Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. At the end of a trying 2024, here’s what they had to say.
Joshua Benton
Glance Back offers a unique take "journaling":
With this Chrome extension, once a day at random when you open a new tab, Glance Back will quickly snap a photo of you and inquire: “What are you thinking about?”. Once you type your answer and press enter, the photo and thought will be collectively saved to your history of glances, cumulatively creating an archive of moments you share with your screen.
In My Machine and Me, Greta Rainbow chronicles a year of using Glance Back for the Los Angeles Review of Books:
My time-lapse is documentation of a working woman slowly aging. An accumulation in lockstep with decay, and my screen is a grave marker. I’m getting better at writing, here. I’m deepening my frown lines, here.
The Royal Institute of British Architecture has awarded Six Columns their house of the year.
It is indeed a wonderful space, but I think I prefer Eavesdrop, one of shortlisted selections:
Modulus Matrix, a Community Housing project, took the International Prize.
More on the contest, including the other Shortlisted properties, on RIBA's website.
Specatacular GoPro footage of cliff jumper Laura Marino doing her thing. The film is co-created by Mathieu Brulard.
More on Geddes' site, including timed releases in his shop.
RollAway is a new company offering rental of an e-Van with a 5-star makeover. They launched a few months ago in the San Francisco Bay area and, presumably, will offer more vehicles in more locations in the future.
I love travel and unorthodox approaches to entrenched systems so this struck a chord with me.
More on the RollAway website.
Just reading the collected short stories in Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte and they are brutally good. As the NYT says, "Tony Tulathimutte’s new stories center on the young, alienated, unloved people you can’t stop watching."
The first story, The Feminist, was published in N+1 and is free to read. It knocked me out, as I was friends with someone in the 90s who is pretty much this character through and through. He was my first encounter with Mens Rights Activists and thankfully I've managed to avoid in-depth conversations with others in the movement ever since.
I find 3D Printing fascinating — though I barely understand it. 3D Printing Adventures is a great introduction. I have not yet bit the bullet on a printer, but this takes me a step closer.
Someone has posted the entirety of Rupert Goold's version of Macbeth to Youtube. It is... something else, and well worth your time.
This is from the Youtube description:
Macbeth is a 2010 television film based on William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. It was broadcast on BBC Four on 12 December 2010. In the United States, it aired on PBS' Great Performances. Rupert Goold directed it from his stage adaptation for the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2007. Patrick Stewart is featured in the title role, with Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth.
The film is a more modern re-imagining of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. It evokes the atmosphere of Romania in the 1960s, with parallels between Ceaușescu and Macbeth in their equally brutal quests for power. The Three Witches likewise receive an update in keeping with the 20th-century aesthetics, appearing as hospital nurses. Their presence is pervasive throughout the film, punctuating the horror of Macbeth's murderous reign.
Watch it here:
Via Metafilter.
The always hilarious ZeFrank is back with another video in his True Facts series, this one focusing on Rays — The Sombreros of the Sea.
More Ze on his channel. He's almost at the twenty year mark of posting videos.
