Craft By Zen

Curation

This is the curated collection of eclectic items. I love collecting different kinds of mediums and media. The things that have resonated I'll shelve in my library.

    • 2024
      All media consumed in 2024

      January

      February

      • 01 🎥 Moonlight in Vermont (2017) Letterboxd
      • 02 🎥 Argylle (2024) Letterboxd
      • 03 🎥 Love on Iceland (2020) Letterboxd
      • 08 📕 The Psychology of Money (2020) - Morgan Housel - Book Notes
      • 08 🎥 🔁 The Holiday Sitter (2022) Letterboxd
      • 09 🎥 Hearts in the Game (2023) Letterboxd
      • 13 🎥 American Fiction (2023) Letterboxd - Review
      • 17 🎥 I.S.S. (2023) Letterboxd
      • 18 🎮 Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023)
      • 19 🎥 Upgraded (2024) Letterboxd
      • 20 🎥 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023) Letterboxd
      • 26 🎥 Silent Night (2021) Letterboxd
      • 26 🎮 Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)

      March

      April

      • 05 📺 Ramy (Season 1) (2019)
      • 07 🎥 The Beekeeper (2024) Letterboxd
      • 10 🎥 The Flight of Dragons (1982) Letterboxd
      • 14 📺 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (all Seasons) (2013 - 2021)
      • 16 🎥 Suzume (2022) Letterboxd
      • 16 📕 Slow Productivity (2024)
      • 17 🎥 Theater Camp (2023) Letterboxd
      • 19 📺 Fallout (Season 1) (2024)
      • 21 🎥 The American Society of Magical Negroes (2024) Letterboxd
      • 25 🎥 Late Night with the Devil (2023) Letterboxd
      • 26 🎥 Lisa Frankenstein (2024) Letterboxd
      • 27 🎥 The Persian Version (2023) Letterboxd
      • 28 📕 Million Dollar Weekend (2024)

      May

      June

      July

      August

      • 06 🎥 Hush (1998) Letterboxd
      • 11 🎥 Things Heard & Seen (2021) Letterboxd
      • 17 🎥 Twisters (2024) Letterboxd
      • 18 📕 Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (2024)
      • 27 📺 Hijack (2023)

      September

      • 18 📕 Frostbite (2024)
      • 19 📕 How Infrastructure Works (2023)

      Year End Stats

      MediaCount
      🎥 Movies84
      📺 TV Shows5
      🎮 Video Game3
      📕 Books6
      Filed: 🪵 Logs
      Written list on a legal pad, photographed by Torbjørn Helgesen
    • Invididuals' Websites

      These are people whose websites serve as awe and inspiration. There’s something that resonates with me and I want to emulate or remix ideas from their websites. Some people I’ve met IRL, and I love their work. Others I might have met online. And the rest are people I’ve stumbled upon.

      Filed: 💖 inspiration
    • Furiosa: A Mad Max Story
      Posted
      Director: George Miller, Released: 2024
      As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus.
      Filed: 🎞️ Films
      Film Poster for Suzume
    • Suzume
      Posted
      Director: Makoto Shinkai, Released: 2022
      A modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.
      Filed: 🎞️ Films
      Film Poster for Suzume
    • 2023
      All media consumed in 2023

      The Numbers

      • 📕 9 Books
      • 🎵 1 Concert
      • 🎥 152 Movies
      • 🎤 2 Musical
      • 📺 5 TV Shows
      • 🎮 1 Video Game

      January

      February

      • 01 📕 How to Calm Your Mind by Chris Bailey (BOOK)
      • 05 🎵 Lunar New Year: Year Of The Rabbit at the SF Symphony (CONCERT)
      • 07 🎥 Bride Wars (2009) Letterboxd
      • 07 📕 I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (BOOK)
      • 09 🎥 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) Letterboxd
      • 09 🎥 Miss Congeniality (2000) Letterboxd
      • 14 🎥 Music and Lyrics (2007) Letterboxd
      • 15 🎥 Winter Love Story (2019) Letterboxd
      • 16 🎥 What’s Your Number? (2011) Letterboxd
      • 17 🎥 Made of Honor (2008) Letterboxd
      • 22 🎥 Emily the Criminal (2022) Letterboxd
      • 25 🎥 Blast from the Past (1999) Letterboxd
      • 25 🎥 The Heat (2013) Letterboxd

      March

      April

      May

      • 03 🎥 John Mulaney: Baby J (2023) Letterboxd
      • 12 🎥 TÁR (2022) Letterboxd Letterboxd
      • 16 🎥 Air (2023) Letterboxd
      • 17 🎥 I See You (2019) Letterboxd
      • 20 🎥 The Omen (1976) Letterboxd
      • 20 🎥 Damien: Omen II (1978) Letterboxd
      • 20 📕 Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly (2023)
      • 22 🎥 The Fabelmans (2022) Letterboxd
      • 22 📺 Atlanta - Season 4 (2022)
      • 23 🎥 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) Letterboxd
      • 28 🎥 The Little Mermaid (2023) Letterboxd

      June

      • 03 📺 Barry - Season 4 (2022)
      • 09 🎥 The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) Letterboxd
      • 15 🎮 Cult of the Lamb (2022)
      • 16 🎥 The Christmas Note (2015) Letterboxd

      July

      • 02 🎥 The Meg (2018) Letterboxd
      • 06 🎥 Joy Ride (2023) Letterboxd
      • 24 📕 Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell (2023)

      August

      • 02 🎥 Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) Letterboxd
      • 12 📕 Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad (2021)
      • 15 🎥 Ghosted (2023) Letterboxd
      • 19 🎥 School of Rock (2003) 🔁 Letterboxd
      • 19 🎥 Snow Bride (2013) Letterboxd
      • 26 🎥 The Blackening (2022) Letterboxd
      • 30 🎥 The Hating Game (2021) Letterboxd
      • 31 🎥 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Letterboxd

      September

      • 08 🎥 Don’t Worry Darling (2022) Letterboxd
      • 09 🎥 Murder on the Orient Express (2017) Letterboxd
      • 13 🎥 Death on the Nile (2022) Letterboxd
      • 13 🎥 Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) Letterboxd
      • 16 🎥 The Nun (2018) Letterboxd
      • 16 🎥 A Haunting in Venice (2023) Letterboxd
      • 16 📕 Awaken Your Genius by Ozan Varol (2023)
      • 19 🎥 The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) 🔁 Letterboxd
      • 23 🎥 Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Letterboxd
      • 23 📕 A Field Guide to Happiness by Linda Leaming (2012)
      • 29 🎤 Hadestown (MUSICAL)
      • 30 🎥 Don’t Look Now (1973) Letterboxd

      October

      • 01 🎥 The Conjuring (2013) Letterboxd
      • 02 🎥 La Llorona (2019) Letterboxd
      • 04 🎥 In the Mouth of Madness (1994) Letterboxd
      • 07 🎥 Spice World (1997) Letterboxd
      • 11 🎥 Haunted Mansion (2023) Letterboxd
      • 14 🎥 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023) Letterboxd
      • 15 🎥 Halloweentown (1998) 🔁 Letterboxd
      • 15 🎥 Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge (2001) 🔁 Letterboxd
      • 16 🎥 Halloweentown High (2004) 🔁 Letterboxd
      • 17 🎥 Sisters (1972) Letterboxd
      • 18 📺 The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) Letterboxd
      • 22 🎥 The Devil’s Backbone (2001) 🔁 Letterboxd
      • 25 🎥 The Exorcist (1973) Letterboxd
      • 27 📺 Broadchurch - Season 1 (2013)
      • 28 🎥 Barbie (2023)
      • 28 🎥 The Conjuring 2 (2016)
      • 29 🎥 Candyman (2021)
      • 30 🎥 Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) 🔁
      • 31 🎥 Hocus Pocus (1993) 🔁 Letterboxd
      • 31 🎥 Practical Magic (1998) Letterboxd

      November

      December

      Filed: 🪵 Logs
      Written list on a legal pad, photographed by Torbjørn Helgesen
    • Book cover for Atomic Design
      Atomic Design
      Created by: Brad Frost
      When designing from the ground up, create small, atomic components that can be combined into bigger components. Using biology as a guide, the complexity is organized into molecules, organisms, then pages. Templates are also used as layouts for those pages.
    • Smooth Logo for Gwern
      Gwern Branwen
      Created by: Gwern Branwen
      Gwern Branwen is a freelance American writer & researcher.
    • An A-Z of Pasta: Stories, Shapes, Sauces, Recipes
      Posted
      Author: Jeremy Wong
      Rachel Roddy condenses everything she has learned about Italy's favourite food in a practical, easy-to-use and mouth-watering collection of 100 essential pasta and pasta sauce recipes.
      Filed: 📖 Books
      Book cover for An A-Z of Pasta
    • Portrait photo of Debra Fraiser
      Debra Fraiser
      Created by: Debra Fraiser
      Debra is the author and illustrator of many award-winning picture books including On the Day You Were Born and Miss Alaineus, A Vocabulary Disaster. In addition to her well- known talks on creative process, Debra’s innovative "Book Events" build a community’s creativity through projects that start with a story.
    • American Fiction
      Posted
      Director: Cord Jefferson, Released: 2023
      A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
      Filed: 🎞️ Films
      Film Poster for American Fiction
    • Next Draft Logo
      Dave Pell - Next Draft Newsletter
      Created by: Dave Pell
      A newsletter offering a quick and entertaining look at the day’s most fascinating news.
    • Coat of arms that say Nullius In Verba
      Buster Benson's Codex Vitae
      Created by: Buster Benson
      Over a decade ago, Buster Benson started his "Codex Vitae" or book of beliefs. He started small and re-visited it every year, updating his beliefs as his life changes.
    • Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
      Posted
      Author: Jeremy Wong
      The political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today.
      Filed: 📖 Books
      Book cover for Blockchain Chicken Farm
    • Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness
      Posted
      Author: Jeremy Wong
      Intro to emotional intelligence (EI) and mindfulness. It goes through mindfulness and meditation exercises to enhance EI, making it relevant for individuals in a modern, fast-paced workplace and lead a happier life.
      Filed: 📖 Books
      Book cover for Search Inside Yourself
    • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
      Posted
      Author: Jeremy Wong
      "Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics."
      Filed: 📖 Books
      Book cover for The Psychology of Money
    • The Art of Learning
      Posted
      Author: Jeremy Wong
      Josh Waitzkin shares his unique systems of thematic learning, idea generation, building resilience, and mastering the art of performance psychology.
      Filed: 📖 Books
      Book cover for The Art of Learning
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