Wow - 52 weeks - a whole year! That seems implausible! Inconceivable! But here we are - the stats don't lie: Season One of Jewels is now complete. 1 Black Panther
2 To Zlatan Apparently it's a verb! Great list of new football terms. 3 JERRY!!!
Where would we be without Jerry Seinfeld? I love the man. Recently, he's flogged off some old tat and made 22 million! He's the man!! 4 Richard Linklater This Vox article on Linklater's latest film (the one after Boyhood, called Everybody Wants Some!!) made me want to reconnect with his earlier films (even though I didn't like Dazed And Confused). Reading someone else's enthusiasms can be infectious! 5 Weather channel photos What a world we live in! Loving these photos from the weather channel. Overtime Want to learn about some some stuff that will make you healthier? You're welcome! Loved this interactive journey through Hieronymus Bosch's wonderful painting, The Garden Of Earthly Delights. And that's it for the first year of Jewels. Thanks for being along for the ride.
How weird can this circus get? Pretty darn weird! 4 Invisible
Some amazing photographs in this Vantage article - the depth and richness of colour and texture makes them come alive! 5 Trumpites Who is supporting the Trumpster? This article gives a snapshot of who and what the people are. Revealing and stunning! Overtime: 1 First Star Wars: Rogue One preview is out...ex-cit-ing! 2 I've been chewing over this article on Brain Pickings about the art of living for a while. It needs some concentration but is very rewarding. I recommend a read!
The goal of living [is] to grow optimally according to the conditions of human existence and thus to become fully what one potentially is; to let reason or experience guide us to the understanding of what norms are conducive to well-being, given the nature of man that reason enables us to understand.
This is a great article from someone who has been going to Republican conventions since, staggeringly, 1952. She writes beautifully - clearly and dispassionately about the unholy mess Donald Trump has brought to the American political status quo. A great read - go to it! 2 British or American? Ricky Gervais - love him or hate him (I'm in the first camp) has written a great article on the differences between British and American humour. 3 100 Books How to read 100 books in a year. It's easier than you thought! 4 Pexels
The two best free photo sites I've found are unsplash (featured last week) and Pexels. I typed in autumn and this beautiful picture came up! 5 Donald Trump's language Great video analysis of Donald Trump's oratory, link supplied by a colleague - thanks Andrew! Overtime Great article about nerds, chess club members, Ross from Friends and American idiot culture. Go to it...
I'm always amazed at the stream of amazing images I get in my inbox from Unsplash. Highly recommended! 2 Togetherness I'm not sure if this show has appeared on Soho yet but I'll look out for it. Seems a little like one of my favourite shows from the eighties - Thirtysomething. 3 Early risers I'm definitely one! Good to know, via this piece, that the old - early to bed, early to rise scenario is paying off! 4 The Americans
I bought season one on DVD and enjoyed it, went to buy season 2 in NZ and - couldn't! It wasn't released here for some bizarre reason, so I had to grab a copy from HMV in London. Season three is not yet on DVD unfortunately and now Season four is about to hit Soho. I can't miss it! AARRGGHHHH! What to do. what to do? 5 POTUS Yes I'm an Obama fan but he still so gets Donald Trump!! Overtime
Charles Dickens didn’t just have a great mind, he had great calves as well.
That opening line hooked me! A great read on a key element of creativity. No, not great calves...solitude. Love it!!
This lot were unpublished (Mon Dieu!). 2 It's all the same story I love Neil Young's comment to his audience on one of his live albums (Year Of The Horse from off the top of my head) that - it's all the same song! This article (a long read from the Atlantic) is in the same superb vein. 3 London!
I love London and I miss it. This site makes me miss it even more. Lost locations of London. You could search around London for years and years and never get bored! 4 London! Again!! In a similar vein - this Pinterest board called London Moments is grrrrrrreat!! 5 Wile E Coyote
Does Wile E Coyote help explain this crazy old world we all live and breathe in? Why yes, yes he does! Overtime: I love everything about squirrels
1 San Francisco Like a lot of people I lost my heart to San Francisco. My eldest daughter is one lucky bunny - she gets to live and work there. These photographs reek of love! 2 Best film Oscar for 2017 goes to... Great article about film and NEXT YEAR'S Academy Awards. 3 Don't worry, be happy TED talks - everybody loves them. I'm working my way through these ten so that I can feel better. 4 Scott Kelly
His photographs from the space station are gobsmackingly amazing. 5 Zootropia This one from Disney should be as cool as um as er Magnificent Mr Fox (took a while but I knew it was in there somewhere). Here's the promo. Overtime I'm loving this interactive graph about when people marry in the US. Fascinating to compare education and ethnic groups. I'm a fan of George Clooney. Here's a cool puff piece on him from the Guardian.
