Rewind is an Android and iOS app that allows you to explore music by year. You pick a year and it takes you to the year's highlights where you can sample tracks. At the bottom of each track are buttons to jump to music services where the track is available (Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music, or Youtube Music). I don't subscribe to any of those services, but when I clicked the Youtube Music icon, it just took me to the track on Youtube, which I could then play in full without payment.

For instance, I chose 1968, and was presented with these tracks, among many, many others:

It'll also show you the top 100 songs of the year and you can click on them to preview and then jump to it in the apps.

Pretty neat.

Travel Lemming creates travel guides by locals and experts.

They've put together an easy-to-use list of the 50 Best Places to Travel In 2025. You can filter the list by parts of the globe, season you plan to travel, or both. They write:

For 2025, we’re encouraging travelers to reject the AI travel planners Silicon Valley wants to shove down our throats. Instead, get your travel suggestions from the same place humans have since the beginning of time: other humans.

Last year's list focused on Slow Travel.

Love this shot of an eagle devouring a fish.

Matsubara also has some terrific landscape and moon shots on his site.

London-based painter Ian Robinson focuses on music, books, and collections.

More on Robinson's site.

I've recently started listening to the podcast Strangers On A Bench, where musician Tom Rosenthal approaches people and engages them in conversation. I've listened to seven episodes and it is downright lovely. My favorite so far is #7 — The Disappearing Cyclist, which I've embedded below. There is a bit of course language in this one and if you don't want that, try Episode 2, instead.

You can of course subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to listen to the end credits of each one, as Tom performs a song based on the conversation.

Many writers I know search for distraction-free solutions to getting their work done. Here's one that's new to me: The Micro Journal.

Designed by Un Kyu Lee in Italy and available directly from the creator. The version above is Revision 6, but there are others on his Tindie site.

Viera Babecova describes herself as a "Flower lover & arbitrary colourist & Vincent van Gogh's fan."

More of her stunning work can be seen on her Behance site.

The World of Wearable Art is something I was completely unfamiliar with. Here's their official description:

WOW is a world renowned wearable art experience, where an annual design competition culminates in a spectacular show combining theatre, art, fashion, music, & performance.

Much more on the official WOW Site, including an indepth Archive.

Liza Lou's Trailer is a walk-in sculpture made in and of a 1949 Spartan Royal Mansion mobile trailer. Themes within are masculinity, noir, stereotypes — all made with beads.

The video has Lou and curators discussing the piece and its transportation and installation at the Brooklyn Museum.

Here's the museum's official page on the piece and here's Liza Lou's official website.

Anecdote Alert

The piece reminds me of a friend's home in DTLA. He owns a 13,000sf building that consists of two floors. The top floor is his living space and the main floor has had rotating purposes in the 15 or so years I've known him.

For much of it, filmmaker Nirvan Mullick lived there, but for another era, they brought in an Airstream trailer and tarted it up into a nice living space, complete with lawn and picket fence. They would rent that out on AirBnB. It was quite interesting to be staying in a trailer and outside your door was a lawn, complete with outdoor furniture and such but then beyond your fence you were in a loft and outside those doors was downtown Los Angeles.

I mentioned the building in my post on Lem Dobbs as it appears in the film The Limey. I spent many nights in this building and I have grand associations of it with DTLA as it and Skid Row were all I knew about the area for many years.