Sha Meng

China

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Happy Birthday, Tobey Maguire!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Murmuration of starlings above Piazza della Repubblica in Rome

📷 ekapugach TikTok

[Cyberpunk 2077 @CyberpunkGame]

Happy Dragon Boat Festival! 🚣‍♀️

Celebrate with today's limited edition braindance — CyberDragon!🎉🐉

[MZS @mattzollerseitz]

Hard to believe it’s been 10 years. Here’s the appreciation I wrote after James Gandolfini left us. https://t.co/CNpgVagxlW

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

On the 27th straight day of filming “Forrest Gump,” Tom Hanks was tired & worried.

During a scene on the famous park bench, Hanks stopped & said to director Bob Zemeckis,

“Hey, Bob…is anybody going to care about this movie? I don’t think anybody’s going to care.”

Bob replied,

“It’s a minefield, Tom. You never know what’s good…It’s a minefield! It’s a goddam minefield! We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction.”

Tom Hanks told this story after he was asked, “When I ask for a memory from your career, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?”

He said that what Zemeckis said was true of every movie he’s worked on:

“There’s never any guarantee...You do not know if it is going to work out.”

Takeaway 1:

Hanks is the 5th-most highest-grossing actor of all time.

And yet, the stickiest memory of his career is the feeling of uncertainty.

Rarer than talent or work ethic, the poet John Keats wrote, is the ability to step into and push through doubts and uncertainties.

In 1817, Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization.

“At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.”

Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

Takeaway 2:

Those who possess Negative Capability, who can sit with uncertainty, who can spend months or years in the minefield that is working on something while knowing that there is a real possibility no one will care about it—they often possess another quality.

They do what they do, not as a means to some end (money, fame, awards, etc.), but for the sake of doing it.

When asked about one of his movies that commercially failed, Hanks said,

"I loved making that movie. I loved writing it, I loved being with it. I love all the people in it."

As Ryan Holiday once told me, "The work has to be the win."

You control the effort, he says, not the results.

"So ultimately, you have to love doing it. You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

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“Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get.” — Forrest Gump

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[BORED @BoredElonMusk]

Space is cool but have you ever seen a rocket lawn sprinkler?

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

MARTIN SCORSESE talking very passionately about his new film Taxi Driver back in 1976.

[𝘨𝘢·𝘩𝘦𝘦 @framesbygahee]

farewell my concubine, 1993

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Spinning Dancer is a kinetic, bistable optical illusion resembling a pirouetting female dancer. If you look at the left image, all 3 dancers will rotate clockwise. But if you look at the right image, all 3 dancers will rotate counterclockwise https://t.co/Db7DwTnvUB

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Merging art with AI. Using the new Outpainting capability,DALL-E 2 imagined how the landscape could look like between famous impressionist paintings from Van Gogh, Monet, Munch and Hokusai

[source, read more: https://t.co/boZvv4yUkn]

[Judge Roy Ferguson @JudgeFergusonTX]

Happy #LawyerCat day for all who celebrate!! Today is the 2nd anniversary of Lawyercat. To celebrate, here is the full and complete hearing from start to finish, with a few seconds at the end that you haven't seen! For the next year, may you all be here live and #NotaCat.

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

position game flawless

[Harrison Schenck @FractionalList]

The joy of fatherhood perfectly illustrated in 9 seconds:

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The male pufferfish tries to impress potential mates with his masterpiece.

[Film Daze @filmdaze]

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️
https://t.co/zUWUsLlREQ

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Time-lapse of a dandelion transforming from flower to seed head.

Credit: Neil Bromhall
https://t.co/gOcC52eeKp

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

One man, one dog and 2000 sheep: a time lapse that has so many physics and fluid dynamics references

[source and full video: https://t.co/GZxueBDOaE]

[Kontra @counternotions]

“Some Useful Abbreviations for the Time-Pressed Online Reader”

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

Aubrey Plaza and Amy Poehler just played their Parks and Rec characters on SNL omg

"I used to watch Weekend Update when Seth Meyers did it with no one else..." —Amy Poehler, who used to host Update with Seth

[Lissa Evans @LissaKEvans]

Just watched this about 50 times. Night all.