A journey! Lateral, in full video! and excellent ducks.
6th January 2025
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Hello!
An announcement from the Lateral production team to kick off the first newsletter of 2025! On this week's episode, Sophie Ward, Julian Huguet and Tina Huang face questions about peculiar pirouettes, popstar pages and passport problems, and if you're using the Spotify app, you should be able to choose between the regular audio episode, or full video! If you're listening on other podcast apps, don't worry, nothing's changing: you'll get be able to listen to the same audio podcast as always.
An announcement from the Lateral production team to kick off the first newsletter of 2025! On this week's episode, Sophie Ward, Julian Huguet and Tina Huang face questions about peculiar pirouettes, popstar pages and passport problems, and if you're using the Spotify app, you should be able to choose between the regular audio episode, or full video! If you're listening on other podcast apps, don't worry, nothing's changing: you'll get be able to listen to the same audio podcast as always.
This is still a little experimental for us, but we're hoping to keep this up and also to roll it out to every previous episode. Spotify doesn't support subtitles yet, but we're told they're
working on it — and as always, professional transcripts are available on the Lateral web site. Added bonus: Spotify Premium users should now be able to watch and listen to the show without third-party adverts being inserted!
And an announcement of
future projects: as this newsletter goes out, I’m filming a season of Jet Lag: The Game!
Right! Next up, we're headed into Good Stuff in the world of video:
- Travelling Turtle tries to get as far from London as possible in 24 hours, using only public
transit. This is a charming travelogue, with well-written narration that means the video deserves its length. This is one of the earlier videos on the channel, so there are some technical problems: audio tracks are often hard-panned into one ear and, infuriatingly, it's filmed at 30fps but published at 25fps, creating a noticeable judder on the many tracking shots across the European landscape. But if you can get over those minor flaws, this is a lovely, slow video that gave me back some
wanderlust. (Thanks to Jonathan for sending this over!)
- The evolution of avalanche mitigation in Utah is quite a corporate video, but it's worth a watch. I do wish it had a more basic introduction to the whys-and-hows, and
a bit more detail about both the technical stuff — it's still fascinating, though. Also, it also includes some explosions.
- The top-rated video from the Macaulay Library this year is torrent ducks, in a torrent.
Around the rest of the web:
- I'd somehow never read the judgment in Bradshaw v Unity Marine before. It's written by a judge with a sense of humour best described as lurching between 'well-deserved mockery' and 'unprofessional', depending on your opinion of just how much vicious mockery lawyers can deserve. "Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact—complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words—to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats."
- How did human butts evolve to look that way?
- A fascinating story from the British National Archives of Khalid Sheldrake: The East Dulwich man who would be King. "Bertie Sheldrake was a South London pickle manufacturer who converted to Islam and became king of a far-flung Islamic republic before returning to London and settling back into obscurity."
And finally, on TikTok: you swiff me right round.
All the best,
— Tom
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