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This week we talk crypto culture, pump and dumps and HODLing. Blue Monday, most depressing day of the year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(date) Black Tuesday https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/is-bitcoins-black-tuesday-just-another-reason-to-buy Blockchain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain The lightning network could make bitcoin faster and cheaper https://www.wired.com/story/the-lightning-network-could-make-bitcoin-faster-and-cheaper/ Pump and Dump https://theoutline.com/post/2621/the-hot-new-trend-in-digital-currency-pump-and-dump?zd=1 Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber) manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm What is Tron? Cryptocurrency’s Budding Founder Justin Sun Wants to Change the Internet http://www.newsweek.com/what-tron-cryptocurrencys-budding-founder-justin-sun-wants-change-internet-786035 Peter Saul http://maryboonegallery.com/artist/peter-saul France and Germany to regulate bitcoin at G20 http

This week we surf a garbage wave of tech announcements coming out of CES, FaceBook and the cryptocurrency craze and come out smelling surprisingly clean. New Twin Peaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khwuhgxjoXU New Aibo - official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJciRIZQTg4 Chris Cunningham Bjork video https://vimeo.com/43444347 Aleksandra Domanovic http://www.tanyaleighton.com/index.php?pageId=445&l=en Wall-e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGBZWbg_26A Jordan Wolfson’s robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSFP6JHnn9c Miltos Menatos Aibo Painting https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1337074873763774/ Boston Dynamics https://www.bostondynamics.com/ CES https://www.ces.tech/ CES LG keynote https://ru-clip.com/video/YUQ-UO42FGQ/lg-at-ces-2018-in-10-minutes.html August Smart Lock http://august.com/ GM autonomous car https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=MvP82IsGqNc Facebook’s new people centric news feed blog post https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/hard-questions-is-spending-time-on-social-media-ba

This week is also a new year, looking back, have we made any progress? Bisbee Arizona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee,_Arizona Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti, urban laboratory http://arcosanti.org/ Scott Galloway on the Four Horsemen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCvwCcEP74Q Brotopia by Emily Chang https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/brotopia-silicon-valley-secretive-orgiastic-inner-sanctum Thriving in an Age of Acceleration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSh2kHa29cE Crime in New York plunges to a level not seen since the 1950s https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/nyregion/new-york-city-crime-2017.html?_r=0 Scott Galloway at 5:46 discusses the Manhattan project https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_amazon_apple_facebook_and_google_manipulate_our_emotions/transcript#t-788449 American life expectancy is getting worse https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/why-are-so-many-americans-dying-young/510455/ Rietveld Schröder House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietveld_Schr%C3%B6der_House Shen

This week a lot of people are working hard at vacationing, is there a point to it all? Williams arizona “Gateway to the Grand Canyon” https://experiencewilliams.com Joe Freelander https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNhiawV0aD8 Hans Ulrich Obrist, “the curator who never sleeps” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/08/art-conversation Navajo Nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation Maudie, movie about rural Canadian artist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ_guQTGNw Slum Tourism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum_tourism Bjork, Dancer in the Dark, “I’ve seen it all” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8FJyhnC2Eo “Chicago Bean” Cloud Gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate Shibuya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya Nikki S Lee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI8xpJItPVI Magic Leap One https://www.magicleap.com/ Ready Player One, Spielberg Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSp1dM2Vj48 Total Recall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFMLGEHdIjE No Drone Zone! https://www.instagram.com/p/BdBz3G

This week we discuss the future of food and why it seems that all roads lead to milkshakes. Secret to a perfect omelet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baJ8LDmYP8o Macrobiotic diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrobiotic_diet Impossible Burger https://www.impossiblefoods.com/burger/ Kajitsu http://www.kajitsunyc.com/ Ceviche http://allrecipes.com/recipe/12819/ceviche/ Soylent https://www.soylent.com/ Zuckerberg personal automation video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvimBPJ3XGQ Ritual app https://toronto.ritual.co/ Chopt http://choptsalad.com/ Google Cafeteria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnRu66k1brA Ludo Bird chicken https://www.ludolefebvre.com/restaurants/ludobird Lee Kitchen at Toronto Airport https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Restaurant_Review-g154996-d10041709-Reviews-Lee_Kitchen-Mississauga_Ontario.html * commercial break * http://mitchellfchan.com/ Steve Jobs was a fruitarian http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/29/steve-jobs-fruitarian-diet-lands-ashton-kutcher-in-the-hospital/ Snowpiercer https://www.y

This week we discuss Jealousy, what is it good for? Or as Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols once said “I don’t try and impress anybody except myself.” The vergecast https://www.theverge.com/the-vergecast The Square https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u77vsmBya2w Kroll Show radio show host https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92gpus5qdjk Gerhard Richter https://www.artsy.net/artist/gerhard-richter Myspace https://myspace.com/ Wayne Gretsky quote http://www.canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comment/stop-using-gretzky-where-the-puck-is-quote/ Interview with Johnny Rotten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJm97o-4qYI Johny Hallyday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8vo9nc8r94 Carolee Schneemann documentary https://vimeo.com/61326366 Steve Martin, Born Standing Up (book review) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/books/15masl.html Impostor syndrome https://www.fastcompany.com/40421352/the-five-types-of-impostor-syndrome-and-how-to-beat-them * Commercial Break * we’re selling mugs and t-shirts at http://goodpointpodcast.com Constan

This week we spend over an hour casually browsing good points about web design just to get to this question, does anyone still use indexhibit? White silence is violence https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jess-davidson-/white-silence-is-not-an-o_b_10927210.html Fungibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility Social Justice Tourism https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-05/take-a-cruise-save-the-world-will-millennials-buy-social-justice-tourism- BYOB http://www.byobworldwide.com “Why I hate Dreamweaver” https://www.akawebdesign.com/2009/05/20/why-i-hate-dreamweaver/ Javascript https://developer.mozilla.org/bm/docs/Web/JavaScript HTML 5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5 Web 2.0 http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a//web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html Call to Action https://www.amazon.ca/Call-Action-Bryan-Eisenberg/dp/078521965X Don’t Make me Think https://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html Youtube perfected the feed https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/30/16222850/youtube-google-brain-algorithm-video-recommendation-perso

The world’s #1 imperfect Podcast for people who love art, tech and culture presents a very special episode on Advertising. Eye filmmuseum https://www.eyefilm.nl/en iPhone X billboards https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/11/iphone-x-billboards/ Jeremy’s secret version of FreshBooks story https://www.forbes.com/sites/boburlingham/2017/05/09/starting-over/#21f905a557ce Chuck Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHpXle4NqWI Paradox of Choice https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice Car ads from the 1960s http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/cars-ads-1960s Sexist ads still sell? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKG7XRsG9KQ 26% of desktop users turn on ad blockers http://www.adweek.com/digital/iab-study-says-26-desktop-users-turn-ad-blockers-172665/ Abstract Browsing http://www.abstractbrowsing.net/ The You Museum http://theyoumuseum.org/ Comcast hints at plan for paid fast lanes after net neutrality repeal https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-quietly-drops-promise-not-to-charge-

Can art be efficient? We discuss. Enough said. Prince Edward County http://prince-edward-county.com/ Thousand Island Dressing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Island_dressing White iPhone not as popular as space grey https://www.cultofmac.com/510239/want-iphone-x-launch-pick-color/ Sam Walton, Walmart CEO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Walton The Four Hour Work Week https://fourhourworkweek.com/ Tim Ferris on his severe depression https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_ferriss_why_you_should_define_your_fears_instead_of_your_goals Fog of War by Errol Morris (movie about efficiency of killing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pOPbiA_eMw Lean Startup http://theleanstartup.com Agile Manifesto http://agilemanifesto.org Deiter Rams’ ten principles of good design – “Good Design is as Little Design as Possible” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxtkVgh6kKo Rafael’s new camera app Blurrrrr http://www.newrafael.com/blurrrrr/ Malevich’s black square http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/five-ways-look-Malevich

This week we discuss Fame. Andy Warhol may have said “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” but he never predicted we’d all want our 15 minutes every day. Andy Warhol’s quote “in the future everyone will be famous for 15min” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/andy-warhol-probably-never-said-his-celebrated-fame-line-180950456/ Pierre Elliot Trudeau (Famed Canadian prime minister) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzWTAorHeu0 Marshall McLuhan “global village” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeDnPP6ntic Youtubers and You documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--VqhKD3WxI William Wegman’s short videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xYxxcqbPeU Why startups are so growth focused https://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2017/06/13/the-case-for-opting-out-of-silicon-valleys-growth-or-die-culture/#1470ed88198f Maudie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ_guQTGNw Louis CK responds to accusations “the stories are true” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/arts/television/louis-ck-statement

This week we ask some important questions about texture. Can you touch a compression codec like a painting? Does a tablet need to feel like paper? Should keyboards feel like handbags? Do you really need to see a rom-com in 3d? HD Boyz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C5YAc6L_KQ Toronto Public Library http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/ Arte Povera https://news.artnet.com/market/an-introduction-to-arte-povera-32829 MacPaint https://www.fastcodesign.com/3019914/relive-the-original-macpaint-in-your-browser Pentile Display https://www.oled-info.com/pentile Wade Guyton http://www.vulture.com/2012/10/saltz-on-wade-guyton-os-at-the-whitney.html Nam June Paik Magnet TV http://collection.whitney.org/#object/6139 Takeshi Murata, Monster Movie, 2005 https://vimeo.com/147761897 8.7MB, 2002 (ironically not the original file) http://jeremybailey.net/87mb.html Wabi Sabi: The Art of Imperfection https://www.utne.com/mind-and-body/wabi-sabi George Maciunas, Flux Kits https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/fluxus_

Rafael and Jeremy discuss cities, gentrification, geriatrification and tech workers living under a glass dome. iPhone X is rent priced https://twitter.com/Lowk3yKat/status/923997111720476672 Lean Artist Chicago (jeremy’s latest version of his artist accelerator) http://www.leanartistchicago.com/ Death Wish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyZgZ9cN4kQ Richard Florida “everything is gentrification now” https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/oct/26/gentrification-richard-florida-interview-creative-class-new-urban-crisis Why Barcelona locals really hate tourists http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/barcelona-locals-hate-tourists-why-reasons-spain-protests-arran-airbnb-locals-attacks-graffiti-a7883021.html 1980s New York http://all-that-is-interesting.com/1980s-new-york Pabst Blue Ribbon http://pabstblueribbon.com/ Gentrification of Rio Favellas https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jun/15/rio-olympics-exclusion-zone-gentrification-favela-babilonia Decay after olympics https://gizmodo.com/rio-lo

This week we talk aesthetics, Rafael coins the term Klingoncoco and Jeremy declares anti-social aesthetics impossible. Explain Me, Paddy Johnson and William Powhida’s new art podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/explain-me/id1292346467?mt=2 Kickstarter PWL camp https://storify.com/GloryEdim/pwlcamp2016 Relational Aesthetics https://www.amazon.com/Relational-Aesthetics-Nicolas-Bourriaud/dp/2840660601/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297140777&sr=8-1 A Happening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happening Jeremy’s accelerator for artists, Lean Artist http://www.leanartistchicago.com/ A Vernacular Web http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/ Nam June Paik https://theculturetrip.com/asia/south-korea/articles/nam-june-paik-the-father-of-contemporary-video-art/ Theaster Gates https://art21.org/artist/theaster-gates/ Bad Troemel taco http://gawker.com/5922870/taco-locks-and-other-delights-from-the-internets-weirdest-etsy-store Roy Lichtenstein http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/roy-lichtenstein-1508 Bootstra

This week marks the first occasion we have both been in the same city at the same time. To celebrate we recorded this very special episode of Good Point in front of a live audience at Kickstarter’s offices in Greenpoint during their annual PWL Camp. The topic, Reproduction, was suggested by the audience. China ends one child policy after 35 years https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/china-abandons-one-child-policy Having children is one of the most destructive things you can do to the environment http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-footprint-climate-change-damage-having-kids-research-a7837961.html Preterna, Jeremy and Kristen’s VR pregnancy startup https://creators.vice.com/en_au/article/3d53kk/you-can-be-pregnant-in-virtual-reality-finally JODI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_(art_collective) Eva and Franco Mattes https://0100101110101101.org/ Exonemo http://www.exonemo.com/ Ubermorgen http://ubermorgen.com/UM/index.html New Parents more sleep-deprived than we thought – “ne

On our very first episode in duophonic stereo sound we talk about well, sound, plus all the newly released and upcoming tech that’s transforming it’s nature and meaning. - Radio Compressors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression - 5 biggest announcements from Google’s Pixel 2 event https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16403272/google-event-2017-news-recap-pixel-2-clips-home-pixelbook - Google translation headphones https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/06/google-translation-headphones-war-douglas-adams-hitchhikers-guide - Eurorack modular synthesizers https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/secret-world-modular-synthesizers - Google headphones translation demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQVQVt5H2QM - Smart Sheets https://eightsleep.com/products/eight-sleep-tracker?variant=34186577923 - 23 and me https://www.23andme.com/en-ca/ - Apple AirPods https://www.apple.com/airpods/ - Bragi Dash https://www.bragi.com/thedash/ - Bixby Button https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/18/galaxy-s8-ow

This week Raff Riff and Bailey channel their art therapist personas to talk about anxiety, Apple’s role in increasing teen suicide rates and how to avoid feeding your peers a shit sandwich. Riff Raff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxLS-cpgbe0 Car Talk https://current.org/2016/07/nprs-best-of-car-talk-will-end-in-september-2017/ Richard Prince http://www.richardprince.com/ Barbara Kruger http://www.artnet.com/artists/barbara-kruger/ iGen Atlantic Article https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/ Colin Campbell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4pq4jPWDuM Nietzsche https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/ Simon Sinek patronizes Millienials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hER0Qp6QJNU Jeff Koons on anxiety https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/23/the-turnaround-artist The Joy of Missing Out http://www.jomobook.com/ Nuit Blanche Toronto https://nbto.com/ Lean Artist Chicago http://www.leanartistchicago.com/ Good Point shirts http://www.goodpoi

This week we talk about data visualization, hereby known as pizza vs macaroni, and we announce our first ever Good Point t-shirt A/B test. Japan’s music fanatics want personal grid connection; ‘electricity is like blood’ https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have-it-all-a-personal-utility-pole-1471189463 MP3 sound quality challenge http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social Pizza vs. Macaroni http://www.twofoods.com/compare/query/bWFjYXJvbmkgYW5kIGNoZWVzZQ==/cGl6emE= Discussing Design Book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033561.do Start with Why https://startwithwhy.com/ 80/20 rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle A/B testing https://vwo.com/ab-testing/ Google’s 41 shades of blue (original 2009 reference) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html?pagewanted=3 Autodesk https://www.autodesk.ca/en Autodesk generative office data visualizatio

The week Rafael asks why performance art has to be so cringe worthy and Jeremy argues that Apple’s recently announced iPhone X represents the biggest innovation for performance art in years. iPhone X https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/ PrimeSense https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primesense#/entity Johnny Lee http://johnnylee.net/ Faceshift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLfAmNDNgHk Face Tracking with ARKit https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/fall2017/601/ Kinect fastest selling device on record http://www.bbc.com/news/business-12697975 Sony Portapak http://experimentaltvcenter.org/sony-av-3400-porta-pak Portapak ad of man with baby birds http://rebrn.com/re/sony-tape-recorder-ad-1743082/ Fluxus http://www.widewalls.ch/what-is-fluxus/ Chris Burden “Shoot” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26R9KFdt5aY Nam June Paik’s actual video art invention story (jeremy got a couple details wrong) https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/the-take/the-year-video-art-was-born Boomerang by Richard Serra and Nancy Holt https://w

The art world is back to work and nearly every gallery opened a show this week, including Rafaël. Find out why people say openings aren’t about the art and why Jeremy won’t allow cheese at his own. Rafaël at his opening at Postmasters https://www.instagram.com/p/BY06qGXh6Rl/?hl=en How Collectors Use Instagram to Buy Art https://www.artsy.net/article/elena-soboleva-how-collectors-use-instagram-to-buy-art Artie Vierkant http://artievierkant.com/ Conversion Rate Optimization https://moz.com/learn/seo/conversion-rate-optimization Tokyo Smoke https://ca.tokyosmoke.com/ Starbucks “The Third Place” https://www.fastcompany.com/887990/starbucks-third-place-and-creating-ultimate-customer-experience Eye Film Museum restaurant https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/activities/restaurant Cyprien Gaillard – The Recovery of Discovery (aka The Beer Pyramid) at KW Berlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qmrHCC6ZoM La Haine (1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhpz9tmX7O0 BYOB http://www.byobworldwide.com/ Sneaker Bots http://www.highsn

This week Rafael and Jeremy, two refugees of the browser wars, share tales of sacrifice and chivalry from the early days of the internet. A Muppet Family Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojtGHXsTXmU Bike sharing in China https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html?mcubz=1&_r=0 Browser wars https://www.wired.com/2009/01/awesome-infogra/ Mosaic browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) Hotline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications Serial Box https://twitter.com/peteavey/status/24423749486903296 SVG https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG Webkit https://webkit.org/ Firefox https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ Imagemagick https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php WebVR https://webvr.info/ Netscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape AOL CDs https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/27/aol-discs-90s/ Compuserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe Apple eWorld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld Information Superhighway,