when trompe l'oeil meets f'you

Explaining the Dune books:

Andrew Chafin is hilarious.

He was pissed after giving up a game-tying homer in the 9th inning but then got over it pretty quickly lol

This is the biggest indirect admission of “We messed up trying to chase Netflix after we let them use all of our content to build their platform and now we need money” that I've ever seen.

What an incredible self own by Apple, lol—at a time when artists, musicians and creatives are more worried than ever that tech companies are trying to crush them into dust for profit, along comes Apple and makes an *ad* whose whole message is: yes that is exactly what we're doing

Make one new idea challenge

One thing I kind of love about social media is that when an important artist dies, there is this moment where their work sort of explodes through the system, almost like a biological process of some kind, like a release of spores. It’s especially true of musicians I think

how it started / how it's going

me watching a hydraulic press crush the entirety of human artistic endeavor and turn it into an iPad

CHALLENGERS 2 just announced

this interview tour is astounding, just one hostile encounter after another, it's kind of an astonishing example of some kind of anti-damage-control jujitsu

-ok what's the premise
-we start with lots of things people love: a turntable, a trumpet, paint and tvs
-great
-and we crush it all
-sorry what
-just destroy it
-so like 'we're here to crush and destroy everything'
-no like 'this ipad is so thin, it's very thin, just look at it'

wasn’t expecting a campaign revelation to top “I shot my dog” but here we are

I already went in expecting this ad to be bad but oh boy

Such a bad ad for a company that almost exclusively makes fantastic ads.

the great Mireille Silcoff for New York Times Opinion on the Met Gala, 'the new sartorial nothingness' and why, in an era of sexual decline, more celebrities and the celebrity adjacent are stepping out in nearly nothing at all

nytimes.com/2024/05/07/opi…

redemption tour going swimmingly

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