New Fitness Culture Scrapbook #15
I haven’t done one of these in a while because of the chaos of adapting to this pandemic but reading about the below has been a good distraction.
Here’s a collection of poems about food.
Like ‘This is Just to Say’ by William Carlos Williams:
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I really enjoyed this old Ironmind DVD by John Brookfield about grip strength. He has a very soothing voice and I love all the weird techniques he’s invented using bits of scrap wood, metal and beach towels:
Alain Capeillères designed this modernist swimming pool for his summer house in the Côte d’Azur back in the ‘70s. It was fully documented for the first time a couple of years ago by the photographer Romain Laprade as part of a series on domestic pools. Fun to imagine what it would feel like to swim there.
I recently found this four-part series of radio shows of “Japanese ambient, environmental, new age & healing music 1980-1993” from 2018 on the ever-brilliant NTS.
Good music for considering some Zen koans. Mischievous and profound:
One day Chao-chou fell down in the snow, and called out, “Help me up! Help me up!” A monk came and lay down beside him. Chao-chou got up and went away.
Finally, this documentary about the herbalist and writer Juliette de Baïracli Levy was absolutely great: