Link Me Up Scotty | Soil, Snowflakes, Salesmen and Sock Puppets.

Album streams:
- Arlo Parks: ‘Collapsed in Sunbeams’ is a gorgeous, warm pop record - a sanctuary of compassionate lyricism and groove-along tunes.
- Madlib: ‘Sound Ancestors’ is a fantastic hip hop record – exquisite storytelling over beats, jazz, and sample arrangements by Four Tet.
- Bicep: ‘Isles’ is excellent home-listening house music – a tour de force of neon euphoria refocusing dance-floor energy to the living-room.
Socks: A film about heartbreak featuring interviews with real people and their stories, told through the medium of sock puppets (7 mins)
Fish: Fascinating piece about the market for Arowana – the world’s most expensive fish and the crazy market for it.
Snowflakes: A mesmerizing snowflake generator that lets you explore the growth of randomly generated snowflake formations.
Connection: Lovely animation telling the story of a satellite operator whose constant connectivity leaves him disconnected from the real world (9 mins)
Scammers: Interesting article on scam calls and the business behind them.
Collage: Deborah Roberts creates fantastic large format collages of distorted and mismatched figures.
Soil: Great animation about soil, one of nature's underrated wonders (5 mins)
Emoji: Nice piece on the thought that goes into making emojis like smiling-face-with-tear, and how they can influence current culture.
Arcimboldo: Neat video essay about painter Giussepe Arcimboldo’s imaginative portraits made entirely of objects such as fruits and veg (6 mins)
Slow TV: Neat map of relaxing real-time journeys from around the world.
Salesmen: Entertaining comedy short about some unscrupulous salesmen who get more than they bargained for from a little old lady (7 mins)
Workplace: Interesting piece on the future of the office – and the new balance between physical and remote working.

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