April 25, 2019
I´m not made for such complexity.
It'd be a pity not to recognize what's at stake.........Deadwood The Movie, Full Trailer.
Mother and Daughter
Some comics by Julia Wertz for The New Yorker about her relationship with her mother:
2017: “Conversations With Ma” (September 21)
2018: “Harry Potter and the Internet” (January 4), “Cheez Wizz And Tree Climbing” (February 27), “Life Advice”, “Health Advice”, “Dietary Advice” (November 22)
2019: “Modern Germ Theory”, “Alternative Uses” (January 2), “My Mother’s Daughter” (February 27), “Spring Cleaning” (March 18), “A True Story About Reading Pet Sematary as a Ten-Year Old” (April 2), “Making Wreaths and Having Kids” (April 25) [more inside]
2017: “Conversations With Ma” (September 21)
2018: “Harry Potter and the Internet” (January 4), “Cheez Wizz And Tree Climbing” (February 27), “Life Advice”, “Health Advice”, “Dietary Advice” (November 22)
2019: “Modern Germ Theory”, “Alternative Uses” (January 2), “My Mother’s Daughter” (February 27), “Spring Cleaning” (March 18), “A True Story About Reading Pet Sematary as a Ten-Year Old” (April 2), “Making Wreaths and Having Kids” (April 25) [more inside]
all wrapped in cellophane, the feelings that we had
Yesterday, FKA twigs released the gorgeous video for Cellophane, her first single since 2016. [Epilepsy/migraine trigger warning for flashing lights] Twigs says "when I wrote cellophane over a year ago a visual narrative came to me immediately, I knew I had to learn how to pole-dance to bring it to life, and so that’s what I did." [more inside]
"Green Balloons is every version of myself that I've been so far" -Tank
New Orleans' Tank and the Bangas (previously) are back to NPR with a first listen of their sophmore album, Green Balloons. NPR's summary is that this is "music without boundary on instruments ranging from sax, flute, cello, vocal scratches, keyboards, synths, real drums, fake drums, a djembe and, of course, the poetry, philosophy, comedy and voice that is Tarriona "Tank" Ball," who called the new album the older sister to the prior album, Think Tank (YouTube playlist; official links to other platforms).
We All Scream
How did ice cream get so expensive? Economy, regular, premium, super-premium -- Faux-European sophistication vs. cheerful American stoners -- "These ice creams have pornographic amounts of butterfat"-- What is a batch, anyway? -- "collect the ice cream as it snakes out of the spigot like cold, bloated toothpaste being squeezed out of a tube" -- "Ice cream should get better if you scale up" -- Who's afraid of stabilizers? -- Air, ice, and crystals -- But is it un-American? -- Nostalgia.
The question we came to dread
Why, when people learn we have one child, do they ask whether we’re thinking about another? The Question throws you, every time. It is meant well, sometimes, of course. But in my experience, it is nearly always thoughtless. (CW: miscarriage, pregnancy loss) [more inside]
It was a total accident
“I’ve had them killed by alligators and snakes but never by a bird like that. I know ostriches and emus have their moments, but cassowaries are an extremely, extremely dangerous bird. You don’t want to fool around with them. They have no sense of humor.” A Giant Bird Killed Its Owner. Now It Could Be Yours. [NYT]
Funny or Not Funny
How "Liberal" Late-Night Talk Shows Became A Comedy Sinkhole This derangement presumably stems from a refusal to face the America that propelled Trump to the White House. For all they hate him, they yearn, as he does, for a “lost” country that younger generations view with skepticism. “No one wants to confront the fact that they grew up in a time that was pretty sexist and racist because then they’d have to stop being nostalgic for everything,” this writer says. “See: Aaron Sorkin.”
Keys to Lovely Piano Music
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Piano. The NY Times asked their favorite artists and writers for 5 minute piano pieces that exemplify the joys of piano.
When rivers were trails
R Oregon Trail series computer game of the 1980s and ’90s had narratives from the point of view of settlers traveling from Independence, Missouri to Oregon, it neglected the stories of the very people who lived on those lands. Enter a new game: When Rivers Were Trails, a Native-themed decision-based RPG created with the help of the Indian Land Tenure Foundation and Michigan State University’s Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab and financial support from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. In the game, an Anishinaabeg player in the 1890s is displaced from Fond du Lac in Minnesota due to the impact of land allotments. They make their way to the Northwest and eventually venture into California.You can download and play it now. [more inside]
What the Scientists Who Photographed the Black Hole Like to Read
"We had decided that at each telescope we would play a song of our choosing for the final minutes." Rebekah Frumkin talks to Team Black Hole about life, the universe, and everything.
I still go by the frogs...
How Instagram and YouTube disrupted child labor laws
'“I don’t care if it’s simply unboxing presents, that’s work,” said Sheila James Kuehl, a former child star and co-author of the 1999 law that overhauled California’s labor protections for child performers. “It is not play if you’re making money off it.”'
[Note: some mentions of child abuse in the article.]
“...it’s about creating human habitats amidst climate chaos.”
Lichenia: A city building game for the Anthropocene. [Release Notes] “Lichenia is a new web-based game from game designer Molleindustria (Paolo Pedercini) that’s about “reshaping the natural and built environment, reclaiming dead cities, and growing sustainable ones.” It takes a few minutes to get going, but what else would you expect? Resurrecting a poisoned world is hard. Presented in an isometric perspective (and playable online for free), Lichenia tasks its player with placing some strange tiles on a polluted and ruined landscape. We don’t know what these tiles do. [...] Playing Lichenia is all about trial and error, but that’s because Pedercini wanted there to be an unclear relationship between what you were doing and the effects you had on the world.” [via: Waypoint]
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