tiktok – Jeff Clark's Blog

I’ve been in an extremely creative mood this week – from drawing to even a little music production. Computers are amazing creative machines and I’m glad we live in the age we do.

Here are a few creative things I enjoyed this week:

I started using an iOS app called Paper to do basic drawing on my iPad. The best parts are the built-in tools that it makes it look like I have artistic ability! Really great stuff.
With all the TikTok talk (sorry), Instagram released Reels. And Reels are not getting the attention that Insta would like them to have. TLDR: they miss the unique aspect of TikTok – videos that are easy to create and even easier to find.
I’ve been working on a music side project, and found Spleeter useful to isolate vocals from an MP3.
Related: A Night at the Hip-Hopera by The Kleptones is one of the best mashup albums ever created.
Related-to-the-related: Feed the Animals by Girl Talk is actually the best mashup album ever created. Here’s a great writeup from 2018 about how Girl Talk may have been trying to be the Weird Al of mashups.

We’re technically in the dog days of summer, but considering I’ve barely left my house for 141 days, I’m just going to call it March 160th.

Here are a few things that I enjoyed this week:

I enjoyed this summary of the book “Execution“. It’s a 35-page PDF, but it gets to the point of the book really well.
This is an incredibly long, but worthwhile read about how TikTok became TikTok. It was a little timing, a little engineering magic and a lot of marketing.
The NHL resumed actual games that actually matter this week, and are doing so in a bubble without fans. They posted a video explaining how they designed and produced the rinks to look interesting on TV by considering them stages instead of empty building.
The NHL posted another video giving a quick tour from inside the bubble. Not bad. Not amazing, but totally livable.
Google Analytics shows that I’m basically screaming into the abyss here, but I have documented by love for Coffee KIT KAT
I watched nearly 20 minutes of a Bon Apetit test cook attempting to recreate Lucky Charms.
Here are some great photos of Oklahoma that make me want to go back and visit.