✍️ Some of my thoughts on a favorite Kendrick Lamar lyric and why Progress Is My Favorite Form of Procrastination.
If even the rich feel burdened by the lack of an ideal, to those who suffer real deprivation an ideal is first a necessity of life. Where there is plenty of bread and a shortage of ideals, bread is no substitute for an ideal. But where bread is short, ideals are bread.
💬 Design for the Real World, Victor Papanek
🎶 Unbelievable performance from Clipse last night in Brooklyn. Hip hop legends performing what is guaranteed to be rap album of the year.
💬 A thought about tricksters, creativity, and the sacred from Byrd Gibbens:
Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.
✏️ New Word Learned:
Refection: refreshment of mind, spirit, or body especially; NOURISHMENT
✏️ New Word Learned:
Caparisoned: to provide with or as if with a rich ornamental covering (especially of a horse)
📷 Washington Square Park, NYC
🎥🍿I wrote a brief analysis on Ari Aster’s Eddington:
Indeed, at its core, Eddington is a tale about communication—or, rather, miscommunication—of our desires, identities, and realities. The settings and personalities are held distant enough to let us laugh at the caricatures, but not held so far that we lose sight of our own reflections. Delightfully non-partisan, Aster manages to take the mick out of both the far right and far left in order to illuminate the subtle, but exponentially more influential, technological forces at play.
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💬 A good note on hospitality from The Odyssey:
If you are longing to go home, I would not keep you for the world, not I. I’d think myself or any other host as ill-mannered for over-friendliness as for hostility. Measure is best in everything, To send a guest packing or cling to him when he’s in haste— one sin equals the other. ‘Good entertaining ends with no detaining.’
📷 Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington DC, 35mm on Portra 400
✏️ New Word Learned:
Perfidy: deceitfulness; untrustworthiness.
📷 Abandoned office space in Midtown, Manhattan taken on 35mm film, Portra 400
🎵🎥 Machine Gun Kelly having one of the best dance sequences in a music video in recent memory is so unexpected… but so enjoyable.
Shoutout also to Travis Barker of Blink-182 who is credited on the song. A fellow Inland Empire native who made it out and became a legend. 🤘
eatbigfish is a strategy consultancy in the UK that has heavily inspired a project I’m working on.
When they offered to send free copies of a magazine to whoever asked, I inquired if they mailed to the US. I got it today, for free, with a handwritten note.
It really is the little things…
🎵 I cancelled my music streaming services a few months ago and have instead been burning CD’s to my iPod. Found 7 albums (for only $1 each!) at a Housing Works Thrift shop in the Upper East Side of Manhattan this week and am stoked to listen this weekend:
💬 “Everything must be taken seriously, nothing tragically.”— Louis Adolphe Thiers
A solid reminder in today’s political environment.
Hello, micro.blog. My name is Bradley.
📷 Leisurely reader at Franciscan Monastery, Washington DC
Taken on 35mm film, Portra 400.
