowledge about cloud-based architectures as well as a solid CS fundamentals.
Some key responsibilities:
- Architect efficient and reusable full-stack systems that can support several different deep learned models
- Design, architect, and implement multiple low-latency micro-services (we mostly use JavaScript, C++, and Python)
- Building simple, robust, and scalable platforms used by many external users
- Work closely with UX designers, Product managers, Machine Learning engineers to develop compelling experiences
- Take a project from scoping requirements through the actual launch
Google I/O in under 12 minutes
I love this kind of TL;DR—including discussion of Docs automating the creation of TL;DRs!
Behind Peacemaker’s joyously bizarre title sequence
I generally really enjoyed HBO’s Peacemaker series—albeit, as I told the kids, if even I found the profanity excessive, insofar as “too much salt spoils the soup.” I really enjoyed the whacked-out intro music & choreography:
Here the creators give a peek into how it was made:
And here a dance troupe in Bangladesh puts their spin on it: