A super-special 2019 new year’s reunion episode. We improvise our way through a look back of the year and the decade closing in art, culture and tech and chart a vague course for a somewhat hopeful future in the rearview mirror.

David Lynch on falling in love with an idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxr-7O1Bfxg

JODI, Joan Heemskerk, Dirk Paesmans at MOMA https://www.moma.org/collection/works/193145

APM Toronto, Jeremy’s product management training program http://apmtoronto.com/

Moneyball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4QPVo0UIzc

Why we need best friends at work https://www.gallup.com/workplace/236213/why-need-best-friends-work.aspx

Twitter of Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger? https://twitter.com/HasBezosDecided

King of the Netherlands Christmas speech https://nltimes.nl/2019/12/25/king-willem-alexanders-christmas-speech-full-text-video

Adobe Illustrator for iPad https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-illustrator-on-the-ipad/

Twitter thread with Good Point topic requests https://twitter.com/jeremybailey/status/1210619596228706305

iPad history https://macdailynews.com/2019/12/16/phil-schiller-and-walt-mossberg-recall-the-birth-of-apples-revolutionary-ipad/

Coding on an iPad https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/27/17152482/ipad-pro-web-development-setup-how-to-terminal-apps

Another iPad coding article https://andrewbrookins.com/technology/coding-on-ipad-pro-2019/

Steve Jobs hated the stylus https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/9/9298117/apple-pencil-stylus-ipad-pro-steve-jobs

Procreate – “made for artists” https://procreate.art/

Artie Vierkant http://artievierkant.com/

Rafael’s haikus https://www.newrafael.com/haiku/

Adobe Creative Suite https://www.adobe.com/ca/creativecloud.html

New FreshBooks announcement from 2016 https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/new-freshbooks-launch

Ben Fino Radin http://benfinoradin.info/

Truebill truebill.com

The story of the Saleforce no software logo https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2013/07/marc-benioff-logo-brand-advice.html

Underwear subscriptions https://www.meundies.com/membership

Why WeWork went wrong https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/20/why-wework-went-wrong

The Mandolarian trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCYM_stVbo0

Baby Yoda Memes https://www.boredpanda.com/baby-yoda-memes/

Appointment viewing vs binge watching https://medium.com/marisa-stafford-bca-332/appointment-viewing-vs-binge-watching-c8b3573cae9f

Bose vs. Sony noise cancelling headphones https://www.soundguys.com/sony-wh-1000x-m3-or-bose-qc35-ii-which-to-buy-22275/

More people are flying more https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/urban-expeditions/transportation/air-travel-fuel-emissions-environment/

40th anniversary of the Sony Walkman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcqZ9SOIdi0

White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13122087-white-bread

Employees warned North that its Focals AR glasses were overpriced and too male-focused https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/23/21035390/north-focals-launch-letter-executives-ar-glasses-overpriced-employee-concerns

Apple’s rumored AR glasses https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/11/20959066/apple-augmented-reality-ar-headset-glasses-rumors-reported-release-date

The Running Man deep fake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVdOr0z6X7Y

Pride and Prejudice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dYv5u6v55Y

Google’s paid search ads are a ‘shakedown,’ Basecamp CEO Jason Fried https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016

Duck Duck Go https://duckduckgo.com/

Art Basel Miami https://www.artbasel.com/miami-beach

Tik Tok https://www.tiktok.com/en/

Performance for the camera https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/media-and-performance-art/performing-for-the-camera/

Martha Rosler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuZympOIGC0

Vito Acconci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIZOIoklszI&t=7s

William Wegman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xYxxcqbPeU&t=8s

Make your own Face filters for instagram https://sparkar.facebook.com/ar-studio/

Gig workers are more often artists https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11f0019m/11f0019m2019025-eng.htm

Rafael’s artist contract https://www.newrafael.com/art-website-sales-contract/

BYOB http://www.byobworldwide.com/

Ryoanji zen garden in Kyoto where one can never see all of the rocks https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3909.html

Together, commune movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD7Wv1q-S18&t=1s

DEL lab where Jeremy is working on artist precarity https://www.digitaleconomies.art/

Austin Lee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vW6_SSPM9U

Surviving Mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUo4qur0YJY

Epstein https://www.salon.com/2019/12/29/best-of-2019-i-was-a-friend-of-jeffrey-epstein-heres-what-i-know/

Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/work-peak-professional-decline/590650/

Gartner’s Hype Cycle https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hype-cycle

Data moshing, Takeshi Murata pink dot 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkY6zFbwgQ

Robert Bechtle '61 Pontiac painting from 1969 https://whitney.org/collection/works/493

Data centers take up space https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/27/upshot/america-from-above.html

The Art Happens Here: New Art Anthology https://rhizomedotorg.myshopify.com/products/the-art-happens-here-net-art-anthology

Fluxus manifesto https://www.moma.org/collection/works/127947

Fix your kitchen sink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxDWG5AJBGI

Instagram tests removing likes https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/15/instagram-likes-influencers-social-media

Over 50% of collectors have purchased works from artists they discovered on Instagram https://makingamark.blogspot.com/2016/08/art-collectors-and-instagram.html

Telegram https://telegram.org/

The future of the future is the present” Marshal Mcluhan on the future as a rearview mirror http://www.marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/prophecies/1967-the-future-of-the-future-is-the-present/index.html

Cold Start problem https://andrewchen.co/how-to-solve-the-cold-start-problem-for-social-products/

Dr Seuss museum https://www.blogto.com/arts/2019/10/toronto-dr-seuss-exhibition/

Museum of Ice Cream https://www.museumoficecream.com/

Meow Wolf https://meowwolf.com/

Yayoi Kasama’s infinity rooms https://hirshhorn.si.edu/kusama/infinity-rooms/

Nam June Paik tv sculptures https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/9537

Larry Gogosian “art is not elitist because its expensive“ https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-art-of-larry-gagosians-empire-1461677075”

Steve Jobs depressing interview at NEXT on education https://youtu.be/dULN8WbMb3M?t=638

Damien Hirst http://www.damienhirst.com/

William Wegman calendars http://www.wegmanstore.com/d/shop/william-wegman-calendars

Alex Bag, Fall 95 http://www.ubu.com/film/bag_fall95.html

Ryan Trecartin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdmItKVe2rU

Tabor Robak https://www.taborrobak.com/

Petra Cortright https://www.petracortright.com/

Kaws http://www.artnet.com/artists/kaws/

Looping YouTube videos https://www.online-tech-tips.com/google-softwaretips/loop-youtube-videos-continuously/

Bad at Sports http://badatsports.com/

Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/podcast/