Coordinates: Breathing an unusually heavy sigh at my dining table. I have no tea.
Wait let’s fix that… [gets up and goes to the kitchen.]
Ok, that’s better. I have ginger, honey, and lemon boiling away. Just smelling it I already feel better about the whole world. I’ll sweeten it with melipona honey, the gift of the stingless bees of Mexico. Their hives are a gorgeous spiral and the flavor of the honey somehow tingles my tongue extra much.
And now onto this weeks’ five sane and sillies…
[yasss queen] If I had to crown a British male queen of sadness it would no doubt have to be Thom Yorke. Here’s a breakdown of the song he cited as his most important. Maybe he feels what I feel – that we don’t create our creations, they create us. He speaks about it with a kind of reverie that tells me he does.
[mastery] I watched this twice to get the taste of it my ears again. Yum! I bought this instrument, also called a saz, in Egypt but couldn’t get it back on the plane. Wish me luck on a future journey to bring her home.
[scary art] If you’re a skeeeerdy cat like me and hate horror but want to see the gorgeous edge of what’s possible with animation, this behind-the-scenes breakdown with Jibaro will hook you up. Ugh… Love, Death + Robots is way too gory for me. Check out how they meld live performances of actors with a fully computer-graphic world.
[craft] Watching masters make any kind of art always thrills me, but watching master potters scratches the existential itch to more deeply find my center. To make a pot on a wheel, you must first center the clay very well. Then each movement to grow the vessel in size must balance with the center or the piece will fall over. Master potters push the physical limits of the material so the pot can be as thin and light as possible without collapsing, a sort of ballet of clay, water, and the void.
[silly] This is so silly I can nearly not handle it. If this is your type of humor, it’s REALLY gonna be your type of humor.
Ok, that’s all kids. See you next Tuesday.
Kisses,
Cris and Team Dragon