Oh, hi!
My mind is kinda blank and flowy right now so I don’t have any real “deep work deep thoughts” for you, but maybe this will act as proof that showing up, again and again, counts more than hitting it out of the park just once.
Or maybe you also need permission to embrace your kinda blank and flowy mind right now, too! Let’s see where it goes.
“I destroyed a thousand paintings. I’d try something out, and if it didn’t work, I’d just throw it away,” he tells me, “but at the end of seven or eight years, I had a great technique. If you look at my paintings at the end of ’58 or ’59, they’re painted expertly.”
Cheers to the power of not giving up.
Really enjoyed this profile of 95-year-old artist Alex Katz, who does pull-ups each morning and is receiving a Guggenheim retrospective this fall.
Have You Heard
MoviePass is back? I was such a fan in 2018-2019. It was a treat to see a couple movies each week for, essentially, free (OK, it cost $10 a month, but since a movie in New York costs $16, it felt like it was free!).
After a big implosion — this TIME article is a good read on its fallout — it’s alive again.
Except…the waitlist opened a few hours ago and everyone is getting an “Error joining the waitlist” message.
There’s a lot to be said about buzz and customer perception and satisfaction and good press vs negative press but you know what? I’ll keep trying!