053 - A new kind of brain (with Fraser Shiers, Forge and Morrow)

09/14/18 • 52 min

Helping us bring some outside perspective today is our special guest Fraser Shiers.

One of our talented Jacky Winter artists, Fraser Shiers is an award-winning illustrator, and the founder and director of Forge & Morrow — a studio specialising in CGI and 3D illustration and typography. His works are playful and inventive, precise and detailed — utilising the 3D medium to skilfully compose images that blur the line between illustration and reality. Thanks to these skills, Fraser has produced work for the best of the best, including Telstra, Harley Davidson, Optus, VB, and Cadbury, amongst many others. He’s the man we often turn to when we need high-level technical advice about 3D, because his knowledge in this area runs extremely deep. And now we get to pick his brains on the podcast!

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Lara

Artwork Personalization at Netflix
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/artwork-personalization-c589f074ad76

Jeremy

Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/skim-reading-new-normal-maryanne-wolf

Why Designers Don’t Want to Think When They Read
https://www.subtraction.com/2018/08/06/why-designers-dont-want-to-think-when-they-read/

Are we designers shamelessly good at self promotion?
https://essays.uxdesign.cc/

Fraser

‘A.I.’ for VFX at SIGGRAPH Part 1
https://www.fxguide.com/featured/a-i-for-vfx-at-siggraph-part-1/

An Algorithm turns Winter into Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZxFtsxNKGs

Tin and Ed Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/tinanded/

NVIDIA real time ray tracing new cards
https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/nvidia-real-time-ray-tracing-new-cards/

Fraser's Socials

Fraser’s Website
http://forgeandmorrow.com/

Fraser’s Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/forgeandmorrow/?rc=p

Fraser’s Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/forgeandmorrow/?hl=en

Fraser’s Behance
https://www.behance.net/forgeandmorrow

Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002UM5BXW/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb

OP 1 teenage engineering
https://www.teenageengineering.com/products/op-1

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Everything else Jacky Winter (us) can be found at http://www.jackywinter.com/

Helping us bring some outside perspective today is our special guest Fraser Shiers.

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Lara

Artwork Personalization at Netflix
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/artwork-personalization-c589f074ad76

Jeremy

Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/skim-reading-new-normal-maryanne-wolf

Why Designers Don’t Want to Think When They Read
https://www.subtraction.com/2018/08/06/why-designers-dont-want-to-think-when-they-read/

Are we designers shamelessly good at self promotion?
https://essays.uxdesign.cc/

Fraser

‘A.I.’ for VFX at SIGGRAPH Part 1
https://www.fxguide.com/featured/a-i-for-vfx-at-siggraph-part-1/

An Algorithm turns Winter into Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZxFtsxNKGs

Tin and Ed Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/tinanded/

NVIDIA real time ray tracing new cards
https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/nvidia-real-time-ray-tracing-new-cards/

Fraser's Socials

Fraser’s Website
http://forgeandmorrow.com/

Fraser’s Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/forgeandmorrow/?rc=p

Fraser’s Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/forgeandmorrow/?hl=en

Fraser’s Behance
https://www.behance.net/forgeandmorrow

Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002UM5BXW/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb

OP 1 teenage engineering
https://www.teenageengineering.com/products/op-1

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Listen to them over at Soundcloud.

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052 - He slices, he dices, he even makes Julienne Fries! (with Benjamin Law)

Benjamin Law writes books, TV screenplays, columns, essays and feature journalism. He slices, he dices, he even makes julienne fries!

He’s the author of the memoir The Family Law which is now an award wining TV series for SBS, the travel book Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012) and the Quarterly Essay on Safe Schools, Moral Panic 101.

He’s the co-author of Shit Asian Mothers Say (2014) with his sister Michelle, and the sex/relationships advice book Law School (2017) with his mum Jenny.

In addition to having written for almost every publication in Australia and beyond— Every week, Benjamin co-hosts ABC RN’s weekly national pop culture show Stop Everything and online startup and tech TV show That Startup Show. You can also watch him on TV shows like ABC’s Q&A and SBS’s forthcoming Filthy Rich and Homeless.

Long story short, we bagged a legit television personality, and we’re delighted to welcome him as he makes a whirlwind trip to Melbourne from his home in Sydney to discuss his open tabs on this weeks JWGYTB!

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Intro

The Veg-o-matic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GniNeqSX5U

Lara

acmi- WonderlandAre These Artist-Designed Instagram Novels the Future of Reading? The New York Public Library Says ‘Hear Us Out’
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/instagram-novels-new-york-public-library-1336205

New York Public Library launches Insta Novels to make literature "more accessible"
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/08/23/new-york-public-library-launches-insta-novels-instagram-stories-alice-in-wonderland/

New York Public Library Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/nypl/?hl=en

https://www.acmi.net.au/events/wonderland/

Libby App
https://meet.libbyapp.com/

Library of Congress new logo
https://www.fastcompany.com/90226220/the-library-of-congress-has-a-splashy-new-logo-and-people-are-pissed

Ambient Literature
https://ambientlit.com/

The Subway Library
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/06/08/subwaylibrary

Jeremy

The Abandoned, Apocalyptic Architecture of One Bold 1970s Retail Chain
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/best-superstores-architecture

Site Architecture
http://www.siteenvirodesign.com/content/best-products

Prada Marfa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prada_Marfa

Callum Morton’s Hotel
https://www.eastlinkhotel.com.au/hotel

Australia's big things
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s_big_things

NSA posters
https://theoutline.com/post/4790/these-vintage-nsa-posters-are-weird-as-hell?zd=1&zi=nnizkddx

25.45 White Rabbit
http://www.whiterabbitcollection.org/

Ben

What to do when a workplace relationship breaks down
http://www.abc.net.au/life/how-to-resolve-workplace-relationship-breakdowns/9698764

ABC Life
http://www.abc.net.au/life/

Talking About Failure Is Crucial for Growth. Here's How to Do It Right.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/smarter-living/talking-about-failure-is-crucial-for-growth-heres-how-to-do-it-right.html

Ben's portrait (And our episode artwork) by Jacky Winter's own Grace Lee!
http://jackywinter.com/artists/grace-lee

Ben's Socials

Ben’s Website
http://benjamin-law.com/

Ben’s Twitter
https://twitter.com/mrbenjaminlaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Ben’s Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/mrbenjaminlaw/?hl=en

Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down

Carbon Copy
https://carboncopycar.ca/

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Listen to them over at

Next Episode

054 - Superfriends!

This week! We're joined by Bianca in our New York office to go through our open tabs. We discuss collecting conceptual art, the emergence of visual contracts, and best practices for presenting (and receiving!) portfolios!

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Lara

Conceptual Art Wasn’t Meant to Be Collected. Now It Sells for Six Figures
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-conceptual-art-meant-collected-sells-six-figures

Ten thousand lines about 10 inches (25 cm) long, covering the wall evenly.
https://massmoca.org/event/walldrawing86/

Sol LeWitt Dia:Beacon
https://www.diaart.org/program/exhibitions-projects/sol-lewitt-collection-display

JWGYTB Episode 048
http://jackywinter.givesyouthe.biz/811701af