Does anybody else see the Mubi logo and wish it looked a little more like this:
Putting final touches on the first of the mixed media pages in the current TSG and thoroughly enjoying how it's shaping up. Three new projects I must work into my October pipeline: Project Bigspread, Project Tile, and Project Shortrage.
October already which means the year will be done before I know it. Need to move faster on these TSG pages, want to be finished before year's end.
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Watched the most bizarre take on War of the Worlds last night; a Polish film on Mubi called THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: NEXT CENTURY. Not so much an adaptation as much as it is informed by War of the Worlds. And not just by the story itself, but by the story's lore, the fiasco surrounding Orson Welles' radio adaptation of piece in that THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: NEXT CENTURY utilizes the premise of an alien invasion to create a film about media and propaganda. It's like a War of the Worlds iteration filtered through an Eastern European Philip K. Dick. Bizarre stuff.
“You get married, you go on loving a bit longer, you work. And you work so hard that it makes you forget love.”
From THE PLAGUE by Albert Camus.
“The reward center of the European Americans' brains lit up much more when they received money themselves compared to when they gave money to their family members. The reverse occurred in the brains of Latino participants: Their reward centers lit up more when they gave money to their family compared to when they received money.”
“For while he himself spoke from the depths of long days of brooding upon his personal distress, and the image he had tried to impart had been slowly shaped and proved by the fires of passion and regret, this meant nothing to the man to whom he was speaking, who pictured a conventional emotion, a grief that is traded on the marketplace, mass-produced.”
From Albert Camus' THE PLAGUE.
Radical idea: Members of Congress and close family members should be barred from owning stock in weapons manufacturing companies.
Even more radical idea: Weapons manufacturing companies should not be allowed to go public to begin with. All that does is create a legal venue for war profiteering.
Today's background listening has been a playlist of the latest UNGA addresses, a great perk of life after the Internet. It used to be that the only speech you'd hear about was the one given by your head of state. Listening to all the addresses though, you realize that the world is ripe with far more problems than are represented in whatever media you have access to. Far, far more, and I am now genuinely depressed.
Some of the speeches were really quite interesting though. I may make a list of my favorite in the near future.
Extremely anxious with all the news coming out today. Like many—I'm sure—I worry about the greater geopolitical repercussions all this stuff may spawn.
Concentration completely shot.
Our bodies are hardwired to crank up the adrenaline and blood flow in the face of danger, but what to do with that when the danger is taking place thousands of miles away? But also, simultaneously, within pocket's reach.
