📷 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.
✏️ New Word Learned:
Clepsydra: an ancient time-measuring device worked by a flow of water.
☕️ I love bone broth in cold weather.
🎵 Been listening to:
- Useless (Without You) by Elmeni and Muni Long
- Thats My Q by King Sis
- Still Get Chanel by Kodak Black ft. Chance the Rapper
- LOVE (Kendrick Lamar Cover) by CHVRCHES
- Everywhere, Everything by Noah Kahan ft. Gracie Abrams
RnB is definitely having a revival, which is exciting.
🎤 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.
🗞️ 5 Easy Rules to Understand Technology. My latest newsletter is out now. I draw heavily from Melvin Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology, which I believe should be mandatory reading for all technologists and media ecology heads.
📚 I wrote a brief reflection on the book that was given to me by a stranger in a coffee shop. You can read that reflection by clicking here: The Housekeeper and the Professor.
💬 From Anais Nin:
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
🎵 If it weren’t for No Malice poppin’ off on the Clipse album, I would say that Chance the Rapper deserves the rapper of the year award.
In case you’re out of the loop, here is a good place to start on Chance’s recent album. And the song he dropped today with Kodak is definitely going on repeat.
❤️ Straws that don’t break, even when you stab them into the counter to open.
✏️ New Word Learned:
Ensorcell: to enchant; fascinate
🎬 Going to write about Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another soon, but in case you’re wondering; it really is as good as everyone is saying. 😍
🎞️ Excited to see that Eastman Kodak is back to selling its own film directly to distributors. Film photography is one of my favorite hobbies and increasing supply, lowering prices, makes it easier for other people to play. Would love to see more and more of a resurgence in this space.
✍️ Third spaces are alive and well. A kind stranger in a coffee shop gave me this book to read last weekend. Read the full story here: bradley-andrews.com/2025/10/0…
🗞️ My new post “Long Live Everything” is out now:
It’s not the quality of a creative act that people necessarily respond to—it is the freedom that is represented in the act. The bendings of our culture lean so heavily toward criticism, consumption, and conformity that even the smallest hint of the alternative constitutes a mini-revolution. People who slant away from the well-worn paths tend to inspire others without even being conscious of it. When someone begins doing what they want—as opposed to just doing what they’re told—it gives courage for others to do the same.
✏️ New Word Learned:
Limerence: the mental state of being madly in love or intensely infatuated, particularly when reciprocation of the feeling is uncertain.
🎵 Been listening to:
Excited to see where The Favors go from here — a really strong first project. Also, comparing Cardi B’s album to her ex-husband’s latest has been both insightful and dramatic.
📸 The view from this last weekend 🗽🌃
