Today's newsletter is heavy on great stories and light on commentary.  Each tale is curated with an inspiring idea or thought-provoking question to awaken your brain.  Breakfast could be bad; a new website (to us) spends a lot of time looking at where movies are made.  Vox has a new debate idea, and Animatronics 2.0 is coming.

Today's challenge starts with reading and research.  Pick a topic and see how far you can dig into that topic for the rest of the year.  If the topic or, in some cases, the practice is something you have thought about diving deeper into, this could be a challenge for you.  Our swarm topic this year is writing, and swarm we will.

We brought you a story last week about the price of eggs; today, we read another story about oranges.  Florida’s orange production could be down 60% compared to the previous year.  A combination of hurricane damage, freezing temperatures, and the size of the oranges is also down from past years.  Breakfast may not be the most important meal of the day, but it could be the most expensive.

The website Hawaiian Islands put together a list of the most filmed locations in every state.  Some sites are familiar; Griffith Park in Los Angeles, Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and Central Park in NYC.  Others we've never heard of, most notably as a Kansas City-based publication, we've never heard of the Old Cowtown Museum in Wichita, according to this website, is the most filmed location in the state? 

The website expands the list and includes the most filmed beaches, national parks, sports stadiums, and more.  It's worth a quick review if movie locations are your thing.

Vox has an interesting take on opposing views.  They have two people on opposite sides of the debate over legalizing marijuana.  No matter where you come down on the debate, the format of two people having a reasonable discussion in search of facts is refreshing.

Each person comes into the conversation with factual information.  The format of the debate was as engaging as the content.  Great work, Vox!

In a video that looks like part Frankenstein and part Disney animatronics, a clever engineer has hooked up software and Ableton to play music.  That only sounds unique once you see that One Hacker Band is hooked up to actual instruments, playing in robotic ways.  Rudimentary, yes; recognizable covers, yes.  As a version 1 release of what a gadget-crazed engineer and music lover can do, time will tell.

[Music Notes]

Lots of thoughts from the 90s Alt-Rock scene.

Words | Music | Art | Unknown

Beautiful voices.

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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