LFG NYC!! 🔥🥵
It’s a good day when a sex pest does not win an important seat in politics, so today let’s celebrate by sharing local creatives inspiring me at the moment.
Zohran Mamdani
AKA the 33-year-old who declared victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary last night. Crying over the fact that he used to rap as “Mr. Cardamom”. Mamdani’s campaign really was something to be admired, especially on social media.
Hurry Up & Have Fun
A Brooklyn-based event planning duo adding real joy and personality to celebrations. Their site is both fun, functional, and it makes they seem like a blast to work with.
Mark Clennon
NYC‑based photographer and director building vivid portraits that explore journaling, joy, pain, and Black experience in all its complexity. Also just a really cool site.
Arsh Raziuddin
A Brooklyn-based creative director, designer, illustrator. Currently VP of Global Creative at Christie’s and the founding creative director of Acacia, a literary magazine for the Muslim left. Arsh is speaking at Typographics later this week, and they still have tickets.
Have a great week and stay safe in this heat!
— Gabby
Resource of the Week
An interactive storytelling experience built around digital paths, choices, and mood, like wandering through a poetic, abstract landscape with your cursor. I could see this being helpful for idea generation sessions and strategy workshops.
Lucky Dip Links
Freewrite Valentine Special Edition
A bright red, distraction‑free smart typewriter designed as a love letter to writing—mechanical keys, e‑ink screen, cloud sync—and all wrapped in retro‑meets‑modern style.
Birthday Recap
A simple site that generates a personalized recap of news headlines on the day you were born. Just enter your birthdate to see the results.
Your Brain on ChatGPT
This MIT study dives into how using ChatGPT can create something they call “cognitive debt”. You save mental effort now, but you might be weakening your ability to do complex thinking later. I mean… makes sense, but I doubt it will stop people.
A Knockout Blow for LLMs?
Related: Gary Marcus argues that despite their hype, LLMs still struggle with tasks outside their training, showing they’re pattern-matchers, not true reasoning machines.
Dream Recorder
A dreamy, AI-generated experience where you record and explore imaginary dreams with visual and audio outputs. I have the most visceral dreams as it is, I do not need this, but it’s a pretty cool concept.
Browser Dating
A dating site that matches you based on your browser history. My guys… can we all just agree to touch grass and talk to people in person again?
Simon Diebold on WePresent
Diebold, a former VFX artist at Lucasfilm and Framestore, now creates hands‑on, surreal photo sculptures using mirrors, costumes, painting, and collage without any heavy digital tricks.
Silly Little Codes
A playful site of microgames. The Codes game is basically an online version of the 80s TV show “Catch Phrase”, which I loved watching as a kid. Watching RERUNS! Thank you very much!
All resources and links are shared purely because I think they are cool, interesting, or helpful. No content is sponsored unless explicitly stated. I am open to submissions but can’t promise they’ll be featured.
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