Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Erling Haaland - the Viking
New Yorker - "Erling Haaland Plays Like a Viking"
By Zach Helfand
"Haaland’s style of play elicits not wonder but terror. He is enormous: six feet five, two hundred pounds, about the size and speed of the N.F.L. wide receiver Randy Moss. Watching him, I sometimes find myself giggling as I might over a big, obscene crash at a demolition derby. The play that did this to me most recently came in Norway’s first World Cup game, against Iraq. Haaland had already scored twice; Iraq’s Marko Farji was moving the ball across his box, with Haaland twenty yards away, until he suddenly broke into a sprint of bizarre ferocity—he has a quirk in his running form that causes his arms to thrash from side to side—heading straight at Farji, who, though still far from Haaland, seemed to abandon all soccer instinct and took off with the ball in the opposite direction, toward the sideline, while Haaland, for some reason, just kept chasing, and caught up to Farji right before they both went out of bounds, but in his overexuberance, before he could dislodge the ball, he knocked Farji to the ground and earned a foul, which caused him to let out a long scream, whether in frustration or as some battle-cry catharsis, I’m not sure. I’d never seen anything like it. I wanted to see more."
No More Millennial Bland; Gen Z Goo
NY Times - "The Glitchy, Gloppy Look of Now"
"Remember how things looked in 2016?
Direct-to-consumer brands like Warby Parker and Everlane introduced themselves in tidy, sans-serif typefaces. Pastels, especially millennial pink, surged onto Instagram feeds and Glossier mascara tubes. A “self-aware, stylized blandness” called normcore inspired art kids to reach for the drabbest of khakis. The overall effect was sterile but soothing, as if to suggest our lives might somehow absorb the cheerful legibility of a Casper mattress ad.
Fast-forward a decade, and this muted visual language — which came to be known as millennial blanding — has receded. Something misshapen and unruly is rising in its place.
Let’s call it hyper goo: a style of glitchy, gloppy maximalism that has landed on consumer culture like a wet sneeze. Text on shampoo bottles and pickle jars increasingly resembles the inner workings of a lava lamp. Negative space has grown cluttered with doodles that look as if they might have been made in Microsoft Paint."
"Remember how things looked in 2016?
Direct-to-consumer brands like Warby Parker and Everlane introduced themselves in tidy, sans-serif typefaces. Pastels, especially millennial pink, surged onto Instagram feeds and Glossier mascara tubes. A “self-aware, stylized blandness” called normcore inspired art kids to reach for the drabbest of khakis. The overall effect was sterile but soothing, as if to suggest our lives might somehow absorb the cheerful legibility of a Casper mattress ad.
Fast-forward a decade, and this muted visual language — which came to be known as millennial blanding — has receded. Something misshapen and unruly is rising in its place.
Let’s call it hyper goo: a style of glitchy, gloppy maximalism that has landed on consumer culture like a wet sneeze. Text on shampoo bottles and pickle jars increasingly resembles the inner workings of a lava lamp. Negative space has grown cluttered with doodles that look as if they might have been made in Microsoft Paint."
Werewulf
Written & Directed by Robert Eggers
Starring
Aaron Taylor-Johnson,
Willem Dafoe,
Lily-Rose Depp
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