✈️ Aeroplanes, Cameras, and Wisdom

It takes quite a lot of finesse to capture real objects into computer 3D shapes

Cheers everyone 👋🏼

I’ll be changing the structure of these newsletters until the end of October: I’m studying for an exam and I won’t be able to write as much or as well as I’d like, but I’d still like to share what I’ve enjoyed in the past week.

Hope that’s alright with you, and let me know if you have any suggestions.

Three things I enjoyed this week

🎼 One song

Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea – this track is from one of my favorite indie/folk albums. It’s eponymous album is considered a modern classic by many, and it’s not hard to see why:

📹 One video

Wired’s How 250 Cameras Filmed Neill Blomkamp's Demonic – fascinating look at how Blomkamp filmed his latest project. I used photogrammetry myself for my university capstone project and it’s intriguing to see how artists use these kinds of technologies to tell a story:

📖 One article

Mark Manson’s What is Wisdom? – I’ve been following Manson since the release of his fun and expletive-ridden book in 2016. His latest newsletter on wisdom is especially pertinent in the current environment:

Paradoxically, the price for diversity is constant stress and anxiety. Diversity means differences and differences mean conflict. Highly extraverted people annoy highly introverted people and vice versa. Highly religious people offend highly non-religious people and vice versa. People from rural and urban areas have different life experiences and different values. People with differing beliefs yell at each other, fight, and complain about how awful everyone else is. 

Yet this perception that everyone else is awful is evidence that everything is alright. The fact that we’re exposed to enough diversity of thought and lifestyle to be so annoyed by everyone demonstrates that the system is working. In a sense, democracy requires constant dissatisfaction. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.