Rich people foods that taste bad, letters to a multispecies kin, people vultures, a 33 year old fruit bat, ice-skating, the world’s most horny countries and other esoteric topics, it’s edition #134 #ContentCatnip #Interesting
Stop normalising the 9-5 grind and start normalising whatever the hell this is…
Ask Reddit: Which ‘Rich People Foods’ aren’t even that good?
Edible gold leaf: is inert, indigestible, and has no taste or smell. It has no nutritional value and can’t improve the taste of any dish.
Abalone: It’s either rubbery and tough or like a gigantic phlegm coughed up onto a plate.
Dragonfruit: A hyped up health food that looks amazing but tastes like absolutely nothing – or just water.
Excessively aged cognac, champagne or whisky: extremely expensive but pretty overrated, you can get really nice tasting ones for far cheaper.
Beautiful and sad letters to our multispecies kin
Encounters with beings of the finned, feathered and furry kind that breach the gap and find urgently needed points of connectivity.
“Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
33 year old fruit bat goes on daily ‘flights’ to keep him active
People Vultures by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Australian band King Gizz are like the marmite of bands that totally confuse some people and totally delight others – I am firmly in the delighted category! They are musical chameleons who shift genres within and between albums: prog rock, punk, jazz, ambient, hiphop, thrash metal.
Here they are here doing some ultra trippy psychadelic rock. The video features the band playing from within a gigantic papier mache vulture and fending off the advances of Power Rangers type intruders. The comments section is really funny as well. Either you will feel curious by this music or absolutely hate it…I am expecting both eventualities.
A Water Baby (1895) by Herbert James Draper
A Water Baby by Herbert James Draper blends fantasy themes along with a magical interplay of light, shadow, colour and iridescence. There is a dreamlike wonder to the story of the woman discovering the baby in the oyster shell.
Ice-skating by night in Vienna, 1910
Mythical beasts of Germany
Via Adrian Black on Twitter
“I was an ordinary person who studied hard – there are no miracle people”
“I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people.” – Richard Feynman, Fun to Imagine (1983)
Steps for Walking Meditation in the Plum Village tradition
For Thich Nhat Hanh, the late Vietnamese monk who popularised mindfulness in the West, walking was not simply a way to get from one place to another, or an activity to be reserved for a perfect forest path. It could be a profound contemplative practice putting people in touch with their breath, their bodies, the Earth – and an awareness of what he called “interbeing.” Here are the steps of walking meditation as it is done in the Plum Village tradition:
1) Take a moment to breathe and center your body in the space you are about to walk. At Plum Village practice centers, monks and nuns lead participants in singing a few mindfulness songs before starting. In “We’re All Moving,” for example, the group sings, “We’re all moving on a journey to nowhere, taking it easy, taking it slow. No more worries, no need to hurry, nothing to carry, let it all go.”
2) While walking, be mindful of your breath and your footsteps. Walk in a slow, relaxed way, preferably with a light smile. Think about the miracle of being alive and being able to step on Mother Earth, repeating these phrases: “Breathing in, I know Mother Earth is in me. Breathing out, I know I am in Mother Earth.”
3) Take one breath per step, focusing on your foot touching the Earth. You can also notice how many steps you take while breathing in and then breathing out, naturally. The point is to find a connection between your breathing and your steps.
Instead of sitting meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh’s practices emphasize adding mindfulness to daily life anytime, anywhere. By incorporating walking meditation into a daily or weekly schedule, every step can be part of a deeper practice of interbeing.
A guide to the countries that are the most promiscuous in the world
Fascinating stuff! who would have thought that Australia would be the most horny country in the world? Via Cool Guides on Reddit
A journey into Solarpunk and Cyberpunk Surrealism with Nick Pederson
What happens when humans are no longer around and animals have taken over? Nick Pedersen’s art attempts to answer this provocative question! He is an award-winning photographer and digital artist from Salt Lake City, Utah. His art often depicting post-apocalyptic scenes with artful collage techniques.
His work has been featured in Vogue, Juxtapoz, and Hi-Fructose and he has collaborated with brands like Adobe and Microsoft to showcase the world’s beauty amidst themes of decay and destruction. Via Inspiration Grid on Mastodon.
“No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.” ~ Seneca
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Lots of good stuff this week! The forest part picture is just EPIC, and the Richard Feynman is also really great.
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Great stuff again. Love the photos at the end ❤️
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Ice skating at night in Vienna. So romantic. Me LikE
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