About
Video essays, streams, bad tweets, and graphic arts engaging with media and the way that it engages with us: in the microcosm of the moment and in the macrocosm of waves and movements.
For the last seven years I've been engaged in a running project celebrating great trash, digging for hidden gems, deconstructing the craft of storytelling, and analyzing the political intersections of media (especially as it relates to the business of art). Folding Ideas and its counterparts aren't any one thing, but are engaged with picking apart the base strands of narratives that make up the world of information that we live in.
This is primarily long-form video essays, but includes live streams of bad, forgotten, or odd video games, Tweet threads, and blog posts.
Also my cat, Amy, is really, really adorable and I post a lot of pictures of her.
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REWARDS
• Cat pics
• All supporters above Cat Pics get advanced preview of new videos.
• Production update blogs and vlogs.
• Aesthetic ephemera
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GOALS
$14.95 per month - Amy gets all the kibble she needs to stay happy and healthy. Anything above this goes towards living expenses, equipment, props, books, and other material needs.
$1200 per month - Dan hires a co-writer.
$35,000,000 flat - Purchase the film rights to Ursula K. Le Guin's classic fantasy novel 'The Tombs of Atuan' and turn it into a feature film that does justice to the novel's themes and characters.
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LINKS
https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas
https://www.twitch.tv/foldablehuman/
https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman
22 Posts
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Drip Shutdown Phase 2 – Dan Moves Somewhere Else
2019-09-10/September 23rd will be the end of all billing cycles for Drip leading up to the site's eventual mothballing and closure towards the end... -
A Bunch of Very Important Housekeeping and Also a Picture of a Sleeping Kitty
2019-07-03/Hey everyone, first off I want to say thank you so much for being supporters, especially since it meant trying out a new, less-popular... -
March 2019 Video Draft
2019-03-30/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62UWWXKU2U8 This has been an interesting one. Please let me know if you find any problems or if it's... -
What Is Vsauce?
2019-02-15/https://youtu.be/fKmkI0xzvHc Clickbait title: 10 WILDEST Geek Girls OMG!!! I found myself stonewalled on a number of other projects, to... -
What Is Vsauce? PREVIEW DRAFT
2019-02-14/This is the preview draft of the upcoming video "What is Vsauce?" I still have a bunch of graphics left to build, but this is ~90%... -
The Art of Storytelling and The Legend of Chun Li
2019-01-11/Here it is, the final version. https://youtu.be/9Hl203g5k3Y -
The Legend of Chun-Li Draft 01
2019-01-05/So, this is the first in an attempt at re-doing an old video. This isn't just a remake, but it's not a re-visiting either. This is more... -
A Lukewarm Defence of Fifty Shades Part 3: Freed
2018-12-01/Clickbait Title: A Eurocopter EC135?! Well, here we are. I want to say I'm done with Fifty Shades forever, but given the legacy it's... -
Fifty Shades Freed Preview Draft
2018-11-29/As usual there's a number of incomplete elements and, in this specific case, some footage that I'm going to re-shoot later this... -
Annihilation And Decoding Metaphor
2018-11-01/https://youtu.be/URo66iLNEZw Clickbait Title: The Ending of Annihilation Actually Explained For Real There was a lot of anxiety in the... -
Explaining Annihilation Explained Explained Decoded Preview Draft
2018-10-31/As with the rest of the preview drafts there's a number of things that are flat out incomplete. I need to add the majority of the... -
An American Tail: Fievel Goes to Video Game Hell
2018-10-04/Here's the new video. Also remind me to mention to the Drip folks that posts containing only an embedded video don't work properly. Which... -
PREVIEW DRAFT: An American Tail
2018-10-03/I still need to add a lot of movie clips, apply the grade, and add some titles, but this is a good preview version. Also I should say... -
A Lukewarm Defence of Fifty Shades Part 2: Things Go Downhill Very Quickly
2018-08-31/https://youtu.be/pjViIRWesQ0 Clickbait Title: Does This Video Have a Direct Line to Your Inner Goddess? Of Course It Does. I can’t... -
Fifty Shades Darker Rough Draft Preview
2018-08-30/https://youtu.be/cKhPvpci3hc Here's the rough draft of the Fifty Shades video. There are a few sub-sections that might be cut or... -
Caturday - 18 August 2018 and Fifty Shades Extras
2018-08-18/Above photo: Amy just after getting home from being spayed last year. The Fifty Shades books are such a mess that I've found myself... -
Caturday - 4 August 2018
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Caturday - July 28th
2018-07-29/Happy Caturday everyone! Here's Amy pretending she's too good to have her photo taken. -
A Problem With Scanlines and Insight into How Dan Wastes His Time
2018-07-22/This is a story about getting side-tracked by a spur of the moment idea, spending many, many, many hours working on it, and immediately... -
My Presentation at SGDQ 2018 and Reflections
2018-07-02/https://youtu.be/baAwos42UBw On the whole the run went absolutely stellar. I was expecting I'd be sitting much closer to the screen than... -
Dan Will Be Presenting Live at Summer Games Done Quick on June 26th
2018-06-21/https://youtu.be/g3BVJUQZ7DY For up-to-date schedule check https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule Times are likely to change. -
The Art of Editing and Dan
2018-06-21/I never really fancied myself an editor, it was something that more or less just happened. In film school, a polytechnic focused on...