Morris Yang

2 months ago | medium.com | Morris Yang

what I learned from the processMorris Yang·Follow6 min read·--In January 2025, I was shortlisted by the industry’s largest yield trading protocol (still waiting for the final call, lol). During the interview, I recalled several products I’d been involved with — some were side projects that never scaled. At one point, I realized I hadn’t deeply analyzed why these products failed (strategically or managerially), which inspired this blog. Before launching new side projects, reflection feels essential.

Oct 28, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Daniel P. Gorman |Jesse Catherine Webber |Morris Yang |Luke Gorham

Robin Wood begins the introduction to his 1965 book Hitchcock’s Films with a question: “Why should we take Hitchcock seriously?” It’s a deceptively simple query; as I glance at my book shelf, I see no less than 10 books on the filmmaker — Wood’s Hitchcock’s Films Revisited; Rohmer & Chabrol’s Hitchcock; A Hitchcock Reader, edited by Deutelbaum & Poague; Durgnat’s A Long, Hard Look at Psycho; the canonical long-form interview Hitchcock/Truffaut; Walker’s Hitchcock’s Motifs; Krohn’s Hitchcock...

Oct 21, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Morris Yang |Luke Gorham

It wouldn’t be a stretch to claim that Daaaaaalí!, Quentin Dupieux’s 77-minute portrait of the surrealist artist, is a biography of some kind. Nor would it, in this writer’s estimation, unsettle the boundaries of credibility to label it a work of documentary. The real Salvador Dalí had imbibed surrealism in his own life as much as he did in his art, cultivating a persona at once outlandish, wicked, grandiose, and inexplicable.

Oct 17, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Morris Yang |Luke Gorham

Frat lives fall flat. That, at least to the outsider, is a reasonable conclusion to draw from the many unwelcome instances of its bearers disrupting our quotidian sensibilities: humiliation and hazing rituals gone wrong, casual misogyny substantiated by serious sexual transgression, and even the empty beer cans and boorishness that mask and reveal in equal measure a false but entrenched entitlement. To some extent, frat bros know this too.

Oct 12, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Morris Yang |Luke Gorham

“Our dominance is supreme and our isolation is profound.” These words, taken from N. Scott Momaday’s essay, “A Storyteller and His Art,” pronounce the condition of modern man, some four hours into the sprawling 14-hour institutional excavation that comprises Dimitris Athiridis’ exergue – on documenta 14.