Here are 5 things I was looking at and loving this week:
This guy took one-star reviews of Barbie from furious men on letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem even cooler. Then, Mother Jones did something similar. And these actually make me want to see it now.
Artist Lucas Zanotto hiked around Sardinia with a black watercolor borrowed from his kids, painted dots onto some stones, and placed them all around the magnificent landscape. The results are hilarious and stunning.
“This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and even it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it's nothing but wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance, and indifference.” Edward R. Murrow’s Wires and Lights In a Box speech is worth listening to or reading. He was speaking about television, but it was also prescient regarding the internet. It aged well (all except for that Stonewall Jackson quote at the end).
I’m enjoying all the hilarious World Cup commentary from folks like Roger Bennett/Sam Mewis and Glennon Doyle. Speaking of the latter, on a recent We Can Do Hard Things podcast, Glennon asks Abby about the World Cup — and I appreciate the inside info and personal accounts from one of the GOATs.
I love hearing people talk about their creative process. David Lynch on ideas (“it comes like on a TV in your mind” and “ideas are like fish, you don’t make the fish, you catch the fish.”). And Paul McCartney on inspiration and songwriting (“I don’t know how to do this. You would think I do, but it’s not one of these things you ever know how to do.”).
Excellent, as always, Melissa. Thanks for doing what you do!