Akira Mizuta Lippit

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The view from the International Space Station as an aurora meets the sunrise in space.

These are less interviews than autobiographies. I’ve been fortunate to speak with some of the artists I admire most. My conversation w Marcel Ophuls was transformative for me. I don’t have the transcripts but the Academy has all the video records. I keep detailed my own detailed notes.

Thank you Juhan. I’ve been working with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Visual History Project for the past decade. We record long format conversations that end only when the interviewee end it.

For over 10 hours across 2 beautiful days in 2017 I spoke with Marcel Ophuls, who told some of the most brilliant stories about his life and those that lived and died around him. I could produce an entire book consisting of nothing more than his own words from those two days.

Alcatraz is a beautiful prison but Shawshank State Penitentiary far more practical: only one person—baseball legend Bull Durham—has ever successfully escaped from there.

Aquaman is from a Foreign Land and although I’m against in principle tariffs on seafood, would totally support crippling tariffs on that entire franchise

My dream of pronouncing tariff like Omar Sharif one step closer to reality

Now Academy will have give award to best film from a Foreign Land, would that include Canada as well as Middle Earth?

Govt announcing tariffs on movies produced in foreign lands meaning I now have to go to Narnia to see Chronicles

Keep seeing TV ad claiming that AI will one day ensure that trains arrive where they are supposed to & wondering how bad are trains now?

Maybe utopia is human extinction

Among his many accomplishments, none greater than Top Secret!

And what kind of soulless loveless party censures Al Green?

New research reveals Josephine the Singer a transgender mouse

Make America Oscar Again!

Supposed to feel relief that Oracle taking over TikTok algorithm, like no one remembers Matrix, why not just hand it to T1000?

A ladybird beetle spreading its wings captured with a high-speed camera. In real-time wing deployment from the fully folded state takes less than 0.1 seconds.

Video credit: University of Tokyo / Saito et al.

Lost among President Trump’s many executive orders on first day of presidency was renaming country of Turkey now known as Gravy and Stuffing

I saw him next to “man of the crowd” who was dressed as Waldo

In a phantastic virtual etymology, the words “precise” and “precious” would share a common origin

Imagined and/or imaginary

Second major achievement of new year, removed rust from steel cooking knives, sharpening each for imaginary future cooking

Just notes for things yet and never to be written

What if dreams are not, as Freud says, the fulfillment of a wish but rather a form of communication with the incommunicable, a metaphysics of communication across the thresholds of excommunication: the fulfillment of a communion no longer possible?

Breaking: Sources tell NYTs Lorne Michaels behind Trump plan to annex Canada