Curiosity Pill Awards Season Part 4
The best articles, videos and poetry for the year of 2020
After the well deserved holiday break, what better to think about than what were the highlights of sending the Curiosity Pill newsletter in the last half of year.
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The inaugural edition of the Curiosity Pill Awards Season will be split in 4 parts:
1st Part: Best Article Section #10-8; Best Video Pills #10-9; Best Podcast Pills
2nd Part: Best Article Section #7-6; Best Video Pills #8-6; Best Design Pills; released on 7th January
3rd Part: Best Article Section #5-3; Best Video Pills #5-4; Best Poetic Pills; released on 10th January
4th Part: Best Article Section #2-1; Best Video Pills #3-1; Best Underground Pills, released on 14th January
Best Articles of 2020
#2 Why ambitious people have (unrelated) hobbies
A great piece on the importance of hobbies in the life of ambitious people. After falling into depression during WW1 Winston Churchill, picked up painting, and a few years later brick laying, activities that helped him live 80 years, after serving as the PM of Britain during one of the most stressful periods of modern history. Studies have shown that even looking at art produces psychological resilience, but creating it is even better.”Sitting alone with a canvas? Reading a book for a book club? A whole afternoon for cycling? Chopping down trees? Laying bricks. What’s the point? Who has the time? You do. If Churchill did, we all do. And if we don’t make the time--to restore our minds and body, to get a sweat going, to tune or our tune in, to seek out alternately the absence of voices or the delightful sound of them--we risk collapsing under the weight of our obligations and exhaustion. There’s nothing to feel guilty about for being idle. It’s not reckless. It’s an investment — in you, in your happiness. There is nourishment in pursuits that have no purpose — that is their purpose.”
https://www.salon.com/2019/10/01/why-ambitious-people-have-unrelated-hobbies/
#1 The Books We Don’t Understand
Hard masterpieces in literature receive mixed to low ratings on initial reviews and readings, on later readings additional layers are gained and they climax as their own discipline. We might say hard masterpieces are the onions of literature. Some examples include Ulysses by Joyce, Moby Dick by Melville, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera. ”For unlike the people we make our lives with, novels need not be threatening. They will not bitch about our slowness to appreciate that they have quite other values than ours. And though we may never be able to accept those values, it is fascinating, and useful, to appreciate that there are people who move in quite different worlds of feeling from our own.”
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/08/15/the-books-we-dont-understand/
Best Video Pills of 2020
#3 What makes a Great Deckbuilder?
#2 The Extraordinary Ordinary - Exploring Life Simulators
#1 Cinema is Dead, Long Live Cinema
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Best Underground Pills of 2020
#3 Fliptrix - Holy Kush
“Time don’t stop, can't pause to just check shit, its hectic
Thoughts are collected, reflected, rejected
Burn her religiously, words stay further
Delve in the mystery, sometimes I sit and think, is it me
Spiritually right here, man I got lightyears of history
Fight fearing symphony, time synchronistically
Imagery imitates art, could a synergy dance
Simmered simile, from the city to the Philippines
G’s and these scenes get blown into smithereens
Want me to kill the pill, really was the guillotine
Order lean and got em’ slipping like Mr Bean
It ain't’ lit like they say light my spliff
It’s gets dark quick like an eclipse, side clips “
#2 Elixir by Wiki, Jesse James Solomon and Obongjayar
“Tryna fly out and turn in the winter
Smoked salmon and vino
Watch my reflection grow old in the river like Simba
I had cloud backup because my notes are coming like scripture
Tryna paint the perfect picture, the picture was never perfect
Switched up the mixture, still yak in my elixir
Pack inside my Rizla, man, I ain't rapping like Twister
I spit that, inner city the wind and the way it whisper“
#1 UnLearn The World - Let There Be Light
“Slumdog millionaire, my brain is a Taj Mahal palace
Wonderland with the Alice following the white rabbit
Rocking to Mob Deep I was a Prodigy living in Havoc “
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