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Andy Warhol said our newsletter title this week. There’s no line if you know how to expertly cross it.

Here’s some cows jumping off a boat into a large body of water.

 

 

More on the process, which is essentially cows diving into the water.

@joshuanueva These cows are better swimmers than me ? #ireland #belmullet #inishkea ? original sound – Joshua Nueva

 

 

  • Fireworks burn things down, blow up dumb people’s hands, scare dogs and cats and people with PTSD. And they make a mess. Why would we ever do fireworks ever again when drone shows are doing this now? Happy Year of the Dragon!

 

 

  • This is the most cyberpunk thing ever, but it’s real, and part of our darkest timeline of weapons in space and radioactive tsunami torpedoes.

Super great. But there’s a cute cat! And he sorta looks like Charlie from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Ukrainian drone operator, Donetsk region

 

SPACE

 

 

 

 

  • The moon Phobos passes in front of the sun in an image taken by the NASA Perseverance rover on Feb. 8, 2024. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU)

 

 

  • RIP AND GOODSPEED LITTLE ONE. Fractured a propeller, but you did so much more than ever expected.

Ingenuity, the NASA Helicopter Flying Over Mars, Ends Its Mission The robot flew 72 times, serving as a scouting partner to the Perseverance rover, aiding in the search for evidence that there was once life on the red planet. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/science/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-mars.html

 

 

 

 

 

  • Reminds of the the two rules: Everytime you see it, you will cry, and everytime you see it, you still have to re-experience how NASA does a stellar job with end of life of these things, and anthropomorphizing them through social accounts, such that it truly feels like we lost a little friend. Hell, they’re called Rovers.

 

 

 

 

  • In the “Total Recall” was actually totally on point with the plot point of atmosphere creation by melting the ice caps:

Water ice buried at Mars’ equator is over 2 miles thick News By Keith Cooper published January 18, 2024 The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet’s equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted. https://www.space.com/mars-water-ice-equator-frozen-ocean

 

 

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

  • This is horrifying, amazing, and everything changed in a blink of an eye.  This will be a moment remembered like the elephant video on youtube, and this is an incredible leap forward. The scale of Open AI has their work looking better than stable diffusion, and other stand alone AI Video companies. Sure, there is WILD copyright infringement and definite real humans have just had work stolen… not to mention the shitshow of being able to verify and identify AI generated content. I’d prefer this to not exist this election year, as a massive amount of boomers in facebook groups are going to lose their shit when they see the stuff they think they believe.

https://openai.com/sora

 

 

 

BUT YOU NEED TO CHECK OUT THE STORYTELLING EXPERIMENTS FROM ARTISTS GRANTED ACCESS:

https://openai.com/blog/sora-first-impressions

 

 

 

  • One nuclear-armed Poseidon torpedo could decimate a coastal city. Russia wants 30 of them.

Imagine finding yourself on a serene seashore, only to realize that a catastrophic tsunami is imminent. However, this is no ordinary tsunami; this one is radioactive. https://thebulletin.org/2023/06/one-nuclear-armed-poseidon-torpedo-could-decimate-a-coastal-city-russia-wants-30-of-them/

 

 

  • This is somewhat sad, but also remarkable. Labord’s Chameleon… This wonderful creature lives the shortest life of any 4-legged vertebrate, but the shout of life’s spectacle upon death is magical!

Watch chameleon erupt in color ‘as if uttering her last words’ in her final moments before death: Footage of Labord’s chameleon in last moments of her short life shows her skin burst into ‘chaotic technicolor patterns’ — a spectacle never observed in the wild before https://www.livescience.com/animals/lizards/watch-chameleon-erupt-in-color-as-if-uttering-her-last-words-in-her-final-moments-before-death

 

  • The MIT Media Lab Tangible Media Group experimenting with a “tangible telepress”

“Telepresence'” is raising a fundamental question about our existence. “I can see you, I can hear you, but where are you?” The Covid-19 pandemic crisis triggered a tidal shift in our work environment from the shared central office to working from home. Teleconferencing technologies have become the new lifeline for our work and life. The current dominant model is the combination of audio-video conferencing (e.g., Zoom) and cloud-based digital information sharing. This model is lacking embodied interactions with people and objects using the tactile sensations we enjoy in our everyday physical environment. A sense of touch is critical for human beings to develop a sense of trust in other people. Additionally, abstract and ephemeral pixels on the screen cannot convey the sense of persistency found in the physical world. We believe the introduction of “tangibility” is a critical step in bringing audio/visual and digital telepresence to the next level and further engaging people. In this workshop, we are going to review the history of CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work), and discuss the future of telepresence technologies. https://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/tangible-telepresence

More projects here: https://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/

The ultimate placemat!

COMEDY

  • NOT WRONG, MR. MARON:
@marcdmaron #standupcomedy #comedy #comedians ? Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be – AC/DC

 

 

  • On the heels of this sage commentary from Jeselnik about how cringe it is that standups are missing the point:
@podcastcurious Jeselnik’s hot take on modern comics ?? @thispastweekend_ #theovon #theo #thispastweekend #anthonyjeselnik ? original sound – Podcast & Curious

 

 

 

  • This New Yorker then Ireland transplant who then lived in China (and just started doing comedy stateside)… is REALLY FUNNY. Big Bill Burr vibes, while still being his own thing and quite the truth speaker. Des Bishop, hi! =)

 

 

  • This Mission: Impossible interview is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. It’s Simon Pegg answering for Pom Klementieff, and punking this interviewer who is just LOST as to what is happening, and keeps it professional and together. I’ve ZERO idea how Pom didn’t laugh.
@cinemasterpiece4 #funny #interview #funnyvideos #missionimpossible #Rome ? original sound – Cinemasterpiece

 

MOVIES & TV

 

  • Hader is a gem, and although I thought to put this down below, his career in Film and TV has been iconic, and yet he still has his own personal doubts, insecurities, and imposter complex anxiety. What a great listen!

 

This Coen Brothers' Movie Is the Closest They've Ever Come to Horror

 

 

  • The future is Jordan Peele producing a film that he saves from Netflix for Dev Patel, because it’s that good. This is Dev’s first directing gig, and he stars in it, and frankly… it looks like an unreal new John Wick franchise. But after A24’s Green Knight, I’ll expect some levels of depth and righteousness.

 

 

  • If you grew up with Siskel and Ebert like I did (and I still read Ebert almost daily if not weekly, and reference his reviews endlessly)… you’re gonna love this playlist of old episodes! =)

 

 

 

 

 

  • Think you caught everything in Ari Aster’s Hereditary? Well, that 2h7m is so dense, it spawned a 4h38 deep dive. Holy moly:

 

MUSIC

  • Flooring DJ Jazzy Jeff with audio tape scratching? YES PLEASE… this rig is unreal.

 

 

 

 

  • Why Burial’s Untrue Is the Most Important Electronic Album of the Century So Far Delving into the politics, emotion, and musical history behind the disquieting masterwork a decade after its release.

 

I mean, he made Ray Jay good. This quick breakdown is unreal:

 

 

  • Groovy little interlude from a band called Parcels, tracking with this groovy funky wallpaper sound coming from bands like Cannons, Khruangbin, Hermanos Gutiérrez, and their ilk.

 

 

Tiny Desk Premiere: Thee Sacred Souls https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1226810515/tiny-desk-concert-thee-sacred-souls

 

  • One of my favorite living artists… she is mesmerizing.

Hania Rani: Tiny Desk Concert https://www.npr.org/2024/01/22/1225443826/tiny-desk-premiere-hania-rani

 

 

 

  • I am a huge fan of Dorothy Ashby, and namely her seminal work Afro-Harping. My friend roped me into going to a show, and I didn’t even realize it was going to be *THE* Brandee Younger! Here she is playing Alice Coltrane and “Rama Rama”.

 

 

  • I saw Adi Oasis last night. A bass player that is multi-faceted, multi-talented, funky and soulful, groovy and not that hard to look at. =)

 

PEOPLE, CULTURE, SOCIETY, & GAME THEORY

 

  • This is my favorite story. In 1832, some Californio were training Hawaiians how to be cowboys, rope cattle, and this was well before the rise of the Wild West. In fact, a couple Hawaiians went to a Rodeo competition and all 3 won their events. Our Wild West was 1865 – 1895, 30 short years… but it’s so cool Hawaiians were roping before we were!

How Mexican Vaqueros Inspired Hawaiian Cowboys Decades Before the Wild West https://projectpulso.org/2022/09/21/hawaiian-vaqueros/

Two centuries ago, 3 Mexican vaqueros Californians crossed an ocean and changed Hawaii forever https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaii-cowboy-paniolo-history-18615187.php

 

 

  • In the “why you think your phone is listening to your conversations so it can expertly advertise to you, when it’s just that we’re all really boring and predictable.

How social media algorithms ‘flatten’ our culture by making decisions for us:

“The act of choosing a piece of culture to consume is a really powerful one,” says writer Kyle Chayka. He’s the author of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture.” In his new book, Filterworld, Chayka examines the algorithmic recommendations that dictate everything from the music, news and movies we consume, to the foods we eat and the places we go. He argues that all this machine-guided curation has made us docile consumers and flattened our likes and tastes. https://www.npr.org/2024/01/17/1224955473/social-media-algorithm-filterworld

 

  • Like Fry’s dog Seymour, from Futurama, but real, and lots of emotion here too:

Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog Who Waited For His Deceased Owner for Ten Years https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hachiko-dog/

 

 

 

  • Like Japanese “art of the useless invention” called Chindogu, but FOR REAL, and American.

Quirky Inventions from Yesteryear: Forgotten Gadgets from the Early 20th Century https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vintage-gadgets-from-1900s/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • In the “hot springs are my spirit animal” file:

Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs From onsens in Japan to high-altitude pools in Bolivia, the photographer Greta Rybus shares highlights from her search for thermal waters. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/travel/hot-springs.html

VEHICLES

  • The Hawaiian Seaglider initiative will alter interisland transport forever. No more slow boat ferries, no more 9 seater Cessna. This essentially foils across water, and can fly, going 100 miles an hour.

What is a Seaglider? A seaglider is an all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicle built to service coastal routes, building on real-world-proven tech. https://www.hawaiiseaglider.org/what-is-a-seaglider

100% ELECTRIC, ZERO EMISSIONS

160 NAUTICAL MILE (APPROX. 180 SM, 300 KM) RANGE AT BATTERY END-OF-LIFE

160 KNOT (180 MPH, 300 KPH) CRUISE SPEED

3,500 LBS (1,600 KG) OF PAYLOAD IN CARGO CONFIGURATION

12 PASSENGERS (+2 CREW)

30DB QUIETER THAN AN AIRCRAFT OR HELICOPTER

https://regentcraft.com/seagliders/viceroy

 

 

This Subaru ad is absolutely brilliant.

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