#122: Our Faulty Memories
The best from this week | 6.22.18 |
My BAD MEMORY
This two-part podcast from Malcolm Gladwell (here and here) has really stuck we me. I've been thinking about it for weeks. Why?
It's all about how unreliable our memories are and how we stubbornly refuse to believe this. At first, I was really troubled by this. If I can't trust my own memories what can I trust? But then I came to the conclusion—a sort of acceptance—that once you understand memory is so failable, you're free to change your mind and accept new ideas that contradict your previous understanding of things. You don't have to be tied to what you think you know.
I could expand further, but instead I urge you to just go listen. It will help you rethink the past and the present.
Also, are you on Pocket? I'm curating a stream of links there now. Follow me here.
THE WEEK IN LINKS
Malcolm Gladwell’s exploration into memory ill make you rethink everything you think you remember (Revisionist History)
Photographers Who’ve Captured the Camaraderie and Solitude of Surf Culture (Artsy)
Disposable America: What the plastic straw says about America (The Atlantic)
Two kinds of people int his world: Gillian Welch fans and everyone else. A great interview with the folk singer (The Aquarium Drunkard)
FOLLOW
Wayne Levin is a master of underwater photography. Shooting in mostly black and white (as far as I know) he captures the undersea world unlike anyone else I've seen. Follow @waynelevinimages.
SHOP VISIT
In my last email I teased a shop visit to see Fitted Underground and their custom-denim operation in Brooklyn. A few brief words and more images are here.
READ
The news broke about Anthony Bourdain just as I was sending my last email. I didn't have enough time to process it to convey any kind of coherent thoughts, I still don't really. But I tried to write about the man so many of us admired here.
SHADES>TRUNKS>GO
Our picks for your summer essentials.