Circles in the Sand – Bandon, OR
Every year on the south Oregon coast, paths are made in the sand and you can walk through them.
You can pan around in this 360 video clip to get an idea of what it looks like.
In a Landscape
Founded in 2016 by classical pianist Hunter Noack, IN A LANDSCAPE: Classical Music in the Wild is an outdoor concert series where America’s most stunning landscapes replace the traditional concert hall. He takes a 9-foot Steinway grand piano on a flatbed trailer to National Parks, urban greenspaces, working ranches, farms, and historical sites for classical music concerts that connect people with each landscape of Oregon.
To meet the acoustical challenges of performing in the wild, music is transmitted to concert-goers via wireless headphones. No longer confined to seats, you can explore the landscape, wander through secret glens, lie in sunny meadows, and roam old growth forests.
It’s a fantastic experience – so give it a shot if you have an opportunity to catch one of the remaining shows of the year.
Advoko Makes
Max has been slowly building a log cabin over the last few years in Karelia – a far northern territory adjacent to Finland. He has built a cabin, furniture, and even things like a water wheel to generate power, wash his clothes, and use as a lathe for making tools and other things he needs. He has good philosophical discussions on tool usage – and even crafts his own tools. Overall, it’s an excellent series of one man’s creativity and adventures in the wilderness – worth a watch for any DYI’ers to be inspired.
As others have pointed out, almost none of his techniques are really ‘new’, but that’s not the point. I have heard this also said about almost all creative endeavors: books, games, paintings, etc. It’s not the idea – it’s the artistry of the execution. Even seasoned entrepreneurs will tell you that ideas are cheap – it’s the execution that defines the success of the product. “There is nothing new – everyone has done everything at least once. What matters is how you present it.”
Besides watching his skills put to use to make amazing things, it’s most amazing to just sit and enjoy him presenting his thought processes and craftsmanship.
Goodbye grocery stores and warehouse jobs
Ocado’s grocery warehouses in the UK don’t have people in them filling your orders. They consist of thousands of mechanical boxes that move all over the hive – a grid in which each box contains a specific product – and pick up your items and then deliver them to the shipping services at the edges. A grocery order can be filled in 5 hours.
They even have special robots for packing special situations since you don’t want to put a heavy item like a gallon of milk into the same bag as all your soft chips.
Honestly, this is almost certainly what we’ll be doing very soon; and in 10 years we won’t be making trips to the grocery store. Since COVID, many of us are already using automated checkout. in-store shoppers, and web order with pick up.
One of the use cases we talked about with autonomous cars was that they could drive themselves to the store, be loaded up, and then drive back to your place.
Read more about Ocado’s technology here: https://www.ocadogroup.com/technology/technology-pioneers
What does english sound like to foreigners
“Prisencolinensinainciusol” is a song composed by the Italian singer Adriano Celentano, released as a single in 1972.
The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English – English with a “Bob Dylan-esque” American accent. The lyrics, however, are deliberately unintelligible gibberish with the exception of the words “all right”. Celentano’s intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers. “Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang—which, for a singer, is much easier to sing than Italian—I thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn’t mean anything.”
Here’s 2 more examples of what American English sounds like to foreigners.