Five Things #233
Holywells Park, Ipswich - 2016

Holywells Park, Ipswich - 2016

This week’s Five Things…

  1. There’s moving house, then there’s moving house.

  2. Draw an iceberg and see how it floats. I really like this.

  3. For Christmas I got a beautiful hardback of my favourite book, A Gentleman In Moscow. In this post the designer explains how she came up with the cover.

  4. Who’d have guessed a video about frying eggs would be so entertaining.

  5. Great advice from jazz legend Chick Corea, who died earlier this month: Cheap But Good Advice For Playing Music In A Group

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Five Things #232
Harkstead, 2017

Harkstead, 2017

This week’s Five Things…

  1. An amazing collection of photos: Underwater photographer of the year 2021 winners

  2. Explore cities of the world with Drive and Listen . Select a city from the list and you become a passenger in someone’s car as they drive around the city. You can even listen to local radio as you drive!

  3. We watched The Dig the other day. Excellent film. Very strange seeing Ipswich and Suffolk in a Netflix film!

  4. An interesting thread on UK postcodes. Makes sense that they were designed to be memorable. I can recall a lot of the postcodes of places I’ve lived.

  5. A fascinating profile of David Eagleman from 2011. It’s a long one but worth your time. Particularly the bit about drummers towards the end!

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Five Things #231
Snowy Ipswich, Feb 2021

Snowy Ipswich, Feb 2021

This week’s Five Things…

  1. How to draw a water droplet

  2. I’m reading A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles for the second time. It’s my favourite book and you should definitely read it!

  3. Just keep on zooming! A 10-gigapixel scan of Girl With a Pearl Earring. This behind the scenes video explains the process of capturing the image.

  4. Now that’s a lockdown project!

  5. The Science Museum Group has a cool tool for viewing pieces in their online collection that have never been viewed before. Very clever!

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Five Things #230
Berlin, May 2018

Berlin, May 2018

This week’s Five Things…

  1. The Investigation (currently streaming on iPlayer) is very good. The best real life crime drama I’ve seen.

  2. Science solves the mystery of why wombats have cube-shaped poo. Without doubt the biggest science news of the year!

  3. I love these bubble wrap portraits. Very clever.

  4. An a cappella group with a very niche speciality — Windows sound effects!

  5. I could listen to this song on a loop for a very long time. Kyoto by Phoebe Bridgers.

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Five Things #229
Seville, February 2018

Seville, February 2018

This week’s Five Things…

  1. This informative little website has been set up to counter a lot of the COVID-19 misinformation out there — with evidence! Well worth a read.

  2. Obviously flooding is never a good thing but this is pretty cool: “Floods in Cambridgeshire highlight shape of English Civil War fort”

  3. Max Richter on Tiny Desk

  4. A nice interview with Brian Eno. Such an interesting guy.

  5. This is fun, a snowflake generator!

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