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A weekly Friday email of digital bric-a-brac to fill your eyes and earholes.
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LINK ME UP SCOTTY!
Happy Friday people,
Here's your weekly dose of things I have found interesting and inspiring around the internet, and hope you do too. Enjoy!
Album streams:
The Avalanches: We Will Always Love You’
is a 25-track journey into the great sonic beyond – immersive rhymes, melodies and sample collages.
Khruangbin: ‘Late Night Tales’
is a hazy crate-digging extravaganza – delving into funk classics, spiritual jazz and unusual global music.
Haiku:
Neat wordsmithery
in these 20 clever haikus that sum up 2020
.
Houseparty:
Neat
dystopian short film where a guy wakes up in the midst of a house party at the height of the pandemic in NYC
(8 mins)
Plexiglass:
Interesting
article on the cultural history of plexiglass
, a symbol of security during this pandemic with a past of paranoia and racial prejudice.
Tag:
How
schoolyard tag became World Chase Tag
– a professional sport with tactics, terms and athletic parkour stars (18 mins)
Facts:
Tom Whitwell’s great
annual summary of 52 things he learned this year
.
F-bomb:
Stan Lee
waxes lyrical about his fave expletive in animation
(2 mins).
Photojournalism:
This
truly remarkable, topsy turvy, year captured in photos
.
Mood:
Entertaining
comedy short about a 'professional mood setter'
(4 mins)
Goodbye:
An
honor roll and tributes for the NYC businesses we lost in 2020
.
Lasagna:
Video of
a lasagna meticulously made over 100 hours
(13 mins)
Forests:
Brilliant article on
the symbiotic, subterranean networks of root and fungi that allow forests of trees to communicate
and coexist.
Cats:
Why we're
obsessed by cats
(6 mins) and
kittens perform freestyle jazz.
Sculpture:
En Iwamura
creates whimsical, minimal sculptures of heads.
Mind-uploading:
Smart Kurzgesagt
animation about the future technology of mind copies and digital immortality
(13 mins)
Gifts:
This
list of strange gifts from the internet is delightful
and maybe useful?
Climbing:
Excellent
film about rock climbing, race and community
(14 mins)
In case you missed it – the most popular link last week was this article
about world-class Scrabble players and the sneaky tactics they employ to get an edge
.
Link Me Up Scotty is a labor of love. So if you also love getting it, please spread the love by sharing with other like-minded people or posting on social media using
this link.
Have a great weekend.
Ryan
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