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Welcome to my newsletter, where I share my latest discoveries and experiences in the world of music, art, books, podcasts, and products.

Each edition is carefully curated to showcase what I have come across during the preceding week.

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Great images, books, magazines, beer, and products. Thought-provoking articles and design.

Image of the week

The London Eye from Westminster Bridge.

Music I’m listening to

LA rockers Dirty Honey

Check out their music here

I’m reading 

The Art of Porco Rosso is a collection of concept sketches, background art, and digital data that tell the story of Porco Rosso, an animated film conceived, scripted, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The animated adventure was produced by Studio Ghibli in partnership with Japan Airlines as it was originally planned to be a short film for their inflight entertainment.

The plot revolves around an Italian World War I ex-fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing ¨air pirates¨ in the Adriatic Sea. An unusual curse has transformed him into an anthropomorphic pig. Once called Marco Pagot, he is now known to the world as "Porco Rosso", the ¨Crimson Pig¨.

If you are a fan of Studio Ghibli, old aircraft, or great animation this could be the book for you.

The book can be found on Amazon here

I’m watching

Living Big in A Tiny House

Tiny Homes are becoming a popular style of building right across the world and this Youtube channel highlights some of the best in this niche.

Beer of the week

And Union Wednesday Wheat Beer

A traditional unfiltered Bavarian wheat beer.

There’s absolutely nothing to dislike about this beer, the yellow can, the clean refreshing taste, and it has the traditional cloudy wheat beer look. Price wise it’s currently £1.42 reduced from £1.90 for 330ml.

It is definitely on a par with my other favourites Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier and Erdinger Weissbier but considering the size of the can its not such a great deal. But if you are looking to try a different beer this one is well worth a try, especially while its available on special offer

What I’m wearing

Outlaws of Amsterdam stainless steel crossbones ring

Outlaws are one of my favourite jewellery companies, with a great range of stainless and sterling silver designs.

I generally wear the stainless versions as they don’t get damaged as much if you wear them while you are working, especially if you do manual work.

They have styles to suit everyone bikers, rockers, and much more. The service from the Outlaws has always been excellent with rapid delivery.

If you would like a €5 discount follow this link

Finance

Sweatcoin is a free app which rewards your daily steps with a new-generation currency you can spend on cool products or donate to charity.

The App is easy to use and lets you track your daily steps and the number of sweat coins you generate. These can be spent on a wide range of offers or donated to charitable causes. You also mint the cryptocurrency SWEAT depending on the number of steps you manage each day.

Will SWEAT actually be worth anything! who knows but it’s a bit of fun and as it costs nothing it’s worth a try.

Why? Because when you look after your health, you benefit society. You are more productive. You help save billions in healthcare. Your movement has value: you deserve a share in it.

Sign up with the app here 

Watches

Slow Watch a different view of time

• THE CONCEPT

  The core of the slow watch is the 24 hour one-hand concept.

  A 24 hour one-hand watch allows you to see the entire day in one view and experience time in natural way. This fundamentally changes the way you look at your watch and it will give you a much better consciousness about the progression of your day.

  This way of showing the time is inspired by the original clocks that were based on the sun clock. Those early clocks indeed had only one hand and displayed all 24 hours. You can still see them on some old church towers. Only when people’s lives became busier and busier they felt a need to create this unnatural split of the day in two 12-hour halves and break each hour down in to 60 minutes. That’s when we started to chase the minutes and get stressed by time.

  So, let’s turn back time and be slow again…

• Available on Amazon here.