The Wonder Shot
Welcome to The Wonder Shot: a space for joy and inspiration, and an antidote to over-zealous news cycles and general malaise.
Every week we’ll add one new article link to something that (hopefully) you’ll be glad you’ve seen.
One Strange Rock
A story of the uniqueness and strangeness of our own planet, as told by Will Smith, Chris Hadfield and a host of astronauts. Highlights include the the episodes on the ‘aliens’ among us and on the myriad ways that life has shaped our planet. This series will reframe your perspective on life on Earth and is an enduring reminder of how deeply everything is connected.
A Flock of Zines, Austin Kleon
Austin Kleon has spent his quarantine making tiny, tiny magazines. And why not?
He makes each one from a single sheet of paper and covers everything from anger (Angry and Curious) to imagination (or how to talk to someone who is missing such a thing). More importantly, each one is a reminder that all creation is an experiment and **note to self** it doesn’t need to be perfect to be worth doing.
Kleon’s growing collection of homemade ‘zines.
Pablo Salvatierra, fruit enthusiast. Source: Atlas Obscura
Every Fruit in the World…
After a four week fast to cure his psoriasis, the first solid food that Pablo Salvatierra ate was fruit. And it tasted so good that he decided to keep going and taste every variety of fruit the world has to offer. Until lockdown forced him home, his travels had bought him to 15 countries and nearly 300 different kinds of fruit - including the notoriously stinky durian, and the “heavenly joy” of the Bornean terap. Inspired by the diversity and abundance of nature he has since started a food forest in his own neighbourhood - Read more at Atlas Obscura.