figments

Frances McDormand via - NYT

All I see is pixels

A recent issue of must-read-newsletter Dense Discovery.

Moonshot thinking = Huge Problem x Breakthrough Technology x  Radical Solution

“How nice it would be to die swimming toward the sun” - Le Cabanon by Le Corbusier

Zanele Muholi via WePresent

Snow scene by Alex Katz

Josephus Melchior Thimister

The latest Tech & Desing Issue by @NYTimes - equal parts of tech news and compelling user experience across devices.

David Hockney’s “Sur la Terrasse,” painted in 1971, was rediscovered - via @NYTimes

Robert Frank - 1949

“I’ve come of age as a writer in a time where understanding something doesn’t necessarily lead to you being able to do anything about that thing,” she says. “The internet gives us this feeling of being able to know everything about anything, but often feeling like we’re able to do less and less every day. Just the question of ‘What is the use of understanding something?’ is this meta question hovering in my mind.” - Jia Tolentino via @NYTimes

I was reading about how rich the pluralistic life is, and how stifling a homogeneous life is. And I was realizing that while we’re learning to preach gospel of openness and diversity, we’re mostly not living it. In the realm of public life, many live as monads, within the small circles of one specialty, one code, no greatness.

Robert Mapplethorpe

lynette yiadom boakye