Notes:

I spent much of 2024 finding ways to avoid using Adobe Creative Cloud software (I optimistically called it "My Year of Alternative Tools") as both a protest against Adobe's increasingly pushy use of generative AI, but also as a way to think through my process as a designer and user. Caesar's Palace Jump in particular is an experiment in finding a complicated workaround in order to make a simple book layout.

Alternative tools workflow:

download video using semi-legal internet tools ➡️ extract frames using ffmpeg command line tool (I think the command was something like <code >ffmpeg -i knievel.mp4 -qscale:v 1 exported-frames/frame_%04d.png</code >) ➡️ create the page layout using Finder and Keynote, adding page numbers and images ➡️ printing on the mailroom Xerox (don’t tell the IT department)