Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #92
Tony's Pick
A few issues ago I linked to a Brian Eno record. Well Gary Hustwit (of Rams and Helvetica fame) has a new film about Brian Eno that's just premiered at Sundance. It's got a twist, though:
The film is assembled dynamically by a generative software platform I developed with Brendan Dawes drawing from new interviews and footage we shot with Brian and hundreds of hours of unreleased material from his archive. The result is a film that's never the same twice.
It honestly sounds gimmicky, but also very much of the moment.
Kyle's Pick
I recently wrapped up a puzzle game called The Talos Principle 2. I hate myself enough to have read multiple techno-optimist manifestos of varying quality over the last several months. So I was surprised that I found this game to be the most persuasive example of the genre.
I sympathized with the game's critiques of both degrowth and growth-at-all-costs. I also appreciated the argument that human consciousness is a unique light in the universe, worth preserving at almost all costs, as an antidote to a strain of cynicism I sometimes find creeping in.
(Also it's a fantastic puzzle game and more than worthy sequel, other than a bit too much dialogue at times.)
