Moonlights #17
Listen 🎧
Favorite new songs, here’s my format → Artist, Title, [Notes].
Yoke Lore - Shock Flesh [love their sound]
Spoon - Jack Wild [alt-life]
IVOXYGEN - Shooting Star [drone chasing dolphins]
Trevor Hall & Marieme - 2 Oceans [Mat Kearney vibes]
Vance Joy - Missing Piece [sunny dayz]
Kanye West - Good Night (feat Mos Def & Al Be back) [Old School Kanye]
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Midnight in Harlem [chimenea night]
Always Never - Millions [dazed]
* ALL SONGS FROM PREVIOUS NEWSLETTERS *
Watch 🚀
Elon was in the news recently (when is he not in the news 😎) for agreeing to buy Twitter. There are way too many hot takes on why, and you can spend days reading them all. I came across this video and appreciated his openness about talking about the future. Despite his uncanny ability to troll the world while pissing many people off, Elon provides hope to what feels like a dark time, and I’m all for it.
“A lot of people are sad about the future and they’re pessimistic.”
“But we really want to wake up in the morning and look forward to the future and be excited about what’s going to happen.”
"Humanity will solve sustainable energy."
“I’m not one of the doomsday people, I actually think we’re on a good path. As long as we’re not complacent and we have a high sense of urgency about moving towards a sustainable energy economy, I think things will be fine.”
Look 🎾
Nike debuted the new Serena Williams building, which can fit up to 100 designers in one room, for the first time at any Nike building 😎. Here’s a video of the tour.
NFTs 🎨
This past week I minted a new art piece from James Jean's latest NFT collection, Fragments. Here’s a summary of the project.
Fragments features visual elements that have appeared within Jean’s works throughout his career, including his interest in the painting traditions of European, Chinese, and Japanese old Masters, and so offers a retrospective exploration of his artistic practice.
This expansive series is inspired by Pagoda, a forthcoming large-scale, luminous architectural pavilion that is the culmination of four years of collaborative projects between Jean and Judson Studios, an LA-based art glass studio founded over 120 years ago. Fragments will exist on the blockchain as a means of eternalizing Jean’s forthcoming physical work in the digital realm—the edition size represents the 7,000 pieces of glass required to build Pagoda.
Here’s a screenshot of some of my favorites over the years.
From Me 🎒
I’ve been working on animating some of my illustrations. Here was a test run on a recent sketch. Another week in the books — I hope you all have a great weekend!
