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.
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The Year Earth Changed
Watched 21 April 2021
Like leafing through a big coffee table book. Not particularly insightful, but very nice pictures.
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Lena @ Things of Interest
qntm.orgThis terrific short story by qntm contemplates the hellish potential consequences of brain uploading, in the form of a typically impassive Wikipedia entry:
MMAcevedo (Mnemonic Map/Acevedo), also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain. It is a snapshot of the living brain of neurology graduate Miguel Álvarez Acevedo (2010–2073), taken by researchers at the Uplift Laboratory at the University of New Mexico on August 1, 2031.
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Rewatched 8 April 2021
The uncanny valley between the ponderous Godzilla 2014 and the bombastically campy Godzilla vs. Kong. I’m sorry but if you want to make a serious movie you have to stick to the serious monsters, you can’t put on the three-headed electric dragon and big moth. Pokémon aren’t scary.
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Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything
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Found this wonderful YouTube channel on Kottke.org. I have to admit I wasn’t expecting it to be so thought-provoking:
Our brains play tricks on us to make us believe the world looks one way, but the world looks different at night than in the day, and both of those things have more to do with the physiology of our eyes and brains than with objective reality. Asking what a microbe actually looks like is, to some extent, forcing our own experience onto something that is beyond it.
If, like me, you somehow recognize the narrator’s voice, that’s because it’s Hank Green (!).
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Godzilla vs. Kong
Watched 31 March 2021
Silly as heck. No hesitation. This movie delivers.
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Metric Paper & Everything in the Universe
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CGP Grey’s take on Powers of Ten is very beautiful and evocative and terrifying.