In a year made up of a mounting celebrity death toll (and since Christmas - Rick Parfitt and George Michael!) comes this - Princess Leia is dead. This celebratory obituary gets the tone right. Rest in peace Carrie. 2 V&A
I love the Victoria and Albert Museum! Saw this exhibition and LOVED it even more! 3 Marty Great look at all of Martin Scorsese's films. Yes, all of them! You up for this? 4 Star Wars women More on Carrie but also Daisy and Felicity. Written before Carrie Fisher died - and better for it! Check it out. 5 Debbie Reynolds What a week - remember her this way. Overtime - Song of the week returns: Anderson/ Stolt enjoy their place in this coveted spot. I wondered whether or not to buy the album so I took a listen to this track and within 30 seconds I was a believer!
Rogue One continues the focus on the awesome ultra baddy that is the Death Star! Saw Rogue One this week in San Francisco's West Portal cinema. It's gooooood! 2 Rogue One reviews Pretty balanced look, this one. And this one delves into the film's themes really well. 3 Medium stats My Medium readership is examined! Good to know. Plus there's a cool link to the year's top stories on Medium. 4 Pocket Clearly, it's time for the year's best of collections. Here's the really cool stuff from Pocket. 5 Chatbots explained I think I get it, thanks to this article. Overtime Patti Smith's words and singing are a constant joy.
This deconstruction of Time magazine's cover image of Trump is fun.
This week's jewels are coming to you from San Francisco's Ocean Park Motel. 1 Rogue One
Only one place to start - Rogue One is out REALLY SOON. Hoping I can see this in SF or after Christmas at The Screen on the Green in Upper Street. Ex-cit-ing!! 2 OMG Vol 1 3 OMG Vol 2 4 Bill Gates reviews an interesting looking book about what makes a great leader. 5 John Glenn God speed, John Glenn. Overtime Spiderman, spiderman...I'm a fan of the comic, less so of the movies. Maybe this time...?
This is all fairly depressing on a multitude of levels but it is the way of the world. Great look at the changing profile of the President. But, like I said, depressing. 2 Best films of 2016 The New York Times has created a cool run down of this year's best films for everyone to argue with. Wahoo! 3 Trump - person of the year Time magazine name Trump their person of the year. No one else came close really. 4 Larry Kim Always has interesting things to say - here he is about the things we can't change, so stop trying! 5 What I wished I learned at school This is a pretty cool list of skills that Geoff Pilkington wished he'd learned at school. Overtime Seth Godin continues an amazing run of posts - this one has his reading recommendations. I'm intending on tracking these all down.
A pretty remarkable piece - an excerpt from a book - Clint Hill's Five Days In November - this brought back memories. In November 1963 I was 6 years old - old enough to remember the shocking front page of the New Zealand Herald. 2 Sci-Fi films of 2016 I missed these but now I have a few films to catch up with during 2017! 3 Songs reimagined as infographics.
More here! 4 Culture The best culture writing of 2016 is right here! You're welcome! 5 Cinema as weapon
Five films that mirror our rage (or - five ways to put the Trump win in perspective). Overtime: Dance moves for the office Christmas party. Tis the season - check out Sarah Cooper's great tips!
It's been an exhausting week of changes in many ways - which I'll explain next week. I haven't had much time to keep abreast of my various feeds and things while the hectic stuff went on so these are things that I opened a while ago and then shelved for a bit. I came back to them during the week and finally enjoyed their content around some travel and decision making conundrums. Enjoy!! 1 Jack Bauer
We are huge 24 fans in our house - loved this article about Jack and the new show - Designated Survivor! 2 Leading men Now, time for this interesting posit - are we post 'leading men' films? Go read it, it's gooood. 3 Why did white women vote for Trump? If, like me, you've mystified, read this article from the wonderful people at The Guardian. 4 Want a sober assessment of Trump? Noam Chomsky is your man. He's normally a clear headed voice on this stuff. No exception here. 5 Rogue One and more Interesting developments at Lucasfilm explained. Overtime Want to overcome paralysing fear? Okay then!
2 Paul is live! This story never goes away - Paul died in 1966 and was part of a Beatle conspiracy. LOL.
3 Kindness Great commencement address (not sure why they call them that because it's basically their 'well done - goodbye - go and fly now you've finished school' speech) by George Saunders about kindness.
4 Trump compared to Hitler? Free speech is under attack in the home of free speech. Not sure what this Principal is thinking. I assume not much. Scary story!
5 Then and now photos
I love this kind of of photographic comparison. These are by Chris Porsz and are well worth a look. Amazing to see how people have changed (or not).
Overtime Interesting video that you should take three minutes to watch and reflect upon.
