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As a nationwide TikTok shutdown looms, over 100,000 full-time TikTok content creators are scrambling to figure out the best way to reconcile their primary source of income.Among them are CareerTok creators, a group of influencers who offer workplace and job-hunting advice in the form of short videos. As the platform disappears, so will their followings and years of past content.Last year, Congress passed a bill that required TikToks parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets or go dark this Sunday Jan. 19. Although the future remains uncertain, as of today, no sale has been approved and the Supreme Court upheld the ban. Both viewers and creators are bracing for an impending shutdown and figuring out next steps.We spoke to Hanna Goefft and Courtney Johnsontwo CareerTok creators with around 300,000 followers eachabout how theyre preparing for the ban and their thoughts on the future of career advice on social media. The interviews have been edited for length and clarity.I would not be where I am right now without TikTokHanna Goefft: Hands down, I would not be where I am right now as a full-time content creator without TikTok. From my own career journey, I gained a lot of career-related job-search-strategy knowledge that seemed like common sense to me. But from talking with my friends, I started to see that it wasnt. I saw an opportunity to start sharing this base of knowledge that I had a great handle on, so I posted my first TikTok. My videos got so much traction and I realized there is a real appetite for this kind of career advice content. In 2024, I left my corporate career to pursue this full-time.Courtney Johnson: I had worked at a bunch of marketing agencies building brands for other people, and I realized it was time to start building my personal brand. So I started posting consistently about marketing and career first on LinkedIn and then TikTok, and everything has taken off over the past few years. TikTok is my biggest platform, and if TikTok is banned, I will lose revenue, opportunities, and so much of my audience.De-risking and diversifyingHG: As soon as the ban came under discussion, a big focus of mine became de-risking and diversifying my platform. Ive really focused on Instagram growth over the past year, just as a way to immediately make available my brand partnership opportunities that I rely on for income. Im also thinking about other channels: LinkedIn is getting a lot of traction and is top of mind for career-related creators. YouTube also increased their Shorts limit to three minutes. But its a totally different strategy to be creating content across all these different platforms. I also now have a goal to build my revenue in a way that lessens my reliance on brand partnerships. In the career-advice space, coaching and online courses seem like obvious offerings to explore.CJ: Immediately when I heard the ban might happen, I downloaded and saved my TikToks for the future. I had only started posting on Instagram a year ago, but now Ive really doubled down on my Instagram. I started posting more Reels and more Threads. Im optimistic that my pivot can help me focus on whats important and be successful. About a third of my income comes from my coaching, and another large portion comes from courses and online materials that I create for others. I probably get around half of my coaching customers from TikTok, and Im sad to see that go.Unlike any other platformHG: TikTok has such a unique content culture that I have not seen anywhere else. Instagram is focused on connecting you with people you already know, and on Youtube you have to go and seek out any short-form content. Nothing else has TikToks authenticity or that highly curated algorithm that knows exactly what you want to see. There are so many full-time creators with no protection; this shutdown is kind of like doing a mass layoff with no severance.CJ: I think every creator is worried right now that their audiences will shake up. TikTok is so unique in that the discoverability is unlike any other platform. It sends you people that align with your values and the topics youre interested in, in a way other platforms just cannot do.

American studio ASAP has integrated a century-old brick facade into a residential and retail building called Allen Apartments in Buffalo, USA.Located in Buffalo's Allentown neighbourhood, the building occupies an urban site near a light rail system and medical campus.ASAP has completed Allen Apartments in upstate New YorkIt also sits within a historic district known for its eclectic mix of 19th- and 20th-century architecture, including a concert hall by Eero and Eliel Saarinen and a park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. The district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The project involved partly preserving a dilapidated, two-storey retail building that was mostly beyond repair.The original brick-and-stone front facade was preservedASAP, or Adam Sokol Architecture Practice which relocated from Buffalo to Los Angeles in 2018 conceived a scheme that preserved the original brick and stone facade, yet allowed for a 3.5-storey structure to rise behind it.According to the studio, the design represents a "distinctive mixture of historic and contemporary construction"."The massing respects the historic structure by gradually increasing in size as it recedes from the street," said the studio.Each side of the building has a different lookRoughly rectangular in plan, the building looks different on each side.The original front facade was preserved yet mostly rebuilt with new brick that matched the old structure. The east wall, which faces a vacant plot, was made of concrete masonry, as is the rear wall.Read: Studio Other Spaces encloses Buffalo museum courtyard in "canopy of glass and mirrors"The western elevation is staggered and overlooks a communal courtyard. Walls are clad in dark grey steel panels.The building contains a retail space and two ADA-compliant apartments on the ground floor, with additional apartments on the upper levels.The building's western elevation is staggered and overlooks a courtyard. Photo by Alexandro SeverinIn total the build contains 10 homes, with a combination of one- and two-bedroom units along with two loft-style duplexes. Units are accessed via an orange-painted stairwell.The units have large windows and high ceilings to create a feeling of spaciousness. Interior finishes include light-toned wooden flooring and white cabinetry.The team incorporated "a variety of outdoor spaces of differing scales, giving each unit a unique experience".Dark grey steel panels were used for the exteriorThe building is among the first all-electric buildings in Buffalo. Eco-friendly elements include high-efficiency heat pumps and solar-generated hot water.The project received historic tax credits, following approval of the design by the state preservation office and federal park service.The apartments feature large windows, wooden flooring and white cabinetryOther projects in Buffalo include the adaptive reuse of an insane asylum into a boutique hotel by Deborah Berke Partners, and a sculptural, glass-enclosed addition to the AKG Art Museum by OMA's New York office.The photography is by Brett Beyer unless stated otherwise.The post ASAP incorporates historic facade into mixed-use building in Buffalo appeared first on Dezeen.

A startup called HEYii claims they've developed infinitely reusable tracing paper. Called HEYtrace+, it's not actually paper at all, but a 0.5mm-thick silicone sheet with some type of proprietary coating; the company says it's nontoxic and allows you to erase the sheet using water (though they say 75% alcohol does a better job). You are somewhat limited to what you can draw with: The surface doesn't react well with pencils or oil-based markers. You can use alcohol-based markers like Copics, dry-erase markers, ballpoint pens, and water-based ink pens. The sheets come in A4 (8.3 x 11.7 inches) and A3 (11.7 x 16.5 inches). Oddly, both are priced the same: $35 each, with discounts available if you buy multiples ($99 gets you a 4-pack, for instance). The sheets come with a cleaning cloth and a piece of test material, if you want to try out a writing utensil to see if it will erase, without ruining the actual sheet.HEYtrace+ has been successfully Kickstarted, and there are nine days left in the campaign. They expect to start shipping them this April.

Most children have probably built a fort or hut or shelter in their living bedroom or bedroom and engaged in playful shenanigans inside and around it. Most of the time though its just several pillows and bedsheets propped up by chairs and tables and we have to dismantle them when the adults say we need to clean up the room. What if there was a more permanent kind that kids can keep and stay in whenever they want?Designer: Valeria OrlovaShelter is a concept for a permanent hut to add to your kids room. Well, probably permanent until they outgrow it or destroy it, whichever comes first. It is made from a box-like material and is shaped like the silhouette of a mountain with a cave-like opening. The outside is decorated with various constellations so in the evening the child can have a starry view from outside the hut. On the side of the mountain are through the wall storage spaces with hinged systems so they can just throw in toys inside (or hide them quickly in case they need to). Inside the cave, the back wall is covered with paint slate so the kids can draw on it with chalk, creating their own artwork or codes and ciphers. There are also some stones and other materials outside to give the feel of a mountain (or a gingerbread house, but with stones instead of gingerbread).Part of the joy of creating forts is using whatever material you have lying around but also part of the heartbreak is getting them down. So a permanent structure like this may be the next best thing for the child and the child at heart. It can remove a bit of the imagination that goes into makeshift huts but theres still plenty to do inside and outside anyways. The post Shelter concept creates fun, permanent fort for kids first appeared on Yanko Design.

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MacworldShooting music videos on iPhones is nothing new. Lady Gagas video for Stupid Love made a big deal about being shot entirely on iPhone 11 almost five years ago. Olivia Rodrigo and Selena Gomez have shot music videos on iPhones, and most recently, The Weeknds Dancing in the Flames was shot in cinematic slow-mo on iPhone 16 Pro.But few actually feature the iPhone itself as much as OK Gos new video for A Stone Only Rolls Downhill. You can watch it below.The video features 64 videos on 64 iPhones and makes use of clever framing, choreography, and edits to tie it all together. Not only were all the videos shot on iPhone, but the iPhones are the star of the video. Its difficult to judge exactly which iPhones are in use, but they appear to be iPhone 15 Pro models in bright colorful cases. In a short behind the scenes video you can see the phones have action buttons rather than mute switches, but no camera control button. And of course, they all feature a Dynamic Island.

OK Go's latest music video for "A Stone Only Rolls Downhill" uses 64 iPhones and an awful lot of planning and effort.iPhones in the music video for 'A Stone Only Rolls Downhill' - Image Credit: OK GoOK Go is a band known for coming up with unique music videos, with the eye-catching efforts aiming to get viewers and listeners for being creative and unusual.This has ranged from orchestrations on running machines to dancing with motorized unicycles, to careful filming on a zero-gravity flight. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums