A place I've wanted to film for years, and a ghost junction.
28th March 2022
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Hello!
In this week's video, I visit the giant archive hidden under the British countryside, which I've wanted to film for years. (Hopefully everything went out on time given that the clocks have changed in the UK, I get a bit nervous each time there's a daylight saving switch...)
In this week's video, I visit the giant archive hidden under the British countryside, which I've wanted to film for years. (Hopefully everything went out on time given that the clocks have changed in the UK, I get a bit nervous each time there's a daylight saving switch...)
And it's been a good week for videos on other channels, too! This week I've enjoyed:
- The story behind the large concrete arrows scattered across Utah. I did think about making a video like this before: now I don't have to, because in just a few minutes this has done it so well.
- Time Team is back! A much-loved television series from my youth that inspired a generation of archaeologists, it's now Patreon-supported and on YouTube. It's not quite as polished, but it does feel like a real blending of old and new. (If you never saw the original series episode where Time Team investigated a completely fake site, it's worth a watch, although I suspect they'd prefer to be known for the episodes where they made actual archaeological finds...)
- Adam Savage builds a head-mounted dart blaster in just one day. This is a great example of someone managing to "bring the audience along for the ride".
- And a collaboration between Soft Cell and the Pet Shop Boys was an unexpected thing to appear on my playlist this week. It's an entirely predictable set of chord progressions and melodies, it unashamedly calls back to Always On My Mind with the synth stabs, and I can't really defend it as anything novel or spectacular. But I must have listened to it dozens of times in the last few days.
Elsewhere on the web, some really good articles this week:
- Manhattan's Chinese street signs are disappearing: a tale of demographics, linguistics, and historical upkeep. It's a story I'd try to tell myself if I was in any way qualified!
- A fascinating read on sensory panels and the future of food: how do you quantify something as subjective as taste?
- And finally, the ghost junction: the motorway without an exit gets a junction that doesn't go anywhere.
If I remember last week's email correctly, I think I said I'd try to make the next "and finally" about cute animals? Alas, it turns out I'm more interested in weird motorways, which probably says a lot about me...
All the best,
— Tom
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