Senses working overtime #453

1 Feeling this week as I sort through some records:

2 Reading: Killing Commendatore (Haruki Murakami)

3 Listening: Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser

4 Watching: The Good Doctor

5 Reading: The best sleeping position

I struggle with getting a good night's sleep at the best of times, but the recent heatwave had me considering this article.

Overtime: Choir! Choir! Choir! - Nothing Compares 2 U

Senses working overtime #402

1 Jazz is freedom

2 Arr to sleep, perchance to dream

How to improve your sleep patterns.

3 Bon Iver's debut album

4 The philosophy of kaizen

5 Watching movies via the net for free.

Overtime: Soundtrack of the week

Don McGlashan's Bright November Morning

Senses working overtime #251

1 Art spreads like a virus

A timely blog post from Austin Kleon on how the spread of art and art movements resembles a virus.

2 Font of all (knowledge)

How this one font took over the world!

3 Why I wake up at 3am most nights

Not me

Revealed!

4 Why it's pointless to start an argument on the internet

Revealed (I've stock piled some articles on Pocket obvs)

5 Overwhelmed is a choice - Seth Godin

The internet is infinite. For humans, anyway.

In the time you’ve been reading this, more than an hour of video has been uploaded to YouTube. You will never catch up.

The thing is, the world has always been infinite compared to human scale.

Living on a bucolic farm in the 14th century, there was no need to get bored. You could study earthworms, write a sonnet or have a conversation with your neighbor…

We widen or close our lens on the world in order to avoid becoming too bored or feeling too small.

When you first encounter a new web service, go on Slack or get back to your computer after a break, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed. Too much to sort. We want a foundation to stand on, but firm footing eludes us for a while.

And then we find it again. Because we intentionally make ourselves unaware of the rest of it.

Right now, orbiting a distant star, the folks on Planet 10 are having a conflict about something or other. But we have no idea. And right now, someone who works for you has a question, or the store you’re not in is having a problem, or a co-worker is doing something without your oversight–and it’s all proceeding without you, because total information awareness is a fiction.

Find your footing and do your work. It’s a choice.

Overtime: Poetry corner

Rough Plaster We spend our summers in a house once owned By a couple who never spoke a word To each other. And we have wondered if, Mixed in with the rough plaster on the walls, Some bitter trace still lingers. But in their day There was no window on to the southern hills, No singing from the music system, and no-one Calling from upstairs for a weather forecast That will tell us if it’s fine enough for the sea. Bernard O’Donoghue (2019)

Senses working overtime #159

1 Maple leaf time

Photo by Autumn Mott on Unsplash

Maple leaf
Falling down
Showing front
Showing back

(Ryokan)

2 Poetry corner continued

Two Guys Get Out of a Car

Two guys gets out of a car.
They stand beside it. They
don't know what else to do.

Richard Brautigan (1971)

3 Arsène Wenger

Beautiful send off to our manager after his last game in charge at the Emirates.

4 Sharks!
Everyone loves a shark story, right? Here's one: Why no aquarium has a great white shark!




5 Sleep little darling...

Some great tips for my wife who is having trouble sleeping lately.

Overtime - Uriah Heep

Been digging out the old Uriah Heep vinyl and thought it was time to revisit this gem from my youth!

Senses working overtime #98

1 Film - the experience

The film experience is part of so many generation's DNA. Nice summary about projection! And check out the man dwarfed by this monster screen in the photo above. So cool!

2 Sleepy time time
Why some people like me tend to sleep as soon as their head hits the pillow.

3 Travel broadens the mind

Twelve reasons to travel - wherever you go, there you are!

4 Time lines
Loved this look from the Atlantic at my life in history and pop culture. You should try it for yours.

5 Awesomeness

Great photography is a mere click away...now click.

Overtime

Han Solo - next stand alone Star Wars movie centres on Han. Here's the cast!

Chewie looks great, but not sure about Woody...

Senses working overtime #17

1 Ghost In The Gun

One of my four talented children is producing this film in San Francisco. The poster is really cool! Designed by a friend of Samantha's. Can't wait to see it!

2 Sleep
This Guardian article on sleep caught my eye. I could do with some quality sack time at the moment after an epic week of outdoor adventure.

3 Emails versus Gogol
We are mad about quizzes where I work - staff have a daily quiz at lunchtime and my students love them too if Kahoots is anything to go by. I loved this quiz: are the lines from Nikolai Gogol, a 19th century Russian writer, or an email from the writer's boss in 2015?

4 and 5 Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Some fun loving staff, my Year 12's and I went walk 20 kilometres in the Tongariro National Park. Awesome. Epic. Here are two shots that exemplify the experience:

Overtime: Don't Stop Believing!!

I found myself thinking this a few times this week (and on Friday afternoon I turned up the volume baby!)