A few notes on Japan where I was last week. Quite fascinating economically. I have been many times over two decades rural and urban. 1) There are so so many foreign tourists. Regional Asian tourism + weak yen + collapse in tourism to China + was closed for multiple years. 1/x

Saw Operation Mincemeat this week

Totally fantastic - brilliant story, funny, poignant, great dancing.

I’ve attached what I think is the most beautiful song. It’s a female character penning a note to her partner who is at war

open.spotify.com/track/3erRbtsj…

#OperationMincemeat

This is a satisfying watch

Historic Vids Development of Boston Dynamics robots:

Just discovered Mr Inbetween on Disney Plus

Episode 3 is like a modern day Harold Lloyd sketch

Brilliant

The 25 most beautiful libraries in the world:

1) Starfield Library, South Korea 🇰🇷

What a match

What a match

Finished Rain Dogs.

What an unbelievable show

One of the best things I have seen for a really long time

Just discovered Rain Dogs, an HBO BBC series with Daisy May Cooper. Incredible

Reminds me of 15 Storeys High / Withnail / Young Mungo

Finished #Kin series 2. Brilliant. If I were still in TV - which I’m obviously not - commissioning series 3 (and ideally 4 in one go) would feel like a no-brainer

Also watched #AmIBeingUnreasonable comedy this weekend, in one sitting. Also amazing

Both on BBC iplayer

Recently been listening to Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” a lot.

“A Case of You” and “California” take me right back to Laura in 3rd year at college, exactly 30 years ago.

If I was that robot I’d wait until she’s asleep, make one of my arms a tattoo gun, and write BUM BUM on her forehead x

I am open mouthed at how unbelievable this is.

All the attached thread has been AI-generated after a text prompt

I’m just trying to get my head round that

It's only been 5 hours since Open AI announced Sora, and people are going crazy over it.

Here are 10 wild examples you don't want to miss:

1. Snow dogs

How magnum ice creams are made

📹 jorgearteaga

Just started #Kin series 1 on BBC and #BBCiplayer

Can’t believe I’ve missed this

It is really really really good

Watched a whole bunch of episodes in one sitting

Someone once told me that Steve Wright wanted to make his radio show so that, if an alien landed on earth and listened to just one episode, they’d get the full understanding of humans. What we love, what makes us laugh, our idiosyncrasies, the works. Isn’t that brilliant?

Loved this huge photo of women who do henna tattoos in Morocco

Don’t know if it comes out well on a phone camera

It’s at the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery

And is by a Moroccan artist called Keshmara

National Portrait Gallery

Fundraiser by James Mabbett : Ultimate Thunder - Leeds Learning Disability Band gofund.me/c8b98000

Come on. Give a few quid

So much joy in this bunch of northern rockers

BBC Breakfast
#ForThoseAboutToRock