Uncut Gems
Rewatched 19 February 2022
Gets better every time.
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Nightmare Alley
Watched 13 February 2022
The tone is pitch-perfect — the aesthetic, the performances, down to how karmically predictable some of the twists are. Love all the little props, such delicate artefacts, all feeling like they could tell a whole story. I couldn’t stop thinking of Ricky Jay, and now I find myself wishing for a Del Toro film about him. Or maybe just the objects he left behind.
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Yellowjackets, Season 1
Watched 22–26 January 2022
Brings me back to when TV shows didn’t take themselves super seriously and writers had to include mini cliffhangers before commercial breaks so you wouldn’t change the channel. I love the bits where you can see the seams, like when characters are driving and you can tell that the road projection framerate stutters because it doesn’t match the camera. If only people weren’t scared of pillarboxing this show could have been shot in 4:3 and look even cooler.
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Station Eleven
Watched 21 December 2021 – 14 January 2022
A miracle unfolding in slow motion. Pure, clear, and brimming with understanding. Every episode destroying me and building me back up, each time a different person. I wasn’t ready.
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Star Wars: Visions
Watched 17 December 2021 – 3 January 2022
Cool animation, but the presence of lightsabers in every single episode reveals a frustrating lack of imagination.
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Finch
Watched 14 November 2021
For nearly two hours, the entire world disappeared and I wanted nothing more than to see a dog trust a robot.
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The Voyeurs
Watched 24 October 2021
I couldn’t possibly predict twists this dumb, and that just made them all the more effective. Hats off to this movie!
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Nobody
Watched 19 September 2021
John Wick has been losing its way but this movie knows what it’s all about. A blur of a 90-minute punch in the face — just enough to put you in the hospital, not enough to kill you of overstimulation.
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25 Edits That Define the Modern Internet Video
vulture.comVulture:
Suddenly, anybody could shoot and edit a video, building the vocabulary of what that could look like: transition videos, lip syncs, and green-screen-driven storytelling began to cohere as distinct subgenres. That’s only accelerated in the age of TikTok, an app that offers more and easier editing tools for users than any that came before it.
Online video is an inherently communal form; it’s defined by thousands of people iterating on the same idea. Every once in a while, though, there’s a leap forward. Every video on this list represents an evolution in the form or exemplifies a particularly influential editing style — whether the creator was one of the first to attempt it, or just pulled off a jaw-dropping editing feat all their own.
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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS
joshwcomeau.comJosh Comeau:
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to transform typical box-shadows into beautiful, life-like ones.
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Why are hyperlinks blue?
blog.mozilla.orgElise Blanchard:
To truly understand the origin and evolution of hyperlinks though, I took a journey through technology history and interfaces to explore how links were handled before color monitors, and how interfaces and hyperlinks rapidly evolved once color became an option.
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Stowaway
Watched 19 August 2021
I learned that Toni Collette is australian in real life. Next: do solar storms actually look like that? This movie is great at making me want to check Wikipedia.
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Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
Watched 12 August 2021
Release, at last.
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Played 20 March 2020 – 27 April 2021 on Nintendo Switch
Just… so many good feelings from this game. I’ll cherish it forever.
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For All Mankind, Season 2
Watched 22–24 April 2021
Once again this show attempts to strike a good balance between People Drama and Society Drama, but this season’s timeskip tilted the scales and made it clear that the long game is always going to be about the societal outcomes first. Character moments are less emotionally effective as a result, but boy is the spectacle of the alternate timeline geopolitics worth the tradeoff. Season 1 got me invested. But now I’m excited.
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For All Mankind, Season 1
Watched 19–22 April 2021
I’m super into this space trauma and societal progress nerdfest.
It may sometimes feel predictable and clichéd but I just want to engross myself in this alternate history, and the level of realism is more than good enough to support that by my standards.