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I read Project Hail Mary (by The Martian author Andy Weir) a few summers ago; it was fine. I suspected at the time it might make a better movie than a book and after watching the trailer, I’m excited to see this next summer. Ryan Gosling stars and Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie, produced the Spider-verse movies) are directing. Out in theaters March 2026.
Tags: Andy Weir · books · Christopher Miller · movies · Phil Lord · Project Hail Mary · Ryan Gosling · space · trailers · video
Scammers are using AI tools to sell spectacular-looking but non-existent plant species that resemble butterflies, Hubble photos, or psychedelic Jurassic Park flora.
Whoa, Anna Wintour is stepping down as Vogue’s editor-in-chief, a post she has held for 37 years. Your reminder to watch the excellent documentary The September Issue.
From Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies (Amazon):
Hope is a risk; especially when you’ve known what it is to dream for better and only be met with the tyranny of degradation, greed, and violent appetites.
But despair is a concession.
Be careful of who you let regulate your dreaming. Always remember who benefits from our hopelessness.
Tags: Cole Arthur Riley
“Denis Villeneuve is set to direct the next James Bond film for Amazon MGM Studios, the studio announced Wednesday.” Bond + Villeneuve could be a potent combination.
Rick Rubin collaborated with Anthropic to create The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding. Inspired by Laozi’s Dao De Jing, it’s Rubin’s take on intuitive programming. (I had to triple-check that this was indeed Rick Rubin the record producer…)
In case you need, like I do, some reminders on How to Weather the Storm. “You have opportunity after opportunity to create something lovely for yourself or others.”
Graphic artist Chris Ware has created a set of 20 stamps for the US Postal Service’s 250th anniversary in his iconic style.
The pane of 20 interconnected stamps show a bird’s-eye view of a mail carrier’s route through a bustling town. Laid out in 4 rows of 5, the stamps depict the story through the 4 seasons from top-left to bottom-right. The artwork also contains numerous icons representing the Postal Service.
The stamps will be available in July but you can pre-order them now from the USPS Store. (thx, caroline)
Tags: Chris Ware · design · stamps · USPS
From Scientific American, a set of charts of vaccination recommendations for children and adults backed by science. (Since our “government” won’t do it…so fun to live in the DIY public health era.)
Koyannistocksi is a shot-by-shot remake of the trailer for Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi using only stock footage.
A testament to Reggio’s influence on contemporary motion photography, and the appropriation of his aesthetic by others for commercial means.
(via @waxpancake)
[This is a vintage post originally from Apr 2016.]
Tags: Godfrey Reggio · Koyaanisqatsi · movies · remix · timeless posts · trailers · video