WELCOME TO DAYBREAK DIVERSIONS WEEK II, UPPER VALLEY!
There are drone videos...and then there's this. You may have seen it already because it was, like, everywhere a couple of years ago. But that's because it deserved to be. As part of a project to document businesses in Minneapolis threatened by the pandemic, drone operator Jay Christensen featured the Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater—using a racing drone that starts outside, swoops inside, careens across lanes and back around the innards and through the bar and inches away from bowlers. It took 10 tries, but the result is an 87-second single-shot whirlwind. Oh, and at the end? Don't worry. The drone survived.You know: The sun's all warm...your eyelids get heavy...and then you just have to take a nap. On a skylight. Even when you're a fox.So let's say you could pop up anywhere in the world but didn't get a choice where. Would you do it? Sure you would, because all you've got to lose—fair warning—is half your morning. That's what Random Street View gives you. As its tagline goes, it "does what it says": uses Google Street View to take you at random to, say, the Tsirang Highway in Bhutan, then to roadsides or cart tracks or neighborhood streets in Estonia, Israel, Spain, Swaziland... You can do the same with Mapcrunch, which has a striking gallery of the previous day's best views collected by users.The Thursday Vordle. With a word from the news.Back before social distancing was a thing, there was this: Robby Robertson, Ringo Starr, and a stunning cast of musicians on five continents (from South Carolina to Hawaii to Japan to Congo to Bahrain to Nepal), doing The Band's "The Weight." It took two years to pull together, according to a background article by Rolling Stone, and yes, it was so definitely worth the effort.See you tomorrow.
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