Tuesday

A newsletter filled with luck, love, and creativity made by uncommon thinkers and alternative artists who reach for ideas pulled from imagination. Let's start with world-building with written words and hand-drawn illustrations, with a mind-blown move into the meaning of life and pumpkin spice. The best tour manager you've never heard of who picks songs you should listen to.

Before that, let’s take a look at yesterday’s Wordle, and it says everything🤘❣️

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An Italian architect, Luigi Serafini, built an entire world in the 80s with a completely made-up language and wrote it all up in a book called Codex Seraphinianus. The story about how Serafini created the world and the book that eventually emerged from his creative design work is impressive. When talking about the language and alphabet he created for the work, he said he wanted to convey the feeling of a young child who hasn't learned how to read and what most books must look like to them.

In an age where we can type letters into an application that will produce an essay or an image in seconds, and in a day, we can 3D-print a house, it's almost hard to think about the unbelievable. True creatives who choose not to limit their creativity to things known can produce amazing work. The new challenge is to find something that hasn’t been thought of yet and design it into existence.

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A short clip from Lex Fridman's Podcast with Sean Kelly, a philosopher at Harvard. Get the meaning of life in 3 ideas: the more you fill life with: where you are, what you do, and who you are with can determine your meaning.

An artist with the guts to carve a design on something that started to rot out before you make your first cut is an artist who likes the process more than the result. The result will be a landfill or compost before Thanksgiving. Adam Bierton is that artist; his canvas is a pumpkin, and his creativity is fantastic. Callie Holterman does the write-up on Bierton for the NYT and Tis-the-season for carving or sculpting art on a vegetable.

In the world of "Alts": Alt-Rock, Alt-Energy, Alt-Fashion, and so on, the uncommonness of creativity is one of the goals. Alt-Rock isn't looking to land on a chart; it's an indie representation of a small group of people who find other small groups who appreciate the uncommon. Bierton may not have set out to be an alt, but his creativity and the quality of his work landed him in our group.

After School Radio, a weekly Rock Show hosted by Mark Hoppus from Blink 182 and his friends, includes an "under-the-radar" tour manager named Gus Brandt. Fans of the show will know Gus. Deep fans of bands like The Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, Blink 182- and Nine-Inch Nails may have heard of him, but in this little highlight, I’m writing about his Indie Corner section of After School Radio. Called The Gus Hut, Brandt gives the listeners a few of his current favorites on his many playlists. Brandt is one of those lucky music fans who turned his love of punk rock music into a successful career. Brandt's 25 years as the Foo Fighters Tour Manager is what he's best known for, but for a few of us, he's just a cool big brother who finds the coolest new music any of us have ever heard.

Here are the recs from this week’s Gus Hut:

Relationships.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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With A Shout newsletter is written by Johnny Christian with the support of a thousand idea bits and the help of many people.

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