Hey,
I can’t believe it’s Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas to you all, this is a rare Thursday edition of C’mere to me 🎄
This will be the last email of the year so I really want to extend a huge thank you to each and every one of you for reading them 💜
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Stay safe and I’ll see you in 2021 x
Anyway, C’mere to me…
From the news 📰
It’s everywhere now 🦠
With recent positive vaccine news it was perhaps just all too easy to convince ourselves that we were out of the woods, when in reality that’s just not the case.
Love this.
’The Gap’
in our creative work and our taste…
When you work as hard as you can for a long time, it can be really frustrating when you don’t see the results you were hoping for by a certain stage, you might even feel like you’re going backwards.
You’re not.
Several of my absolute favourite creators from all over the internet have recently spoken about creativity, their struggles and the process, and I’ll dive into those another time, but this video was re-shared and although I had seen it years ago, I had completely forgotten about it.
If you’re a writer, a musician, an illustrator, a filmmaker, an artist or a creative in any form, please give this a watch, it’s just 2 mins.
Shakespeare created some of his best works in the same period of time where he created his biggest volume of work.
He also continued to publish works in the period of 1592-1594 where the playhouses were all largely closed due to the plague…
I’d love to know your thoughts too, feel free to reply to this ✉
Do you know these?
Acronyms
I could go on for days with stupid acronyms that have been ingrained in me, particularly for things in tech & the internet, but did you know that these pretty common words are actually acronyms?
LASER – Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
RADAR – Radio Detection And Ranging
SCUBA – Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
TASER – Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle
CAPTCHA - Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (will do a whole email on what these actually are)
ZIP Code – Zone Improvement Plan Code
SIM Card - Subscriber Identification Module
CARE Package - Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (Sent from the US to Europe after the Second World War)
SMART Car - Swatch Mercedes Art (a collaboration between watch manufacturer Swatch and Mercedes Benz)
(Source for some - Mental Floss)
Smile 😊
Watch 📺
Watch this short 6 mins doc by Netflix explaining how they shot the movie Elf. It includes some really clever forced perspective to make Buddy appear larger than the elves at the north pole without any special effects.
Most surprisingly to me, given the success that has followed, back in 2003 they were working on a very tight budget and couldn’t afford to close large sections of streets in New York, so in the iconic scenes where buddy explores the city, almost no one is an extra, and as the thumbnail suggests even the famous ‘Santa’ wearing the red jogging suit was an accident.
Saved 📷
Think 🌊
All dogs can smell drugs. The hard part is getting them to snitch.
That’s all 🤙🏽
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