Things I Found | The Everything Everywhere All At Once Edition
Welcome to Things I Found, a celebration of the random, the interesting, the useful, the informative, the beautiful, the funny, the sometimes difficult - and everything in between.
Hello you beautiful, kind human,
Welcome back to Things I Found. It’s been a while. How have you felt alive in the last few months?
Since the last edition went out, I had covid, learned to make tiramisu (and it quickly became my staple desert), went to Mexico and had the most magical margarita- and love-filled time with 17 incredibly smart and supportive women on an idyllic beach, learned to dive and saw a shark underwater (eels are way scarier, by the way), finished another half marathon, passed my Spanish test, had a terrible project that made my eye twitch for days and shook my self-confidence, worked in smooth projects with recurring and new clients and collaborators, learned a ton about new categories and behaviours, had friends from all over visit, ate a lot of good food and took friends to eat good food and realised how fucking pleasurable it is to see them enjoy my recommendations, relaunched shrtcttng, finished a documentary course, finished a writing course, got a financial advisor, celebrated my birthday four times in three different cities (yes), supported friends through storms and celebrated their wins with or for them wholeheartedly, fell more in love, drank cocktails on a Monday afternoon unexpectedly, worked on a set of a short film (and loved it), went to a festival for the first time in years and felt utter joy covered in glitter, felt again how beautiful and static of a shared experience it is to watch live music, bought tickets for concerts for the first time in a long time, doubted myself over and over again, cried a lot over how shit I thought I was, helped launching and hosting Coffee Break, read books in 3 different languages (and bought another one in a fourth, damn), had someone ask me to work for one tenth of my rate and politely told them to fuck off (not without laughing and hyperventilating first), discovered bard core, travelled for the first time in years with my mum, and hopped on a plane last minute to surprise her on the final leg of her trip.
If it feels like I’m bragging, I’m not. Most of the time, it feels like I’m not doing enough, like I am not enough. So, as I feel reinvigorated, content, and atypically at peace, I decided to make this list and use this newsletter to share it too because maybe you might welcome this reminder to recap how much you’ve actually accomplished and what you lived, in the last months - all the many, many things that bring you joy and make you you.
… which actually might be a good segue to the actual content of this edition.
The thing I found
The film Everything Everywhere All At Once.
I found this…
A chaotic, beautifully-crafted visual mindfuck of a masterpiece.
And aptly named. It is everything, everywhere, all at once.
Why?
I’ve been fascinated with the idea of parallel universes for a while - from quantum physics to comforting books, to fictional connections to an alien culture, to multiple versions of the same superhero… It feels reassuring. I welcome the idea that there are different versions of me, of others, of this not being quite like this. It just speaks to me. As someone with anxiety, to whom, during a crisis, a small decision can feel as if it were life-changing, it’s genuinely nice to think of choices, of happenings, as not forever turning points, but as divergent paths that exist simultaneously, even if they rarely cross.
So, when I saw the trailer for Everything Everywhere All At Once, I was immediately hooked. And then, I watched it and was amazed, thrilled and felt like a small child, soaking in all that insane amount of creativity, craft and craziness. It was as if boundaries of normality didn’t exist, as if every idea thrown out on a brainstorm was accepted and then sprinkled with LSD and elevated and twisted and made comical but still inherently human. It was creative freedom executed to perfection, born from human truth as it’s rare to see.
The themes covered are universal: how is love? How does failure come to be? How to accept? What to assimilate? It touches suffering with softness but not without a sting. Above all, it inquires deeply, through many, many, many lives, what fulfilled potential actually is and how it comes to be.
And it’s visual mayhem that not many could pull together. At some point, there are hot dog fingers, and somehow it all makes sense.
Honestly, just go watch it. (Then tell me what you thought).
How was it found?
The lovely Kylee Muir talked about it on Twitter.
Thank you for your time today.
Wishing you a healthy summer, full of joy, and all the things that make you feel happy to be alive.
Much care,
Nicole Ingra
(someone who wants to inspire more curiosity, kindness & confidence in the world.)
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