Margot Robbie next to a bottle of Chanel No 5. One of the most read stories on Wallpaper in 2024. But did you know that Chanel No 5 was the result of a mistake? Read more in this week’s edition of the R30 newsletter.
I watched a bunch of movies over the holidays, most notably Ravenous, a 90s Wild West cannibal movie starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle. It’s fun, and also qualifies as a christmas movie, since it has snow.
This week I checked out a podcast about Origen, specifically History of Philosophy without any gaps’ focus on the late antiquity church father from Alexandria. Read more in this week’s edition of the R30 newsletter.
Yesterday a kestrel was chasing a songbird through my garden. He swooped down past the roof, the tiny bird in front of him making a hard break to the left.
I was doing Chess Puzzles while listening to France Musique, and after a while a show started that was dedicated to variations on Pete Seeger’s Where Have All the Flowers Gone. Read more in this week’s edition of the R30 newsletter.
A play I wrote around the end of 2022. It’s a take on the Odysseus saga, featuring the heroes and their deeds in a modern setting. It’s written in verse, kinda. An important step to Bravour.
My first Youtube interview. Talked with Devin Holody about ’the pitfalls and opportunities of Art & Artificial Intelligence’. Too long. Not edited. The next talk will get cut down to ten minutes.
