William Joel

Some of the biggest error messages we’ve ever seen.

Roku has made my TV unusable. On June 6th, my TCL TV’s Roku OS was updated to version 13.0.0. Ever since, on everything I watch, there is motion smoothing — a TV and film purists’ deepest nightmare. There is no way to turn it off. In the updated OS, Roku added a feature called Roku Smart Picture, which, according to its release notes, “automatically improves picture quality dynamically as users stream.” While Roku doesn’t explicitly mention motion smoothing, or what Roku calls “action smoothin…

Every couple seconds we’re transported to another artist’s take.

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Making it work

The reference companion is a huge help

You could change it to any font you have locally.

“I was stunned at all the tools the thing offered, all the creative potential it contained.”

How to remove faces and metadata from your protest photos.

Behind the scenes of the making of an iconic logo.