David LublinInterview
Developer, artist, co-founder (VIDVOX)
Adapted from David Lublin's interview on Uses This, published 23 May 2017. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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Right now @TVCommentBot and @TVFaceBot are running on a 2010 Mac mini that is plugged into my living room TV so that I can watch the feed instead of regular TV.
For headphones I've had the same pair of Sony MDR-7506's for about a decade.
I also often use the standard iPhone ear buds outside of the house.
My desk is a GeekDesk which I confess is usually used in sitting mode lately.
I have had the same HP LaserJet 1320 printer since 2004 and have tried out lots of different kinds of small notebooks over the years (currently making my way through a small graph paper book from Muji).
I have a couple of typewriters that I've collected over the years, a newer Olivetti MS 25 Plus manual sometimes gets dusted off for use.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Notes
I often use Stickies app on my Mac for keeping quick notes and snippets.
Artificial Intelligence
Coding & Development
When needed I am ready to get down with Terminal.
Though not as often as in the past I also still make use Quartz Composer from time to time.
Design
Media
The first is the Hap video codecs, a set of movie formats that use GPU accelerated decompression for playback of extremely high resolution video on Mac, Windows and Linux machines.
When VJing and otherwise making video art I typically use VDMX which is software that we primarily work on at VIDVOX.
Sometimes I'll connect it to other custom software using Syphon or MIDI / OSC.
Other
When creating new video filters typically I will use our free ISF Editor, an in-house tool we released for writing and previewing GLSL shaders.
For making video tutorials ScreenFlow is my favorite.