The Viewer

Plane, Puritan, GIF, Twitter, Toast

9/11 alternate timelines, Puritanism, living GIFs, Twitter anti-intellectualism, and a toast documentary.

18 Sep 2021 • 2 min read

Money, Mirror, Miyazaki, Men, Fire

A money montage, a French New Wave masterpiece, A.I. art, cruising at the World Trade Center, and a film from 1903.

11 Sep 2021 • 2 min read

Disaster, New York, Rich, Opera, Impasse

A failed book, New York movies, the post-WW2 boom, exciting operas, and a wandering arrow.

4 Sep 2021 • 2 min read

Paul, Vertigo, Caffeine, Invisible, Sport

A Beatle conspiracy, spirals in Vertigo, caffeine addiction, an invisible girl, and inconvenient bowling balls.

28 Aug 2021 • 2 min read

Satie, Falcon, Font, Face, Brothers

Satie's lifestyle, bad quarterbacks, Wes Anderson's fonts, stolen faces, and the Isley Brothers.

21 Aug 2021 • 2 min read

King, Tennis, Dubai, Outlaw, Moth

American monarchy, video game hell, Dubai, medieval outlaws, and magnificent moths.

14 Aug 2021 • 2 min read

AI, Lookalike, Music, Bond, Museum

Face-reading AI, high school reunions, the use(lessness) of music theory, realistic Bond films, and museum artifacts.

7 Aug 2021 • 2 min read

Crime, Titanic, Race, Greek, Tide

Earwitness testimony, an abandoned mansion, street races, Greek democracy, and French tides.

31 Jul 2021 • 2 min read

Facebook, Battle, Branch, Century, Mutant

Facebook horrors, Looney Tunes, a fourth branch of government, anti-Asian racism, and future New York.

24 Jul 2021 • 2 min read

Myth, Gender, Tokyo, Joke, Lesson

Learning styles, platypuses, funding the Olympics, bad jokes, and old online tutorials.

17 Jul 2021 • 2 min read

Superman, Firewall, Murmur, Boil, Bike

Fascist Superman, China's firewall, metaphorical birds, stone soup, and motorbikes.

10 Jul 2021 • 2 min read

Cocaine, Chicken, Frida, Mystery, Elevator

Cocaine as medicine, communal urination, Frida Kahlo's selfies, an economic mystery, and floating elevators.

3 Jul 2021 • 2 min read

Space, Cut, Tango, Pablo, Pile

Space noises, Matisse, Beethovenian tango, Dr. Strangelove, and underground mysteries.

26 Jun 2021 • 2 min read

Birth, Sailor, Trolley, November, Cash

On sudden birth, restless pirates, the trolley problem, writer's block, and foreign cash.

19 Jun 2021 • 2 min read

Sleep, Nostalgia, Dot, Book, Voicemail

Sleepless nights, 90s nostalgia, barn-burning pointillists, how to read, and evil voicemails.

12 Jun 2021 • 2 min read