Friday Inspiration, Vol. 186

I was happy to take a little crappy cell phone video of the eclipse in 2017—Phil Hart had seven cameras running, and made this rad short film: (video)

The new toilets on Longs Peak just won a Small Project Award from the American Institute of Architects.

Chef Davide Cerretini’s revolutionary idea: Put up a sign at his restaurant reading, “Give us a one star review on Yelp and get 25% off any pizza! Hate us on Yelp.”

If you’re into creating things, or think you might be, you also might love my friend Anna Brones’s monthly Creative Fuel newsletter—here’s this month’s.

A headline in The New Yorker: Keanu Reeves Is Too Good for This World

I love this series of “abridged classics” that cartoonist John Atkinson is doing on Instagram (which apparently come from his book, Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn’t)

The artists behind the hand-painted signs of Mexico City

A post from the Semi-Rad archives this week: On ‘Fear Disguised As Practicality’ (from 2016)

Also: If you are not already on the Semi-Rad email list, you can now get a free PDF copy of my book, Make It Till You Make It, when you sign up. Here’s the link.

—Brendan