Five Bullets 9.12.25
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
Good Morning and Happy Friday Friends:
Welcome to another edition of Five Bullets.
It’s a beautiful sunny morning here in New York City. The air is clean and clear which reminds me of this line from The Great Gatsby:
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
I was busy but productive this week! I published two posts included below along with some art and movies I think you’ll enjoy. Let’s get right to it!
This week’s Five Bullets:
Why Write. Four ways writing can help you learn, process, understand and grow. With some practice, you’ll find your voice, too.
Dispatch From New York City. On September 11th, I was in 7th grade science class at my Queens middle school when news of a plane hitting the towers first broke. I was fortunate I didn’t lose anyone in the attack though my memories from that morning are still fresh.
Movies I re-watched this week: Bullet Train and Inception. Bullet Train is a fun watch but I bet the book is great, which I’ll have to check out. I remember initially liking Inception, Christopher Nolan’s 2010 psychological thriller, then sort of souring on it for a while but I enjoyed re-watching it. While writing the screenplay, Nolan said he was influenced by The Matrix, Dark City and The Thirteenth Floor. In a very sci-fi sort of way there’s a plot device which solves a giant problem in the film, but it’s worth a watch if you haven’t seen it. Let me know your thoughts!
I shared a few of my favorite exhibits from last weekend’s The Armory Art Show including ‘revised’ book covers by Daniela Comani and an ‘Intervened Typewriter’ by Glenda León. The show, held each year at the Jacob Javits Center, includes everything from painting, to sculpture to sound art by established and well-known artists as well as newcomers. Daniel Zeller’s sculpture, featured above, is a cloth, metal and wood sculpture resembling a vessel or bomb but without a purpose; it’s a “rotating contradiction”.
Killian Jornet is attempting to climb all 67 of the continental United States tallest peaks this month, in a feat titled States of Elevation. The ultramarathoner, skier, and mountaineer will be covering a distance of nearly 3,000 miles with 400,000 feet in elevation gain. He’ll be biking or hiking to link up the peaks as he moves from Colorado’s peaks west to California’s Mt. Whitney then north to Mt. Rainer in Washington. He will sleep 3 or 4 hours and eat only a vegetarian whole food diet. Among his list of incredible accomplishments, Jornet once climbed Mount Everest - twice - in the same day. Check out his documentary Path To Everest to get a sense of Jornet’s extraordinary abilities.
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