Monthly Art #50
This is a monthly “newsletter”, containing a list of what I enjoyed the most
last month. Whether it was a full length movie, short film, music album, book
or even a painting.
.@elonmusk: “Our cars are semi-sentient robots on wheels…it kind of makes sense to put that onto a humanoid form…to automate dangerous, repetitive, or boring tasks.
— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy) August 20, 2021
You can run away from it, and most likely overpower it. Hopefully that doesn’t ever happen, but you never know.” pic.twitter.com/sT7V0hKRu7
What I am watching
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
“Michael Moore’s view on what happened to the United States after September 11 and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq”
This documentary has showed me two things: 1) sometimes a president is just a public face and does not really decide anything 2) mass manipulation through media is at its all time high.
What I am reading
A month ago I got myself a Turkish angora kitten with beautiful blue eyes. Unfortunately, blue eyes often come with a cost (of being deaf) when it comes to cats. So, I am training Zemfira (Ze for short) using a Russian sign language and a flashlight.
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Books
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life 4/5
- The Bull’s Hour 3/5
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need 5/5
- Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life 5/5
- Notes from Underground 3/5
- Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching Stories of the Sufi Masters Over the Past Thousand Years 3/5
- System Design Interview An insider’s guide 5/5
- Laurus 4/5
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So long
These are some of the remarkable colour images of Hong Kong in the 1950s by the late photographic genius Fan Ho (1931- 2016). He was mostly known for his black & white photography, but his eye for colour was no less stunning. pic.twitter.com/IsYO7Zdawb
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) March 15, 2021