Links / Youtube
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Mr. Scorsese
№ 118I've been rewatching Scorsese films these past two weeks (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed, Casino), so I was excited to learn about the new limited documentary series Rebecca Miller made on the director, called Mr. Scorsese.
I appreciated the documentary, learning more about Scorsese's older, brilliant work, and getting an inside look at films like Goodfellas, Taxi Driver and Gangs of New York. The man's a great storyteller, and at five episodes, I think it could've been a little longer still!
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Your mind wants to move, and the best thing a work of art can do is take your mind with it, moving somewhere you never expected to move.
Anne Carson, interviewed at the Louisiana Literature festival in 2024. I watched it last year, and the conversation keeps resurfacing in my brain. An enigma.
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Retirement Plan
№ 115A beautiful animated short film by John Kelly. I watched it earlier this week (thank you Simon!), and it just popped up in my head again, as I tried to read a few articles in an attempt to close a few tabs.
“When I retire, I'll read the 35 years of saved articles on my reading list.”
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I don't know why this happened at the office of The New York Times, but here we are. Erykah Badu hasn't released an album in forever, and it doesn't matter. Look at her aura as she floats into the room; you wouldn't dare ask her why. The performance is just about flawless.
Currently, she's celebrating the 25th anniversary of her landmark album Mama's Gun. Perhaps someday soon, that album she made with The Alchemist will see the light of day.
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I very much enjoyed this two-hour mix by Caribou, Floating Points and their intern, Fred Again.., who had me at the drumless version of Earl Sweatshirt's “Chum”.
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Did you know birdwatching is a competitive sport? I didn't. I've downloaded Merlin Bird ID, but that's about it.
This funny, somewhat obnoxious, and very well made two-hour documentary does a great job diving into the subculture. When I started watching it I thought "I'll probably finish this over a day or two", but I couldn't stop watching it.
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You Need to Be Bored
№ 98Arthur C. Brooks, a Harvard professor, explains why boredom helps you be more creative, and less depressed. I feel like this is common knowledge, but it seems like we—as humans—are less and less capable of allowing boredom into our lives. This video was a helpful reminder of why doing so is a good thing.
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Tyler, The Creator sat down with a group of creatives to have a candid conversation about creativity, taking chances, and believing in the things you make. I must've watched this two weeks ago and—despite the sponsored element to this—found it very inspiring (as I do all of his output in recent years; Tyler is one of the artists I admire the most).
I loved how he mentioned the shift he noticed in how people perceived him, once he put “all songs written, produced and arranged by Tyler Okonma” on his album covers. It feels like his creative output has been unmatched since then.
How he created, marketed and released his latest album Don't Tap The Glass—while on a worldwide tour of over 100 shows—is a testament to that.
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Elliott Jay Stocks, who I've followed ever since he did 8 Faces, shared a great few nerdy typographic nuggets in his talk at Config 2025. Product Designers, take note.
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I've not watched any other videos about the Vision Pro because I will not buy the goggles and I've been somewhat sceptical of this product direction, but Casey Neistat's video does an excellent job of showing what it's like to use this thing in real life, and gets across well the hints it provide at a future with spatial computing. It's… kind of exciting?