I want to watch this documentary. Don’t remember being this moved by a trailer.
Stagnation Is an Illusion
Last week, VSCO launched Make It Anyway, a call for people around the world to celebrate the creative process in its entirety – the imperfect, the unfinished, the works in progress. LOVE THIS!
Transformative Gatherings
Why do some gatherings take off and others don’t? Author Priya Parker shares three easy steps to turn your parties, dinners, meetings and holidays into meaningful, transformative gatherings.
Best 10 min I have spent in a while.
A Pendulum Wave
Love this.
In Defense of Home Cooking
Renowned activist and author Michael Pollan argues that cooking is one of the simplest and most important steps people can take to improve their family’s health, build communities, fix our broken food system, and break our growing dependence on corporations.
Chasing the Moon
A 6-hour documentary film about the effort to send a manned mission to the Moon before the end of the 1960s will air next month: Chasing The Moon. Catch it on PBS starting July 8.
The Anti-CEO Playbook
SO MUCH YES! This talk by Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya resonates so deeply.
Virtual Choir
Completely mesmerized by Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir. The Virtual Choir is a global phenomenon, creating a user-generated choir that brings together singers from around the world and their love of music in a new way through the use of technology. Singers record and upload their videos from locations all over the world. Each one of the videos is then synchronised and combined into one single performance to create the Virtual Choir.
(I recently started a real life choir, inspired by James Sill’s CreativeMornings “talk: last December!)
My Dad, the Facebook Addict
“I have a folder on my computer full of memes!” This is sad and funny at the same time. So many emotions. My Dad, the Facebook Addict
How Does EMDR Work?
Been hearing a lot about EMDR recently. Would any of you have any experience with this type of therapy?
How to Save Our Planet
(via Kottke)
Shaolin Kung Fu training From Space
This is wild.
I Love the Brits!
This is not what you need after 26.2 miles. pic.twitter.com/ZkmJftX0Hv
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) April 28, 2019
Thousands were running the London Marathon this weekend and this incredible chap decided to run it dressed up as Big Ben. The ending is everything. So much credit to the human behind this costume. (He ran the whole marathon like this!)
What Is a Zen Koan?
What Is a Zen Koan? An animated introduction to eastern philosophical thought experiments.
59 Ways to Cook Your Eggs
I love eggs! I love eggs A LOT! This video on 59 ways to cook your eggs makes me very happy.
High Art
High Art from Jacob Krupnick on Vimeo.
“Height has replaced neighborhood.” Beautiful video piece by my friend Jacob Krupnick for the New York Times Magazine on the tallest residential building in NYC. Read the article.
People Matter, Real Life Matters
This vulnerable talk by Grace Bonney hit me in the heart. In it she speaks on the last 15 years of running Design*Sponge and why 2019 will be her final year. She unpacks the noteworthy lessons she’s learned along the way and what truly matters even in this digital age.
Pass the Salt!
This is the funnest Rube Goldberg Machine I have ever seen. My kids’ minds were blown!
Youmna
My friend Youmna, force behind Live Love Bierut is a very special human.