The Viewer

Skate, Hamlet, Tintin, Pyramid, Ghost

Secret skate-parks, prison Hamlet, a Tintin deep-dive, a slow song, and a neural network.

23 Oct 2021 • 2 min read

Room, Slug, Bone, Twitter, Headphones

An awful masterpiece, shy bladder syndrome, a viral everyman, Twitter nightmares, and a headphone check.

16 Oct 2021 • 2 min read

Gen Z, Island, Moon, Mystery, Tiramisu

Internet humor, forbidden love, a postcard conundrum, desert island doldrums, and laborious tiramisu.

9 Oct 2021 • 2 min read

Casino, Plague, Oil, Galaxy, Station

Hitchcock's Bond film, the Black Death, Norway's oil, almost-Anakin, and a dream of the future.

2 Oct 2021 • 2 min read

Bonfire, Love, Teletext, Sheeran, September

An $80,000 movie shot, the hollowness of romance, teletext, a fake Ed Sheeran, and a celebration.

25 Sep 2021 • 3 min read

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