Feed - Baldur Bjarnason - All Writing

Why are short videos bad for learning? 🔗

An essay version of the video is below – not just a transcript but a text that I’ve rewritten thoroughly to work as text. As is an audio version. You [...]

Black and white archive photos 🔗

A few black and white versions of photos I shot between fifteen and twenty years ago. [...]

Getting out of your own way when making video 🔗

Overview # Essay version of the video is below. You can also listen to the audio-only podcast version and subscribe to the unlisted podcast feed here [...]

Experiments in film emulation (and a few old photos) 🔗

So, I complain a lot about open source photo software. They generally have horrendous UIs that are only one step above exposing code directly in the U [...]

Images of Hveragerði 🔗

One horse there looks more curious than the rest. A flock of starlings decided it was absolutely vital that they all immediately move 100 metres to th [...]

The story of this blog so far: 'AI', the death of web dev, and feeling like an outsider 🔗

This is the second of two parts on media creation. You can find the first part over here: Creating media with an uncooperative mind Infinite negatives [...]

Creating media with an uncooperative mind 🔗

This is the first of two parts on media creation. I’ll update this post with a link when the second one is out. “The students already come with an und [...]

Early August 2026 photos 🔗

Ceci n’est pas une pipe. Here are a couple of attempts of mine to take moody photos of the geothermal fields behind the horticultural school, by the F [...]

Long-delayed summer 2026 photos 🔗

I’ve been lax in posting my photos here. So here you have about two months’ worth of pictures from around Hveragerði. It’s a lot. I apologise in advan [...]

Experiments with media (or, iterating towards a podcast, maybe?) 🔗

I’ve been relatively silent over the past few months. This has mostly been for personal reasons, but the overall anxiety in both society and in the fi [...]