links that touched me: Procrastination, Digging Through, Hayduke, Leipzig liest, Bookfair, Interviews..

When I come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, I often copy the link to blog about it at a later point. Yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, I started this "links-that-touched-me" series.
Here's the next part, with a focus on the Leipzig Book fair:

• Music History of the different kind: History of Rock as Facebook Feed 
• When computers learn to learn: Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution
• Ted Talk: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator
• Group Dynamics: What Google learned from its quest to build the perfect team
• Litlinks: Digging through the Fat, Brooklyn Essays,  OtherPeople, Guernica
• Hayduke... a trail diary: Hayduke trail days 
• Leizpig book fair videos: Leipzig liest + Interviews + Videoblogs / Booktuber
• Kulturradio - die kunst zu hören
• Leipzig Author Interviews 
• Zeit Literatur + Tipps
• and ... more links that touched me 

links that touched me: film, architecture, money, poetry

When I come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, I often copy the link to blog about it at a later point. Yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, I started this "links-that-touched-me" series.
Here's the next part:

• This World: Out of Eden Walk / Refugees
• Architecture: The best kindergarten you.. (Ted Talks)
• Poem: Start close in  (Pathwriter)‬
• Film: Marvel is killing the popcorn movie (Wired) 
• Money: I’m An Adjunct Who Also Works In A Grocery Store (Buzzfeed)
• Blueprint, revisited: The Four O'Clock Café
• and ... more links that touched me 

links that touched me: art, life, photography...

When I come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, I often copy the link to blog about it at a later point. Yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, I started this "links-that-touched-me" series.
Here's the next part:

• Blueprint, revisited: My Unified Theory of Everything
• Photo Essay: Woman takes a nude self-portrait on her birthday for 40 years
• A poet in Iraq: Six Trees and Two White Dogs.... Doves? 
• Sugar is back: Dear Sugar Podcast
• Lost&Found: The Pech and Archaeology in the Mosquitia
• Docu: Virtual Reconstruction of Ripped Stasi Files‬
• Art: Andy Goldworthy's Wood Line and Spire at the Presidio
• and ... more links that touched me 

links that touched me... February 2015

When I come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, I often copy the link to blog about it at a later point. Yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, I started this "links-that-touched-me" series.
Here's the next part:

• Art online: MoMA online art courses    
• National Geographic: Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?
• Living with a handicap: So Bad Ass - Dear lady who tutted at me using the disabled loos... 
• Language and Landscape: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape
• Paris story: Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie
• and ... more links that touched me 

links that touched me - January 2015

When I come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, I often copy the link to blog about it at a later point. Yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, I started this "links-that-touched-me" series. Here's the next part:

• Earth We Are One: Top 10 Archaelogical Discoveries of 2014
• Ted Talks: Go ahead, make up new words
• Vimeo: This is normal - a short film
• Buzzfeed: The hidden language of the ~tilde~
• Live Science:  Stonehenge Photos of Hidden Monuments
• photo collage: once upon a day
• previous links: links that touched me 2014

links that touched me: September 2014

When I come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, I often copy the link to blog about it at a later point. Yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, I started this "links-that-touched-me" series. Here's the next part:

• Like Knows Like: artist portraits Geffen Refeali, Victo Ngai by Like Knows Like
• Humanity photo blog stream at Wordpress: All these layers of Humanity 
• Aeon science mag: The calculus of contagion - or: epidemics & statistics
• Forbookssake: Women Writers of Palestine
• Ted Talk: How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too)
• (more to come)

Previous links:
- August 2014: the art of fiction, NY, Maya Angelou..
- July 2014: look in the mirror, 61 things...
- June 2014: travel is, Slowalk, real words
- May 2014: Perspectives, ISS, Poetry Storehouse
- March 2014: Kerouac, shipping yard, film fatales,Hiding, Guardian Film Show
- February 2014: transforming problems, noticing thejourney, poetry podcast
- January 2014: stop saying, when i was, worstpasswords, windows, why dieting....

links that touched me: august 2014

When I come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, I often copy the link to blog about it at a later point. Yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, I started this "links-that-touched-me" series. Here's the next part:

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Art of Fiction - an interview in the Paris Review
• World Book Club Podcast: Maya Angelou "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
  (& podcast page)
• "Why I live in mortal dread of public speaking" - a ted talk 
• "Henry Rollins Shows His Ass, Gets Told, Owns It" -  a blog post about life and judging others: "Life is one long process of discovery about just how little you know about pretty much everything, and that includes people and the insides of their heads."
• "I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days" - a Wired report 
• "We Need to Talk About Shark Week"  - a letter from a scientist: "What bothers me is the irresponsibility of this kind of programming..."
• "99 Locations of New York" - a different kind of city video

Previous links:
- July 2014: look in the mirror, 61 things...
- June 2014: travel is, Slowalk, real words
- May 2014: Perspectives, ISS, Poetry Storehouse
- March 2014: Kerouac, shipping yard, film fatales,Hiding, Guardian Film Show
- February 2014: transforming problems, noticing thejourney, poetry podcast
- January 2014: stop saying, when i was, worstpasswords, windows, why dieting....

links that touched me: look in the mirror, 61 things....

When I come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, I often copy the link to blog about it at a later point. Yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, I started this "links-that-touched-me" series. Here's the next part

• The stories we leave behind - a journalist from the Philippines reflects her work
• When I look in the mirror - a collection of voices & a reflection by 63 women
• 61things: cycling solo from the Arctic to the Adriatic to raise money for a charity 
• In an altered state - thoughts on the the natural world + journey notes 
• to see the world, by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming  (thought this was gone, but now i found it again) 
• An Indian Rail Journey (photo essay by nomadruss)

Previous links:

- June 2014: travel is, Slowalk, real words
- May 2014: Perspectives, ISS, Poetry Storehouse
- March 2014: Kerouac, shipping yard, film fatales,Hiding, Guardian Film Show

- February 2014: transforming problems, noticing thejourney, poetry podcast

- January 2014: stop saying, when i was, worstpasswords, windows, why dieting....

- December 2013: This is Water, Dear Sugar, Does Moneymake you mean, Banksy...

links that touched me: travel is, Slowalk, real words (June 2014)

When I come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, I often copy the link to blog about it at a later point. Yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, I started this "links-that-touched-me" series. Here's the next part 

• Travel is more than the seeing of sights: a video, filmed across 12 countrie over 14 months
• Walking Journeys: the exhibition it still on my mind, that's where the photo above is from. and here's a walking video: Slowalk in support of Ai Weiwei
• BrokenLight - a photography collective to inspire & raise awareness
• Rhythm: spending a week trying to catch the beat (npr feature series)
• What makes a word "real"? (Ted Talk)

previous links:

- May 2014: Perspectives, ISS, Poetry Storehouse
- March 2014: Kerouac, shipping yard, film fatales,Hiding, Guardian Film Show

- February 2014: transforming problems, noticing thejourney, poetry podcast

- January 2014: stop saying, when i was, worstpasswords, windows, why dieting....

- December 2013: This is Water, Dear Sugar, Does Moneymake you mean, Banksy...

links that touched me + 2 perspectives

the new photo friday theme is "Perspective" - which inspired the following 2 pictures, both taken at the very same place, just looking in different directions. this is the Randecker Maar, an ancient vulcano area near here:



and while out there, i remembered a series of link-posts i startd in January, each giving an interesting / new / unexpected perspective on a theme - here is the next one:

links that touched me
when i come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, i copy the link to blog about it a later point. yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, i now started this "links-that-touched-me" series.

• International Space Station: current view + next sighting opportunity: "The current position of the ISS is displayed in real-time on a GoogleMap ... The International Space Station (ISS) can easily be spotted with the naked eye. "  
• The Poetry Storehouse: a multimedia initiative to promote new forms and delivery methods for page-poetry (+ direct link to poetry videos)
• Paying ready attention - a blog about being out there, with a focus on birds: "It probably does no harm to have a plan; to have thought about what you would like to happen, and then, with a plan in place, to do as much as you can to make it happen.."
• The internet as heaven by Ursula Le Guin (who is age 84 now...): "Time and space are the basic parameters of being in the world.." 
• How the teddy bear taught us compassion - a Ted Talk about toys and wild animals and the natural world at large

**
and here is the "other" perspective - a walkway along the Randecker Maar (which means: along the ancient vulcano):

previous links: 
- March 2014: Kerouac, shipping yard, film fatales, Hiding, Guardian Film Show
- February 2014: transforming problems, noticing the journey, poetry podcast

- January 2014: stop saying, when i was, worst passwords, windows, why dieting....
- December 2013: This is Water, Dear Sugar, Does Money make you mean, Banksy...

& the photo friday link: Perspective

links that touched me: march 2014

often, when i come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, i copy the link to blog about it a later point. yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, i now started this "links-that-touched-me" series.

• Jack Kerouac on Kindness, the Self Illusion, and the “Golden Eternity” .. a "brain pickings" article by Maria Popova. 
• The Shipping Yard: a video from Dubai harbour: "I spent a couple afternoons hanging with the workers in Dubai's shipyards. Here's my slightly surreal take on their world."
• Film Fatales + The Gender Gap in Screen Time: Inspired by the Oscars, Clémence Sebag reflects on the lack of female director nominees.
• A Thousand Words: Writing from Photographs -  a New Yorker essay: "I can’t remember exactly when I stopped carrying a notebook..."
• We're all hiding something... Ted Talk by Ash Beckham about openness and the courage it takes
• Guardian film show - a weekly film review, personal + intersting + entertaining 

previous links: 
- February 2014: transforming problems, noticing the journey, poetry podcast
- January 2014: stop saying, when i was, worst passwords, windows, why dieting....
- December 2013: This is Water, Dear Sugar, Does Money make you mean, Banksy...

links that touched me: february 2014

often, when i come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, i copy the link to blog about it a later point. yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, i now started this "links-that-touched-me" series

• Transforming Problems: a different view on problems, by Thubten Chodron. "I assume everyone here has problems..."
• Noticing the journey:  a blog entry from Weavers Journal: "Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” - Basho 
• Thailand - In the Garden of the Dragon  by Justin Heaney: "Filmed in and around Bangkok, Pai, Mae Hong Son and the Thailand / Myanmar border This edit is an attempt at re-creating the visceral nature of my experience there." 
• Out with the Old - a poetry podcast by Poetry Foundation: "Dorothea Lasky's charming, powerful poetry takes readers by surprise." (also, great to discover the Poetry podcast series altogether)
• and a fun one: Guardians of the Galaxy - second class superheroes, hooked on a feeling & high on believing...

previous links: 
- January 2014: stop saying, when i was, worst passwords, windows, why dieting....
- December 2013: This is Water, Dear Sugar, Does Money make you mean, Banksy...

links that touched me: january 2014

often, when i come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, i copy the link to blog about it a later point. yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting... to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, i now started this "links-that-touched-me" series

• Stop saying "do what you love" - a Slate commentary by Miya Tokumitsu on life, work, love, and how the mantra "Do what you love. Love what you do." might need some second thoughts.
• wheniwasreadingthatbook... illustrated reading notes: "what i was really thinking.. when i was reading that (classic) book", from Gatsby to Lolita 
• Parrots, the universe and everything: Douglas Adams Talks about the life, the future of humanity, everything
• 25 worst passwords - "if yours is on the list, go and change it"
• How Cooking can change your life - a short animated film (from OpenCulture)
• Barcelona Motion Timelapse - video: "Broken camera, lost flash drive, near 100 subway rides, 24 000 photos, endless hours of post production and rendering and 480 gigabytes of material..."
• Why dieting doesn't usually work - Tedtalk: Sandra Aamodt explores the neuroscience of everyday life, examining new research and its impact on our understanding of ourselves..
• "Windows" photo stream - all kind of different windows, inspired by the current wordpress photo challenge. Scrolling through them also made me remember the “Window” issue of YB Poetry..

links that touched me: december 2013

often, when i come across an interesting link / video / story that touches me, i copy the link to blog about it a later point. yet by then, there's already another interesting link that is waiting...

to keep the links from vanishing unblogged, i now had the brainwave to just go ahead and create an ongoing monthly link list, with new links added at the top when i come across them. here are the first:

• 12 of the Most Beautiful Literary Magazines Online: "We’d like to present a few literary online magazines that have particularly nice design. Some of these are print magazines that also publish on the Web, while some are online-only. Alert: this is by no means a ranking of the best literary magazines!"
• This is Water - DF Wallace: "Some Thoughts..."
• Dear Sugar #98: Monsters and Ghosts: "They laughed. They actually believed I was joking. Even upon further explanation, they refused to accept what I was telling them was true. It could not be true." - from Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column
• Does money make you mean? "It's amazing what a rigged game of Monopoly can reveal..." - from TedTalks
• History of Photography in 60 Seconds "It's quite remarkable how little time it takes to recognize an image as something familiar, and there are many famous, even iconic, photos in this video." - via photo friday
• Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop "A fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence." - from banksyfilm