41 - Scale

This week week is all about scale. Rafael believes given twitter’s flat growth they should just give up and become a telegram utility and Jeremy argues artists should diversify to succeed like Get Out producer Jason Blum. The longest freshwater beach in the world https://www.tripadvisor.ca/ShowUserReviews-g316030-d2233507-r157495758-Wasaga_Beach_Provincial_Park-Wasaga_Beach_Ontario.html Chasing Coral https://www.chasingcoral.com/ The Good Family http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183569/ Culture Amp inclusion survey http://hello.cultureamp.com/diversity-and-inclusion Evgeny Morozov’s To Save Everything Click Here https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13587160-to-save-everything-click-here Twitter and the Arab Spring https://mic.com/articles/10642/twitter-revolution-how-the-arab-spring-was-helped-by-social-media#.fZsEbq3WL Twitter flat user growth https://www.recode.net/2017/7/27/16049084/twitter-jack-dorsey-q2-earnings-2017 Facebook “move fast and break things”http://mashable.com/2014/04/30/facebooks-new-mantra-move-fast-with-stability/#SjVLqrlmlPqj Kickstarter B corp https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-now-a-benefit-corporation Mastadon https://mastodon.social/about Value Hypothesis vs Growth Hypothesis http://whichlight.com/blog/the-value-hypothesis-and-the-growth-hypothesis/ Elon Musk as a young millionaire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb3pmifEZ44 “Burp.” https://twitter.com/jeremybailey/status/891276607859691520 Banksy has UK’s favourite work of art https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/26/banksy-balloon-girl-hay-wain-favourite-uk-work-of-art-constable-poll-nation Giorgio Morandi http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/morandi-still-life-n05782 Bo Burlingham’s Small Giants http://www.smallgiantsbook.com/bio.html Jiro Dreams of Sushi http://www.magpictures.com/jirodreamsofsushi/ Wavelength by Michael Snow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_(1967_film) Louise Bourgeois http://www.theartstory.org/artist-bourgeois-louise.htm Tesla Model 3 launch event in 5 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uK6BIVzcxU Barnett Newman (83 paintings) https://www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman “The Scarily Profitable Hits of Jason Blum” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/magazine/the-scarily-profitable-hits-of-jason-blum.html?_r=0 Get Out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5052448/ Whiplash http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582802/ Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/JeffKoons#installation-25 Alexander Calder https://www.artsy.net/artist/alexander-calder Claus Oldenburg large scale works http://oldenburgvanbruggen.com/largescaleprojects/lsp.htm Eddie Murphy in the remake of Doctor Dolittle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozMmf9Yi7TM Doctor Dolittle almost bankrupted 20th century fox in 1967 http://mercurie.blogspot.ca/2009/02/doctor-dolittle-film-that-almost.html Gunnar Schonbeck at MASS MoCA http://massmoca.org/event/gunnar-schonbeck/