johnke.meI think the only time I’ve ever actually seen Stanley Kubrick explain the ending of 2001 in such unambiguous terms.
The clip is taken from a series of interviews (mostly with Vivian Kubrick) conducted by Jun’ichi Yaoi while he visited the set of The Shining for an unaired Japanese documentary on the Paranormal. The rest of the video is fascinating.
A pay-what-you-want font designed by indestructible type as an updated, modernized Futura.
This is a terrible precedent for the company to set, and you can see why in the reaction from the quote-unquote “fans” on reddit: “We’re literally running the company now… the moment a dev steps out of line or try to talk back to a player, guess what, they’ll know we got their hands on their throat and we can squeeze any time we like”.
This might be old news to other people, but I just found out that DJ Shadow has a podcast. Well, it’s a limited-series podcast of a 7-episode show he ran on an L.A. radio station last year. It’s basically a giant mix/unofficial new album. Two episodes out so far and they’re both really great.
The painting of the original Jaws poster was stolen in 1975, so Mondo hired Jason Edmiston to recreate it. The timelapse video of his process is so great.
My 2011 MacBook Pro finally died (these models suffer from a graphics chip overheating problem) and I’m absolutely gutted because it was genuinely a beautiful machine to work on. It was rock-solid, had every port you’d ever need, and I sprung for the matte display, so it never had any problem with glare. And most importantly, the keyboard worked. The 2017 Touchbar MacBook Pro is the worst laptop I’ve ever used.
Slate is sharing some information regarding their Facebook traffic since the 2017, when Facebook decided it no longer wanted to be a “news” site. One interesting thing to note is that while most news organisations are seeing a dip in their engagement numbers, Fox News’s numbers are actually up. There’s a joke to be made here about real news vs news entertainment, but I’m not sure even I can be bothered to make it.
I do a lot of complaining about Warsaw but the one thing I can’t complain about is the quality of the food coming out of the restaurants here. When we first arrived, I would give out about how there’s not much of a food culture here. Boy, was I wrong. (Also, not really mentioned in the article is how cheap the food is here. Blows my mind every time.)
I’ve drafted a lot of blog posts about the subscription model (and binned them all because I couldn’t figure out a way of saying “not everyone is entitled to make a living from the one piece of software they wrote” without sounding like a complete asshole), but this article from Danny Crichton says pretty much everything I wanted to – subscriptions are probably the new norm, but developers and marketers need to be smarter about the pricing to avoid shooting themselves in the foot.
Frank Chimero has a really great way of organising his Spotify playlists, which allows him to tie a song into a place in time. Sometimes Spotify (other streaming services are available) can be a little like drinking from the firehose, so it’s great to see how other people handle it.