Two thousand and twenty-four
2024, a better spin around the sun and behind the moon than the previous one here at HyperTextHero Headquarters. Visited friends, found more help for mom, started playing piano, and late in the year, with the help of new accessories got my livestream back on schedule. Here are my favorite things done or discovered:
Books
- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. Maybe the best book about creative process in everyday life and art I’ve read. Positive vibes and meditations.
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Timeless advice about life and death from a ruler/philosopher who seemed to have been actually good and uncorrupted by power, unlike what we have coming next year.
- Drawing on the Dominant Eye by Betty Edwards. Worthwhile, even if not as much as Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.
Films & Series
- Perfect Days. The day of a janitor who likes trees and music.
- Oppenheimer. The final scene where he closes his eyes.
- Station Eleven. Strong characters surviving a post-pandemic apocalypse in Chicago and around lake Michigan.
- The Holdovers. The delicate kiss.
- Moonstruck. The intense kiss.
- Blitz. On racism and bravery.
Songs ♫
- Heathens and Everything Matters from Aurora’s The Gods We Can Touch, one of those albums that come along once in a while, where every song is good.
- The two title songs, and the others in Blonde Redhead’s melancholic Sit Down For Dinner.
- Andromeda by Weyes Blood. The multi-instrument editing touch in the first three seconds followed by wavy-raspy synth.
- Echolocation by a band called La Cerca I saw live on my first trip to Seattle.
- Luck and Strange by David Gilmour. Almost 80, still rocking.
Video Games
- Dedicated pages with links to each episode of video games I play. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see a list of the current ones, or visit the Articles page. Variety seems to be the true name of the HyperTextHero video game game.
- Helldivers 2. An action comedy troupe theatrically powered by the best sound track since the original Star Wars and Rambo II: The Mission.
Visual Art
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Tove Jansson: Bird Blue, 1953 (detail). © Tove Jansson Estate. Photo: HAM / Maija Toivanen. - Taking candid photographs again with the X100S, and finally an X100V, my first new camera in over a decade.
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Possibly Related:
- Two thousand and twenty-three
- Pacing
- Digital Incunabula
- Eat, play, read
- Complementary books and video games
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