Saturday, July 31, 2021

TINTW 31st July 2021

Guy Maddin: The Green Fog

https://vimeo.com/356966508

“The Green Fog pays homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, by creating a “parallel-universe version” of the classic film from unrelated footage from ‘50s noir, experimental films, ‘70s prime-time TV, and amateur video that were all shot around the San Francisco Bay Area”.


Del Singh’s memoir: a Peterborough story

https://www.latenightbanter.com/show-host


Queen secretly lobbied Scottish ministers for climate law exemption

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/queen-secretly-lobbied-scottish-ministers-climate-law-exemption


Welsh slate landscape becomes UK's newest world heritage site

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/welsh-slate-landscape-becomes-uks-newest-world-heritage-site


Sophie Zhang, the data scientist who exposed political manipulation via Facebook

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/29/1030260/facebook-whistleblower-sophie-zhang-global-political-manipulation/


Napa natural wine club whose 'cult-like' job went viral is even more eccentric than it sounds

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/Napa-natural-wine-club-whose-cult-like-job-went-16350613.php


70s strings from Italy - the Crumar multiman - S

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKaPJ2ZwGqI


Sadao Watanabe: Autumn Blow (1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppGU2VGlZXw 

Sunday, July 25, 2021

TINTW 25th July 2021

How my grandmother taught me to cook - on Whats App

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/jul/18/how-my-grandmother-taught-me-to-cook-on-whatsapp


New York air quality plunges as haze from western wildfires shrouds city 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/21/new-york-air-quality-plunges-smoke-west-coast-wildfires


Peppa Pig, a pandemic favourite, has American children acting British

https://www.wsj.com/articles/peppa-pig-a-pandemic-favorite-has-american-children-acting-british-11626627266?


How to season a wok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbWVzbeYjsw


After Covid, the climate crisis will be the next thing the right says we ‘just have to live with’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/22/covid-climate-crisis-politics-individualism


Spectating or doing: the challenge for the UK’s ruling clique

https://www.geoffmulgan.com/post/spectators-v-doers-the-challenge-for-the-uk-s-ruling-clique


Stonehenge may be next UK site to lose UNESCO world heritage status

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/23/stonehenge-may-be-next-uk-site-to-lose-world-heritage-statu


A brilliant Twitter account to follow

https://twitter.com/RiderGlasgow


Learning to groove on keyboards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLQ1jSKEMeE