I received this photo from John Edward Hasse, who is in Sweden to speak at a Duke Ellington conference.

This looks far too upscale for my branch of the Gioia family.

This helps me read the news.

Turner, anticipant Rothko

MARTIN SCORSESE is hilarious in this ad for American Express.

Wooden drum used on the Sea Islands, South Carolina nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_…

1. 19yo Harvard Econ student Wesley Wang spends 2+ years on a short film

2. Posts the 12-min video on YouTube in Sept

3. Darren Aronofsky watches it in Oct and emails him “watched your film, can you drop out of Harvard?”

4. TriStar buy rights and Wang will adapt for big screen

feels like a sci-fi story of the mid-20th century when an entire society / civilization is brainwashed through an ingenious device that everyone takes up eagerly, avidly, as a novelty that sets neurons firing more emphatically than merely reading could ever do; soon becomes…

Sunday night, The Rolling Stones kicked off their STONES TOUR ‘24 HACKNEY DIAMONDS at the sold-out NRG Stadium in Houston, TX. Video Courtesy Of The Rolling Stones. #RollingStones

Happy 100th birthday, Blossom Dearie.

Did you just play some light jazz? 😅

This is just two Chat GPTs having a chat on how to destroy civilization on earth…

This always happens right before the asteroid hits.

If you want intense graphics, forget AI—and check out reality.