August 2022

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Beautifully made by the ever great David Gelb

Natural Resonant Frequency

A colleague of mine shared a story from Windows XP product support. A major computer manufacturer discovered that playing the music video for Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” would crash certain models of laptops. I would not have wanted to be in the laboratory that they must have set up to investigate this problem. Not an artistic judgement.

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A Sense of Peace

Martijn Doolaard has a weekly YouTube video documenting his renovation of an Italian country house. Or as I see it: 45 min of peace and tranquillity every Sunday night.

Biking home from China

Seeing a country from the seat from a bicycle gives you perspective that can not be achieved in any other way.

Key Art

Good key art is elegantly efficient. It communicates so much so quickly. At a glance, you instantly know the universe within, like a pin in the map declaring YOU ARE HERE…. (it) is so evocative, so iconic, that it becomes the image that springs to mind whenever you think about a show.
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Sickest River

That section of the movie where he discovers the plastic damn is just painful to see.