JULY

WATCHING

• The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty

• The Inventor: Out for blood in Silicon Valley – Enjoyed this a lot. I said what the fuck, and why doesn’t she blink a lot. Reminded me of this Anna Sorokin story, which HAS to become a movie soon…

• The King of Staten Island

• Man-Spider silly/funny short

• A Slight Inconvenience bat-shit funny/gross short

• Inside Man Denzel

• I May Destroy You … The end! And now that it’s over, the soundtrack (bangers bangers bangers)

• The Beastie Boys Story Kinda cringey in places but good. RIP MC A (You will cry when you see Ad Rock’s lip wobble)

• In My Particular Case

• This is where I leave you – a short animation about…ideas/creativity. Made me smile

• She’s funny like that

• knives out

• Rushmore

• Michaela Coel | James MacTaggart Lecture | Edinburgh TV Festival 2018

• 'Max the Forger’ Specialised in Faking Famous Art Works 5 min film

READING

• Transit by Rachel Cusk

• Jarvis Cocker on Jarv Is - the face

• Vulture article on Michaela Coel (where I then found the link to Michaela’s speech at the James MacTaggart Lecture)

• Seeing Things by Emily LaBarge

• ‘There not in it like the Man Dem’ Julia Toppin’s MA thesis on Women in Drum and Bass

• https://www.milesjaffe.com/life-of-an-artist

• Designer Diary: Abandon All Artichokes, or a Heartless Card Game – Interesting, and well written (no jargon) diary from a designer documenting her design process.

LOOKING

• AR but make it Art – Acute Art is an AR app that launched in March with KAWS. Nicely done, easy to use and a fun to share/take pics of. Here’s a KAWS on my couch –

• Robert E. Lee Monument: 6.15.2020 3D model graffiti epic-ness

• https://www.tiktok.com/@thejulianbass The very talented Julian Bass is a ‘creator’ on TikTok and he is a wizard of video-editing.

• Banksy doing a better job of communicating we should be wearing masks than the gov

• Zena Kay colourful and delicious and fun

• https://www.instagram.com/susanjchen/

LISTENING

• Jazz not Jazz by The Cooks

• Sway for a bit of UK hip hop nostalgia

• SAULT UNTITLED (Black Is) <3

• I listed to the new Streets album and felt depressed (Take me as I am is fun though)

• https://soundcloud.com/vacationsnyc/sets/more-love

• Alexander Nut Sample Special Part 2

• Avenue beat - F2020 – Agreed

• Cornershop! Totally missed this when it came out in March. 'Everywhere That Wog Army Roam'

OTHER STUFF

• https://arcopypaste.app/

• Scream the House Down by Marcus Lyall - the antidote we all need on our 100andsomething video call

• https://sanzo-wada.dmbk.io/ – A dictionary of colour combinations. Useful and beautiful

• Eat Less Plastic – nicely designed/illustrated campaign aiming to raise awareness of the amount of plastic we eat. Yep. EAT. A credit card-sized amount each week. Yummy

• https://www.notion.so/ –  After just finishing a film project with multiple emails, messages, docs, decks and files I love the idea of having everything in one place.

• https://justforfun.io/ – A bunch of fun games/distractions showcasing creative coding. Bongo Cat is a favourite

• https://www.munchrecipes.com/ – What do you want for dinner? New tab, new recipe.

• https://bennettfeely.com/csscreatures/

• https://www.drawbrary.com/ – A curated library of free illustrations