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Thrutopian Futures anyone?
📺 Safe House
Meh. Look carefully you will see I didn’t dislike it. Equally, I didn’t like. I liked the premise - each series an entirely different cast, set of characters - even the Safe House itself was a different house (and yes - I did watch both) … but still. MEH.
SafeHouse on 🔗 Reelgood
What Will The Cathedrals Of The Future Be ... Let Alone Look Like.
Cathedrals are places designed to show their creator’s opulence and power, but they’re also designed to alter our senses, to throw us into alternate worlds, so that they can open us our minds to change. If that’s the case, what will these places be in the 21st century?
Good question that was running through my mind when I stumble across this quote …
“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”
💬 David Foster Wallace
Worlds Colliding. The piece I was reading was 🔗 Cathedrals of the 21st Century from Unchartered Territories, that ends …
You can see similar processes at play today in places like courtrooms or parliaments, albeit more subdued: They are big, solemn, sound is controlled and there are ceremonies, serious uniforms…
… and then immediately …
But you can also apply the same principles and end up with a completely different setting and experience: nightclubs.
If that observation makes you sit up you should go read the whole thing. Also, some great images throughout as you read Tomas Pueyo’s observations across geography and time.
🔗 When the city told him to hide his boat, he complied — sort of - The Times of London - sorry 🍎 📰 - just couldn’t resist. A fine example of creativity besting bureaucracy.
🔗 Simplified - though still a WIP.
Read 🔗 Bob Lefsetz today - with this 🔗URL at the very top of his post. Nice piece. On the click through you see this.
Different chap I know - but I wonder if anyone else has remarked on it.
The Furor and How One Creative Thinker Changed Everything
To catch you up, you might have missed 🔗 📼 this video .. you can see it at the bottom of the page.
When I first saw it, I liked the visual effect - but really - not the message. As I wrote over on 🔗 John’s blog
I saw that vid .. kinda like it .. BUT .. I dunno … destroy everything physical, crush it to nothing ?
Unbeknownst to this bear - a lot of people were of the same opinion. A ‘furor’ indeed.
Anyway, in the comments thread on John’s blog he highlighted 🔗this ’twitter post’ from Reza Sixo Safai. This is the 🔗 tweet
Now on occasions I do pop out from under my rock and have noticed that these days Twitter isn’t a very nice place to go anymore. So - on behalf of you dear reader, I donned my protective suit, sprayed myself from top to bottom, grabbed the video and behold …. With all and every credit to Reza. ’Twitter’ is the only reason I pulled it to be here - because Twitter, so now all can view it - and those with protective clothing can pop over and see for themselves.
My comment cannot be better than this one …
This is unironically one of the cleverest creative feats I have ever seen. To take a widely-publicized, universally panned ad and then turning it into the exact ad that it should have been, communicating the desired message 10000x better.
💬 Amal Dorai
If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.
📺 A Man In Full
It was only when I got to the end that I discovered it was a series that emerged from a Tom Wolfe novel. This is no ‘Bonfire’ though. Jeff did a good job - but really, not much of a story. The only surprise was the ending. No spoilers - but it wasn’t what I expected - but now you know it is Wolfe - maybe it will be?
A Man In Full on 🔗 Reelgood
🎈129/366 Siri For MidWesterners 😂
🔗📼 Enjoy. … via Chris Lockhead.
I highlighted too much to even start to choose a great quote. Just read the article .. talking the ‘differalities’ of the 60s to today. Written by a 75 year old Vietnam vet who was awarded the a Purple Heart and came back and joined the peace movement.
I think 📚Victim by Andrew Boryga might be ‘next’ having just read 🔗 Bob’s post
🎈126/366 I know @dave is a fan of Andrew Hickey - me too. No time to listen to them all, but when you do - superb. Absolutely superb.
🔗🎙️ Sad to see this in my stream .. disgusted even. Got to say, I thought he was a better person than I could ever have been)
Meanwhile - let’s see what happens - and if it doesn’t, we really need to rally round and make sure it does.
🔗 Nervous drivers pay to be whisked across America’s scariest bridge
(Sorry - 🍎📰 )
.. I am of the opinion that if you’re too scared to drive this road - you shouldn’t be licensed for any road. What say you?
Funny, worth a click through - unless you don’t think this is funny …
Last weekend, the drive up to London was improved by listening to a Sherlock Holmes audiobook on the car’s CD player. I was amused by my inability to follow the plot as closely as I would have liked, and put this down to middle age. It was only when I arrived at my destination that I realised the CD player was on “shuffle” mode.
🎈124/366 In The UNdaunted Collective I put up a new action group called ‘The Intersection’. I will explain more, I think some of you might be interested in joining.
Job 1 : A concise summary of what and why it is.
Job 2 : Share with you all - to see if my gut is right.
Job 0 : Launch 🔗 The UNdaunted!
🖇️ Me a couple of days ago ending with ‘wondering what ‘Rob’ will say.
Now we know.
He just delivered a great story - as always and funny. He didn’t say it the way I did (mainly because he has more talent) … but I think we agree. Take a listen.
I love Rick Beato’s podcast channel and Ted Gioia’s writing and so was delighted to watch this meeting of minds last night …