Bradley Andrews

Something strangely alluring about these HiChord Pocket Synth videos. Retro, nostalgic, stylish – while not technically ads, this may be some of the best marketing I’ve seen in a while. They really do make me feel like I could “just turn it on and make something.”

🗓️ Commemorating the day that Frodo woke up in Rivendell:

Frodo woke and found himself lying in bed ‘Where am I, and what is the time?’ he said aloud to the ceiling. ‘In the House of Elrond, and it is ten o’clock in the morning.’ said Gandalf. ‘It is the morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.’

📷 Didn’t post bc I didn’t think they were that good — but just hit over 1,000 downloads on Unsplash in three days, so has me rethinking. Taken on Portra 400, 35mm.

Was recently put on to Simon Rich’s work (ex-SNL and ex-Pixar). Haven’t had this much fun reading a modern writer in a long time. If you’re unfamiliar, The New Yorker is a good place to start :

“We are both strangers to this world,” Death Skull intoned. “Maligned, misunderstood. We make our own paths, live by our own rules, refuse to compromise for anyone. Yes, in many ways, we are the same.” Ultra Man squinted at him. “I don’t know, man,” he said. “That’s a pretty big stretch. Like, I know we both wear capes, or whatever. But I stand for good, and you stand for evil. That’s about as different as it gets.” “Hmm,” Death Skull murmured. “Hmm.” “I told you it was pointless,” Death Skull said to his wife, Jackie. “It’s impossible to make friends after forty.”

Mark Ruffalo does not get discussed enough in the “greatest actors” conversation.

📷 photo of the artist taken on 35mm Kodak 400

📷 Taken on 35mm Kodak 400

📷 No Kings Protest in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Shot on 35mm Kodak 400.

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s piece in Harper’s on tech & enchantment is so, so good. It’s long, but more than worth the read:

We are connected to one another, we who live now, we who, if fate would have it, pass one another on the street one day or not, we who sit next to one another at a bus station one evening or not. We have lived through the same times, heard the same stories, seen the same news, thought along the same lines, had the same experiences. We are woven into one another’s lives, and in that weave—which is invisible, a bit like how the force field between particles is invisible—is where meaning is created, also the meaning of nature.

🎤 From the judge’s decision to dismiss Drake’s lawsuit against UMG and Kendrick Lamar. The first time that the winner of a hip hop feud is declared and sealed via decision by US court 🤣:

Over the course of 16 days, the two artists released eight so-called “diss tracks,” with increasingly heated rhetoric, loaded accusations, and violent imagery. The penultimate song of this feud, “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar, dealt the metaphorical killing blow.