The future is weird but entirely intriguing

I had no idea Andy Baio was responsible for the Star Wars Kid making it to the Internet. He shares finally getting to meet him after 20 years and the conversations they had.

On this day in 1995, the Chris Farley movie Tommy Boy was released. Let this serve as a reminder that in 2018, Dave Paulson released a concept album about the entire movie. It's a track-by-track retelling but it also gets to the emotional core of the movie. In short, it's fantastic. There's a great intro video explaining the whole record and a fun video for "Don't Let It Get You Down" - one of my personal faves from the record.

Tommy Boy director Peter Segal enjoyed it, as did Consequence of Sound, The AV Club, Ain't It Cool News and even FastCompany.

Everything you need to know about the record is on the official site sanduskyoh.co, there's a twitter for the album at @SanduskyAlbum, you can buy it on Bandcamp or stream it wherever.

I'm biased but I do recommend getting it into your life.

interesting angle... and good for Wardle

I was at this show in 1995 when I was 16 and, somehow, it was bootlegged, digitized and survives on YouTube. Internet is bonkers sometimes.

Seth Pomeroy has done approximately 40 of these commercials. I can watch this supercut anytime and always enjoy

Wordle for movie images. Like Heardle but more up my alley

I've been watching the Netflix documentary series The Andy Warhol Diaries. It's a pleasantly well-made six-part series about the artists life culled from the book of the same name, which was culled from morning conversations between Warhol and friend Pat Hackett. Each episode opens with a disclaimer that the voice of Andy Warhol heard in the series was generated by an AI, seeded by actual Warhol recordings and a little bit of Bill Irwin augmentation.

Hearing that Warhol has been recreated as a bit of a modern day robot is a nice reminder to spend some time cruising the Internet in search of information about the 1982 Andy Warhol Robot. Conceived as part of a "No-Man Show" intended for Broadway, Warhol worked with producer Lewis Allen and one-time Disney engineer Alvaro Villa to bring the entire project to life. 1985's Robots, machines in man's image described the show as such:

The robot will be seated on its bed in Warhol's rom, surrounded by its dog, a telephone, and two television sets. It will interact with these as well as with the audience. When a member of the audience asks a question, the robot will have five preprogrammed answers to choose from.

Not exactly compelling from a 2022 perspective but pretty novel for the mid-80s!

There are so many wonderful images and blurbs to discover about the project. I'll include a few below but I really can't recommend letting yourself have a deep dive at your earliest convenience.

My brain can not understand how this exists. What a repository.

apparently Bob Kane is not the sole creator of Batman. Bill Finger created... most of the entire Batman universe.

Curious to listen to this as it came my way on a trusted recommendation. I am fascinated by caffeine and adenosine. “Dr. Andrew Huberman shares the small behaviors that make a huge impact on your health, including how light affects your sleep and your energy levels, tips to control bad impulses, exercises to slow the aging process, and so much more.”

a podcast I enjoy talking about the blockchain, NFTs and the movie Nightmare Alley in a surprisingly contextualized manner. Bonus, my ex-VHX co-workers who started the GAWDS NFT project all make an appearance. Very interesting stuff regardless of how you feel about NFTs.

TIL that Tumblr has a shop and many of items have almost no branding; just pizza and aliens. Approved.

massive interview with Matt Mullenweg of Automattic and I'm now over the moon about them as a company. Smitten!

"contemporary-country-meets-Italian-disco-meets-synth-pop pastiche" and it's GOOD

rarely do I encounter a *writer's* website primarily aimed at advertising campaigns and actually leave entertained. Vandersall apparently works on the StreetEasy campaigns; which are always a delight

ran across this on Youtube. Took a few tracks for it to hit me but when it did, it hit good. Recommended.

Competitor to DistroKid and TuneCore. I don’t personally need this at this time but it’s great to see more options in this space. The deal terms are stellar too. Is there a hidden catch??

good lord this is both daunting and enjoyable

give it 34 seconds, that should be sufficient to entice you for the full 7 minutes