Wednesday Wonders 35
Canon Powershot V1, Laura Mooney, Katherine Stewart, Canon Selphy, Ira Glass
1. Canon Powershot V1
Yes, ANOTHER camera. This one is specifically designed for video and is very compact, with a built-in Zoom lens and microphone. It also takes alarmingly good stills (like this one, snapped from the window of a moving train). As you can tell, I am building up kit for a new endeavour...
2. Service by Laura Mooney
This was a strange book that got creepier and creepier as it went on. The subtext is dense, and deals with the helplessness of anyone who is living hand-to-mouth in the modern world; despite ostensibly dealing with the plight of today's twenty-something workforce, it triggered a lot of memories of being in the same boat thirty years ago.
3. Money, Lies, and God by Katherine Stewart
Early to put this on a Wonders list, as I have only just started it, but I'm already confident. Despite being subtitled "Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy", it is just as relevant to anti-democratic movements (Stewart coins the term "Reactionary Nihilism") in the UK and Europe, because the same people crop up everywhere. So far, it is a chilling read, but essential to understanding that we too are facing an existential fight that we need to wake up to before it is too late.
4. Canon Selphy QX20
We have become a journaling household, and this small dye-sublimation printer is getting used more and more. It's incredibly portable, chargeable via USB-C, and prints small business card sized photographs, at surprising quality, onto self-adhesive sticker paper.
5. The Gap by Ira Glass
This very short film, illustrating an Ira Glass quote, is worth going back to again and again.