Dearest internet friends,

Welcome to this week’s instalment of what’s hot in life & leisure!

With love ☼
Marty

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☼ Critical knowledge for the discerning leisure enthusiast: How to make friends with a bird.

☼ Pentax just brought out a pretty special new analog film camera. It’s special because camera film is currently expensive as hell, and this camera shoots two images per frame. So a roll of 36 exposures becomes 72. It does this by splitting one landscape orientation image into two portrait orientation images. As someone who mostly shoots 120 medium format film and gets 16 shots per roll… 72 is a lot of images.

☼ A nice idea: keep all your little travel mementos then scan them collage-style to make artworks for your home (or skip the scanning & just frame them straight up).

☼ Martin Scorsese’s list of 39 essential foreign films which he sent to a young filmmaker. Here’s them all on Letterboxd.

☼ The latest in lo-fi “quiet tech” – the Light Phone III is available for pre-order, shipping January 2025. It has a camera, directions, calendar, notes, voice memos, a flashlight, personal hotspot, and a simple music & podcast player. All you need. I love it. More functionality may be pushed in the future via over-the-air updates.

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Hand picked with the utmost care exclusively for the most fervent leisure enthusiasts…

☼ Mesmerised by Sabine Marcelis’ blown glass side tables for Acerbis. Someone should invent a dessert that looks like this… or if they already have, someone should tell me about it. Here’s our deep dive on Sabine from last year.

☼ Product designer Oscar Olsson has designed a concept for a fully automatic wall-mounted vinyl turntable titled “Disco Volante”. I pray to the good lord that a company decides to bring his vision to reality, because that is one of the best designed products I’ve seen in a long time.

☼ Dreaming of Enrico Marone Cinzano’s Rosa Tank Lamp

☼ Discover 22 extraordinary buildings in RIBA’s International Awards for Excellence 2024. A personal favourite:

☼ Exclusively accepting butter in this form from here on out.

☼ When working, my second monitor is almost always playing through calm vids of people camping in Japan. This channel is so good. Plus he drives the new LandCruiser 70 (major bonus points for that).

☼ Honestly I’ve never considered booking a trip to Oslo but this ad has me reconsidering…

☼ Just a really great island for sale, 30km from Stockholm

☼ I’m officially crowning the Suzuki Samurai as (in my humble opinion) the greatest vehicle ever made. Especially this one below. I’ve commenced the search for one for sale in Portugal… I’ll put Poolsuite branding on one side, Vacation on the other.

☼ 50 things I know by Sasha Chapin. Some of my favourites…

• I know that if you are not unusually hard-working or competitive or smart, you can still distinguish yourself. Be unusual in some other noticeable, likable way—unusually honest, brave, generous, curious, or pleasant. All of these attributes are composed of discrete behaviors that can be learned through practice.
• I know that hospitality is one domain in which giving is receiving. I’ve regretted spending money on many things, but never food I’ve fed to friends.
• I know that almost nobody hears too many sincere compliments. Compliment them to their face. Then, compliment them behind their back. Practice naming pleasant feelings you have about people, as soon as they bubble up, in the moment: “It’s always fun to see you.” Lower the resistance around this to zero.

Until next time!

See you online ☼

Marty

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