What I Watched: The Rules of The Game
I’ve seen this movie a bunch of times before and the thing that always blows my mind is that roughly 40 years after the invention of film, Jean Renoir made one of the best movies of all time. It’s like somebody painting “The Birth of Venus” 40 years after we started scratching vague figures of animals on cave walls.
Times Square at 6:30am.
Sunrise over Queens.
Super late to the party but I just started reading this tonight. I feel like I’m the last one to do so.
I don’t know either of these people who popped up on my Facebook feed, but they’re both dead to me.
“I really haven’t found a single subject I’m not somewhat interested in.”
Jeremy Gleick, a UCLA student who for the past 2 1/2 years has devoted an hour a day to self-learning, most of it online (via)
This is so interesting, I would love to try something like this. I also wish this article was way longer. I feel like it could be expanded into a whole book about what this guy has done over the past few years.
What I Watched: The Stranger
An overlooked gem by Orson Welles. So enjoyable to watch, I regret I never saw it until now.
Brooklyn Brewery tour today followed by Meatball Shop for lunch. Am I a real New Yorker yet?
Let’s Make A Deal
I bought this Tour De Cafe card over the summer right before I moved and only got the chance to use it at two coffee shops. It’s basically a card you buy which gets you a free cup of coffee at twenty coffee shops around Chicago (and Evanston).
Does anyone want it? I’ll give it to the person who comes up with the best, weirdest thing to send me from Chicago. It doesn’t have to be worth 18 cups of coffee, it could be a napkin from El Charro or a shitty postcard from Michigan Avenue or a finished Red Eye crossword puzzle.
This robot—named RAP, for Robotic Action Painter-creates original paintings using a combination of random decisions and responses to its environment. Each of RAP’s paintings is original. As it creates, the robot receives no outside instructions, relying solely on its onboard program. RAP even decides when each piece is finished.
What I Watched: Les Enfants Terrible and China Gate.
Persona Series by Jason Travis - what do you carry with you?
I love stuff like this. I’ve been clicking through this all morning.
“Life’s a mess dude. But we’re all just doing the best we can”.
And at 4am that’s a wrap!
I’m ashamed of my friends for letting me go this long without having had Shake Shack. How dare you?
