Issue 1: Genesis

clone your friends with AI, art from the 1970s, and the art of great writing

Hello friends on the Internet

We created this newsletter as part of our 2024 goals to read/write daily and to build a community. Here we curate

• Things that are interesting

• Things that we learned

• Things that stretched our minds

Here goes nothing with Issue 1.

Arts & Culture

The Thrill of Proust’s Handwriting

Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

André Derain (1880–1954)

Henri Matisse (1869–1954)

Amélie Matisse as Model

CARI Institute

An interesting small community trying to catalog art history from the 1970s till now.

Dinner Kitsch

Factory Pomo

Other ways to become more creative other than creating art - 20 easy, mind-expanding ways to be much more creative

Learn more about what color is and how it works.

Colors Explained

Links

Machine Learning and AI

• ApplyingML - Papers, Guides, and Interviews with ML practitioners

• Kino AI | Organize your footage

• Free startup ideas

Literature and Writing

• Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal - Project Gutenberg

• The Art of Great Writing: 60 Writing Tips from 6 All-time Great Writers

• Michel de Montaigne Quotes in English and French

Climate Action

• Personal Climate Action

• Climate Action Quickstart

Cool Projects

• Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album

• Clone your friends on iMessage

• Earrings with a modern twist on it

• Mario Kart

• Extension for your mind similar to Rewind.ai

• A website where people complain about bad UI

• A search engine in the past

Climate Change

• A Data-Driven Guide to Effective Personal Climate Action

• How to Start Fighting the Climate Crisis over Lunch Today

Interesting articles

• Just How Big Can A Snowflake Get - What we thought of as a snowflake is actually a snow crystal

• How to enjoy San Francisco

Tech

• Aceternity UI Components

• An overview of distributed databases

Watching

• Scavengers’ Reign - Recommended by a friend as one of the best animatic sci fi series. It did not disappoint.