Welcome to The Every day Uplift, a brand new side-project from HODINKEE. Given the present local weather, we needed to make it possible for some positivity nonetheless made its method into your day. Shifting ahead, we’ll provide a narrative or exercise you may expertise from residence and an ideal album that’s value a better hear. Pulled instantly from the mindshare of the HODINKEE employees (a constructive crew if I’ve ever seen one), it is a token of our appreciation for you stopping by the positioning and a small funding in cultivating constructive vibes among the many larger group.
One thing to look at…
(Some) Free Netflix – Netflix on YouTube
Feeling the necessity for a documentary that is a little more training and a bit much less meme manufacturing? In response to educators asking Netflix to supply their programming to home-locked college students, the prolific on-line streaming platform has taken to YouTube to supply a particular free playlist of academic documentaries. Whereas particularly supposed for college kids and lecturers, this listing implies that some wonderful documentary movies and sequence are actually obtainable to those that have to this point eschewed a Netflix subscription. Titles embody the fantastic Chasing Coral, the primary season of Summary, and even your complete sequence of Our Planet (a Planet Earth off-shoot). Whereas I’m uncertain if this spectacular playlist is regional, it does seem to work in each Canada and the US. To see a synopsis of the movies on the listing (and entry obtainable academic sources), click on right here.
One thing to take heed to…
Ben Folds House Requests – benfoldsTV (YouTube)
I might wager there are a handful of deep Ben Folds followers among the many basic HODINKEE viewers, and I get it. Having been blown away by Ben reside in live performance on two events a while in the past, his expertise, voice, and heat spirit will at all times be a supply of happiness for me. In now not-uncommon style, Ben has taken to YouTube, however with a twist: working reside request classes. It is referred to as “House Requests.” It is simply Folds, a keyboard, and a relentless stream of followers asking to listen to the whole lot from “The Ascent of Stan” to “Tiny Dancer” and even some John Prine (could he relaxation in peace). It is easy, entertaining, and completely partaking to look at the feedback roll by as Ben does what he does greatest.
