Namjoon’s speech at the RM x SFMOMA media conference!🥹🥹
🐨: Hello! Good afternoon. Annyeonghaseyo (hi)
🐨: Thank you for coming sincerely!
🐨: Alright. It's been a while that I've made a speech, so yeah…
🐨: Hello, my name is RM! This is my debut as a co-curator. And I'm nervous. Okay, I'm gonna start.
🐨: So, first of all, I'm a very very confused person. You could figure it out later
🐨: Oh, thank you for the music! Thank you!
🐨: I think I revised the speech about like ten times but somehow the more I worked on it, the more confused I became like always.
🐨: When I first started going to museums eight years ago, when I first started looking at art, of course I never imagined that a day like this would come.
🐨: Over the years I've talked a lot about things like the personal and the universal, East, West, Modern, Contemporary. But now that this exhibition is actually about to open I suddenly find myself thinking “Well, does any of that really matter?” Maybe it just needs to be a good, new and an interesting exhibition.
🐨: Two years ago I was in the military. I first got a serious proposal from SFMOMA and I loved it! Of course, since I was in the military at that time maybe I would have been happy with any kind of proposal coming from San Francisco.
🐨: Yeah, but I also thought it could be a good experience before I someday open a kind of space I dream of. And I also thought at a place with this kind of scale and stature, maybe I could borrow someone else's spaces and try something fun.
🐨: So I started this with an innocent heart. I just didn't know that this innocence would eventually make me write, erase, rewrite hundreds of labels and labels.
🐨: As I'm standing here talking to you, I still feel like I'm always drifting and floating somewhere, whether I'm in the U.S. or even when I'm in Seoul where I was born and raised. And, you know, it's not a very pleasant feeling.
🐨: So I think I've leaned on art a lot because of that feeling. Art and music, their language and medium might be slightly different, but they're the same because they both try to say something.
🐨: And also I liked collecting things ever since I was young, and at the same time I do feel guilty about it. Like, “do I really need to carry like so many unnecessary things that I don't even need?” “have I ended up becoming just a boring rich snore?” Well, maybe. Okay. But I thought it would be nice if other people could see those as well. And that's why I wanted to show the people my collection.
🐨: A lot of works in my collection are by Korean modern and contemporary artists. And I'm sure many of those names are still very unfamiliar outside Korea.
🐨: Over the past few years I've seen a lot of other people's collections and I came to think that there aren't many things that show a person like more honestly than a collection they've built over like a long period of time, spending their money, their life, their effort and even giving the walls of their own home. And in that term I guess this exhibition is a pretty long introduction of myself.
🐨: And I feel embarrassed kinda but the thing is sometimes I don't really know why I collected all these things. So I just named one of the sections, “I don’t know but I like it.” That's my honest feeling.
🐨: Likewise I always feel my own limits. Sometimes I feel incredibly proud of myself then incredibly embarrassed by myself, back and forth. In the end I realized I can't really be anything more than just myself.
🐨: So there were two questions that mattered most to me. One was, “Does it move me really?” And another was, “Right now, in 2026, does this artist and does this work still have something to tell us?”
🐨: In an age where everything is consumed so fast, I believe the attitudes of the some of the past artists can resonate even more deeply today.
#RMxSFMOMA
It’s a new era of college football.
Take a never-seen-before look inside the Cal Bears transfer portal season in “Portal Games”, by @NFLFilms
Premiers on @FS1 on September 30th at 3:30 PM PT
Fernando Mendoza signed a rookie contract in July worth $57.27 million. Fully guaranteed. He is 22 years old.
This week he announced what he is doing with his rookie season.
He is starting a series called Finance with Fernando to teach people his age how to handle money.
His words in the trailer.
"My true passion is fiscal responsibility."
He is not bluffing. He graduated from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, and he is finishing a master's in business administration in December.
Here is how he got to the point where a 22 year old can say that.
All four of his grandparents left Cuba for Miami in 1960.
He grew up in Miami and played at Christopher Columbus High School. In two seasons as the starting quarterback he threw for 1,396 yards and 16 touchdowns. Total. Nobody was building a recruiting class around that.
He committed to Yale.
Then another recruit's decision opened a door at California, and he went to Berkeley instead. He redshirted in 2022. He started eight games in 2023 and eleven in 2024.
Then he hit the portal and went to Indiana, a program that had gone 9-27 in the three years before Curt Cignetti showed up.
What happened next does not really happen.
Indiana went 16-0. Mendoza threw 41 touchdown passes, a school record. They won at Oregon. They beat No. 1 Ohio State for the Big Ten title.
Rose Bowl against Alabama, he went 14 of 16 for 192 yards and three touchdowns in a 38-3 win. Peach Bowl against Oregon, five touchdowns.
Then the national championship game, against Miami. The school in his own hometown.
Indiana won 27-21. He was the offensive MVP.
First Heisman Trophy in Indiana history. First national championship in Indiana history.
Then the Raiders took him first overall. He wears number 15 for Tom Flores, who gave him his blessing to use it.
And right now he is sitting behind Kirk Cousins.
So instead of waiting around, he is finishing the MBA and starting a personal finance series for people who have never had money and are about to.
One more thing worth knowing about him. His mother Elsa lives with multiple sclerosis. He and his brother worked with restaurants to put items on the menu that raise money for MS research.
Turn on any sports broadcast in America right now and count the sportsbook ads.
The number one pick in the draft started a show about not losing your money.
Bringing our community to Bear Territory 🐻
Our new BearShare program provides complimentary game tickets to nonprofit and 501c3 organizations for our Wake Forest game on October 17th and other home games!
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Clemson HC Dabo Swinney praised Cal QB Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele:
“If you want to know what an NFL quarterback looks like playing college ball, that’s this kid.”
“Herbert tried me twice and I was trying to make a play on the ball. It’s mine, it ain’t no 50-50 ball. I’m comfortable out there.”
Raiders rookie CB Hezekiah “Zeek” Masses speaks on his 2 interception debut game in a Week 2 win over the Chargers.
🎥: By @Sean_Zittel
SCOOP: After 40 years and more than 10 million pints served, Berkeley’s Triple Rock Brewery and Ale House — America’s oldest continuously operating brewpub — is set to close. https://t.co/SiDndDzVf3