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technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes writing: kellypendergrast.com working: antistaticpartners.com

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kelly pendergrast@kellypendergrast.bsky.social · last wk.

Who will bring this series to the Bay Area??? Screen Slate always taunting me with glimpses of NY's superior cinematic environment. Please I need to see all these films. www.screenslate.com/articles/hol...

Hold Everything Dear – John Berger and Cinema

The work of writer, thinker, broadcaster, and occasional actor John Berger spans television programs, films and countless published works ranging from essays, novels, poems and non-fiction. Film Comme...

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kelly pendergrast@kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 3w ago

Since I can remember Sam Neill has been celebrated as a kiwi legend (a new zealander starring in jurassic park?? 🇳🇿🇳🇿🥹), and so as an older teen discovering that half his filmography is absolute pervert roles was SUCH a thrill. NZ's dennis hopper in a way (but with good politics)

kelly pendergrast@kellypendergrast.bsky.social · last mo.

Unbelievable how dull and hackneyed the AI "taste" conversation is. As though the literary critics hadn't been hashing this shit out for literal centuries!!! "taste, steadily more inured to old stimuli, will constantly ask for more stimuli, ever stronger and more violent" — Schlegel, 1797 💅

From On The Study of Greek Poetry (1797), Friedrich Schlegel: “The dominion of the interesting can only destroy itself and is therefore a transitory crisis of taste. But the two possible catastrophes facing it are very different: whereas art is prevalently oriented towards aesthetic energy, taste, steadily more inured to old stimuli, will constantly ask for more stimuli, ever stronger and more violent: it will waste no time in passing from the piquant to the amazing. The piquant is that which convulsively excites numbed sensibilities, while the amazing is a stimulus and a goad for the imagination. Both are harbingers of imminent death. The vapid is the miserly nourishment of impotent taste, while that which produces a shock within the bosom of the public (in its eccentric, repugnant, and horrible modes) is the final convulsion of taste in its death throes (…) Beauty is so far from being the dominant principle of modern poetry that many of the most splendid modern works are clearly portrayals of ugliness, so much so that one is obliged to admit (unwillingly) that there exists an immense richness of reality at the peak of its disorder and there is a desperation caused by the excess of energies and the conflict between them whose portrayal requires an equal, if not a greater creative power and artistic wisdom than that which is required for the portrayal of that richness and those energies when they are in perfect harmony. (…) The public, even the most cultivated, wholly indifferent to form and exclusively athirst for content, asks only that the artists provide interesting individuality. As long as it produces an effect and that this effect is strong and new, the public is indifferent to the ways an materials that bring this about, precisely because that same public is indifferent to the harmony of the single effects in a completed whole.”
kelly pendergrast@kellypendergrast.bsky.social · last mo.

Just here to update my “Rick Rubin is a loser hack shilling shit with pissbrains” thread

Screenshot of a Polymarket ad featuring Rick Rubin
kelly pendergrast@kellypendergrast.bsky.social · last yr.

Rick Rubin is a loser hack so it makes total sense he'd collaborate with Anthropic on a "Tao-inspired guide to vibe coding" (gagging just typing that) (www.thewayofcode.com). And now he's on the a16z pod shilling shit with the two absolute worst pissbrains out there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s9C...

kelly pendergrast@kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gwyneth said sorry Oakland you're not brand-aligned "The company has billed the new branch as “Berkeley” but it is operating out of the Adeline Food Hall in Oakland with delivery service to Berkeley, Oakland and Emeryville available Monday through Saturday." oaklandside.org/2026/06/09/g...

Gwyneth’s goop launches ‘Berkeley’ location in Oakland, and a favorite Fruitvale shucos vendor opens its first brick-and-mortar

A running list of restaurants that have recently opened in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

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kelly pendergrast@kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Saw Backrooms, which was utterly unsuccessful as a narrative film but evocative as ... something else, maybe a piece of gamer conceptual art. I enjoyed it on the same level as this cursed booking dot com ad that I got served up a couple years ago.

booking dot com ad that shows a strange and creepy swimming pool with lots of weird angles and a scary clown water toy floating in the middle.
kelly pendergrast@kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 2mo ago

JPG lives! I worked with JP at UCSD and he was, along with my advisor Babette Mangolte, one of the two old french tyrant-savants who ruined my life for 3 years. JP is an absolute asshole blowhard letch AND YET undeniably a certain genius. Good read: www.screenslate.com/articles/aga...

Against the Idiom: A Conversation with Jean-Pierre Gorin

This week’s impressive multi-venue retrospective “Why? Because… with Jean-Pierre Gorin” is one of those retrospectives that is at once divinely inspired and something of a no-brainer, long overdue in ...

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kelly pendergrast@kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEWS FLASH: tight tshirts for men are back for summer 2026!! Airism OUT, heavyweight boxy fit OUT, cropped JWAnderson oxford OUT, dredge up your 1982 vintage marathon promo tshirt boys, i want to see this on all physiques. Thanks.

Reyna@reynabeast.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Search engines are normally allowed to crawl websites because they offer something useful in return: Directing more traffic to the website in question. If the classic "show a bunch of links" search disappears from Google, it won't be a benefit and there's no reason to still allow their crawlers.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 3mo ago

Yesterday Google made it very clear it will degrade Search to use the massive amount of traffic to goes through it to push its billions of users into generative AI tools they aren’t asking for. Search is no longer a portal to the web; it’s a portal to Gemini. disconnect.blog/google-is-it...

Google made its ambitions quite obvious in its I/O announcements in 2023. On Tuesday, it laid out the next stage of its plan. The company made it clear there will be no escape from its generative AI products as AI hype continues to grip Silicon Valley, despite public sentiment very clearly turning against it and the data centers needed to power it. Search is the center of Google’s business and its power, and the company is taking a serious risk with the part of its business that drives more than half of its revenue. While there will still be a box on google.com, it will no longer be a directory to the web. Now it will be the portal to Google’s suite of services, but especially its various generative AI tools it wants to force its users to become reliant on. In part that’s to try to win the AI war against its competitors, but it’s hard not to imagine it’s also a play to build user dependency on generative AI before it has to further jack up its prices.
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 3mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

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