Mikaela Shiffrin

She is the real deal. Dedicated, ambitious and talented. Her second run of the GS in PyeongChang was pure drive.

DOUG MILLS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

DOUG MILLS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Smoked

Kendrick and Childish Gambino performed so well.  

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High Maintenance Season 2, Episode 1 : Globo

High Maintenance returned a couple weeks ago (I guess) and I caught up last night. The first episode brought me to tears. It felt like the first piece of work I have seen that captures a cultural moment without defining the proverbial cultural moment. Something bad happens. You never know what it is but we all know what it is. It is the 2016 Election, Sandy Hook, Ferguson, San Bernardino, Orlando, et. al. The episode opens door after door on different people experiencing this day in various ways. It is quintessentially New York. People all over the spectrum living their lives when a tragedy occurs and just dealing with it. The last scene left me with a great sense of hope. 

Globo

A Pencil Factory

This is just beautiful via the New York Times Magazine.

Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories

Photographs by Christopher Payne 

"Photographs like these do something similar. They preserve the secret origins of objects we tend to take for granted. They show us the pride and connection of the humans who make those objects, as well as a mode of manufacturing that is itself disappearing in favor of automation. Like a pencil, these photos trace motions that may someday be gone."

-Sam Anderson, Staff Writer for the New York Times Magazine. 

So well said. 

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Khruangbin

Currently having my mind blown by this band by a LIVE SET ON KCRW. 

Hail from houston, texas

Wow, when is the last time art inspired you instantly?

In this case I am hearing the future, the past and something new -  all at the same time.

This is music for musics sake. 

Grateful for moments like this in my life 

"KRUNG-BIN

Khruangbin

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the dub version at the end of this video is fantastic.

"Subhuman, Superhuman, Inhuman" - Rick Owens, 2017

A 'retrospective' whatever that means in his world. The latest example of Rick Owens creating something and putting it somewhere bucking conformity throughout. To put a finer point on it, his manifesto of sorts: to “lay a black glittering turd on the white landscape of conformity.”

He literally did just that, complete with his own hair which he has been collecting for years. 

You do you, Rick.

The interview made me look into Dadaism and Cubism which I wasn't that familiar with. Along with the work of Michael Heizer and Richard Long.

One thing you know leads to other things you don't. 

For the New York Times by Hettie Judah. Photos below by Alessandro Grassani for NYT 

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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

Leigh and I watched this the other night. I heard James Franco talk about how compelling it was on WTF with Marc Maron the other day. Which was a great conversation as well. Jim Carrey completely engulfs himself in Andy Kaufman and furthermore into Kaufman's alter ego, Tony Clifton. It is wheels operating inside wheels operating inside wheels. But the real gem of this documentary is the current state of mind of Jim Carrey. He seems completely enlightened. Like his life is now an open door into an elevated realm. One that is free of so much of the minutiae that keeps people tied down. I forget how talented Jim Carrey is - he feels like an individual who has turned into a caricature on a hollywood cartoon drawing of establishment personalities of a certain generation. Imagine what a trifecta of opening films like Ace Ventura-The Mask-Dumb and Dumber would do to you as a human being just trying to live up to your father. Wild. Really Inspiring - Stay woke, Jim. 

Creep - Radiohead, (Live Belfort, France) 1997

The best performance of Creep I have ever seen. That song is really special. People love it, People hate it but it is a pure manifestation of alienation. It is part of the lexicon of music by a  generation of kids saying "what the fuck?"

" Smells like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana or "whats going on?" by Marvin Gaye choose whatever you want. These songs get washed over and over again with use, criticism and parody - because they mean something. They are a flag in the ground for cultural transition.

METROPOLIS - THE SINISTER TRUTH BEHIND CABIN PORN

AN INTERESTING THINK-PIECE ON THE IMPACT OF THE CABIN DREAM. SPECIFICALLY CALLING OUT PROGRESSIVE ELITES SOLVING THE WORLDS PROBLEMS FROM SPACIAL NIRVANAS THAT CLAIM TO BE IN HARMONY WITH NATURE. BUT ARE THEY JUST COUNTRY CLUBS WITH DIFFERENT STRIPES? (SUMMIT POWDER MOUNTAIN THEY ARE TALKING TO YOU)

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HITS CLOSE TO HOME FOR ME BECAUSE I DREAM OFTEN ABOUT A CABIN ON A REMOTE PIECE OF LAND FOR MY FAMILY, FRIENDS AND OUR DOGS. I THINK OF IT BEING A RESPONSIBLE DESIGN-BUILD OPPORTUNITY FOR MYSELF AND OTHERS TO WORK ON OVER TIME. BUT WHAT IMPACT DOES IT REALLY HAVE ON A TOWN OR PLOT OF LAND WE WOULD HELICOPTER INTO? PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS ALL OVER AGAIN. "HI, WE ARE THE NEW FOLKS IN TOWN. THAT IS OUR SOLAR-POWERED-SUSTAINABLE-PRIVATE-MODERN-BOX UP ON THE PICTURESQUE HILL. YOU AND YOUR TOWN-FOLK ARE SO ADORABLE. JUST WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR..." 

INTERESTING SCENARIOS AND QUESTIONS TO PONDER ALONG WITH MY LIFE GOALS

METROPOLIS

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