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There's a movie I recommend called Alphaville, by Jean-Luc Godard. They rereleased it last year. I went to see it kind of every day it was in the theater, every day that I could go, because it was such a rare opportunity to actually get to see it on a screen. I highly recommend it, particularly considering the state of the world as it is these days and everything that's going on with Ai– Alphaville is such a fascinating imagining of AI from a historical perspective. That always blows my mind, all the things that are happening nowadays have been predicted in literature and film from a while ago. To see these things manifesting in our current reality– it's really trippy that these artists and writers anticipated all this. I don't know how they did that, but if you watch Alphaville, I think it'll kind of send a chill down your spine to see. Of course, he didn't have the technology available at the time he made the film so he's doing it old-fashioned style but still capturing the sense of what it is that we're going through.
Feb 12, 2025
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About a decade ahead of its time. Beautiful production design, amazing score, and a great reminder that all the technology in the world won’t save us from loneliness or replace our collective human need for each other!! Still can’t see something about AI/GenAI without immediately thinking of this.
Mar 11, 2025
You don’t have to be an doomsdayer to tell a really tragic story about artificial intelligence. This movie really captured what AI ended up being like—I think because it’s less about technology and more about people. Haven’t seen it in many years but I bet it hits harder than ever.
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Mar 2, 2025
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I like to take long walks, typically in the park. I live in Brooklyn, New York and I like to walk around Prospect Park. At the south end of the park there's a little area with a couple of benches in it, like a little sanctuary and I like to go over there to sit on the bench and watch all the different birds out in the pond. I like to go there in all different kinds of weather and see how it changes throughout the year. I just really get a kick out of nature and it actually can be pretty quiet there sometimes, which is hard to find in New York City.
Feb 12, 2025
Oh my God, this guy Henry Taylor, I saw that exhibit at the Whitney. I took everyone I knew to go see the exhibit. I must have seen it seven or eight times. This guy is the most brilliant painter I have seen in a long, long time. I actually got the coffee table book. I never get the coffee table book. He just moved me to tears. He did a painting of Philando Castile getting shot that's one of the most powerful works of visual art I've ever seen in my life from many time period ever. So I recommend Henry Taylor and The Whitney Museum and general because I think you'll always find something interesting there.
Feb 12, 2025
I'm a big fan of quiet. I like quiet and silence. I saw a movie once a long time ago. It's called Into Great Silence and it's a documentary about monks in this monastery and it's quite long actually but there's no dialogue in it. The whole movie is watching these monks and it made a huge impression on me.
Feb 12, 2025