© KubrickIsAGod (via YouTube)
I love it, I love it very much, but I love it against my better judgment.
Apparently, Werner Herzog has been working on his high reputation as an intense and chilling voice actor from quite a young age. Or as one of the YouTube commentators puts it: “He must be such a joy at parties”.
If it is right, it happens –
The main thing is not to hurry.
Nothing good gets away.
The web is becoming a miserable experience because some salesbro who is trying to meet his KPIs is doing stuff to marginally increase the number of paying customers. (And you know, the hell with the rest of us!) The more each site tries to create its own little walled garden, the less valuable the open web becomes.
I’m with Elizabeth Lopatto from The Verge on this one: I don’t want to log in to your website!
theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618804/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell
We live in undeniably ugly times. Architecture, industrial design, cinematography, probiotic soda branding — many of the defining features of the visual field aren’t sending their best. Despite more advanced manufacturing and design technologies than have existed in human history, our built environment tends overwhelmingly toward the insubstantial, the flat, and the gray, punctuated here and there by the occasional childish squiggle.
Following the recently shared article on “why your stuff is actually worse now”, this article explores why we live in a “slightly duller, worse world” aesthetically. Why is everything so ugly?
nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
36. Kindness is vastly underrated. Everyone can be kind – it requires no special skill or training, yet has an immediate, positive impact. It is perhaps the ultimate life hack.
Chris Guillebeau shares this wonderful little gem and other ‘life hacks’ in his 36 Ways to Live Differently shared on his personal blog: