I love this image from unsplash! It sums up the freedom of the road. There's the style factor certain cars have, it's cool colour, and the driver's relaxed but thoughtful pose. Just wanted to share it. 2 Nine% As this article explains brilliantly, only 9% of Americans actually chose Trump and Clinton as the nominees of their parties. 3 Seth says... Seth Godin's latest message was rilly cool:
The lottery winners (a secret of unhappiness)
You're going to have to fight for every single thing, forever and ever. It's really unlikely that they will pick you, anoint you or hand you the audience and support you seek. No one will ever realize just how extraordinary you are, how generous, charismatic, or caring.
That pretty much doesn't happen, except for just a handful of people who win some sort of cosmic lottery, who get 'discovered' at a drug store and made a movie star, who are on the fast track to CEO of the Fortune 500, who get the big label deal and the gold records, merely for being in the right place at the right time.
Those people, it turns out, those few, end up unhappy. You might imagine that you'd like to be in their shoes, but they spend every day feeling both entitled and fraudulent.
You, on the other hand, get the privilege of the struggle, of working your ass off to make a difference.
4 Women editors
Dede Allen
Great article about the imbalance between women and men in Hollywood power positions. 5 The science behind reading in a car I don't get sick reading in a moving vehicle (car/bus/plane/train) but people in my family do. Here's why! Overtime - Rogue One The new trailer has some interesting teasers!
The third movie in the reboot films is the first without J.J. Abrams and it's probably, according to this article, all the better for it. How is THAT possible??
2 Hillary Rodham Wow - 47 years ago (that makes it 1969) Hillary Clinton (Rodham) gave a commencement speech as a student. It's a fascinating listening experience! 3 How a TV show is made Using The Americans as an example, this is a rilly cool run down on the process from the good people at Vox. I'm a big fan of the show and it's fun getting a peek behind the (high pressured) scenes. 4 Stand by him
I'm also a fan of Wil Wheaton and his writing (and acting - he was Gordie in Stand By Me). This piece is about his reboot and 44th birthday and it's rilly cool! 5 ipod classic
I love mine - this guy does too! Overtime Jason Bourne is back and so is the shaky style of Paul Greenglass. Song of the week - Hero by Family of the Year
I think I've always been in love with Grace. She is so wonderful, so talented, so funny, with such a beautiful spirit. You get a sense of it as she discusses writing White Rabbit.
2 A movie written by algorithm Hmm - not sure what I think about this - Sunspring is a sci-fi movie written by artificial intelligence. Definitely fits into 'senses working overtime', though. 3 Girl squad This NY Times 'report' on the Hillary Clinton/ Liz Warren meeting is hilarious!! I wish I could write clever stuff like this. 4 Brain Pickings I love tuning into the more cerebral delights of Brain Pickings. This latest piece on reading centres attention on Hermann Hesse in a stunning way! 5 Ellen's set
I saw this picture on my Twitter feed and while it didn't inspire me to go to the link, it did make me admire the set: the white square seating (which allows the humans to float via their darker clothing); the contrasting natural textures of the (fake?) wooden coffee table with book/(fake?) flowers/coffee mugs (not cups); fake cityscape with palm trees projected onto the big screen behind her; the highly polished floor. All gleaming, all fake warmth or fake expanse. It's actually really really well done! Overtime Song of the week and, yes, I love Steven Wilson's stuff: Lazurus by Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree:
