Greg's Newsletter Locates Itself [No. 065]
Do you know your exact coordinates?
Hey friends,
Let's just dive into things!
Making art in 2020
Last newsletter, I shared a cool Google Maps-based art piece. Well, today, I'm proud to share my own version of Google Maps art. Give this a click and have some fun zooming in and out. But not too far in.
$10 if you can guess what I was getting for lunch.
M**e B*******g
There's a presidential candidate who's touting himself as a "moderate progressive" (LOL) spending unprecedented gobs of his own money on everything from massive national TV buys to ironic social media influencer campaigns. His record and literal on-tape verbatims are indefensible. His politics are bad. His ability to simultaneously buy his way towards the top of the 2020 race AND do so while adopting the tactics pushed by our current president is frightening.
SO! Without giving him much more SOV in this newsletter, I recommend reading how this candidate is hijacking our attention. Please don't support (among other things): oligarchs, racists, people who commit sexual harassment, transphobes, or candidates who switch parties for purely opportunistic reasons.
Eh, actually, that last one seems like the least important of the bunch.
The things we see
From Open Culture:
As the last couple of generations to come of age have rediscovered, urban living has its benefits. One of those benefits is the ability to keep an eye on your neighbors — quite literally, given a situation of buildings in close proximity, sufficiently large windows, and minimal usage of drapes. Fortysomething Brooklyn couple Alli and Jacob find themselves turned into voyeurs by just such a situation in Marshall Curry's The Neighbor's Window, the Best Live Action Short Film at this year's Academy Awards. "Do they have jobs, or clothes?" asks Alli, overcome by the frustration of looking after her and Jacob's three young children. "All they do is host dance parties and sleep 'till noon and screw."
It's worth well worth 20 minutes of your time.
Yeah...
How about a real news letter?
I came across the website of Cortney Cassidy, a graphic designer who lives in Oakland, who started a "Mail Blog." It’s described as a "a free blog sent through the mail, available to anyone who gives me their address and asks to be added to the list."
I subscribed to hers but it's an idea that I really dig. Reply to this newsletter with a ✋if you'd be down to get one from me (but also sign up for hers if it sounds cool to you!).
Signing off with the usual plug to subscribe to my ongoing Spotify playlist. Nothing but immaculate tracks.
Til next time.
GB