Is this really my first blog post of 2022?
Just a reminder that the Air Race World Championship is coming back this year. Smoke on.
The website of musician Gary Husband.
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| Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969. This work on paper is one of several featured in the exhibition Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away. "It also shows the power of white and its tremendous impact in his painting.” |
What can your farts tell you about your health? "Scientists have recently found a connection between mental health and gas production." Then I must be a psychopath.
Why is poo brown?
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| Concept art of the Navy's Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Fighter, the F/A-XX. |
The music:
- Broken Masses by Gary Mundy and Eraldo Bernocchi
- Deconstructing Brian Eno's Music for Airports
- Saturday Night in San Francisco by Di Meola, McLaughlin, and De Lucia.
- The Turning Year by Roger Eno
- Charged by Kondo, Bernocchi, and Laswell
- Brilliant Trees by David Sylvian, filming inside the studio during recording
- Outland by Ian Boddy and Markus Reuter
- The Allan Holdsworth Quartet in Montreal in 1993
- Smallcreep's Day by Mike Rutherford (reissue)
- Claudio Scolari
- Violet Light by Eraldo Bernocchi
- A memorial concert for Jon Hassell.
Did you know you can donate your old LEGOs and they'll be cleaned-up and gifted to another child?
What is the coolest museum in each state? I first validated by ensuring that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was the coolest in Ohio. Then I checked Texas to find the Bullock Texas State Museum.
Generate some alien planet landscapes.
The Pantone color of the year for 2022 is Very Peri.
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| Wayne Thiebaud, Boulder Ridge, 2013. Not a cake. |
Dali + Disney = Destino, set to the music of Pink Floyd. I feel like a little wacky weed would allow me to fully enjoy this.
Best website this week: crouton.net.
Followed closely by Doughnut Kitten.
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| Yes, it has been a long time since I posted. source |
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| Norman Lewis, Exodus, 1972. From The Transcendent Power of Black in Norman Lewis' Paintings. I'm fairly certain this is one of Lewis' paintings I saw a few years back in a retrospective of his work and my friends and I were happily stunned by his work that none of us prior to that time had been familiar with. |
Tom Peters is never at a loss for words, or in this case quotes. In particular, one quote for each of the 43 years that have passed since In Search of Excellence was published. "Culture eats strategy for breakfast."
In case you haven't been keeping track, in 2020 the mass of all man-made stuff exceeded the planet's total biomass for the first time.
Most good management concepts can be illustrated in a 4-quadrant chart and Seth Godin's control/responsibility matrix is no different. Are you a victim, martyr, whiner, or leader?
Another quad chart: the productivity matrix. (I'm definitely most productive on the "calm" left side of that chart.)
Five of the greatest physics lectures of all time.
Always funny - Ze Frank's True Facts: Proboscis Monkey.
You don't even have to read the article, but the best sugar cereal is Lucky Charms.
The TV show Ghosts has a fan wiki.
Of these 25 best sci-fi movies of the last 15 years I've seen... eight.
The story of The Yes Album and Fragile.
...they reveal him. ~James Allen
