Senses working overtime #105

1 Movie poster cliches

Great run through of some recurring themes in movie posters - check it out!

2 Leadership Freak

A.K.A. Dan Rockwell's blog about education and business leadership is something I read often. He nailed it again with this post that deserves a wider readership.

3 Sorry I didn't email you earlier...

Yeah right! Great piece that made me feel a whole lot better!

4 13 Reasons Why

This show came up in conversation with my daughter, Jade, this week and my other daughter, Samantha, has worked on the Netflicks show in LA. I watched the first episode after some initial misgivings about the premise. This article outlines my misgivings well.

5 Jonathan Demme
Remember him this way - great video for New Order's Perfect Kiss.



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The Last Steps - the story of Apollo 17 - a great little film about a great big story!

The Last Steps | A Really Great Big Story from Great Big Story on Vimeo.

Senses working overtime #104

1 The Tao of Groundhog Day
Great piece from The New Yorker on one of my favourite movies - made into a stage show. 
 

Andy Karl in the Bill Murray role - on stage!

2 Floating in space
A cool portrait of Italian astronaut Maurizio Cheli’s life in zero gravity.

3 Questions 67 and 68
Thomas Oppong writes thoughtfully on asking questions. Ask - Why shouldn't I read it?

4 Sit-com heaven

Clearly, some people have too much time on their hands. This exhaustive run down on New York sit-com apartments is fun and it includes Seinfeld's one bedroom apartment, so, like, yeah...

5 Reading books you hate
Interesting. I'll maybe give this a go - picking a book that is the opposite of my (ahem) taste. The article hasn't convinced me entirely but I have set myself a challenge of 50 books in 52 weeks so I can afford to do this once.

Now...what exactly is the bizarro world opposite of books I normally read?

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Stephen King on the rise of Trump. Great great piece. best thing I read all week!

Senses working overtime #103

1 Stars!

Doris Day!

Great look at some golden age stars in the raw (so to speak).

2 Animated Music Video Clips
Twenty might be 15 too many but at least it has Aha's classic Take On Me!

3 Fabs! In colour! Live! Raging!!
Listen to this with some headphones. Amazing.




4 Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Breathe, just breathe!



5 Newspaper black out poems (by Austin Kleon)

Austin writes an interesting newsletter and had this bright idea about writing poetry that is pretty cool!




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Thor: Ragnarok - this time - they might have got it right! Great trailer at any rate, featuring Led Zeppelin's classic song!

Senses working overtime #102

1 Strps

2 Trump as the Red Skull

Trump's words re-imagined as a comic supervillain. Genius!

3 Ahem

More here.

4 That Oscars moment in one photo.

Great (fun) analysis from The Ringer.

5 Less is more!

Always applies. Thomas is (again) spot on!

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Alien: Covenant  - Ridley Scott's latest looks a lot like the others. Not sure what to make of that. See for yourself in these trailers.

But wait - there's even more. Great questions get great responses!

Senses working overtime #101

1 Stop taking pictures

Some great advice and some nice writing from Rob Moore on taking photos instead of pictures.

2 John Mayer, check

He is making (another) return. His interviews are (nearly) always hilarious. Here's the latest!

3 GOTG2

Oooh baby!!



4 The peak
Nifty graph about the ages we peak at stuff. The good news - I still have a few to go!

5 Working memory
Cool - there are 5 (+ overtime) items every week on Jewels For The Thirsty. That's within the 7 things we can hold in our memory at any one time.

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Donald Trump's lies and how his faithful fans don't care, in fact - they like them! Americans eh!!

Senses working overtime #100

And then one day you find 100 posts have got behind you. That means over 500 senses working overtime. Pretty cool stat. 

Only one place to go to end the first 100 posts and that's a back to the future style series of items. Each one of these has a backward glance in common. Hey Ho - let's go!

1 100 Years After (back to the future)

I love these glimpses into the future from 100 years ago via a series of postcard images. Clearly, machines and, curiously, sea life features a lot!

2 A modern Walden

This 20 year old guy abandoned his car and walked off into the woods...and lived there...for 27 years! Amazing!

3 Does it hold up?

The Verge takes a backward look at The Social Network and does a good job. I didn't like the film much at the time (a movie about Facebook founders? Meh) but the article made me want to go back and take another look.

4 Macca at Abbey Road 1974
Great version of Band on the Run BEFORE Wings imploded.

 


5 Budweiser advert hits the spot
Aired during the superbowl - this is a timely reminder of America's origins and the stoopidity of Trump's immigration restrictions.




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Broooooooooce! The boss attempts a fan request...and nails it! Hey - he's da boss!

Senses working overtime #99

1 It's Groundhog Day...again

Wahoo - one of our favourite films of all time has been made into a musical!

2 Thor Part 3

Not sure about this new look Thor with short hair. I'm not a fan of the films but I LOVED the comics when I was growing up.

3 King Kong reboot

Here we go again. Interesting reading - the new version of Kong and the on-going appeal for this beast of a story (laugh it up Fuzzball).

4 Honeybees go 'whoop whoop'

Fascinating stuff! Apparently bees make that sound when they bump into each other. This article explores what they are communicating.

5 Planet Earth 2

In keeping with the animal kingdom theme for a lot of this edition - here's how the genius BBC team filmed that thrilling iguana chase on Snake Island.

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MTM - This one is for my dad who loved Mary Tyler Moore! Here she is in five performances that sum up her talent.