#CoolShit 05.01.20

Click 👆 the  ♡, it legit helps me a ton.

It worked! All but 1 day this week there were more people that viewed my emails, than people that I sent it to, WHAT?!?!?! That used to be thing that happened MAYBE once a month 🤯

And thats with only about ~20% of you actively “liking” the email. *scowls at you*

Now onto what you really came here for…

Friday is now upon us, which means… so is my list of shit to do this weekend!

Do something cool this weekend, see you Monday!

-Shelby

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👀 Things to watch

• Watch Picasso Make a Masterpiece (3:48) (#CoolShit 04.29.20)

  'Le Mystère Picasso' is a remarkable documentary film made by French director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, in which stop-action and time-lapse photography are used to capture Picasso at work.
  Not many of the works he created for the documentary survive – but three hang in the Royal Academy exhibition, 'Picasso and Paper'. Here's how one of them came to be.

• Abstract: The Art of Design (Season 1), is now free on YouTube (#CoolShit 04.30.20)

  • This series is phenomenal, and now there’s no excuse to not enjoy it.

• This new conversation with Bill Gates (4:32) (#CoolShit 04.29.20)

  • Mr. Gates has a way of making me feel comfortable about the most catastrophic scenarios.

• Watch the cast of Fresh Prince watch clips of Uncle Phil, R.I.P.

  • “How come he don’t he want me man” *instantly cries*

• Almost every James Bond movie on Amazon Prime (#CoolShit 04.27.20)

  • I got “Goldfinger” added to the queue!

• Uhhh… The Pentagon made an archive of “UFO” footage publicly available (#CoolShit 04.28.20)

  “The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.'”

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👂Things to listen to

• This archive of Bob Dylans rare “Theme Time Radio” shows (#CoolShit 04.27.20)

  • So as you know, I’ve been listening and sharing this show all week. Guys, seriously, push play. It makes for PERFECT background quarantine music.

• This collection of music 100% created by AI

  • This is a FUCKING TRIP. They programmed AI to create original music - instruments, lyrics, vocal performances - 🤯

• Bob Dylan covering Brittany’s “Baby One More Time” (#CoolShit 04.27.20)

  • So this is obviously fake but the video demonstrates a fascinating & freak technology. They created a “voice model” for Bob Dylan, then they can apply that model to ANY AUDIO SOURCE. Check out their YouTube page full of things like… Jay Z Reading the Bible, Bob Ross doing Pulp Fiction, and Six U.S. Presidents reading “Fuck The Police”

• How Havoc(of Mobb Deep) turned a Herbie Hancock sample into one of the most notorious beats EVER. (#CoolShit 04.27.20)

  • While you’re here, Mobb Deep - Shook Ones, Pt. II

• New Run The Jewels (#CoolShit 04.28.20)

  • The sights & sound of rebellion.

• Thom Yorke’s isolated vocal track from Radioheads “Creep” (#CoolShit 04.28.20)

  • I promise you’ll hear things you’ve never been able to hear before.

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🧠 Things to read

• ‘the American dream "does not exist" right now’ (#CoolShit 04.28.20)

  "If you don't have a situation where people have opportunity, you're not only failing to tap all the potential that exists, which is uneconomic, you're threatening the existence of the system, and I think that's coming to home very clearly with the downturn in the economy with this virus," he said.
  "We can see there is not just a wealth gap; there's an opportunity gap and a productivity gap. And it's a problem,"

• what is actually happening psychologically/physiologically when you have a "gut feeling" about something? (#CoolShit 04.30.20)

  Contrary to what most of us would like to believe, decision-making may be a process handled to a large extent by unconscious mental activity. A team of scientists has unraveled how the brain actually unconsciously prepares our decisions. "Many processes in the brain occur automatically and without involvement of our consciousness. This prevents our mind from being overloaded by simple routine tasks. But when it comes to decisions we tend to assume they are made by our conscious mind. This is questioned by our current findings."

• NCAA Athletes can now make money

  • SO crazy to think that in America, of all places, we would prevent anyone from making money. Happy to see this is changing.

• Are we too busy to enjoy life?

  Being busy is a defense mechanism. It’s a way to avoid just being. Having responsibilities, deadlines, a long task list… Overloading our senses can make us believe we are moving in the right direction, or at least in a direction.

• US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor

  • That is a real headline - we’re living in the future.

• Effectiveness will be defined by meaningful actions in a post-Covid-19 world (#CoolShit 04.27.20)

  • I’m REALLY hoping that there are parts of the world that look COMPLETELY DIFFERENT - business being one of them. The rise of “mom & pops shops” ✊🏻

• A vaccine “could be available as soon as September” (#CoolShit 04.30.20)

  • I normally don’ like to share COULD/SHOULD headlines but… anything that COULD end this thing, I’m for it.

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👨‍🎤 Things to spark creativity

• Check out the World Press Photo of the Year (#CoolShit 04.29.20)

  • The whole collection is definitely worth checking out.

• Check out this collection of jazz-inspired illustrations

• This beautifully chaotic house

  • It will inspire you, and may also give you a seizure - it’s DOPE

• Medito, a forever-free Meditation App (#CoolShit 04.27.20)

  • What better time for a free meditation app.

• Check out this stunning Mid-Century home in Illinois (#CoolShit 04.27.20)

• This project by Damien Hirst & MSCHF, Severed Spots (#CoolShit 04.28.20)

  • Take an original Damien Hirst, cut it into pieces, sell the pieces, sell the scraps as well - I love how weird art can be.

• These “watercolor” tattoos by Sasha Unisex (#CoolShit 04.29.20)

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✍🏻 Things to do

• Give yourself a haircut with the help of a barber (#CoolShit 04.29.20)

• Speed up your WiFi for free

  • As a nerd it is SO PAINFUL to see so many people with slow internet.

• Make this DIY phone stand from egg carton

  • In the future, we will all have some sort of “phone booth” for video calls.

• Make a mask out of a sock (#CoolShit 04.29.20)

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Billion dollar project 'bout to crack the cement
So one of our investments had become strategic

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