Future - Pete's Newsletter - Issue #35
Infographic of the Week
This infographic shows a cross-section of front page news throughout 2019, much of it long forgotten today.
With the start of a new decade and an election looming, now may be a good time to ask yourself if you are getting played.
Video of the Week
As proof that there are more interesting things happening in the world, may I recommend the Youtube videos of Liziqi, a Chinese woman whose beautifully filmed clips share a highly idealized view into rural farm life in China's mountainous interior.
The clip linked below shows her harvesting vegetables, preparing spices, building a fire and making a cauldron of hot pot—all by hand—alongside her great grandmother who must be nearing 100.
Kevin Kelley, who tuned me in to her videos, says it best.
"....her impossibly romantic videos are cinematic glimpses of vanishing arts and crafts, of amazing and ingenious ways millions of people thrived in the past. I could watch them for hours."
Song of the Week
Nice little chamber-pop track from local Austinites Star Parks.