20160819_IMG_8392.jpg— That quiet pause from Werner Herzog’s latest, when Elon Musk is prodded to consider his dreams, and then says something about how dreams aren’t memorable and how he only remembers nightmares. [Screenshot from “Lo and Behold”]
20160818_IMG_8361.jpg —New cement at Ponce City Market.
20160818 — So many podcasts, so little time. Recent highlights:
latest episode (all episodes, really) of Revisionist History (ep #10), where Gladwell targets the toothlessness of contemporary American satire, specifically Saturday Night Live, which goes for the goofy ha-ha, rather than the deep, incisive skewering
this section from a (cough) Sam Harris thing where he reads the story of a Finnish woman who converted to Islam and moved her family to the caliphate is beyond words
20160818_IMG_8362jpg — Love the stale signage promoting “U.S. Olympian Hopeful” Jordon Spieth, who declined going to Rio because of Zika-fear and the fact that being very wealthy allows him (and the rest of golf’s nascent royalty) the flexibility to opt-out of silly things like competing for a medal in the Olympics.
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20160818 — I’ve been playing a game I may have invented that layers currently-playing podcast audio over banal, discontinuous scenes. In real-time. On Snapchat. It works out about 20% of the time.
20160819_IMG_8393.jpg — Lynsey Addario is waiting.
If you want to understand how much work America (and the South) has in order to come to terms with its history with race and slavery; knowing this memorial currently does not exist is a good place to start.
20160817 — Just came across this World Press Photo award winner today, from Rohan Kelly. I love how on the WPP site, they show the location the photo was made, and what body and lens were used, but don’t mention what kind of post-processing may (or may not!) have occurred in Lightroom.
Occasionally, a good one gets away, like when I found an old doc about Annie Leibowitz, which contained a segment of her photographing Trump & a pregnant Melania — but the best part was Vicki Goldberg laying waste to celebrity culture, and by extension, Leibowitz’s proficience at photographing profligacy.
20160810_IMG_8208.jpg — One of my favorite page spreads from “Inspired Georgia”; Judy Lampert on the left, Harriet Dye on the right.
20160815_IMG_8329.jpg — Nothing funny about seeing more gun violence in your neighborhood in the news. Another murder, this one in cold blood at 2pm, with many witnesses, and APD has no suspects. #oldsouth
20160815_IMG_8318.JPG — When all you wanted was a QR code on a box so you could follow Amazon on Instagram.
20160816 — This is a fantastic book. Thank you, Virginia Heffernan.
20160816 — If you search for a “hashtag” on Facebook, Facebook writes the actual word “hashtag” in the results url. [Screenshot]
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20160815 —Keep it classy, DailyMail. [Screenshot]
20160815 — from “A Honeypot For Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure To Stop Harassment” — Buzzfeed. Lots of incredible stuff in the piece, including this, how Senior Mgt at Twitter thought two-factor auth was so complicated, they didn’t want to roll it out to their own workforce, lest they stop tweeting. Wow. [Screenshot]
20160815 — Jerry Saltz liked it and if you’re a Hamilton fan, you will, too. Possibly. Without question. [Screenshot]
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Listicle of 10 Olympic Sports You Didn’t Know Existed So You’ll Click and We Can Charge for the Ads You’ll Ignore Because It Takes Too Long for the Page to Load Because of All The Ads But We Can Still Charge for Them AndThat’sAllThatMatters.com
