The internet can be a wonderful thing sometimes.

This clip is from a 1982 French cop movie called Le Marginal, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. The featured car is claimed to be an original 1966 Shelby GT500, heavily modified, and driven in the movie by the star himself. The hero car was saved, restored, and sold in 2023. I like a lot about this car, except for the rear taillights.

…countless researchers have shown that many of the most meaningful forms of real-world creativity and invention depend less on solving well-defined problems than on figuring out what the problem is in the first place.

In 1964 a study on creativity was done where researchers watched how 31 artists approached a still life, and split their approaches into two different types: problem-solving and problem-finding. The former spent their time working on the outcome, while the latter spent their time finding and formulating a visual problem. The researchers then went back five years after graduation to see where the students took their careers:

The artists who used a problem-finding style while in school were far more successful five years after graduation. Of the 11 students who were the least problem-finding in approach, eight had dropped out of art altogether.

This tracks with my personal experience in art school: those of us who embraced MICA’s freshman-year philosophy of learning how to think instead of learning how to make art seem to be more successful in our careers.

This is an excerpt of a longer video starring a guy named Yung Lean, who is some kind of Swedish rap star. The song is forgettable but the choreography is amazing; leave the sound off if it gets annoying.

This is a clip of a quartet busking in Asheville, NC, featuring a woman known as Abby the Spoon Lady, who does an incredible job of adding color and style to the percussion. There are many other clips of her available on YouTube, but I like the bluegrass featured here—even though the sound kind of sucks.