Whales and seafaring motifs in churches—Preached Whales
“The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before.”
— ROGER EBERT
Welcome back. This time we’re colliding letters to young creators, the ingenious aluminum can, Dollar Tree trees, weather and a different framework for work.
Please skip around, read what you want to. Find something interesting in your own internet travels? Send me a link
—JH
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By Paul Johnson.
10 curious links that would have killed the cat
📬 Letters to young creators. Laurene Powell Jobs starts the series by quoting Letters to a Young Poet: “Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future.” What follows is a series of battle stories and encouragements from a slew of people who’ve been there.
Steve Jobs Archive ∙ Collection
🌧️ Acme Weather (from the Dark Sky folks) visualizes forecast uncertainty. Displaying other predictions as alternate timelines that help you intuit the primary forecast’s reliability via degree of variance is an elegant design solution. Other great tidbits in there too: Rainbow Alerts, Beautiful Sunsets and more.
Acme Weather ∙ iOS App
✈️ Aeris displays flights in realtime by altitude. Somehow the dark mode map reminds me of flying. Maybe it’s the funny “small world” feeling you get sitting in the cabin of an airliner?
Aeris ∙ Web App
🌱 Three ways to evolve your logo—refresh, replant or reseed. Hyperakt’s breakdown of the organizational goals behind the visual decisions is super thoughtful and easy to understand. Another excellent article from them.
Hyperakt ∙ Blog Post
🏠 Tour a Mid-Century Modern house with the son of the architect who designed it. I love the pops of color on the exterior and how beautifully it integrates into the nature around it.
OPEN SPACE ∙ Video
A mesmerizing view of earth from space
🌎 United States of Beauty. “This is the view from ISS as it orbits Earth above the United States of America and Canada. The footage is a simulation, converting an image sequence into video footage using image processing and animation. In reality this journey from California to Quebec took 11 minutes to traverse. In order to better appreciate the view this film slows that speed by a factor of 4.” Very pretty and relaxing.
Seán Doran ∙ Video
🔊 A Sheffield supermarket going viral for the symphonic sound of its freezers. “Redditors are thrilled by the Co-op on Ecclesall Road, where a magnificent drone is reminiscent of Brian Eno’s ambient music.” I listened to the audio and it’s not nothing.
The Guardian ∙ News
🤔 The ingenious design of the aluminum beverage can. Thing I learned: Though an empty soda can is easy to crush, a full can supports the weight of a grownup with ease because its walls are equally pressurized, holding it rigid. Its strength comes from pressurized contents (relatable).
Engineer Guy ∙ Video
🐳 Preached whales. Big fish and nautical vignettes were surprisingly popular pulpit motifs not so long ago. Enjoyed not just seeing but reading about what the depictions meant politically and socially at the time. Fascinating!
World of Interiors ∙ Article
🌳 Field Guide to Dollar Tree Trees. 84 pages of trees at Dollar Tree locations across the US.
in Greenville, SC
Here’s an update on Pathwright from Paul:
We've just completed a big behind-the-scenes foundational database upgrade for Blocks, and it's opening up new possibilities we've wanted to build for a long time. While you won't notice anything new right away (perhaps just faster load times), some things that simply weren't feasible before — like pulling learner answers into reports or customizing Blocks for specific cohorts — are now on the table.
We have even more on our list, but we'd love to hear from you. What's your top wishlist item for Blocks? Just reply and let us know.
Spring may officially be a week and a half away, but my yard already needs mowing. Only the beginning, this.
Soon I’ll be replacing rotten boards in my deck, clearing gutters, re-stoning walkways, etc. I’m not bummed. I’m looking forward to tangible, completable tasks. I’ll be grounded because it’s mostly to do with the actual ground, getting plenty of sunshine, and leaving my screens indoors where they belong.
After winter, I’m a bit wilted. But my spirit’s foliage will tilt upward in no time.
High five,
Justin Hall
Editor, Partner at Pathwright