Big fountains, heart-filling music, and tiny birds.
6th June 2022
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This week, the first video in a while from Germany! The title is a victim of the need to optimise for clicks: "Maybe rich people should build weird fountains again" would be better described as "300-year-old fountains, entirely powered by gravity, that still work perfectly". But alas, that's the medium I'm working in!
This week, the first video in a while from Germany! The title is a victim of the need to optimise for clicks: "Maybe rich people should build weird fountains again" would be better described as "300-year-old fountains, entirely powered by gravity, that still work perfectly". But alas, that's the medium I'm working in!
I also stopped by Marques Brownlee's studio for an hour-long podcast interview. It's unusual for em to do long-form interviews, particularly talking about how I work; Marques and his crew were great at putting me at ease and asking good questions.
Elsewhere in the world of video this week:
- Anna Lapwood is the Royal Albert Hall's organist. She was practicing at 1am, when someone yelled "play Toccata in D". She did. Turns out it was one of the electronica band Bonobo, who were doing a gig there: so they quickly wrote her an organ part for their Big Song. What followed, at the final concert of the run the next day, was magical.
- Every night on his tour, "Weird" Al Yankovic opened the show outside the venue, via videolink to a big screen, walking inside. All the walks were recorded, and the montage just kept making me smile. "43 bumper stickers and a YOLO license plate / bring along my coupon book whenever I'm on a date..."
- Turns out that New Caledonian crows are about as smart as 7-year-old humans.
Other interesting links I've found this week:
- Cell Tower is a word puzzle game where it's easy to win, but it'll take careful forethought and planning to get a perfect score.
- Maybe US government employees and contractors have a smart ID card. They need to use it on their home PC, so they buy a reader off Amazon. Which, it turns out, often has malware installed, because of course it does.
- A Canadian coffee chain's phone app tracked its patrons wherever they went.
- If you're British and older than about 25, then something on this page will probably fill you with nostalgia.
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