New Space
February 18, 2025 • #A documentary film about the new space race
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March 18, 2024 • #
Miyazaki concept art for Princess Mononoke.
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March 5, 2024 • #
Andor has some of the best cinematics of anything Star Wars.
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February 27, 2024 • #
Concept art from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Ralph McQuarrie.
(via @FedeItaliano76)
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February 20, 2024 • #
Every standard mass-market film poster design is subpar. We can do so much better.
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February 12, 2024 • #
Los Angeles Island. Escape from LA , 1996.
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February 10, 2024 • #
The film adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation took some liberties in the narrative. But Alex Garland’s vision on the world, the twisted melange of organisms, the shroom-trip in the Southern Reach — all spot on.
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January 27, 2024 • #
Captain Kirk making the case for “muddling through.”
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Media Consumption, April 2023
May 1, 2023 • #Media consumed in April 2023.
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We Are As Gods
September 9, 2022 • #Stripe Press's documentary about the life of Stewart Brand.
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Weekend Reading: Commercial Imagery, Proof Mechanisms, and Cinematic Universes
August 8, 2020 • #Commercial satellite imagery business models, proof mechanisms in social media, and ancient cinematic universes.
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Weekend Reading: Children of Men, Google Earth at 15, and Slate Star Codex is Gone
June 27, 2020 • #Remembering Children of Men, Timoney on Google Earth, and the NYT and Slate Star Codex.
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Weekend Reading: Beastie Boys, Links, and Screencasting
May 2, 2020 • #Beastie Boys Story, Linkrot for checking for valid URLs, and a guide to making screencasts.
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Ken Burns Presents: The Gene
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1917
January 31, 2020 • #Watching 1917.
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Mount Rainier Timelapse
November 10, 2019 • #Beautiful footage of Mount Rainier and its surroundings.
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The All Things Tech History List
October 8, 2019 • #A great list of books, podcasts, movies, and more on the history of tech and Silicon Valley.
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Weekend Reading: Brain MRI, Flash Cards, and Movie Maps
July 27, 2019 • #A 7 tesla brain MRI, Anki for flashcard learning, and Andrew DeGraff's Cinemaps.
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Best Songs, Pt. 4: Blade Runner Blues
February 21, 2019 • #The best track from one of my most frequent rotation records, 'Blade Runner Blues' from the film.
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Technique Critique
October 12, 2018 • #“A film dialect coach critiques actors’ renditions of regional accents.”
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