Whimsical and sweet bunnies fishing with the moon; eerie 3D art of body parts; weird names for contraptions; #vegan slowcooker recipes; viking #history; #Japanese electro made from barcodes and much more #137 #ContentCatnip #Interesting Things
Taking the moon for a boat ride by D.D McInnes
Golden Moon Magic by Mohammed Mahmoud Art
The relaxing music and watching him create this beautiful art is such a cosy experience, a great channel to follow. I thought this deserved to go after the moon artwork above…
Something in the Air (1993)
This is a magnificent ambient album to put you into a serene and peaceful mood. A real rarity with very little available about it online. I assumed from the cover that this was a Japanese band, but they are actually Danish. What a treasure! Fond Sound is a great channel for discovering obscure ambient music on YT.
Easy vegan recipes for the slow cooker
Slow cookers are great for a budget-friendly way to make wholesome wholefoods at home. They use far less energy that ovens and everything turns out tasting wonderful in them. See some of these yummy Taste recipes.
Muuan Mies – Tonnikala Bhasic D&B mix
Love this dubby and refreshing mix from one of my Mastodon followers, a good one to follow on YT.
The names of things you probably didn’t know
Chie Otomi & Hirotaka Shirotsubaki ~ Season of Wandering (2023)
Lovely and dreamy ambient drone music from Japan ripped from cassette tape. Made only last year but has a timeless sound to it. A great one to subscribe to on YT for endless hours of relaxing music for a lazy weekend!
Re-creation of Viking Burial (793-1066 AD)
It was considered important to bury dead in right way so that they could join afterlife with same social standing that they had in life, and to avoid becoming a homeless soul who would wandered around eternally.
Slaves were sometimes sacrificed to be useful in next life. A free man was given weapons and equipment for riding. An artisan, such as blacksmith, could receive his entire set of tools. Women were provided with their jewellery, crafting tools and other implements that they used in life. and tools for female and household activities. Via Archeohistories on Mastodon.
Creating funky electro music from barcodes strapped onto skateboards
Tanya Gomelskaya’s creepy, hyper-realistic body sculptures jump out of the canvas
Tanya Gomelskaya is an exceptionally talented artist melding 3D and 2D elements into a surreal visual and tactile feast. Parts of the human body protrude from the canvas to invite viewers to interact and touch them. Via Inspiration Grid on Mastodon.
‘My paintings are my way of navigating life, a delicate balance of managing my anxieties and strengths, confronting fear with bravery, and harmonizing self-doubt with confidence, all while maintaining a composed facade.’
Tanya Gomelskaya
Tommy from Sabbatical is my lounge-chair travel friend
I normally can’t stand travel Vlogs, the loud obnoxious personalities that this genre of YouTube tends to attract really put me off. Also the fast cuts and annoying music, it’s just so cringey and overblown. Tommy AKA Sabbatical is the opposite of this, he’s polite and humble and has a quiet unassuming voice. He invests a lot of time to learn really difficult languages like Mandarin or Arabic before he goes to places and so he can have meaningful conversations with locals when he’s there. He then uses captions in his videos that we can all enjoy these conversations after. Nothing is staged and he’s not using any fancy camera, as a result you get to really see a place you may never get to see in real life. Here he is in China and Morocco and note how kind, open and generous people are with him. It’s amazing the attitude change people have when you’re able to speak their language and how they will really make an effort with you when you do this. Learning languages unlocks worlds!
Humility acts as a corrective against self-centredness says research
My colleagues and I define humility as a state of awareness in which both these distortions are quieted, even if only temporarily. Or, as other scholars have put it, humility involves “hypo-egoic” states – a quieting of the self. It results in a reduction in one’s hyperfocus on the self, allowing you to shift more of your focus outward.
In other words, humility reduces the gravitational pull of your values, beliefs and goals, so you can hold them more loosely. You become more able to accurately evaluate them, more open to revision, more accepting of and less threatened by your fallibility and imperfection. It no longer feels catastrophic to be wrong, and it’s less important to be right.
Humility also reduces the immediacy of your own feelings, needs and goals, creating space for the importance of others’ to enter in. It quiets the “centeredness” enough for you to better experience your interdependency and connection to others. We all bring parts of the puzzle of human experience to the table. We all have something to offer.
“May you awaken to the mystery
of being here
and enter the quiet immensity
of your own presence.”
A Blessing for Presence’ by John O’Donohue
90’s jazzy triphop with Nina Yamada
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Those are some scary paintings with the tongues etc.
Also, do you have a slow cooker or instant pot? I do not, but in the future when I live by myself again I’ll buy one. It seems to be a miracle machine.
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