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"The first beautiful songs you hear tend to stay beautiful because better than beauty, which is everywhere, is the memory of first discovering beauty" - Sarah Manguso Happy Avril 14th ❤️ https://soundcloud.com/richarddjames/avril-14th
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All models are wrong, but some are useful - George Box
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Weekend long listen And yes, as a kid I was (and will forever remain), a member of the Kiss Army https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKcpatraxY
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Art/media/culture/ideas/apps/anything, can be many things, often simultaneously and in contrast with each other. As Rory Sutherland writes - the opposite of a good idea can also be a good idea: “Puppy does what movies do: wows people, makes them stare at one thing for a long time and experience wonder. It sneaks in under their radar, disarming fears of art. In some quintessentially Jeffersonian way, Puppy renders all who see it equal. It is the rare work of art that laymen can talk about with the same confidence and authority as those in the art world” - Jerry Saltz, writing about Jeff Koons: Puppy
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we need more movie posters like this
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Sunday reading recommendation. Long ago when I first learned about the notion of "zen mind; beginner's mind" and then read the Suzuki book/talks, I was struck by the idea that this was a concept that could be applied to . . . well, anything. Everything. It's curiosity. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-colors-of-her-coat
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chaotic curiosity: that thing where a song comes on randomly and serendipitously and you are forever changed https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/black-family
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good, somewhat contrarian, view here https://newsletter.brxnd.ai/p/why-ai-will-improve-content-quality
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I cant stop thinking about this painting and the story it tells Catherine Murphy Double Bed (2022) oil on canvas, in two parts
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Weekend recommendation This conversation is an example of constraints forcing creativity, with the founder of Banana Republic who started with $1500 and zero prior business experience
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"Songs, unlike people, have remarkable patience as they wait for someone to hear what they’re saying" - Warren Zanes
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What a record cover, designed, I think, to make you go "hmm yea I need to listen and see what this is all about"
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"Magic happens when at least one person—a writer, a photographer, or an editor—has been allowed to fall in love" Nathan Heller, writing about magazines but really any creative or curiosity driven thing https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/24/when-the-going-was-good-graydon-carter-book-review
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almost 50 years later this sounds no less radical than it must have sounded on national TV in 1978 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHXaa6IRi1I/?igsh=MTJsaDkzNTV6eXJ5cg%3D%3D
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this is something else riveting
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Dieter Rams' Ten Principles of Good Design
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sunday gm "It's always a turn on for me to get to sing one of my own romantic songs in public" - Lou Reed, introducing this performance (found via the often wonderful and serendipitous youtube algorithm) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFbgAxxVh1E
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on many days, this is my favorite song of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRicAP8zPik
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Intensity as Violist Poetry by Michelle Burke
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Weekend reading/listening/watching First, two essays on memory dropped on the same day! - one from @simondlr "we’re sometimes supposed to forget things" https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/digital-memories-hoarder-pruner-deleter
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