Senses working overtime #369

1 Maverick

2 The Multifarious Multiplexity of Taika Waititi

3 The movies of the summer (American version)

4 Celebrating Wendy Froud (a.k.a. The Mother of Yoda)

5 The science behind likely multiple infections of Covid

Overtime: Euphoria

“For me, euphoria is simply the act of waking up, making my coffee, and sitting down with a book and being able to read.”   Elliot Page

Senses working overtime #264

1 Our Jacinda

We've got used to this image - the daily 1.00pm briefings

The NZ covid-19 response in a world context.

2 Must see movies

According to The Atlantic, you gotta see these 30 movies!

3 Poetry Corner

What's New?

My heart leaps, running for the stick
you never threw.

James Richardson (2016)

4 Three paths

Three paths for a soloist - Seth Godin

Consider one of three paths. Which works for you?

1. Honor the noise in your head. Make the work you believe you were born to make. Create things you can visualize but haven’t seen yet. Do it without regard for critics, the market or the math of it all. It’s your handiwork.
2. Embrace your market. Make what it needs. Earn a seat at the table by developing an asset, and leverage it to create real value for those you serve. Price it accordingly.
3. Stay busy. Make slightly better than average work, for less than average pricing.

It’s difficult to see how you can do all three at the same time for the same kind of client. All three choices are valid, any could work for you, but it’s worth choosing.

5 Marga's story

This is a great story of a true survivor: Marga Steinhardt

Overtime: An American hero

This is the terrific real story of Henry Johnson

Senses working overtime #239

1 Another amazing Batman image 

2 December movies

Not long now before the new Star Wars movie (almost there, almost there) but it's not all about SW. Here are some others to watch for.

3 Poetry corner

Before Us

will we travel
to the city where
so much happened
before us     where once
you asked me    and I

couldn't    will we go
to a place   where the past
is new    tell me
this winter morning

where that past is hiding

Anne Michaels (2017)

4 The trick that made animation realistic



5 Black Widow

Looking forward to this one as well. Black Widow is one of my favourite Avengers.

Overtime: 21 best films of 2019
In keeping with the movie bias of this edition - here are the best movies of 2019 according to Vox.

Senses working overtime #237

1 Boba Fett

Inside his world of cool!

2 Poetry corner

What I Didn't Know Before

was how horses simply give birth to other
horses. Not a baby by any means, not
a creature of liminal spaces, but already
a four-legged beast hellbent on walking,
scrambling after the mother. A horse gives way
to another horse and then suddenly there are
two horses, just like that. That’s how I loved you.
You, off the long train from Red Bank carrying
a coffee as big as your arm, a bag with two
computers swinging in it unwieldily at your
side. I remember we broke into laughter
when we saw each other. What was between
us wasn’t a fragile thing to be coddled, cooed
over. It came out fully formed, ready to run.

Ada Limón (2018)

3 SBW

Williams praying with All Blacks team-mate Ofa Tuungafasi

A very impressive New Zealander! I'm very proud of him.

4 How movies went from 15 minutes to 2 hours long




5 The lure of the sea

Apparently those who visit the seashore regularly have better mental health and are happier. I can see that.

Overtime: Bob Dylan - Oh Sister
This live version from the sublime Hard Rain album came on the Radio Wozza via the wozza-pod this morning and I hit repeat four times before I was done with it. An amazing song and a real sing-a-long with Bob moment on the chorus. 

Sadly that version (with different lyrics) isn't on YouTube so here's another live one - great great song!

Senses working overtime #72

1 Ranking the Star Wars episodes

This is fun, F.U.N!!!! What an awesome image too.

2 Dataists and Planet of the Apps.

Friend of mine sent me a link to this article:

Just as free-market capitalists believe in the invisible hand of the market, so Dataists believe in the invisible hand of the dataflow. As the global data-processing system becomes all-knowing and all-powerful, so connecting to the system becomes the source of all meaning. The new motto says: “If you experience something — record it. If you record something — upload it. If you upload something — share it.”

It's a great read!

3 Visual analytics 

Uber have people creating this stuff. AMAZING!! And somehow, beautiful. Go figure.

4 Movies still matter
(In case you were wondering). I love reading about movies vs so called 'quality' TV. The New Yorker had this to say.

5 I wish my teacher knew...

Wow! These answers are sobering. I'm a teacher and I don't tend to allow educational matters to creep into this blog (I have another blog for that) but this one deserves a wider reach.

Overtime: Vision mixer extraordinaire. Whatters mentioned this on his blog and he's right - it's an awesome behind the scenes look at a vision mix of Cuba Gooding Jnr's Academy Award acceptance speech in 1996. Great stuff!!

(Sidebar - I also found Tom Cruise's body language VERY interesting)