Showing posts with label The White House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The White House. Show all posts

Friday, February 26, 2021

Senses working overtime #303

 1 Stan Getz

I've spent the week listening to a lot of his cool jazz albums (turns out I have a lot of them!). Downbeat is one fav.

2 Behind the scenes in the White House



Fascinating description from The New Yorker.

3 Zoom fatigue


4 Flim

This is a supercool movie screenshot search engine! Just what you needed to know!

5 Marianne Faithfull 

What she's been up to lately!

Overtime: Do one thing at a time!

Overtime: What makes successful relationships!

Friday, May 19, 2017

Senses working overtime #108

1 Photo of the week



I love this shot from the great Unsplash photo site.


2 Oblique Strategies


Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities


Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies are a bit of a mystical hoot and a fun way to get over writer's block.

3 Ridley Scott
I'm a fan, and I get how Scott's films are both brilliant and banal.

4 The illusion of confidence


I'm an excellent driver!

I laughed out loud a few times during this look at how we overestimate our abilities. It leads nicely into...

5 The White House under seige
Great piece on how this week's train wreck played out in Trumpland.

Overtime
New Spidey movie looks pretty super cool - Spiderman: Homecoming