Everything Everywhere All At Once

 

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

— Alexander Herzen, born in 1812

At a time when every movie seems to be a rehash of something else, an original and inventive new film really stands out.

How a one-hit wonder became absolutely crucial to 'Everything Everywhere All At Once'

Daniel Scheinert: I started doing research into the multiverse in 2010. I was watching the documentary Sherman’s March.

Daniel Kwan: In this weird, self-destructive movie, the documentarian/protagonist Ross McElwee is bouncing between women. But one he meets is a linguist and she talks about modal realism.

Daniels Unpack the Everything Bagel of Influences Behind Everything Everywhere All at Once “We’re very confident about our dumb ideas.”

If you could be any version of yourself in a universe of infinite possibilities, which would you choose? It's a question that runs through the heart of the highwire genre hybrid Everything Everywhere All at Once, which – if the title, which could be a lyric from Bo Burnham's internet satire, wasn't a giveaway – concerns Hollywood's latest commercial obsession, the multiverse: that parallel-reality home to Neos and Spider-Men and all the IP studios seem ready to summon with endless variations on the same.

Everything Everywhere All At Once

EXCLUSIVE: 32,000 travellers from mainland China arrived on hundreds of flights over four weeks in early 2020 - Rebel News.

… 32,415 arrivals from mainland China landed in Canadian airports over 28 days.

Peter Gelb On Canceling Putin

In the past, even when political tensions between nations grew ugly, artistic endeavors rose above the din. But Putin’s murderous actions are the playbook of Hitler, not the Cold War. He has now made it impossible for the Met to work with his artistic cronies or those cultural entities...

Happy blogging anniversary to Andy Baio as @waxy turns 20 years old! Still one of my favorite sites on the web.

"Thanks to the mistrust of big tech, the creation of better tools for developers, and the weird and wonderful creativity of ordinary people, we're seeing an incredibly unlikely comeback: the web is thriving again." I want to believe!

Up the line to death: covid-19 has revealed a mortal betrayal of the world’s healthcare workersBritish Medical Journal. And no political consquences at all. It’s extraordinary.

You Are Witness to a Crime The Baffler. ACT-UP’s legacy; from 2021, still germane.

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Laughing Ourselves to Death at the Gridiron Dinner Gregg Gonsalves, The Nation. I’m not the only one who’s ripsh*t about this.

The Failure of Covid.gov Is Worse Than Inexcusable Bloomberg. Just like when healthcare.gov was launched. We learn nothing:

The instructions for finding and getting free masks, for example, are labyrinthine: Clicking on “Learn more about masks and where to get them” just takes you to the standard Centers for Disease Control explainer on masks