May Favourites 2023
Table of contents
- May Favourites 2023
- 🍿 My Favourite Movies of the Month
- 📺 My Favourite Shows of the Month
- 📚 My Favourite Reads of the Month
- 🛠️ My Favourite Tools of the Month
- ✏️ My Favourite Personal Creation of the Month
- 💪🏽 My Favourite Lifestyle Changes of the Month
- 💬 My Favourite Words of Wisdom of the Month
- 🖼️ My Favourite Visuals of the Month
- 🤔 My Favourite Realizations of the Month
- 💭 My Favourite Reflections of the Month
- 🎥 My Favourite YouTuber of the Month
- 🧠 My Favourite Innovative Ideas of the Month
- 🎸 My Favourite Music of the Month
🍿 My Favourite Movies of the Month
M3gan
The Invention of Lying
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
📺 My Favourite Shows of the Month
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
Sweet Magnolias
The Morning Show
Jury Duty
Cunk on Earth
📚 My Favourite Reads of the Month
Do the weirdest thing that feels right.
🔗 / Charlie Becker’s Substack / Post /
If I have a bunch of equally viable options, I should pick the weirdest one, because it means that is the one that is truest to me. It means it has had to elbow its way in past what other people think, other people’s expectations, and any insidious fear I have of being judged for doing what I want or what I think is right.
🛠️ My Favourite Tools of the Month
Combo Punctuation
My favourite linguistic tool of the month is the interrobang. A combination of a question mark and a quotation mark used to pose an emphatic question.
Interrobang
Since I’ve been writing more lately, I’ve been enjoying taking linguistic liberties and breaking some grammatical rules I was taught in school.
I like to add a question mark to statements that start with “I wonder”. And I like to start sentences with And. And I’d like to play with fun punctuation like the interrobang. I’d also want to play with the question comma and exclamation comma.
Exclamation & Question Comma
✏️ My Favourite Personal Creation of the Month
🎪 Spaces Designed for Better Breathing, Scratch and Sniff Photo Albums, & Caffeinated Corridors
🔗 / My Substack /
Mind your step as you enter the worlds of wide-eyed wonder, better breathing, and green medicine.
🎪 Spaces Designed for Anti-Socialites, Lamborghini Homes, & Treasure Rooms
🔗 / My Substack /
Mind your step as you enter the worlds of candy stores, branded homes, and anti-social architecture.
🎪 Enter the World of Spaces that Strip Identities & Possess Personalities
🔗 / My Substack /
Mind your step as you enter the worlds of Place-Personality Pendulums and Anonymity.
🎪 Enter the World of Battery Powered Places: Spaces that Restore our Energy
🔗 / My Substack /
Mind your step as you enter the world of unlimited energy 🪫→🔋
💪🏽 My Favourite Lifestyle Changes of the Month
Immersive Hobbies
What would it look like if I applied my life blocks to my interest in environmental psychology.
The makings of an immersive hobby:
Exploring environmental psychology has been my academic obsession of choice lately 🧠
But I’ve been wanting to find more creative ways of engaging with it and I found a fun solution!
I wondered what it would look like if we branched our hobbies into other blocks.
…if we added a social🧱 to our writing habit or a mind🧱 to our fav sport.
So these past few weeks I’ve toured local architecture studios, attended talks, played with architectural photography & woodworking, & I’m trying to learn to sketch like an industrial designer 🤹🏽♂️
I’ve even reframed my days into a curriculum filled with field trips, projects, practice, studies, & extracurriculars.
If a hobby needs a little jolt of novelty, try getting creative with the approach 💃🏽
💬 My Favourite Words of Wisdom of the Month
Role Models
🔗 / Tweet /
Validation
🔗 / Tweet /
🖼️ My Favourite Visuals of the Month
🤔 My Favourite Realizations of the Month
Immortality
We can’t really know if we’re immortal until we die.
We can’t really know if we’re immortal until we die.
What if you woke up in a world where 50% of people were immortal.
Nobody knows whether they lucked out in longevity. And nobody ever aged to look older than 50.
How would that change your approach to life?
Universality of Life’s Meaning
So similar to my life blocks
Lifestyle Vlog Tutorials
There’s a type of video I realize I enjoy — “lifestyle vlog tutorials” is what I’ll call it. Channels like Matthew Encina’s for example, provides tips and sometimes tutorials, but in the form of mostly showcasing an aesthetic lifestyle vlog documenting a project’s process.
💭 My Favourite Reflections of the Month
My plant based function
When humans and machines become one.
Machine → Human Mind = AI
Machine → Human Body = Robot
Human → Machine Mind = Second Brain
Human → Machine Body = Cyborg
AI starting to sound like humans.
Humans starting to cyborg with machines.
This is my brain having fun tackling my food philosophy:
// Breakdown of which primary factors contribute to your decision to go plant based.
const determineFoodPhilosophy = () => {
const negativeHealthEffects = 'There is a negative impact on my health.';
const positiveEthics = 'You believe going plant based has a positive ethical impact.';
const willpower = 'There is enough willpower to bypass indulgent urge.';
const plantBased = 'Does not consume animals and limits consumption of animal byproducts.';
const omnivore = 'Consumes animals and animal byproducts';
if (!negativeHealthEffects && positiveEthics && willpower) return plantBased;
else return omnivore;
};
/*
Your decision to go plant based values maintaining your baseline health over your ethics.
If all nutritionists agreed that a plant based diet would be detrimental to your health,
then you would switch to being an omnivore.
Aside from your ethical reasoning and your willpower, you choose to be plant based, not
because of nutritional benefits, but because you haven't come across any negative
nutritional consequences.
*/🎥 My Favourite YouTuber of the Month
🧠 My Favourite Innovative Ideas of the Month
Auditory Illusions
Shadow Boxes
Popup Books
Multiplying by 11
🎸 My Favourite Music of the Month
In this month’s Affinity Digest I shared my love for:
- linguistic tools,
- auditory illusions,
- immersive hobbies,
- immortality,
- the codification of human processes,
and a ton more!
