1 April, 2024

Ryusuke Hamaguchi: Drive My Car
Listening/Watching
Anne Grosfilley: Wax and co
Reading

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

–Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

Quote of the Week

16 March, 2024

Lee Sung Jin: Beef
Listening/Watching
Jeffrey Gibson: An Indigenous Present
Reading

“He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

–Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Quote of the Week

2 March, 2024

Damien Chazelle, Sony: Whiplash
Listening/Watching
Terrance Hayes: Watch Your Language
Reading

“It was a pleasure to burn.”

–Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Quote of the Week

Videos of projects in Guinea, Kenya, and Côte d’Ivoire.

Last summer, I headed off to West Africa with a team and documented the work that colleagues of mine had done over the past five years. The shoot was grueling, lots of mishaps (including brawls, drunk subjects, and at one point our camera man getting detained for not having the right permits). And then the editing over months! But the final product is beautiful.

You can watch the videos here

20 February, 2024

Matthew Heineman, Netflix: American Symphony
Listening/Watching
Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe: When McKinsey Comes to Town
Reading

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

–Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Quote of the Week