Tag: people
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Music: Jacob Collier
Take a quiet break to check out this musical offering. Jacob Coller is a young (28yrs) singer-songwriter out of London. His music has a heavy jazz influence but he cross-pollinates from many other music genres. A video of him performing the Bee Gees song ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ fell into my YouTube stream (link…
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Do you know the international hand signal for: ‘help me’?
I just found out about this today. Originally launched by the Canadian Women’s Foundation last year as an emergency signal for girls and women in abusive situations to covertly express their need for help whilst on video calls. The signal is useful in that it only requires one hand and can be flashed discretely and…
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Video: The Hut Warden.
If I had a choice of anywhere in the world to live, I would pick New Zealand (actually, I do have a choice…I should not forget that). Kelly and I have explored NZ maybe 5 times now. Great memories…including our first significant earthquake (at magnitude 5.6): I think I knew within a second that this…
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The stone hut.
This is one of my favourite YouTube channels. Martijn Doolaard is restoring an old stone hut in the Italian alps. His films are beautifully crafted, letting the ambient environment speak. A meditation more than a story. This weeks episode: My brother Siebren is visiting me for a few days on the way back from my…