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Why is Rosé the go-to wine for celebrity-owned brands rather than Chardonnay or Cabernet? Why are the younger generations of wine drinkers choosing Rosé over red? Is the Rosé boom just a trend, or is its popularity here to stay? In this episode of the Unreserved Wine Talk podcast, I'm chatting with Rasmus Emborg & Jens Honoré, who co-published the Rose Revolution. You can find the wines we discussed at https://www.nataliemaclean.com/winepicks   Highlights What are the main differences between wines from Domaine Tempier and Domaine Ott? What makes some Rosé wines better for aging than others? How did Gerard Bertrand's background influence his winemaking style? Which Provençal cuisine dishes pair best with the Rosé wines? Why do so many celebrities who come to the wine world choose to make Rosé? Which celebrity wines are worth buying? How has social media impacted the Rosé Revolution? What does the future look like for Rosé's popularity? Why have more men started drinking Rosé? Which wine regions should wine lovers visit to immerse themselves in the world of Rosé?   Key Takeaways Why is Rosé the go-to wine for celebrity-owned brands rather than Chardonnay or Cabernet? As Rasmus and Jens explain, Rosé is much easier to embrace for a broad audience. Rosé has a lot of lovers, but they don't have any enemies. So you can be a serious musician, a rocker, a pop star, and embrace Rosé. When you're just a celebrity and not a winemaker it's way more bankable and easier to market. We tried a lot of those wines and I'll tell you, some of them are pretty good, big bang for the buck. Brad Pitt, John Legend, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jon Bon Jovi, Cameron Diaz and Kylie Minogue Why are the younger generations of wine drinkers choosing Rosé over red? Rasmus and Jens observe that young people don't drink much red wine, but they drink a lot of white wine and Rosé because it's kind of like a celebratory wine. It's become a wine you kind of gather around. You don't disagree about it. You can't be talked down to if you don't know the terroir, the grapes etc. If it's endorsed by a rapper or rock music or whatever, it enhances that experience. Is the Rosé boom just a trend or is its popularity here to stay? Rasmus and Jens believe that Rosé has established itself as a third wine category. We'll still see the quality improve and higher price points. In France, 3 out of 10 bottles are Rosé, globally, it's about one out of 10. They are seeing a trend of Rosé taking market share from red wine whereas white wine is stable.   About Rasmus Emborg & Jens Honoré Rasmus Emborg is a journalist who has worked in the media industry for over 25 years. He is the author of Beer Brothers (2019), about twin beer brewers Mikkel Borg-Bjergsø and Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø. He and his wife own a small vineyard in Provence. The grapes are mainly used for rosé wine, and the production takes place at a local cooperative. Jens Honoré is a photographer who has worked in the advertising industry for 30 years. In 2018, he published A Place to Dream for SOS Children's Villages, and in partnership with Jens Vilstrup, he published the book, Farewell to a Black/White World about the UN's 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. He has also contributed to Building a Dream about LEGO owner Kjeld Kirks Kristiansen's realization of LEGO House. In 2021, he published The Right to Food about homeless people's relationship with food. Jens lives in New York and as a wine enthusiast, has followed the trend of increasing enthusiasm for rosé wine with great interest.         To learn more, visit https://www.nataliemaclean.com/337.

How did Rosé get a bad reputation as not being a “real” wine? How did Marcel Ott revolutionize the world of Rosé wine? Why is Grenache a popular grape for making trendy pale Rosés? How do Rosé's beautiful bottles both help and hurt its reputation? In this episode of the Unreserved Wine Talk podcast, I'm chatting with Rasmus Emborg and Jens Honoré, the author and photographer, respectively, who have published Rosé Revolution. You can find the wines we discussed at https://www.nataliemaclean.com/winepicks   Highlights How did Jens and Rasmus develop a love for Rosé? What does Rasmus find most satisfying about owning a vineyard? Why did Jens and Rasmus want to produce their book independently? Why did Jens choose to photograph the winemakers in black and white, using an analog camera? What was the most challenging aspect of writing Rosé Revolution? Why was Marcel Ott's pioneering decision to treat Rosé as a wine in its own right so radical in 1912? Why did Rosé have such a bad reputation? What makes Grenache such a good grape to make Rosé? Are there benefits to the shape of the iconic Domain Ott bottles? What are some of the wildest bottle Rosé designs Jens found in researching Rosé Revolution? Why does Rasmus believe we'll see more Rosé being sold in brown bottles in the future? What role do ultra-premium Rosés play in the market? Beyond great quality, what factors have made Whispering Angel so successful?   Key Takeaways Rosé wine is made from red wine grapes, and it's the skin that gives color and tannin to the wine. If you let the wine ferment with the skin, you end up with a red wine. Rosé wine was produced as an afterthought, rather than with the intention to make it. This is part of why Rosé has had a bad reputation because it's been considered a byproduct. Marcel Ott was fascinated by Rosé wine because he thought that this was a wine that had the taste of the grapes most precisely. Marcel Ott was the first one to choose the variety of grapes that gave the best Rosé, to position the vineyards in the best possible way to make good Rosé and to choose the harvest time with the ambition to make the best possible Rosé. Grenache is a grape with thin skins and very little pigment so it brings little color to the wine. This is the kind of Rosé wine that is the most trendy these years. It's pale, dry, crisp wine, what we call the Provence style. But also, Grenache has this natural sweetness that applies well to the Rosé wine category as well. Rosé, with its beautiful colour in a transparent, creatively designed bottle, looks great on the shelves in the liquor store. It looks good on Instagram. And I think this is a part of the popularity of Rosé. At the same time, it's also a reason why the bad reputation of Rosé wine remains with some of the wine establishment. At the same time, it's much easier to recycle brown glass than clear glass.   About Rasmus Emborg & Jens Honoré Rasmus Emborg is a journalist who has worked in the media industry for over 25 years. He is the author of Beer Brothers (2019), about twin beer brewers Mikkel Borg-Bjergsø and Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø. He and his wife own a small vineyard in Provence. The grapes are mainly used for rosé wine, and the production takes place at a local cooperative. Jens Honoré is a photographer who has worked in the advertising industry for 30 years. In 2018, he published A Place to Dream for SOS Children's Villages, and in partnership with Jens Vilstrup, he published the book, Farewell to a Black/White World about the UN's 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. He has also contributed to Building a Dream about LEGO owner Kjeld Kirks Kristiansen's realization of LEGO House. In 2021, he published The Right to Food about homeless people's relationship with food. Jens lives in New York and as a wine enthusiast, has followed the trend of increasing enthusiasm for rosé wine with great interest.         To learn more, visit https://www.nataliemaclean.com/336.

What makes people want to go to museum? How can they ensure they still remain relevant? I spend a lot of my time in museums.  They inspire me, inform me and put me into mindsets I wouldn't otherwise be in.  So I wanted to learn more about them.Episode Summary On this episode, I sit down with Matthew McNerney, Chief Creative Officer of Luci Creative, to explore the hidden psychology behind museum design. Matthew has worked on everything from the Lego House in Denmark to presidential libraries, science museums, and even the NASCAR Hall of Fame.Together, we dive into the ways museum spaces are meticulously crafted to shape how we learn, feel, and interact with history, culture, and ideas. We also discuss the challenges museums face today—from declining visitor numbers to evolving audience expectations—and what it takes to design experiences that are both educational and entertaining.Along the way, Matthew shares fascinating insights from his career, from how a single professor changed the trajectory of his life to the unexpected lessons learned from working on hospital play spaces. If you've ever been inspired by a museum visit or wondered why some exhibits engage while others fall flat, this conversation is for you.Guest Biography: Matthew McNerney Matthew McNerney is the Chief Creative Officer at Luci Creative, a museum and brand experience design firm that works at the intersection of curiosity and change. His work spans a vast array of projects, from designing experiences for the Lego House in Billund, Denmark, to working on presidential libraries, science museums, and the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Matthew's career in museum design began in an unexpected way — he originally considered becoming a wedding designer before a professor introduced him to the world of exhibition design.Since then, he has spent over 20 years in the field, crafting experiences that spark curiosity and create lasting impressions. His work is deeply influenced by behavioral science, storytelling, and the psychology of engagement, all of which help him transform physical spaces into immersive learning environments.Beyond museums, Matthew has also worked on brand experiences, including designing retail environments for New Balance and flagship stores for Tiffany & Co. His expertise lies in creating multisensory experiences that connect people with content in compelling ways. AI-Generated Timestamped Summary[00:00:00] Introduction[00:01:00] Introducing Matthew McNerney and his work in museum design[00:02:00] How Matthew got into museum design—pivoting from wedding planning[00:06:00] The role of museums in shaping collective memory and conversatio[00:08:00] How museums balance education and entertainment[00:11:00] The variety of projects Matthew has worked on, from LEGO to NASCAR[00:14:00] The complexity of designing exhibits that engage diverse audiences[00:17:00] Museums as the most trusted institutions—but with declining attendance[00:19:00] Competing for attention: Museums vs. other forms of entertainment[00:24:00] The challenges of working with subject-matter experts and overcoming "the curse of passion"[00:29:00] The Mona Lisa effect—why some artworks become pilgrimage sites[00:32:00] Designing for different visitor experiences and expectations[00:37:00] Using behavioral science to map visitor engagement strategies[00:40:00] The hidden barriers that stop people from visiting museums[00:45:00] The challenge of curating history while staying objective[00:50:00] Creating curiosity: Making museums a launchpad for deeper exploration[00:53:00] How Lego taught Matthew a lesson about designing for engagement[00:55:00] Gamifying museum experiences—how the Cleveland Museum of Art makes learning fun[00:57:00] The risks and security challenges of modern museum spaces[01:00:00] Matthew's favorite museum recommendations[01:02:00] Where to find Matthew's work and final thoughtsLinks & ReferencesLuci Creative – https://lucicreative.com/Matthew McNerney's Website – https://matthewmcnerney.com/Lego House, Billund, Denmark – https://www.legohouse.com/Tenement Museum, New York – https://www.tenement.org/Micropia, Amsterdam – https://www.micropia.nl/en/Cleveland Museum of Art – ArtLens Exhibit – https://www.clevelandart.org/artlens-galleryPrevious episode of the show featuring Professor Tom Schössler talking about museum innovation - https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/professor-tom-schossler-on-deploying/

The LEGO House is getting it's own LEGO Masters studio, a canceled LEGO video game might come back, and Nike is getting us excited for some LEGO built kicks!Set Review: 21272 Minecraft Woodland Mansion Fighting RingMOC Review: Super Nintendo World Portal Universial's Epic Universe by Coaster.bricks.worldwideBecome a Brick Stud! – Patreon.comSubscribe on YouTube! – YouTube.com10% Off LEGO Displays! – Use code BACKBRICK at Elevenmark.comYou as a MinifigureLEGO PavilionLEGO House LEGO Masters AcademyPlant expansionBuy 1-get-4 freeIdeas Timeless CreationsLEGOLAND Global FestivalCanceled LEGO gameStar Wars holiday setNikeFortnite Sabrina CarpenterWicked 18+ setsDisney CMFTie Fighter GWPThank you, Patrons! - Bellefonte Bricks Studio, Jimmy Tucker, David, Matthew Vanden Boogart, Paul Snellen, Lee Jackson, Pop's Block ShopSupport the showSee some of the designs I've built - REBRICKABLE.COMHead over to Back2brick.com for links to the latest LEGO set discounts!Support the podcast through our affiliate links AND join the Back 2 Brick Patreon!Have a question? Want to be a guest? Send me a message!backtobrick@gmail.comBack 2 Brick Podcast is not an affiliate nor endorsed by the LEGO Group.LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. ©2025 The LEGO Group.

Welcome to the Real Estate Rundown! This week, Kala and the guys discover a unique listing, talk about new state laws, and discuss what excites them about the future!

Extra Pieces in Denmark for Fan Media Days 2024! Richard and Jay are back from our pilgrimage to Denmark for Fan Media Days 2024! We recount our experiences at Fan Media Days, however most of the juiciest things we saw can't be discussed yet for obvious reasons. We were lucky enough to attend AFOL Day at the LEGO House, which kicks off Skaerbaek Fan Weekend. Richard was on the ground at Skaerbaek speaking and we both spoke to a bunch of lovely people that we met on the ground! This episode contains snippets of those conversations, asking people about their experience at the LEGO House, and Skaerbaek Fan Weekend! You might hear a voice or two (or three or four!) that you might be very familiar with! Special thanks to everyone that was happy to be featured! If you enjoy the episode, we would be grateful if you could spare a moment to give it a quick review: those 5 stars, as well as any comments you leave, really help to make it visible to others who might enjoy it (or even just tell your friends.)

Marta berichtet wieder von futuristischen (?) Besucherzentren: vom Lego House, in dem man wir unsere selbstgebauten Fische ins virtuelle Aquarium hochladen konnten; und vom Harald-Blauzahn-Kulturerbe-Museum, in dem wir magisch inszenierte Ausgrabungsstücke erlebten. Kuba stellt in Frage, wie perfekt die "Perfect Days" in Wim Wenders' Film wirklich sind, und präsentiert ein Sci-Fi-Audio-Quiz mit verbuchselten Wechstaben. Kapitelchen & Tracklist 0:00:00 Patricia Taxxon – GDGEGDGCDEDHECETCHCOHTHOTOTO CC BY-SA 0:01:10 Hyperobjekt U5 0:14:12 XIOMARA – LOVE JONES CC BY-NC-SA 0:17:19 Perfect Days 0:38:38 Santa Niña – A Crooked One CC BY-SA 0:43:05 Legohaus und -land 1:12:32 Angie – Romance CC BY-NC-ND 1:15:52 Audioquiz 1:34:46 Amy Cutler – the swirl, reprise CC BY-NC-ND 1:36:46 Harald Bluetooth 1:54:48 Tina Bartle – How To Be Vulnerable CC BY-NC-SA Shownotes Open Humboldt (Projekt der HU Berlin) Perfect Days (IMDb): Richard Brody's Kritik im New Yorker (Paywall) LEGO House Kongernes Jelling – Home of the Viking Kings Ist euch etwas Futuristisches im Alltag begegnet? Schickt es uns! Per Mail an fw@3c33.de oder per Mastodon-Nachricht an @fantawis@det.social. Wir besprechen eine Auswahl im Podcast. Credits & Lizenz Flyer: Foto von Kathrin Cover: basierend auf Robert Fludd Metaphysik und Natur- und Kunstgeschichte beider Welten, nämlich des Makro- und des Mikrokosmos, 1617; Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Diese Folge erscheint unter CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, d.h. unsere Inhalte gerne teilen, remixen, aber uns bitte erwähnen und ja kein Geld verdienen! Musik siehe jeweilige Lizenzen.

What happens when the rewards for doing something don't show up until way later? Or if it's harder to tell you're making progress on something, like saving money, applying for jobs, buying a house? David and Isabelle are joined by Isabelle's husband, Bobby, who also has ADHD, swapping stories about delaying gratification, shame spirals, and how we ruminate and distract AND hyperfocus for the win.----  The only thing that's reinforced are tasks toward goal completion. What could I do today that would move me toward that goal? The  only question: is it moving toward my goal? If so, it's effective (or if not, not effective), rather than good or bad. For example, David venting about his paper to his friend helped him be on task, rather than not being on task and going out to eat at Burger King—it's still about the paper (it's still on task). How effective is it toward the task? More effective than going to Burger King and not talking or thinking about the paper at all. Long term goals are specifically hard for folx with ADHD because of the delay of gratification. The more you wait, the more you feel like you're failing. Neurotypical folx will read that waiting as normal or to be expected. Bobby names things like saving for retirement, saving for a house, paying off debt—the progress is so slow it feels so boring. David relies on his awesome neurotypical partner to save for a house by taking what they would pay for a mortgage every month and saving whatever that was on top of their rent (so if their Lego House rent was $10, and they wanted a $30 mortgage, they saved the extra $20 every month). Isabelle wonders if neurotypical shame spirals go as deep as neurodivergent ones—for example, David's goes to homelessness, and she notices that neurotypical folx notice how close they got the finish (like getting the brick at the bottom of the pool during swimming lessons), and factor that in, whereas for her it's the outcome that matters and she goes straight to everyone she loves is going to abandon her and ditch her. David names that he has a few shame spirals—for work, it's homelessness, for relationships—it's abandonment. This leads to black and white thinking, which is more than just worth mentioning, it's the difference between “not getting a snack” to “failure begets failure begets FAILURE…” And this extreme is dismissed so often, people don't get it. As a therapist you'd never say “it's not a big deal,” you're invalidating those feelings. What we ADHD folx feel, our level of intensity, is REAL—instead of “it shouldn't hurt that much,” it's “that's extremely frustrating.” Bobby is slurping all this data up, and taking the feels, and feeling them…and that's what you do. You acknowledge how intensely you're feeling them. Bobby sits in the role of “Novice EveryDay-er…Every Day Dude” (which is what it says on his nameplate). And not just acknowledging your feels, but acknowledging the intensity of how strongly you feel them. Feel the feeling, know it's more intense, or it might not be felt by other people. And do what you need to do to regulate—-as opposed to let it go. It's like telling someone with ADHD not to look at the ceiling (we all looked at the ceiling). Telling someone to fight something is not effective, it can go on forever in a power struggle. Isabelle describes that she prefers the phrase self-soothe to self-regulate, because it can be a pressure to return to masking and appearing as though you are neurotypical or ‘regular.' David is wondering if self-soothing is the task, actually—you might not be able to soothe or make the injury out of the way, and instead get grounded again. It's not about getting out of your ADHD mindstate, it's about lowering your hyper focus and lowering the pressure to act. David does this intermittent fast now and just got distracted about the food he wants to eat (schwarma)—he's not pretending he's going back to the point and instead is focusing on food and saying “Schwarma.” The group decides they will say “Schwarma” any time this happens, if they can remember, which Bobby reassures them he will. Isabelle then describes that she thinks Bobby circumvents working memory problems by using some of the rules of comedy, like callbacks, and then…she also loses the plot and goes back to telling her story. Isabelle describes fixations on movies or things across many genres and seems to do with what the movie makes her feel. She is reminded of one of her roommates in college who was a lovely person, but would fixate on one or two somewhat depressing emo songs and for Isabelle, she didn't like the emotional state it would generate. So she recognizes that she goes through fasts almost, of media that stirs up feelings because she gets so sucked in, so she avoids fiction and movies and music for a while. Then, it's like a switch flips, and she gets sucked in and rewatches things over and over again. Like the Netflix film “Tall Girl.” Because she is tall. And it hooked her (despite not being the best movie maybe, but she liked it). And she found time, when she has no time, to watch it four times in the span of a week. What is this? David's like: it's the definition of hyperfocus. It's that you fall into it intensely. It's that you do the same thing over and over again, or a genre—like David only watched shows that only made it one season. Isabelle can daydream for five hours straight while driving, she can rewatch things in her head. David is naming that this is not the safest driving technique, but David is wondering if there were any changes in this span that changes your capacity to move around? Were there things that gave you more unstructured time? Were there things you were avoiding or wanting distraction from on an emotional level? When all of those things happen, hyperfocus can kick in for preservation, like you're going to get sucked into the Full Metal Alchemist because you don't want to think about life after graduation. And in another way, rumination can kick in when you don't move around during the day, which turns into a type of thinking at the end of the day, those thoughts can be a way to get out that energy. Everyone is going to kick into hyperfocus for different reasons and it will vary based on types and on the environment that they're in. Isabelle connects very much to preservation idea of hyperfocus, how survival-related it feels and  the times she was in a fandom over a particular show or movie that relate to major life transitions, like graduation, or career changes, or life changes. David names that it's probably much easier to remember the relationship she had with those things than the transitions themselves. David names that this is a superpower. It usually happens when you're sitting in helplessness. Are you sitting in your helplessness, or are you sitting in “these amazing actors and actresses are nailing it?” Isabelle insists Bobby will watch it and grow to love it. It can happen when you don't have structure or your routine changes, and it provides structure—the reality is, for David, it's important to go wild if you really are in a state of helplessness—then go to town watching all the shows. But if you're using it to avoid a task, that's a whole other story. Things Isabelle, David, and Bobby have hyper focused on (that are mentioned in the episode):The MatrixNew GirlTall GirlIt's Always Sunny in PhiladelphiaFull Metal AlchemistSchwarmaDAVID'S DEFINITIONS:Black and White Thinking: Believing or acting as if there are only two ways of thinking right or wrong. This includ...

September's Super LEGO sets! Welcome back! This is Richard and Jay's final episode recorded in Australia before we both head off to Billund, Denmark for Fan Media Days 2025. We'll be interviewing and chatting to LEGO Designers, so let us know if there's any specific questions you'd like us to ask! In today's episode, we cover some of the recent September 2024 releases! Sets discussed include: LEGO Legend of Zelda: Great Deku Tree 2-in-1 The Nightmare Before Christmas Harry Potter: The Burrow 71486 Castle Nocturnia 71484 Coopers Robot Dinosaur C. Rex We hope you enjoy the episode. We love your feedback: please leave a review or comment on your favourite podcast platform, or get in touch with us via @extrapiecespod And if you are at The AFOL Day at the LEGO House, or Skaerbaek Fan Weekend next weekend, tap us on the shoulder. We might have some tiles to give away.

Kolejny odcinek, który zaczyna się dramatycznie - od awarii na autostradzie! Dramat jednak trwa krótko i szybko zmienia się w opowieść Grzegorza o tym jak wygląda proces testowania, przymierzania i ewentualnego zakupu Apple Vision Pro. Usłyszycie zatem historię tego przeżycia. A przeżycie zapada w pamięć. Apple Vision Pro wbija w fotel! A zespół sprzedażowy pomaga jak może. Materiały prezentacyjne również pomagają w tym, aby dokonać zakupu. Jest to zakup niezwykły, gdyż nic w życiu Grzegorza nie może być normalne. Po wszelkich przygodach z dojazdem i zakupem Grzegorz niestety musi iść do Legolandu i bawić się klockami 12 godzin w Lego House! Ciężkie jest życie Grzegorza Sobótki. Zaraz po powrocie nagrywamy ten odcinek na gorąco i dzięki temu obydwaj redaktorzy są bardzo na świeżo w swym doświadczeniu. Michał Krasnopolski widzi dinozaury nawet wcześniej niż Grzegorz! Po tym krótkim przeżyciu redaktorzy dzielą się z Wami swoimi przeżyciami. Zapraszamy!

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Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is Paul Marden, CEO of Rubber Cheese.Fill in the Rubber Cheese 2024 Visitor Attraction Website Survey - the annual benchmark statistics for the attractions sector.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcast.Competition ends on 3rd July 2024. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references:Lego House in BillundSutton Hoo (National Trust)Sutton Hoo at the British MuseumThe Dig on NetflixSutton Hoo mask on Lego IdeasThe Dig: Lego version of Sutton Hoo treasure 'amazing' (BBC News)Events at The Hold IpswitchAndrew Webb is a LEGO enthusiast who uses bricks in outreach programmes for teams and organisations as diverse at Arm, Pinset Mason, The National Trust, English Heritage, and the Scouts. During the UK's second Lockdown in early 2021, He made the 1500 year old Sutton Hoo Helmet out of LEGO bricks and submitted it to LEGO Ideas. The build achieved international media coverage, and has since been donated to the National Trust. Andrew continues to help attractions and institutions with LEGO programmes. By day, he works as a global head of content marketing for a B2B tech company. Find out more at http://teambuildingwithbricks.com Transcription:  Paul Marden: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in and working with Mister attractions. I'm your host, Paul Marden. Today I'm talking to Andrew Webb. By day, Andrew is a content marketer for a tech firm, but in his spare time helps attractions to use Lego as a tool to attract and engage diverse audiences and enable them to interpret history and culture. We're going to talk about what it means to be an building, a model of anglo saxon helmet, and the 24 skills that are used when building with Lego. Paul Marden: So welcome to the podcast. Andrew Webb: Thank you. Paul Marden: On Skip the Queue, we always start with some icebreaker questions that you know nothing about. So let's launch into a couple of those. Book and a pool or museums and galleries for your city break. Andrew Webb: Museum and galleries.Paul Marden: Yeah. I'd expect nothing less given what we're about to talk about. This is one from one of my colleagues, actually, who is really good at icebreakers whenever we do a team building eventually. So he said, “Would you rather have it and lose it or never have it at all?”Andrew Webb: Oh, gosh, I'll have it and lose it for sure. Paul Marden: Yeah, gotta be. That one's from miles. Say thank you, Myles. That was a cracker. Andrew Webb: Do you remember the word there was a great one. Would you rather eat ten donuts or raw onion? Paul Marden: Oh, ten donuts, hand down. I could easily do that. Andrew Webb: I'd get onion. I'd get onion. Every time I would take an onion over ten donuts. I'd be sick after ten donuts. Paul Marden: Oh, no, I reckon I could take that. No problem. Andrew Webb: Okay. Paul Marden: Okay. So we're going to talk a little bit about your adventures in Lego over the last few years. So why don't we kick off and talk a little bit about your original interest in Lego? Because I know it goes back not a long way, because that would be rude. But it goes back to a few years ago, doesn't it? Andrew Webb: It does. I mean, like most people growing up in what we might loosely term the west, I had like, I was a kid, you know, I think most of us grew up with it like that. And then like, you know, growing up in that first age of plastics with Heman, Transformers, Lego, Star wars, all of that sort of stuff. Paul Marden: You're just describing my childhood. Andrew Webb: It's funny because that was. It was all sort of ephemeral, right? I mean, the idea was that the reason why that boom happened, just to dwell on why they're going plastic things. Before that, toys were made out of either tin or wood. So, you know, they were very labour intensive produce there's certainly injection moulding comes along and we could just have anything coupled with the tv shows and the films and all this sort of stuff. So we all grew up in this sort of first age of disposable plastic, and then it all just gets passed down as kids grow up. It gets given away, gets put in the loft and forgotten about. There's a moment when a return of the Jedi bedspread doesn't look cool anymore, right? You hit about 13, 14 and you're like, “Mom, I really want some regular stuff there.”Andrew Webb: So like everybody, you know, I gave it all away, sold it and whatever, but I kept onto my lego and then fast forward, you know, I become a parent and Lego starts to come back into my life. So I'm sort of at a stage where I'm working for a travel startup and I get a press release to go to the Lego House, which if no one has heard about it, where have you been? But also it is a fantastic home of the brick, which Lego built in, opened in 2016. And it is a phenomenal temple to Lego. Not in terms of like a Legoland style approach with rides and things like that, but it's all about the brick and activities that you can do in a brick. Andrew Webb: There is great pools and huge pits of Lego to play with there, as well as displays and all this sort of stuff. They've actually got a Lego duplo waterfall.Paul Marden: Really? Andrew Webb:  Oh, I mean, it's a fantastic attraction. And the way they've done it is just incredible. So they blend a lot of digital things. So if you make a small fish and insert it into this thing, it appears in the tank and swims around and this sort of stuff and the way you can imprint your designs on things. I should just quickly tell you about the cafeteria there as well, just really quickly. So the cafeteria at the Lego House, everyone gets a little bag of Lego and then whatever you build and insert into this sort of iPad sort of slots type thing, and that's what you're. Andrew Webb: So a pink brick might be salmon, a yellow brick might be chicken, whatever, and you put it all in and it recognises it all and then it comes down a giant conveyor belt in a Lego. Giant Lego box and is handed to you by robots. I mean, mind blowing stuff. This is not like with a tray at the National Trust place or somewhere like that for us to come. It is a technological marvel. Absolutely fascinating. So, of course, on the day went, it was a press preview, so there was no canteen workers, so there was no food in the box when me and my daughter, so went without that data, was a bit disappointed. Andrew Webb: But that started that whole reappreciation of Lego, both as a toy to play with my daughter, but also as a way of using Lego in different ways. And that manifests itself in lots of different things. So currently, now, you know, fast forward a little bit. I use Lego for team building exercises, for workshops, for problem solving with organisations, and also just for having fun with adult groups as well as kids. And I think one of the biggest things we've seen since this kind of started around 2000s with the sort of adults reading Harry Potter, do you remember that was like, why are you reading this children's book type of thing? Paul Marden: Yeah. Andrew Webb: And then all the prequel Star wars films came out and Lego made sets about both those two things. And it kind of. I mean, Bionicle saved the company, as only AFOL will know, but it started that whole merchandising thing and adding Lego into that firmament of IP. Right. And we fast forward now, and it's Marvel and Star wars and everything. Paul Marden: You just said AFOL. I know what an AFOL is, but many of our listeners may not know what AFOL is.Andrew Webb: Just to go for acronyms here. So an AFOL is an Adult Fan of Lego. And we've seen actually Lego in the past five years, even earlier. I mean, Lego always had an adult element to it. And one of the original founders used to use it for designing his own house. And there was a whole architectural system called Molodux. So it's always had that element to it. But just recently we've seen, you know, almost retro sets. So we see the Lego Atari 2600 video game system from 1976, which, yeah. Paul Marden: An original NES wasn't there. Andrew Webb: Exactly. NES that's come out. I've got a Lego Optimus prime back here for transformers, you know, all that kind of stuff. So with what's been really interesting is this kidault or whatever, however, call it. And I think that's really fascinating, because if we think about Lego as a toy, we are rapidly approaching the age where we might have three generations of people that have grown up with Lego. Lego first came around in the very late ‘60s, early '70s. And so it's not inconceivable that you might have three generations that had Lego as a child, especially if you grew up in Denmark. A little bit different when it would come to the rest of Europe as they expanded out. So I get to this point, and I'm getting into Lego and doing all this sort of stuff. Andrew Webb: And then, of course, COVID happens and then lockdown happens and we all think the world's going to end and no one knows. Everyone's looking for hobbies, aren't they? They say you were either hunk, drunk or chunk after lockdown. You either got fit, got fat or got alcoholic. So try to avoid those three things. And, you know, everyone's looking for stuff to do, so you have so much banana bread you can bake. And so I stupidly, with my daughter's help, decided to make the Lego Sutton Hoo helmet, the 1500 year old Sutton Hoo helmet found at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, now in the British Museum. Out of Lego, as you do. Paul Marden: I mean, just exactly. Just as you do. So just a slight segue. I was at the National Attractions Marketing Conference yesterday and there were two people presenting who both talked about their experiences of wacky things that they did during lockdown. There was one person that opened a theatre in her back garden and had various different stars just randomly turn up in her backyard up in North Yorkshire. And you choose to build a Lego Sutton Hoo helmet.Andrew Webb: Lockdown, there will be a time, I think, as we look back, tragic though it was, and, you know, a lot of people died, but it was that moment when society sort of shuffled around a bit and people sort of thought, “Well, if I don't do it now, why not?” People were launching bakeries in their kitchens and serving their community and like. And that element of it. And so people have that. The good side of that, I suppose, is that people did find new outlets of creativity. And Joe Wick's yoga class is in their front row walking groups, you know, all this sort of stuff and beating beaten horsemans and learning to play the violin and dust and stuff. Suddenly we all had to find hobbies because we're all just in. Andrew Webb: No one was going to restaurants, no one's going to bars, no one's going to gigs, nightclubs, theatres. We like to make entertainment at home. It was like the middle ages. So I decided to build the Lego Sutton Hoo helmet, as you do. And so I start this in lockdown, and then, like, I get wind that Netflix is making a film called The Dig. And The Dig is all about, I think it's Lily James and Ray Fiennes in it, and it's all those other people. And it's all about when they found theSutton Hoo helmet. And the guy who found it was called Basil Brown, and he was asked by Edith Pretty, who owned the land, to excavate these humps in the ground that were on her estate. Paul Marden: Okay, so she owns this big estate, in Suffolk, right? And, so she can clearly see there's burial mounds in the back garden, but doesn't know what's in them. Doesn't have any clue that there's treasure locked up inside this. Andrew Webb: I'm not even sure she knew there were anglo saxon burial maps since it was. Paul Marden: They were just lumps of ground in the garden. Andrew Webb: Yeah. I mean, she may have had inkling and other stuff I've turned up over the years and whatever. And some of them were robbed sort of georgian times around then. So some people knew what they were and they were somewhere excavated and gold was taken to fund the polynomial wars and whatnot. But she asked Basil Branson, he was like an amateur archaeologist, right? And so he was just like this local guy would cycle over and do. And the film goes into all that, and the film kind of portrays it as working class. Basil Brown should know his place against the sort of British Museum who are sort of the baddies in this film who think they know what. And of course, this is all set against the backdrop of war. So they escalated it all, then they had to rebury it. Andrew Webb: And then it was used as a tank training ground, so lots of tanks rolled over it. So it's a miracle anything was ever found. But when he did find the Sutton Hoo, who told me and a bunch of other things, clasp brooches, shields, weapons and whatever, when he did find it, so people think it kind of popped out the ground as a helmet, but it didn't. And if you look at the photos, it came out the ground in hundreds of pieces. Paul Marden: Oh, really? So you look at this reconstructed mask that's now in the British Museum, and you think, “Oh, so they just found that in one piece,” lifted out as if it was a Lego hat, you know, for a minifig. In one piece? No, not at all. Andrew Webb: It was actually more like a big parlour Lego in the fact that it was just in hundreds of thousands of pieces. And so there was the first guy to have a go at it was an elderly architect at the British Museum who was, I think, blind in one eye. And he had a go at putting it all together. And he used an armature and clay and pins and whatever, put it all together and said, “Yes, I think it was this.” And then actually it wasn't. He got it all wrong. Lots of different pieces after some more research, and then it falls to this. Nigel Williams is another sub architect, and he was famous for. Andrew Webb: There was a famous Portland vase that was broken in a museum by someone pushing it over as a sort of what you might call, like a just stop oil type of protest now, I can't remember what the call was, but someone smashed an exhibit. And he had painstakingly pieced all this together. He was a total dapper dude. Three piece suit, Chelsea boots, proper swinging sixties, and he had to go and put it all together. His version is the one that's in the British Museum, but he was a massive jigsaw fan. And if you think about Lego, what it is a 3d jigsaw. You get a bunch of pieces and you have to make. Make it into a 3d sculpture. So that was one reason, the dig was the other reason. Andrew Webb: The third reason was that the relationship between East Anglia and essentially Denmark and Billand and Anglo Saxon and Jutland and all that area, I'm talking like Vikings and Anglo Saxons and invasions and all this kind of stuff against the native British, there is essentially a relationship between East Anglia, a trade relationship and a conquest relationship between them. So I built this thing and I frantically put it together and I'm late nights and just losing my marbles trying to get this thing to work. Because Lego is not designed to make, like, spherical shapes, necessarily. It's quite blocky. Right. Everyone knows this. It's the square. Paul Marden: Really easy to make a car, really easy to make a house. A spaceship. Andrew Webb: Houses. Brilliant. Yeah. Square stuff is fantastic. But baking, not only a sort of a semicircle, but a hemisphere, which is what essentially a helmet is. Is even harder because you have to get the Lego to bend in two directions. And so a lot of work went into that just to get the actual face piece came together quite easy. And there was once I had the scale of the pieces under the eyes that formed that sort of thing, and then I could build the nose and face. Ideally, it was going to be so that I could put it on my head. I've actually got a massive head. So in the end, I had to realign that and sort of make it into this sort of child sized head. Paul Marden: But it's a wearable thing, right? Andrew Webb: It is. It is wearable. I mean, at one point, it was probably more fragile than the one in the British Museum because it just kept dropping to pieces. So there's a lot of sub plates that are holding together the outer plate. So it's actually sort of. So just quick Lego terminology here. So bricks, obviously are bricks. The flat things with bubbles on are called plates and then the smoother ones are called tiles. Okay. And used a combination of these to create. There's also a technique called SNOT, which stands for Studs Not On Top. We love acronyms in the Lego community. Right? Paul Marden: Completely.Andrew Webb:  So if you say, “Oh, man, I'm an AFOL covered in SNOT,” people know what you want to know what you mean. So after a night in the tiles, I got covered. Yeah. Andrew Webb: Anyway, so I make the helmet, I make the thing, and then, you know, I get a lot of support from the National Trust, specifically East of England National Trust and Sutton, who site itself because it's there. It's their crown jewels. The British Museum, not so much, because they was like, we've got a billion exhibits here. No, it's just one of them. When you've got the Tippecar moon and the Rosetta stone, it kind of pales into significant. But actually, they were helpful. And one of the curators there, who was on Twitter, who sent me a link to some 3d photos, because if you. If you google it's all pictures at the front. That's fantastic. But what does the back look like? Paul Marden: Oh, right, okay. Andrew Webb: So actually, buried deep in the British Museum's website, in their research department, under a filing cabinet, in the back of a server somewhere, are some quite technical photographic images of it, turning every sort of 30 degrees so that. That it's documented as to what it looks. Because you got to remember that everything on the helmet is symbolic of various different things. There is symbols that mean there's a guy on a horse who's sort of fighting and all this sort of stuff. And it all has quite a lot of meaning. I can occur from different parts of history as well. So there's some sort of roman influencing things there and symbols. And so this whole thing is designed to be not only a battle helmet, but it is also because, remember, crowns haven't been invented yet. Crowns are a later mediaeval sort of invention. Andrew Webb: So this is both a symbol of authority, headwear, like a crown, but also a weapon or a piece of defensive armour and equipment. So it has several functions in its life. So it's quite a complex piece of equipment, that this symbol of authority. So I make all this and then I also submit it to a thing called Lego Ideas. So Lego Ideas is a fantastic programme where anybody in the world, members of the public, can submit Lego Ideas, right? And they go onto a website. There's certain criteria, they have to meet a certain checklist, but then the rest of the public can vote for them. So, I mean, if Taylor Swift just stuck together a load of blocks and said, “Vote for this,” she probably hit the 10,000 threshold instantly. Andrew Webb: But I'm not sure Lego would necessarily take that forward as a build. So there is a judging panel that. But actually, some of the most recent really fantastic sets have come out of Lego Ideas. Members of the public, and they're designing things that the Lego designers wouldn't have thought of themselves. So I think that's been kind of interesting. Sadly, Paul, we didn't make the 10,000 threshold. We did a lot of media coverage. By then, lockdown was over and were sort of getting back to our lives and all this sort of stuff. And my daughter was entering her dark ages. And so it sat in my studio for another sort of year and a half and I thought, “What am I going to do with this?” And so in the end, I thought, “Well, you know what? It's gathering dust here. I'm fed up with it, dustin it.”Andrew Webb: And so I actually approached Josh Ward at the National Trust at Sutton Hoo, who has been a fantastic advocate for Lego and for this particular project, and I have to thank him immensely for that. And they got some money and some funding to build a cabinet and also to house it. So I donated it to National Trust and it is now on display there as part of their firmament of interpretational trail. Paul Marden: That must feel pretty good fow you. Andrew Webb: Yeah, it is quite good looking in there and watching kids go, “Wow.” Because Lego is one of those things instantly recognisable for kids. But certain hill as a site is quite complex for children to contextualise because essentially it's several mounds in the ground. And the helmet itself is at the British Museum. Right. They've got a replica built by the royal armouries. There were several of those. They've got those. They have loads of dress up, they have great explainers and videos and they do a lot of work to show the size and shape and things as a cast iron sculpture, to represent the boat, to show just how big it was when it was pulled up from the sea, because he's buried in a boat. So do a lot of that work, sort of that sort of work as well. Andrew Webb: But having this extra funding in the. They opened up Edith's pretty's house now, and having this room where we've got some other things as well, like crayons and paper and other tools and drawings and colouring in and Lego and big chest of Lego just helps, particularly smaller children who, by the time they've walked from the car park around the site, and it has probably flagged it a little bit. And so just providing that little support for them, it's been a fantastic way to contextualise and another way to interpret that. And I think more and more venues could look into that. When you think, well, how else can we add stuff, particularly for children to help tell the story of this place? Paul Marden: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. We went to. It was half term last week and went to the City Museum in Winchester. So they've got some mediaeval, they've got some Roman finds there, and there was lots of fun, but they had. It was full of lots of ways for kids to engage, so there was trails to go around, there was colouring in, make your own mediaeval shield. And all of these things are ways that, you know, my ten year old could engage with it because there's only so many glass cabinets of stuff dug up from the ground that she actually wants to look at. Andrew Webb: I mean, I love. I love pit rivers, right, in Oxford, my favourite museum. Paul Marden: It's crazy, isn't it? I love it. Andrew Webb: But basically, he just went around the world nicking stuff. Right, but as a collection of objects, It's fantastic. Paul Marden: It's deeply unnerving. Andrew Webb: Sorry, sorry if any pit rivers curators are listening there, nick, and stuff about it, but, it is my favourite museum because it's just for kids. It's probably really kind of like, how do you tell that story? I also think there was an article in the garden recently that, you know, the cost of living crisis as well. Parents are looking for value solutions now and so I think it wasn't Peppa Pig World, it was Paddington World. And a family ticket is 170 pounds. That is a huge dent in the family finances for a 70 minutes experience. If you are watching the pennies, if you can afford that and save up for it, whatever. And I know these things are, you know, memory making and all that sort of stuff, and I've been to Harry Potter with my daughter. Andrew Webb: That is not cheap, but it's a fantastic day out because once you're in, you spend the whole day there. If you take a packed lunch, you can save a lot of money on that, on the thing. But I suppose what I'm saying is that, you know, our museums and galleries, particularly traditionally, the what you might call free spaces, public spaces, are facing unprecedented demand in terms of parents looking for cost effective value days out, as well as funding being cut from central government and that sort of. So they have to do a huge amount with less and less for a bigger audience. And that is a strain on any institution and things like that. Other examples of places that get this. Andrew Webb: So obviously with the Sutton Hoo helmet, the hold in Ipswich, which is Suffolk Council's kind of flagship museum in the county town of Ipswich, but instead of calling it, you know, the Museum of Suffolk, they've called it The Hold, which is a reference to the fact it's on, I think it's either because it's on the shore or it's doing sheep, I'm not sure anyway. But a fantastic space, contemporary modern space  had a Lego exhibition a few years ago, borrowed my helmet, had some Lego exhibition stuff to do. And the good thing about that is when these teams have to do quite a lot of comms marketing and, you know, that has a cost as well, but often you see different demographics than perhaps would normally go to a stones and bones museum, if you know what I mean. Right. Andrew Webb: You'll see that it makes it more accessible to the community and to different people who don't like going and looking at the Magna Carta or whatever. For some kids, a day at the British Library is fantastic. Look at all these old books for more, maybe more boisterous children. That's probably not a really great idea. So I think galleries can take a leaf out of this and think, or museums or any institution really can take a leap out of this and think, “How can we do more for less? And what tools can we have that perhaps we haven't considered before, like Lego, as a way to open up our interpretation and our offering?” So this could work in Museum of Docklands, for example. This could work in the royal armouries. Andrew Webb: There's lots of places where if you looking to improve your children's offering that some form of lego, I mean, it ends up all over the floor, it ends up being taken away. Sometimes you've got to watch out for things like that. But that's why I always recommend, like, just the basic blocks and plates, not minifigures and stuff like that, because, you know, they just end up in kids' pockets and trousers. But I do think it is a fantastic tool for developing that interpretation piece. Paul Marden: So I run a coding club using Lego. Okay. So I work with years four, five and six, typically. And we normally start off by the end of two terms, we will be building robotics, programming things, doing amazing things. But we start at the very beginning with just open up a box, and it is amazing what a bunch of seven, eight and nine year olds can do with a two by four red brick just given bricks. Yeah. And they will build amazing things. Yeah. And they will tell you amazing stories. And you also see real diversity in the behaviours of children, because some children, in that free play context, they do not have the skills to do that. And I had one girl recently who hasn't played with Lego, and free play just blew her mind, and she was in tears because she couldn't embrace the creativity of it.Paul Marden: But then the following week, when we were following instructions, she was great at building from a set of instructions, You can do that from a limited palette and give them a mission. Sutton Hoo, build a, I don't know, a sword, build a shield, build something to interpret what you have seen. You're in the transport museum. Build, build. How did you get to the museum this morning? Give them something to do and then let them go. And half an hour later, you will be amazed by what they will have built. Andrew Webb: I actually did something this at the National Archives down in Kew, where they had a kids exhibition. Well, an exhibition in the summer about wacky inventions, because obviously the National Archives holds the patents for all these things, and they've got things like Victorian top hats with umbrellas in, and, you know, all this kind of crazy Heath Robinson style stuff that, you know, forks with four sets of tines, so you can eat four times as much. It just bonkers. Really interesting things. The curators had gone through and found this wacky world, sort of. What's his name? The guy that illustrates Roald Dahl. They got illustrations and all that. Paul Marden: Quentin Blake. Andrew Webb: Yeah, Quentin Blake, yeah. So they had this Quentin Blake sort of stuff, and, like, there was activities. And I came down for some special stuff because they had the first Lego brick patent in the UK. When it was first launched in the UK, 1963, I think it was. That's when they filed the patent. Paul Marden: And I bet. So that patent would be exactly the same as a two by four brick, now, won't it? Andrew Webb: The patent was for a one by four brick. Isometrically dawn. Just three diets. Just three views with what? It was a construction toy. And then the page. Sorry. And the address was just Railway Station Billund.  There wasn't like, just all the mail just went to the railway station in Billund just addressed for attention of Lego. And it's only like. I mean, it's not even a sheet of A4, It's a piece like this. And after it is something like a lamp that won't blow out on a thing, and before it's like some special kind of horse comb, but it's kind of this bonkers catalogue of just these things. But again, it was about, “Right. We did some work. The curators and interpreters looked, you know, had kids analyse the painting to think, what could it be? And look at the dates and structure. Look at that.” Andrew Webb: And then I came out and, like, did some Lego. So we did things like, who can build the longest bridge? Who can build the tallest tower out of a single colour? Those sorts of exercises. But then also the free play was build your own wacky invention. And kids are building automatically dog washers, where the dog ran on a thing and it scrubbed its back. And one kid built something that was like a thing for removing getting pips out of apples. It was just like this sort of like this crazy little tool. They like some sort of problem that he had. Andrew Webb: And I think what this also speaks to is developing those stem skills in children and adults and building that engineering, because I've also ran Lego workshops with explorers who I used to, I thought were between Cubs and scouts, but are actually after scouts. So I did this in my local town, here in Saffron Walden, and was like, “Oh, my God, these kids are like, 15, 16. They're not going to want to play Lego. Some of them are in my daughter's year at school, so. Hello, Amy.” And it was really interesting because we did a series of challenges with them. So the egg drop challenge, can you protect an egg and drop it from the floor? And can you build this and work together? Another good one is looker, runner, builder. Andrew Webb: So you give everybody two sets of the same bricks, and one person is the looker, one person is the runner, one person is the builder. So the looker can't touch, but he can tell the runner. The runner can't look at the model, he can only tell the builder, and the builder can't speak back. And so this is a really useful exercise. And I've done this with teams where, because this is exactly what businesses see, engineering will build a product. Sales or their marketing are like, what the hell is, you know, or whatever it might be. Paul Marden: It's that. It's that classic cartoon of a Swing, yeah. Andrew Webb: Yeah. So it's that, you know, this is what the brief said. Engineering interpreter does this. Marketing saw it. So it's a great tool for things like that. Especially when you put people like the C Suite or CEO's or leaders at the end, because all they're getting is the information and it. It's there and it's how to build communications. Because in life, the fluctuations reverse. A CEO says, “Let's do this.” And by the time it's cascaded down to engineering, who don't get a say, it's not at all what he imagined so, or they imagined so, it's. It's an interesting case of using tools like that. So I did that with these kids and it was fascinating because they're 14, 15, 16.Andrew Webb: A group of three girls won two out of the three challenges and probably could have won a third one if I felt that I couldn't award it to them again because it would just look weird. And they were smashing the looker runner builder thing. They were working together as a team, they were concentrating, they were solving problems, they were being creative, they took some time to prototype, they refined and iterated their design. They were doing all this sort of work. And it's brilliant because 15 year old girls don't often take engineering related STEM subjects at GCSE. Certainly, probably don't take them at a level and more than enough. And I think that I once interviewed Eben Upton, who invented Raspberry Pi, and he said, “We think about the eighties as this sort of like golden age of computing, but actually it was terrible. It was terrible for diversity, it was terrible for inclusion.“Andrew Webb: And he said, “Like growing up, there was one other kid in his town that had a computer, you know, so there was no sort of way to sort of getting other people involved and make this accessible.” And part of the reason now computers have got smaller. Some of the work I did at Pytop was like trying to make technology more accessible and seeing it not just video games and things like that, but actually I can use this in a fashion show, or I can make music, or I can use this to power some lights to do a theatre production, and trying to bring the, I guess, the creative arts into technology. And that's when we start to see the interest application of technology. Andrew Webb: And Lego plays a part in that, in the fact that it is a tool, a rapid prototyping tool that everybody is familiar with. And it is also, you know, clean, safe. There's no, you don't need blow torches and saws and those sorts of things to kind of prototype anything. You don't even need a pair of scissors, you know, it's completely tool free, unless you're using that little mini separator to get your bricks apart. And so I think that just circle back on, like, how the Science Museum or what's the one down there? Isabel Kingdom Brunel Museum and things like that. I can see those guys could be and should be thinking about, “How could we have a Lego programme?“Andrew Webb: You don't have to have a permanent deployment like they've got at Sutton Hoo although that is great because they've got the mast there as the head piece of it. But certainly a programme of events or summer camps or summer events, because I did this with English Heritage at Kenilworth Castle as well. They were having, like, a big Lego build and the public were invited in 15-minute shifts into a big marquee and everyone got given a tile. And the idea was to build the gardens because the gardens at Kenilworth Castle were laid out to impress Elizabeth the first. And so everybody got there was like bunches of stuff and regular bricks, also flowers and this sort of stuff. And it was like, “Come on, we've got to build something to impress a queen.” Andrew Webb: He said to kids, like, “Yeah, you've got to impress. Bling it up, like, dial it to ten.” And were just getting these enormous, like, avatar sized trees with just incredible bits hanging off it. And like, “There she has a teapot because she might want a cup of tea.” And you're like, “Brilliant, excellent. Of course she does.”  And so I think that. And then they moved through. Some of the Legos were selected to be displayed and things like that. So there's different ways you can do it. You can either do it as like. And I'm a big fan of the drop in sessions because kids and parents can just naturally build it into their day rather than the pre built. My child was. We were rubbish at, like, organising things. Andrew Webb: People like, “Oh, great. Half term, it's a chocolate thing, sold out ". And you're like, yeah, because there's 30 spaces for three and a half thousand kids who want to do it. Whereas if it's like a walkthrough or a. In groups phase through and then the activity, small kids kind of conk out after about 20 minutes, half an hour anyway. You get much more people through and much more people get to enjoy the experience rather than the 30 organised people who got up early and booked. So that's my other top tip to any institution, because it's heavily weather dependent as well. Sun comes out, everyone piles pass into the nearest sort of stately home, national attraction. All of those places can definitely benefit English Heritage. Did a really big push this half term, just gone on Lego at several events. Andrew Webb: We had one here at Audley End, there was one at Kenilworth that I was at. There's been pairs of the ones all around the country, because again, you just need a marquee, which most venues have access to because they use them for other things or some sort of space in case it rains. And you just see someone like me and a whole massive tub of Lego and you're off to the races. Paul Marden: Exactly. So we were talking about this at the conference yesterday about ways in which. So for many attractions, people turning up is a literal flip of a coin. Is the weather good or is the weather bad? What can you do to adapt your attraction to be able to deal with when it's bad? And then what can you do to bring people when you have made that adaptation? So, you know, you've now got a marquee and you have a Lego exhibit that you can put into there. So it's just dumping a pile of Lego and a bunch of well trained volunteers or visitor experienced people who can facilitate that, police it, little Johnny sticking minifigs in his pocket. Paul Marden: And then you turn on your Google Adwords and show that you've got this, you know, bad weather reason to go to a stately home that my daughter would turn her nose up to all of a sudden, “Okay, we're going to go and do that. We're going to go and have afternoon tea and you're going to go and play with some Lego and see some animals, maybe.” Yeah, what can you do to attract that extra audience and adapt to the bad weather and service different sorts of people? Andrew Webb: I think that comes down to a bear in mind. I convert some of my Lego lens rather than a venue lens. But I think speaking as a parent and someone who does this is you need a reason to go back to somewhere that you already know. Okay, so you go to Stonehenge, you go and look at the stones, you go, “Wow.” You look at the visitor centre and then it's ticked off. I mean, you see busloads of tourists. Stonehenge is at Cambridge, maybe, or Oxford people, when people do England, Lambeth, Heathrow, London Crown Jewels, Tower Bridge, West End, day trip out on a coach to Stonehenge, maybe to Cambridge, and that's it, off to Paris. Right? So parents like British people like that too. Like why go to Stonehenge four times a year? Or why go to any venue when you're familiar with it? Andrew Webb: It's always about offering something new and something different. Audley End up near where I live, I think, is English Heritage. All through July, every Sunday, they're just doing music. So there's a string quartet or someone with a harp or maybe someone with a guitar or whatever. And you've got a book, but it's. It's not like there's 30 places and it's a bonfight. It's just like, “Oh, wow, they've done something different.” They do a really great thing. Like, they do victorian falconry, for example. So they get someone in who talks about how Victorians use falconry for hunting as a sport, but also for the kitchen table, and they're flying falcons around and doing the whole bit of meat on a string and all this sort of stuff. And everyone, like, “They do a world war two one.”Andrew Webb: I mean, the editorial calendar for any venue's got to look like, “Go and make Christmas food. January, we're closed to kind of dust and clean everything. Valentine's Day, chocolate make you put. It's daffodils”, it's whatever it might be. And then you just build that. Build that programme in and you need. This is why I think that venues now, again, I'll just come back to that. You talk about AdWords, but that, again, is more spend. It's like, how'd you build that mail list? How do you drop into the local Facebook groups and Mumsnet and all that kind of stuff? You know, that's where you can do it organically rather than. Because people don't sit in front of Google necessarily, or think, like, what should we do? Paul Marden: You sit on the sofa on a Thursday night trying to figure out what on earth are we going to do this weekend? Yeah, so you're completely right. The mum's net, the content marketing, is hugely important, isn't it? Andrew Webb: Which is my job. But also it's kind of like how can institutions become part of that? When I say community, if you think about most people travel a thin hour to go somewhere. I mean, people go further afield, you know, but. But basically it's like, what? My mom turns, like, a tea and a pee. So you've got to go somewhere. You've got to have a cup of tea, visit the loos. It's all about tea. It's all about canteens and loos, basically. You could have a World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage site. And it's like, how good's the caf? And are the toilets clean? Yeah, that's what people remember. Gar went hens at dawn. I was awed by the majestic. But that Looney D cleaning, you know, it's not good. It's all that people come home with. Andrew Webb: So, you know, institutions go into place that they are trying to offer different things. Like late nights. We've talked about that. How can we use this space after hours? Because if you think about it, if your institution's open 10 till 6, most people are at work five days a week, you're gonna have students and pensioners who are gonna be not great spenders, either of those two groups. So, late nights, I went to a great one in the National Gallery when the James Bond film. I was kind of sitting royale or whatever. He's still on the top of the National Gallery overlooking Trafalgar Square, and they've got the national dining rooms there and they had Vesper Martini, everyone got a cocktail. Andrew Webb: And then went to look at the fighting Temeraire, which is the bit where he's standing with Q, the new Q, who voices Paddington, whose name escapes me and gives him, like, a gun and a radio, but they're like the fighting Temeraire by Turner is this little thing. And so, you know, you've got to make hay out of that, right? You've got to sort of, like, do a late night, various ones. And so all it was a few cocktails in the cafe next door and are taught by the curator and stuff like that. But 30 people just looking for an experience. And so if venues are clever, of course, the dark side of this is when you get Willy Wonka world up in Scotland. Andrew Webb: Or interestingly, some of the Lego events that have been happening at NEC have caused a massive online backslash in the community for just being exceptionally bad value for money. And so you read about these things that people have said, “Come and visit Santa's grotto, and it's just a muddy field with a tree in it,” so you've got to be careful. But I think those events, those sort of fly by night kind of institutions, don't really work. But how galleries can leverage the creativity of what they're doing? Whether they are come and paint in our, you know, our local gallery, come and have an art class, come and do that. People are looking for stuff to do that is value for money. That isn't always drink lead, you know, it's not always cocktail making or things like that. Andrew Webb: And that comes with a whole heap of other things and dietary requirements for cookery courses and just clean up and the mess and all that kind of stuff. So I think that, yeah, canning organisations, the ones that can really think about that, and I'm happy to help organisations who want to think about this, especially through the life of Lego. They will be the ones that will start to add and build out and develop their. What you might term this whole sector needs a name. The kind of extracurricular offering, we might say, above and beyond their collection and then their traditional interpretation and if they're. Paul Marden: Thinking of doing this. So there's a good why. Yeah, the why is you can reach diverse audiences, helps people with interpretation. Andrew Webb: Quite cheap. Paul Marden: Yeah, absolutely. It's a cheap way of extending your offering and diversifying what you do. You can bring in event elements to this, but how do they do it? Apart from engaging with somebody like you? And I'm going to guess there's not many people like you. So that's going to be a tricky thing for some people to do. But if they were starting from scratch, how would they go about doing this? You said earlier, “Don't go mad with buying the bricks and spending a fortune on.”Andrew Webb: There are people like me that can do all this as well as myself. I think that the first thing is plan it. Plan what you need to do. You can't throw this stuff together. You might be looking at. Already the hold have been contacting me for a late night they're doing in September. They contacted me April. Paul Marden: Okay. Andrew Webb: Because if you're a creator, you're planning exhibitions, you are thinking on that long term cycle. Paul Marden: Yeah, completely. Andrew Webb: And so what you need to do is bake this in as part of that curational process or part of the interpretation of things at the start, rather than like, “Right, we're doing exhibit on Peter Rabbit, let's chuck in a load of fluffy bunnies or whatever.” You know, it's got to be. You've got to think about it and have it contextualised. I think the best things are. What success looks like is, first of all, you need a space. Now you can hire a marquee that comes with a cost. If you're a venue and you've got your own or you've got a hall or a stables or interpretational room or something like that, often spaces, specifically bigger ones, will have classroom spaces for school groups anyway. So that's often that can be where you can host these sorts of events. Kids are very familiar. Andrew Webb: The chairs are all small wall colour, you know, etc. Industrial strength carpet in case stuff gets built. So locations like where you're going to stage this? Paul Marden: Yeah. Andrew Webb: Secondly, I think you need to think about, what do we want people to do? What is the experience? What is the narrative piece? Because you can't just say, here's a big part of Lego. Kids will just build cars and houses, right? You know, they need context. You know, if you give a kid a sheet of paper, you could draw anything. They're like, well, what? And so you need to give them a mission almost. They need a task, I think. Also think about, as I said before, keeping the tasks around 20 minutes, because actually adding the time running out jeopardy element is quite fun for kids because they'll go, “Well, I've only got five minutes left.” And often that's when it all falls apart and then they have to iterate the design. Andrew Webb: So think about that kind of moving people through in 15 to 20 minutes cycles. We had kids at Kenilworth, that would go out the exit and just walk back around and come in the front like that. Like four or five times. One boy came in, he was loving it. So think about that. Think about how you're going to move people through the space. Think about what you need to envisage it. So the Kenilworth, for example, there was me hosting it from dawn toward dusk. We had another builder there who was helping take break it all down and put them against the model that we built. There were two members of staff who were letting people through, so just monitoring it from an entry exit point of view, walkie talkies, in case people had issues and things like that. Andrew Webb: And think about when you're going to do it. Okay, so half term is a good one. It's a good thing to do. We saw a lot of this at Kenilworth, but I've seen other places as well, particularly half terms and things like that. You often see grandparents caring for grandchildren, right? Because parents are at work and grandparents can only walk around the site so much before they want to sit down. So sometimes have it, like, think about where they can. And when I was at Kenilworth, grandparents came in with their two grandkids, and the kids started playing and I was like, you could join in, too. Oh, no, I don't want it. You know, they were almost like, “I can't do this. It's like, come on, get in, get in. Come on, grandma. Come on. I'll show you how it works. “Andrew Webb: By the end of that session, they were memory making. I then took their photo with their phones, they'd have this sort of grandparent. But, you know, you always say it like, my grandfather taught me to fish. Like Sean Connery says in the hunt for red October. This sort of moment where sort of, it's a Hollywood trope that grandfather knowledge is sort of passed on type of thing. Right. And so you can see that where you could have this, almost either the reverse of that, of kids showing grandparents, but also they're all having this event outside of the parental unit. So it's a new type of experience. It adds value, it gets people to play with their grandkids. Paul Marden: Priceless. Andrew Webb: So I think that's kind of an interesting way. So think about when, think about where and think about what will be my three sort of tips for any institution looking to put this together. Paul Marden: You gave one the other day which I thought was priceless, which was, don't give them wheels. Andrew Webb: Oh, yes. Paul Marden: Don't include the wheels. Andrew Webb: Take the wheels out of any sets, unless you are the Transport Museum or the, you know, a car based museum, because kids will do wings as well. I'd probably suggest taking those out because kids have just built cars. Some kids have just built cars, you know, even if you give them a mission. Unless that is the mission. The other thing that I would think that venues could do as well as sort of all day events, because it's quite a time drain, you know, on staff and this sort of stuff, but it is a value. The other thing you can think about is one off evening events for adults. Yes, I've done this. I did this at my local add them shops. Bricks, beers and bubbles challenges supercompass teams. Think of it like a pub quiz with brick is the answer. Andrew Webb: So build me a thing that does that kind of thing. Teams all get together, you can race them, you can see who goes the furthest. You can do all this stuff. And the hold is what I'm doing at the hold in September. I did it at the hold a couple of years ago. And what was interesting was that we had quite diverse groups of adults. We had just couples who were clearly AFOLs and were like, “Yeah, I'm going to go to that.” We had a group of friends. One of them had just come back from years travelling and they didn't want to go sort of straight to the pub and just interrogate him about his travelling, whatever. Andrew Webb: They kind of like, “Well, we wanted something to do where we could have a beer and have a chat, but were doing something else whilst we're doing that.” And that's the joy of Lego. Your hands are doing the work and you're almost like the back of your brain is doing the work and you're like, “Oh, yeah, yeah. Before you kick them.” And the concentration levels are there and then you can kind of get into that state of flow. And so they were just having this lovely chat, had a beer, talking about stuff, but also memory making in terms of when he came back from his travelling. So I think that's really important. Andrew Webb: Did you know that this is your brain, right? And then your brain on Lego, there are 24 discrete skills that are happening in your brain. So Lego research this, things like fine motor skills, cognitive sort of thinking about things, future planning, my favourite emotional regulation that is not going, “Oh, my God, it's not working. And smashing all to pieces.” So I've seen this as well with children, is that when you give them a Lego, if you gave them jelly and a football, they'll all just. They're a high energy kind of things, right? And that's fine, great outdoors, kids want to burn off energy. Here's a load of balls. Go crazy, right? Or ball pits, trampolines, bouncy castles, those sorts of things. When you get on Lego, what actually happens is it's very hard to be anarchic, to use a wrong word, but a word. It's very hard to be anarchic with Lego because you can't really do it. Andrew Webb: And so you can get a group of kids together and they'll almost self invigilate. And at one point, I ran it at a local toy shop and the parents are all hanging about and like, “I've never seen them so quiet.” They were just in the state of flow. And so, I think, you know, again, back to the. Back to the explorers and the scouts, that was one of the best sessions that those kids had done as teenagers because the reason was they were given permission to play with Lego. They still had the muscle memory from when they were smaller children. They were solving. They weren't just being told to play with Lego, they were actually solving engineering challenges. How can you design a bridge that will take this weight? How can you protect an egg? How can you think about this? Andrew Webb: And so you need to think about the challenge and the what. You need to think about that, the where and you think about the when, as I said, and get those right. You can have a very exceptional visitor experience for not a huge amount of effort. It's not highly costly, it's not highly technical, it's just a bit of elbow grease and a bit of forward thinking in terms of what we might need. And I think that parents appreciate just that minute away where they can. It's almost like a 20 minute babysitter, right, where they can just go, “Don't touch that.” You know, you're walking around a stately home, “Don't sit there, don't touch. Mind the lady.” All that kind of no data that parents give out institutions, they can just take a breather and check their phones and whatever. Paul Marden: And the kids are just having an amazing time. Andrew Webb: Yeah. And the kids are happy. And at the end of the day, as a parent, we all do our best and you just want, you know, them to be playing with something screen free, getting along and learning something. And, you know, that is the win. That is the ultimate takeout. You can layer on your own institution in context and rev up the visitor experience, bring in new visitors, attract a more diverse group of people that perhaps wouldn't normally come to a Regency Rococo style villa or whatever it might be, then that's all to the better, because, you know, you can start to use this in your planning and you can do what Suntton Hoo did? And go, right, well, we've done this and it's really worked. Andrew Webb: And then I can apply for funding for it and I can expand and I can make it permanent and then I can sort of say, well, this now becomes a tool and a string and arbo for our educational. It doesn't have to be split between visitor attractions and development. It can, you know, you can split it between several parts of the institution and use it in different ways, use it for educational purposes as well as visitor experience. So the world's your oyster with a bit of thinking. Paul Marden: With a bit of Lego and a bit of thinking. Andrew Webb: Bit of Lego, yeah. A few bricks and a couple of tricks and you're off to the races. Paul Marden: Andrew, this has been brilliant. Thank you ever so much. Andrew Webb: You're welcome. Paul Marden: I've got one more question for you before we finish. Now, you bottled this earlier on when I said we always have a book recommendation from our guests. And in spite of having the fullest bookshelf I've seen in quite a long time, you've bottled it on a book. But you did offer me a favourite movie. And so what would be your movie recommendation of choice? Andrew Webb: My go to movie would probably be Withnail and I, Richard E. Grant's first film. Every line has came down from God on a tablet. I mean, it is just. Yeah. Richard Griffiths as Uncle Monty, Paul McGann. It's just one of my favourite films and, you know, cult classic that no one's really. Well, people have heard of it now, but again, they even make stuff out with Alan Eyright. So you can go and watch a screening of it at the farm at Crow Crag up in Penrith, you know, and everyone dresses up and everyone comes with Mister blathering sets tea and I come on holiday by mistake and Jessie says, Danny. Andrew Webb: And, you know, fortunately, for better or for worse, I know these are tough times, but people try and find the fun in things. They try and at the end of the day, everyone's looking for a good time, whether we're children or an adult. You want something to just have a laugh and take you away for a moment. And if films and culture but also experiences can do that, then that's all for the good. Paul Marden: Well, look, this is going to be a challenge, but listeners, if you would like a copy of Andrew's film recommendation, then when we release the show message on X, if you can retweet that and say, “Give me Andrew's movie”, then the first person that does that, somehow I will get the movie to you. It might be on VHS, it might be on DVD, but somehow we will get you a movie. Andrew Webb: I found a CD the other day from a bar I used to go to in Clapham in the noughties and late ‘90s. I said to my mate, look, I'm great, put it on. And I went, “I can't.” I haven't got a CD player anymore. I had to go dig through a box somewhere in the study to find a portable CD player that plugged into my computer that could. By the end of it, we're just laugh. Forget it. Paul Marden: Andrew, this has been wonderful. Thank you ever so much. Andrew Webb: You're welcome. Cheers. Paul Marden: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip The Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, SkiptheQueue.fm. The 2024 Visitor Attraction Website Survey is now LIVE! 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Welcome to this week's Bricking News podcast! LEGO House is dropping hints about its newest exclusive set, and rumor has it, Duplo pieces might be involved! Plus, the highly anticipated Dungeons and Dragons set from LEGO is almost here—get ready for some epic adventures. And if you've ever thought about enjoying a cold beer while building your LEGO masterpiece, you're not alone! Tune in for all this and more on this week's episode.Support on PATREON!!!Thank you, Patrons! - Bellefonte Bricks Studio, Ryan Moore, Franco Portelli,  Jimmy Tucker, Ryan S, DavidBuy the latest LEGO merchandise from the Back 2 Brick Wear Etsy Store!Set Review:  40725 Cherry BlossomsGoodwill find of a lifetimeD&D teasersets found earlynew LEGO House set teasedFortnite fishingLEGO building eventLEGO building a beerLEGO store in IdahoPolaroid winnersbase player and LEGOCapital Rex and Pick-a-BrickBIG R2-D2 - YOUTUBEAnimal Crossing is here!Support the showSee some of the designs I've built - REBRICKABLE.COMHead over to Back2brick.com for links to the latest LEGO set discounts!Support the podcast through our affiliate links AND join the Back 2 Brick Patreon!Have a question? Want to be a guest? Send me a message!backtobrick@gmail.comBack 2 Brick Podcast is not an affiliate nor endorsed by the LEGO Group.LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. ©2023 The LEGO Group.

So lange wartete ich auf das neue Mittelalter-Set - und die Gerüchte bewahrheiteten sich: Es wird ein Mittelalterlicher Marktplatz. Entschuldigung. Stadtplatz. Ein großes Vorstellungsvideo gibt es davon von mir auf Youtube - doch in dem Podcast verarbeite ich noch mal die wichtigsten Punkte, Eckdaten - und rede differenziert über die Dinge, die man hätte besser machen können. Zudem wurde angekündigt, dass Markus Rollbühler das neue LEGO House Exklusiv Set designed hat, und dass dies am 29. Februar 2024 in Billund vorgestellt wird. Doch was wird es? Was kostet es? Das klären wir im News-Podcast

Week one of the honeymoon has been fantastic! But I'm here to still keep you updated on the latest LEGO News!  Star Wars is celebrating in a big way starting in March, Ninjago has some FANTASTIC new builds, and the LEGO House has a brand new experience we all can enjoy! That and much more on this week's Honeymoon Bricking News!Support on PATREON!!!Thank you, Patrons! - Bellefonte Bricks Studio, Ryan Moore, Franco Portelli,  Jimmy Tucker, Ryan S, DavidBuy the latest LEGO merchandise from the Back 2 Brick Wear Etsy Store!Set Review: Will begin again after the honeymoon!Star Wars 25th anniversaryLEGO House Exclusive Set eventFebruary shopping listLargest airport storeCopyright PolicyPharrell life in LEGOLEGO House Build the Change ExperienceLove GWP boxJaws 2024HUGE LEGO Collection3-in-1 forest animalsStar Wars mystery MinifiguresMcLarenHarry Potter Brickheadz & Sorting HatSeniors and LEGO!Carousel RideMicro Rocket GWPNinjago 2024Support the showSee some of the designs I've built - REBRICKABLE.COMHead over to Back2brick.com for links to the latest LEGO set discounts!Support the podcast through our affiliate links AND join the Back 2 Brick Patreon!Have a question? Want to be a guest? Send me a message!backtobrick@gmail.comBack 2 Brick Podcast is not an affiliate nor endorsed by the LEGO Group.LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. ©2023 The LEGO Group.

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In this actual play we use the Monsterhearts 2 system by Buried without Ceremony.Dollywood has a Lego exhibit, that seems strange. Will our monsters find Dolly's dog or the Bureau?Cast FeaturingThirstmastered by Rick Taylor @hammpodLee Baldwin @lemonseed05 as Ladderick DrachmanJason Cassidy @dungeoneeringwithjason as PickmanAaryn Easton @evenfootinggames as Millicent RhodesRemick Palmer @remoftherealm as Thea MaloneSongs Guess Who and Night of Chaos by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicensePlease check out the charity fundraiser for Doctors without Borders Tiltify - TTRPGTok's MSF Charity DriveBabies and Broadswords: The Book with All the Rules and Crawl of Cthulhu are available on DriveThruRPG and AmazonSupport our work on Patreon or ko-fi.com/evenfootinggamesGet merch and find out more on our websiteFollow our Instagram @evenfootinggamesShare your ideas and adventures on DiscordListened to the show and loved it? Please rate and review, so it gets heard by more brilliant folks like you.Please note this season will contain explicit language, discussions of sex, consent and other adult topics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aufreger der Woche: Valve killt Counter-Strike auf dem Mac +++ Von wegen „Prime“: enttäuschende Deals auf Amazon // Neues aus Cupertino: Nicht viel passiert in Cupertino – findet 2023 noch ein Event statt? // Hörer:innen-Feedback: Sebastian ist krank – und hat noch das SQ-iPhone bei sich. Daher gibt es diese Episode kein Feedback, wohl aber eine Bitte: Wer die Mac Life 11/2023 bereits gelesen hat, nehme bitte an unserer Umfrage teil! // Hardware: Thomas ist in SQ223 zu Gast – und das heißt: Neues von Google! Thomas berichtet vom Chromebook Plus, Pixel 8, Pixel Watch 2 und mehr! +++ Sven beschallt die Äcker Schleswig-Holsteins mit den neuen Soundboks 4 +++ Demnächst in diesem Podcast: FYTA Pflanzensensor ausprobiert // Streaming & Gaming: Stefan war spielen und gewährt einen Einblick in das Lego House im dänischen Billund+++ Svens Tipp für das Wochenende: Last Exit Schinkenstraße // Danke fürs Zuhören. Abonniert „Schleifenquadrat“ gerne im Podcatcher eurer Wahl (außer Spotify), hinterlasst uns ein paar Sterne und kommentiert die Folge bei Apple Podcasts!

Zachary Steinman is a Lego sculptor. He takes Lego blocks and makes original creations with them, and he's received a fair amount of attention for his projects, measured by his almost 39,000 Instagram followers. Host Jeff Douglas spoke with Steinman about how his work is now on display at the Lego House in Denmark.

Futurist Bob Johansen describes our modern context with the acronym VUCA - volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. He goes on to explain, “Leaders will be buffeted, but they need not allow themselves to be overwhelmed, depressed, or immobilized.  Leaders must do more than just respond to the whirl of events, though respond they must.  They must be positive change agents in the midst of chaos.” That is our very aim, to liberate owners from chaos and make time for what matters most. Since 2008 virtually every business owner has thought, “when will the next recession come and how bad will it be?” Yours truly has wrestled with the same question during moments of emotional and mental weakness in my well-documented struggle with fear. Recently though I have wondered, “could I approach a market dip with enthusiasm and expectation rather than doom and gloom?” I believe so, here is what I mean. The lowcountry of South Carolina, where our family lives, has been on the receiving end of active hurricanes almost every year since 2016.  It is nice to believe that we can hurricane-proof our home.  The reality though is that the best we can possibly work towards is a thoughtfully hurricane-reinforced home.   I was in earthquake plagued Northern California a few weeks ago and saw first-hand the construction efforts of code enforcement mandating an over-engineering of residential spaces in an effort to thwart the devastation of an earthquake.  And yet, there could always be a scenario where the disaster-proofing is just not enough…but we can work to build up a healthy resistence. Even some well run businesses were knocked off of their foundations during the Great Recession.  In most cases, the businesses that were recession-reinforced were able to withstand. Here are a few non-negotiables to reinforce your business so that if a market dip comes you can go into the storm with expectation and anticipation instead of doom and gloom.  These are in no particular order. First, your Vision story is even more important than cash. Liquidity (accessible cash) is a delightful tool that we would all love to have in excess, but what is more crucial is vision.   In a market-storm debris usually gets thrown around and if your perspective is lost your course can get easily thrown off.   Ed Sheeran says in his song Lego House, “I think the braces are breaking…”  In a storm braces have a chance to break and equilibrium thrown for a bit.  While the storm is raging, and when the storm is complete it is both refreshing, comforting, and re-centering to know and have confidence in your heading.  Ship captains and airplane pilots would surely agree. The only way you can lead a team to run is to write the vision down (literally...write it down) and communicate it with incredible repetition.   Second, cash will offer buoyancy and give you options. In a typical room full of business owners if I had everyone raise their hand who could make it through three months of business with no revenue...not many would be able to respond.  The hurricanes here in the lowcountry exposed some businesses to the reality that they could not even survive one week of zero revenue generation let alone a few months of market correction. We recommend that businesses have an accessible stash of three to six months of cash reserve to live on under the assumption that no new revenue was generated.  This is not a move based on fear, but instead on wisdom. A decision based on fear (or greed) is to have two years of cash built up (unless maybe you are a farmer:).  Hoarding is not healthy either.  The likelihood of zero revenue is not very high in most industries.  If you have cash, you have options. One option is to float the entire business with no reduction of overhead, personnel, etc. Another option is to thoughtfully trim the business expense in line with the new revenue.  Obviously this is easier to do with a team of subcontractors verses a team of full time employees. The most exciting option is to have cash available to purchase other businesses at a discount.  Remember all of those hands in the room that would not go up?  Many of those represent good products that are simply poorly managed and can be revived by your leadership.  You may be able to purchase their business (assets, people, contracts, relationships, etc.) at a discount during a stormy market.  You cannot do that though if you do not have cash. The smoothest way to build cash that we have seen and exposed hundreds of business owners is to subdivide your bank accounts and metaphorically cut up each receivable that comes into your business so that every penny has a home immediately.  When you begin thoughtfully watching your money…your money magically begins to be used with intentionality.   A third tool of reinforcement are team meetings that ensure the right things will be communicated in the right way.   Having endured the geographical displacement of a few hurricanes now has helped train us on the importance of predictable communication channels. Obviously, our family is together so we are able to communicate in real-time and with frequency.  Our mayor has done a great job of communicating certain times where she would communicate to displaced citizens using social channels. Our local Sheriff would also hold regularly scheduled updates accessible to anyone anywhere. If you do not have a regular method and frequency of communication (i.e. - agenda-driven, leader-led, regularly set team meetings), then a market-storm will further exacerbate the irregularity, frustration, and unpredictability of a communication-challenged culture.  Don't wait for a market storm to communicate using team meetings, build that habit now. If you have clarity of knowing where your business is going (your vision), cash to keep you afloat (your fuel), and a reliable method of predictable communication (your lifeline) then your braces are less-likely to break and Ed Sheeran will be a musical companion during an opportunity rather than a prophet of doom through a storm.  

Ed is back from Billund, Denmark and has the details on Lego House.  TLDR: it's not just for kids! This week's epsiode is sponsored by NordVPN.  Both Ed and Richard use NordVPN.  Download NordVPN now and enjoy a 50% discount on an annual mobile subscription. Here's why Ed and Richard use NordVPN: Protects your privacy and blocks malicious websites. Helps you stream your favorite content (live sports, movies, etc) when you're traveling. Fastest VPN out there, connect in one click on desktop and mobile devices! Richard and Ed are also breaking down a listener follow-up question about Marriott versus Hyatt and how credit cards affect the award pricing for both chains.  And, they also discuss a scary story about a United flight that almost ended up in the ocean. If you're looking for a way to support the show, consider joining our Slack Community. You can support the show and purchase access below: Monthly access Annual access Personal consultation plus annual access We have witty, funny, sarcastic discussions about travel, for members only. My fellow travel experts are available to answer your questions and we host video chats multiple times per month. I appreciate your support! Don't forget that you can leave us a voicemail or text us at (571) 293-6659‬. Listen for your question on a future show! Shoot us an e-mail (ed@pizzainmotion.com) or you can tweet me and Richard if you have questions.

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Support on PATREON!!!Thank you Patrons! - Franco Portelli, Dylan Evans, Jimmy Tucker, Ryan S, David, Cam Russell & Derek GraeffLEGO Ideas - Vintage Transport AirshipThis week's news is a lot to take in, but it's worth it! LEGO video games are on the rise, and so many new players are ready to jump in and enjoy. Take a chance by buying your very own LEGO House in LEGOLAND California! The rumored UCS Venator Class Star Destroyer is going full-scale, baby; get ready for some shelves to be cleared! Then, recap SDCC and the fun had at the Brickbusters booth.SET REVIEW: 21057 - SingaporeAugust 1st shopping llistUpgrade for Pick-a-Brick2K Football (Soccer)new video game... BIG NAME'Love Island + LEGOrollin' rollin' downhill2K Creator hubChemical Romance lawsuitViking VillageBug controversySecond store in Ireland!Live in a LEGO House - Auction siteanother Dinsey MuralVenator Star DestroyerSDCC recapLEGO Masters seaon 4 trailerRasberry Pi Pac-man - InstagramHelp building Washington MonumentLEGO Discovery Center Shark Week!LEGO Movie updateLEGO Barbenheimer - LINKSupport the showHave a question? Want to be a guest? Send me a message!backtobrick@gmail.comCheck my pages outBack 2 Brick Links!Back 2 Brick Podcast is not an affiliate nor endorsed by the LEGO Group.LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. ©2023 The LEGO Group.

An innocent school fundraiser goes awry at Denmark's LEGO House thanks to 900 ANZAC biscuits and a family meltdown.

“Per me l'architettura è il mezzo, non il fine. È un mezzo per rendere possibili diverse forme di vita.” Bjarke Ingels. Insieme a Francesca Santambrogio, Head of Editorial Content di AD Italia, ripercorro in questa puntata l'eccezionale vicenda professionale di Bjarke Ingels, architetto danese, fondatore dello Studio BIG, conosciuto in tutto il mondo.

Support on PATREON!!!Thank you Patrons! - Dylan Evans, Jimmy Tucker, Ryan S, David, & Cam RussellSUPPORT MY BRICKLINK DESIGN! - Oscillating Desk Fan!AS promised…. our Inside Tour episode!  My wife, Danielle, was able to make time in her busy schedule to come onto the podcast to help me talk about our time in Billund!  To put it just a few words, it was phenomenal!  We had the time of our lives being surrounded by LEGO!  We had so much fun talking about our time in Billund and what an amazing experience it was. To get the chance to see behind-the-scenes, meet new people, and getting to experience the true pilgrimage to LEGO! Here is the website to see if YOU'D be interested for next year!LEGO House Inside TourTuesday:Arrive in Billund and enjoy LEGOLANDWednesday:First presentationsOle Kirk Christensen home tour and musuemLEGO VaultDinner with the designerBuild competitionThursday:PresentationsLEGO Factory TourLEGO Employee headquartersLEGO Employee storeFinal dinner and build contest winnersFriday:Final presentationTour of the LEGO HouseInside Tour exclusive setexploring the LEGO House From Secretary to CEOWelcome to "From Secretary to CEO", the podcast that takes you on a journey of personal...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Practicing Connection: Working together to help families and communities thrive.Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch host this exploration of personal and collective...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Teaching While Queer PodcastTeaching While Queer Podcast is a space for LGBTQIA+ educators, administrators, and...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showHave a question? Want to be a guest? Send me a message!backtobrick@gmail.comCheck my pages outBack 2 Brick Links!Back 2 Brick Podcast is not an affiliate nor endorsed by the LEGO Group.LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. ©2023 The LEGO Group.

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For this week's fun fact friday, you can learn about everyone's first and favorite modular building material Lego, and how in 2009 on man (with the help of corporate sponsors and a few thousand volunteers) built a livable house out of Lego complete with working plumbing.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

British singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran, has a new album, documentary, and just won a copyright infringement lawsuit. I cover all this counting down 11 hits from his 6 albums. Theme Song: "Dance Track", composed by Jessica Ann CatenaEd Sheeran: https://www.edsheeran.com/The Sum of It All documentary: https://ondisneyplus.disney.com/show/ed-sheeran-the-sum-of-it-allYouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/EdSheeran?hl=en-GB&gl=GBTop 11 playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5DoKXPNExsW4VSGbCGgECb?si=f3e71941a4634d6c11. “BLOW” feat. Chris Stapleton & Bruno Mars (2019)10. “Eyes Closed” (2023) 9. “Photograph” (2014-2015) 8. “Shape of You” (2017) 7. “Lego House” (2011-2012)6. “Perfect” & “Perfect (Duet) feat. Beyoncé (2017) 5. “Bad Habits” (2021) 4. “Castle on the Hill” (2017) 3. “Sing” (2014) 2. “Thinking Out Loud” (2014) 1. “The A Team” (2011-2012) Interviews:CBS Sunday Morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYuh-2kSpAc&pp=ygUdY2JzIHN1bmRheSBtb3JuaW5nIGVkIHNoZWVyYW4%3DGood Morning America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4rBxHg-AhAGMA Copyright Infringement breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0WrJl3UbWgRelated episodes: Ep. 10 - Taylor Swift Top 20: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/46399646Ep. 13 - Top 40 Songs of 2019 (Part 2): https://www.spreaker.com/episode/21365169Ep. 99 - Beyoncé Top 20: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/46376490Ep. 116 - Top 40 Songs of 2021 (Part 1): https://www.spreaker.com/episode/48124099Ep. 146 - Beyoncé's "BREAK MY SOUL": https://www.spreaker.com/episode/50758397Ep. 157 - Bruno Mars' 6 Diamond Songs: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/51580632Ep. 185 - Meghan Trainor Top 10: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/53690666Ep. 186 - ACMs 2023 Predictions: https://www.spreaker.com/user/jesscatena/ep-186-acm-awards-2023-predictions

Es ist eine gefühlte Ewigkeit her,  dass Chris und Lars sich erbarmt haben, Euch einen Podcast zu kredenzen. Aber hier ist mal wieder einer! Und dazu noch ein ganz feines Filetstück! Guten Appetit!  Show Notes Die angesprochene Doku zum Bau des LEGO House auf YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKC9CEk-aUI Mehr Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern findest Du hier: https://linktr.ee/spielwareninvestor http://www.Spielwaren-Investor.com Der Spielwaren Investor auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/der_spielwaren_investor/?hl=de Der Spielwaren Investor auf YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU6B66hnds2qgdewJPly_yg Der Bricklink Store der Augustin Brothers: https://store.bricklink.com/AugustinBrother#/shop Augustin Brothers auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/augustin.brothers/?hl=de

1. Give Me Love - 0:00:30 2. Drunk - 0:11:40 3. Homeless - 0:15:10 4. U.N.I. - 0:21:28 5. Grade 8 - 0:26:05 6. Small Bump - 0:31:54 7. The City - 0:36:43 8. This - 0:47:37 9. Be My Husband (Nina Simone Cover) - 0:52:11 10. Kiss Me - 1:04:29 11. Lego House - 1:10:53 Encore: 12. The A-Team - 1:16:16 13. Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol Cover Featuring Gary Lightbody) - 1:22:11 14. You Need Me, I Don't Need You (Featuring Devlin, Sway, Chip and Wretch 32) - 1:28:10 All uploads on this channel are for promotional purposes only! The music has been converted before uploading to prevent ripping and to protect the artist(s) and label(s). If you don't want your content here  please contact us immediately via email: allmusiclive@outlook.com and WE WILL REMOVE THE EPISODE IMMEDIATELY! 

1. Give Me Love - 0:00:30 2. Drunk - 0:11:40 3. Homeless - 0:15:10 4. U.N.I. - 0:21:28 5. Grade 8 - 0:26:05 6. Small Bump - 0:31:54 7. The City - 0:36:43 8. This - 0:47:37 9. Be My Husband (Nina Simone Cover) - 0:52:11 10. Kiss Me - 1:04:29 11. Lego House - 1:10:53 Encore: 12. The A Team - 1:16:16 13. Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol Cover Featuring Gary Lightbody) - 1:22:11 14. You Need Me, I Don't Need You (Featuring Devlin, Sway, Chip and Wretch 32) - 1:28:10 All uploads on this channel are for promotional purposes only! The music has been converted before uploading to prevent ripping and to protect the artist(s) and label(s). If you don't want your content here  please contact us immediately via email: allmusiclive@outlook.com and WE WILL REMOVE THE EPISODE IMMEDIATELY! 

Steven and Daniel are up this week to describe their awesome trip to Germany and Denmark! One of the main goals was to check out the LEGO(R) House in Billund, the birthplace of The LEGO(R) Group! They got to meet up with LEGO Master Boone Langston and he was able to get them a tour of the Ideas House, which is apparently invitation only! Have you ever been to Billund and the LEGO House? Do you plan on going one day? Let us know in the comments! Our Website: https://atlbrick.comPhone: 470-414-2208Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/atlbrick/Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/atlbrickco/?hl=en

Well, on vacation again.  This time in Key West so I do apologize for the audio! I'll make sure to travel less or with my microphone from now on.  LEGO had some fun reveals this week. A new exclusive. LEGO House set, an unexpected May Star Wars set, and the new Disney collectible minifigures. Great time to be an AFOL!Super star destroyerDisneys collectible minifiguresMarch setsDrive fast NASCARBTS sells outPirate minifigure tribute MAR10 dayBuilder's Journey milestoneSolar parkGringotts hintBAFTA awardsSubscribe to my Youtube Channel!Want some cool LEGO swag?  Head over to the Brick Monarch Shop!Use code back2brick10 to get a discount!Have a question? Want to be a guest? Send me a message!backtobrick@gmail.comCheck my pages outBack 2 Brick Links!Back 2 Brick Podcast is not an affiliate nor endorsed by the LEGO Group.LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. ©2023 The LEGO Group.

Afsnit 447. Kathrine Kirk Muff. Kathrine er direktør i LEGO House. LEGO House, Home of the brick, er en hyldest til den kreative leg og oplevelser for LEGO fans i alle aldre. Dagens afsnit foregår derfor naturligvis i LEGO House. Kathrine tager os igennem huset og viser alt fra det over 15 meter høje LEGO træ til det officielle LEGO Museum i kælderen. Kathrine har en lang historie hos LEGO og Kirk familien og på vores rejse igennem LEGO House fortæller hun om sin egen rejse hos LEGO. Gå fornøjelse, Christian.

On this episode we get our mitts on a pretty sharp LEGO Gift With Purchase (GWP) Tribute to LEGO House and discuss the price threshold and the value in the set.Enjoying the show...give us a like and comment on all platforms. Help us make the LEGO world available to all!Find us everywhere thanks to https://linktr.ee/thebrickskingLEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. ©2022 The LEGO Group.THE BRICKS KING PODCAST IS NOT ENDORSED BY THE LEGO GROUP OR AFFILIATED IN ANY WAY.

It has been a beautiful, winding road for Erin Laundry on a path paved by unique talent and boundless creativity. From her earliest days as a gifted musician bound for the Berklee College of Music, quickly swapping classical piano for guitar, majoring in songwriting and eventually, effortlessly, teaching herself the bass guitar, while, at one point, playing in five different bands at once - Erin has shown an ability to master new challenges. So, it's no surprise really that when she became a Mom and found a new family passion for LEGO, she would take it to new heights. Today, viewers around the world are following her as a top contestant on LEGO Masters, as she has successfully moved on to episode 5 of the Fox series. It's a powerful validation for Erin who looks forward to reopening her business, Bottomless Bricks, in her hometown of Pittsfield. In our conversation we dive deep into the time and investment she has made in truly mastering many elements of the LEGO universe. In this episode we also cover: The very beginning of Erin's LEGO fandom finding deals at tag sales and picking up LEGO bricks in bulk, LEGO'ers who follow the directions for new builds and those who build from scratch, LEGO sorting date nights, the evolution of the Bottomless Bricks business model from birthday parties to brick and mortar, the lingo of LEGO building and the names of pieces, it's LEGO not "Legos," minifigure trading, the Cloud City Boba Fett minifigure, why Erin named her son after a Star Wars character, "Brick and Brew" adult LEGO building events, succulent LEGO sets, the "Ladies LEGO Lounge" FB Group, gatekeeping and sometimes toxicity in traditional fan groups, the camaraderie among contestants on LEGO Masters, the grueling schedule of recorded episodes in March, Erin's musical background including punk bands and meeting her future husband at the former Siberian Cafe in the Howard Building, scoping out a new location for Bottomless Bricks, the pandemic halting the business in 2020, brainstorming a LEGO public art project in downtown Pittsfield (LEGOtacular?), Pittsfield's better than average connection to LEGO with Erin and Elizabeth Banks, voice of Wyldstyle in The LEGO Movie, LEGO knock-offs, the LEGO "system" and "clutch power," the deer behind the fence near the old GE Plastic House, the LEGO House in Copenhagen, following PR protocols for media interviews and the NDA for LEGO Masters and much more. I hope you'll enjoy my conversation with Erin Laundry. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-krol/support

On today's episode, BJ sits down with podcast returnee, Tim Klabunde, Director of Marketing and Principal of Timmons Group. Tim talks about his themed family vacations, his love for, and the rich history of his current city of Richmond, VA. Tim discusses the built environment of Richmond, it's influence on the city, and beyond!Resources mentioned:  “LEGO House, Home of the Brick” Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKC9CEk-aUIFind Timmons Group at: https://www.timmons.com/Connect with Tim on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timklabunde/Richmond Amphitheater Project https://www.nbc12.com/2022/07/14/proposed-outdoor-amphitheater-come-downtown-richmond/$323M surf pool-anchored development https://richmondbizsense.com/2022/08/26/chesterfield-approves-grant-agreement-for-323m-surf-pool-anchored-development/ Inspiring People and Places is brought to you by MCFA. Visit our website www.MCFAglobal.com and sign up for our weekly newsletter where we curate some of the top industry articles of the week and give you a dose of inspiration as you head into the weekend!   MCFA IS HIRING!!  If you or anyone you know are looking to work in the Planning, Project Development, Project Management, or Construction Management field, contact us through our website. Interns to Executives...we need great people to help us innovate and inspire, plan, develop and build our nation's infrastructure.  Check out our MUST FILL positions here https://mcfaglobal.com/careers/.  We reward the bold and the action oriented so if you don't see a position but think you are a fit...send us an email!   Learn more at www.MCFAGlobal.com Author: BJ Kraemer, MCFAKeywords: MCFA, Architecture, Construction, Engineering, Public Engineers, Military Engineers, United States Military Academy, Veteran Affairs, Development, Veteran, Military, SEC 

What about a task that doesn't have a sense of doing it well? You do it or you don't do it, like earning money, or getting that job, or buying a house? The only thing that's reinforced are tasks toward goal completion. What could I do today that would move me toward that goal? The  only question: is it moving toward my goal? If so, it's effective (or if not, not effective), rather than good or bad. For example, David venting about his paper to his friend helped him be on task, rather than not being on task and going out to eat at Burger King—it's still about the paper (it's still on task). How effective is it toward the task? More effective than going to Burger King and not talking or thinking about the paper at all. Long term goals are specifically hard for folx with ADHD because of the delay of gratification. The more you wait, the more you feel like you're failing. Neurotypical folx will read that waiting as normal or to be expected. Bobby names things like saving for retirement, saving for a house, paying off debt—the progress is so slow it feels so boring. David relies on his awesome neurotypical partner to save for a house by taking what they would pay for a mortgage every month and saving whatever that was on top of their rent (so if their Lego House rent was $10, and they wanted a $30 mortgage, they saved the extra $20 every month). Isabelle wonders if neurotypical shame spirals go as deep as neurodivergent ones—for example, David's goes to homelessness, and she notices that neurotypical folx notice how close they got the finish (like getting the brick at the bottom of the pool during swimming lessons), and factor that in, whereas for her it's the outcome that matters and she goes straight to everyone she loves is going to abandon her and ditch her. David names that he has a few shame spirals—for work, it's homelessness, for relationships—it's abandonment. This leads to black and white thinking, which is more than just worth mentioning, it's the difference between “not getting a snack” to “failure begets failure begets FAILURE…” And this extreme is dismissed so often, people don't get it. As a therapist you'd never say “it's not a big deal,” you're invalidating those feelings. What we ADHD folx feel, our level of intensity, is REAL—instead of “it shouldn't hurt that much,” it's “that's extremely frustrating.” Bobby is slurping all this data up, and taking the feels, and feeling them…and that's what you do. You acknowledge how intensely you're feeling them. Bobby sits in the role of “Novice EveryDay-er…Every Day Dude” (which is what it says on his nameplate). And not just acknowledging your feels, but acknowledging the intensity of how strongly you feel them. Feel the feeling, know it's more intense, or it might not be felt by other people. And do what you need to do to regulate—-as opposed to let it go. It's like telling someone with ADHD not to look at the ceiling (we all looked at the ceiling). Telling someone to fight something is not effective, it can go on forever in a power struggle. Isabelle describes that she prefers the phrase self-soothe to self-regulate, because it can be a pressure to return to masking and appearing as though you are neurotypical or ‘regular.' David is wondering if self-soothing is the task, actually—you might not be able to soothe or make the injury out of the way, and instead get grounded again. It's not about getting out of your ADHD mindstate, it's about lowering your hyper focus and lowering the pressure to act. David does this intermittent fast now and just got distracted about the food he wants to eat (schwarma)—he's not pretending he's going back to the point and instead is focusing on food and saying “Schwarma.” The group decides they will say “Schwarma” any time this happens, if they can remember, which Bobby reassures them he will. Isabelle then describes that she thinks Bobby circumvents working memory problems by using some of the rules of comedy, like callbacks, and then…she also loses the plot and goes back to telling her story. Isabelle describes fixations on movies or things across many genres and seems to do with what the movie makes her feel. She is reminded of one of her roommates in college who was a lovely person, but would fixate on one or two somewhat depressing emo songs and for Isabelle, she didn't like the emotional state it would generate. So she recognizes that she goes through fasts almost, of media that stirs up feelings because she gets so sucked in, so she avoids fiction and movies and music for a while. Then, it's like a switch flips, and she gets sucked in and rewatches things over and over again. Like the Netflix film “Tall Girl.” Because she is tall. And it hooked her (despite not being the best movie maybe, but she liked it). And she found time, when she has no time, to watch it four times in the span of a week. What is this? David's like: it's the definition of hyperfocus. It's that you fall into it intensely. It's that you do the same thing over and over again, or a genre—like David only watched shows that only made it one season. Isabelle can daydream for five hours straight while driving, she can rewatch things in her head. David is naming that this is not the safest driving technique, but David is wondering if there were any changes in this span that changes your capacity to move around? Were there things that gave you more unstructured time? Were there things you were avoiding or wanting distraction from on an emotional level? When all of those things happen, hyperfocus can kick in for preservation, like you're going to get sucked into the Full Metal Alchemist because you don't want to think about life after graduation. And in another way, rumination can kick in when you don't move around during the day, which turns into a type of thinking at the end of the day, those thoughts can be a way to get out that energy. Everyone is going to kick into hyperfocus for different reasons and it will vary based on types and on the environment that they're in. Isabelle connects very much to preservation idea of hyperfocus, how survival-related it feels and  the times she was in a fandom over a particular show or movie that relate to major life transitions, like graduation, or career changes, or life changes. David names that it's probably much easier to remember the relationship she had with those things than the transitions themselves. David names that this is a superpower. It usually happens when you're sitting in helplessness. Are you sitting in your helplessness, or are you sitting in “these amazing actors and actresses are nailing it?” Isabelle insists Bobby will watch it and grow to love it. It can happen when you don't have structure or your routine changes, and it provides structure—the reality is, for David, it's important to go wild if you really are in a state of helplessness—then go to town watching all the shows. But if you're using it to avoid a task, that's a whole other story. Things Isabelle, David, and Bobby have hyper focused on (that are mentioned in the episode):The MatrixNew GirlTall GirlIt's Always Sunny in PhiladelphiaFull Metal AlchemistSchwarmaDAVID'S DEFINITIONS:Black and White Thinking: Believing or acting as if there are only two ways of thinking right or wrong. This includes feeling like you did the thing or failed completely, and can be felt very intensely. Black and white thinking also makes it harder to see middle paths during an argument and makes it harder to back down and be flexible at times.Delayed Gratification: Receiving the reward or win, well after the behavior occurs. This is another forebrain skill that is often harder for folx with ADHD. Hyperfocus: Aside from happening in certain task-focused environments, it can kick in when you have unstructured time, or you're trying to avoid certain emotional subjects or needing distraction from an intense emotion.Rumination: Can kick in when you haven't had a chance to move around as much. When facing a big feeling (instead of “let it go”)Feel the feeling. Know it's more intense, or it might not be felt by other people. And do what you need to do to regulate (or self soothe!)-----Cover Art by: Sol VázquezTechnical Support by: Bobby Richards—————

A ascensão de Ed Sheeran. Edward Christopher Sheeran MBE, mais conhecido como Ed Sheeran (Halifax, 17 de fevereiro de 1991) é um cantor, compositor, produtor e ator britânico. Ele se casou com Cherry Seaborn em janeiro de 2019 e hoje o casal tem duas filhas chamadas Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran[6] e Jupiter Seaborn Sheeran. No início de 2011, Sheeran lançou um extended play independente, que chamou a atenção de Elton John e Jamie Foxx. Ele, em seguida, assinou contrato com a Asylum Records. Seu álbum de estréia, + (plus) (2011), contendo os singles "The A Team", "You Need Me, I Don't Need You", "Lego House" e "Drunk" foi disco de platina quíntuplo no Reino Unido. Em 2012, ele ganhou dois Brit Awards para Melhor Artista Solo Britânico Masculino e Breakthrough Act britânico. "The A Team" ganhou o prêmio Ivor Novello de Melhor Canção Musicalmente e liricamente. Em 2014 ele foi nomeado para Best New Artist na 56ª Annual Grammy Awards.

Court Cousins, two cousins sharing laughs, and talking the NBA team they love, the Orlando Magic. In this episode Pich' and Kyle check in with each other during Franz's Feelings, welcome Jay from down under for a new segment, discuss Paolo Banchero's mindset in the Social Media Round Up, dive into some of their favorite Orlando Magic cardboard in Magic the Card Gathering, and finish off with a Large Ending. Topics Include: Everyone sleeping on Jalen Suggs, reprimanding the rest of the NBA for discussing Markelle Fultz trade talks, Dwight Howard's elite rebounding, Kyle mending his relationship with Mo Bamba, and Pich' taking umbrage with fellow Magic podcaster's favorite all time Magic. 0:00 Cold Open & Intro 2:51 Franz's Feelings 6:53 Social Media Round Up 33:43 Court Cousins Down Under 59:40 Magic the Card Gathering 1:16:30 Large Ending   Thanks for watching!   www.courtcousins.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user Twitter: https://twitter.com/Court_Cousins Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/court_cousins/   Intro Music: "Groovy Hip Hop Vibe" by Anton Vlasov Outro Music: "Sunset n Beachz" by Ofshane

On this episode we chat with Barbara Hoel about her amazing flowers at Brick World Chicago and also discuss how she managed to have them get chosen for The LEGO House for display.Find us everywhere thanks to https://linktr.ee/thebrickskingMusic: www.bensound.comLEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. ©2022 The LEGO Group.

Building lego as a kid, what did I really want?

EPISODE SUMMARYThe LEGO HOUSE in Billund Denmark is now giving worldwide virtual tours! Go to the LEGO house website and book yours for tomorrow. We also take a deep dive into the illustrious LEGO design career of designer Wes Talbott, the man responsible for bringing us The Harry Potter Hedwig set, the Modular building "The Bookshop" and the brand new LEGO Ideas set The Typewriter. MAIN TOPICS/TAKEAWAYSWes is an incredible artist here is his Deviantart page!The LEGO House tours are incredible.The new typewriter set is a fete of mechanical genius. Do you love what we do here? I feel SOOO loved when you guys buy me a cup of coffee!Follow US on Tiktok, Instagram, and YouTubeWE ARE GIVING AWAY A THE MOS EISLEY CANTINA WHEN WE HIT 5k ON YOUTUBE!Go subscribe to be entered to win!I love you all thank you for sharing this space in time with me. Support the show (HTTPS://buymeacoffee.com/Earlefambuilds/)

TGIM guuuys! We're back from holidays, and wow that holiday SUCKED. We kick off the show covering off Prince Philip's funeral, then we get into Who Is A Celebrity That Everybody Loves, But You Cannot Stand? We had a few surprises: Jennifer Lawrence being one, and a few that weren't a surprise to us… James Corden. We get into Mailbag and Tim gets further vindication about the saying “take home the choccies”, and we cover another Is Your Name Your Job? Some news about Lizzo sliding into some DMs in the Glossy's. Then we welcome back our Brisbane listeners because daylight savings is over, and Tim drops a bombshell about time zones in China. Then we chat about Group Dates… are they a thing?  Then we played LEGO House where Kate and Joel had to RACE to build a tiny house out of lego. See you tomorrow! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ryan Dilks and Justin Peach are back to review all the action from the past weekend in the Championship. Brentford win the West London derby! Michael Olise is class! Preston continue to struggle! If Norwich have anymore injuries is Delia Smith going to play? It's the Second Tier. And I was like baby, baby, baby ooooooh!Website: www.secondtierpod.co.ukTwitter: twitter.com/secondtierpodPlease donate to our Movember page as we try to raise money for men's health: mvmbr.co/37QF751Join our Who Knows Wins league to win cash by guessing Championship results! Download the app now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Step 1: Plant augmented reality gnomes across the world. Step 2: …? Step 3: PROFIT! Just kidding — Trigger Global’s army of AR gnomes has a more solid business plan than the Underpants Gnomes, as well as many other ventures across popular brands, utilizing mixed reality technologies to bring them to life. CEO Jason Yim emerges from his hidden meadow to talk about a few of them. Alan: Hi, my name is Alan Smithson, the host of the XR for Business Podcast, and today’s guest is Jason Yim. He is the CEO and executive creative director of Trigger Global, the mixed reality agency. He has creatively led over 150,000 hours of development in mixed reality, including as a Snap Lens Studio partner, preferred developer for Facebook, and showcase developer for Euphoria and Google, as well as an early adopter and early developer for Magic Leap. Yim’s recent high-profile work incorporates mixed reality in marketing for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, product development for Hot Wheels, and location-based experiences such as the fish designer for Lego House, and of course, enterprise tools for AR evaluation tool for Honda. Yim is a recognized speaker around the world and he has held the stage at major technology and industry conferences in Singapore, Shanghai, Berlin, Tokyo, Copenhagen, London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and all over the place. Jason’s returned to his childhood home to speak at TEDx Hong Kong on computer vision bringing toys to life. Yim has also been featured in Apple’s first TV show, “Planet of the Apps,” and won two LA Auto Show award design challenges back to back, with his partners at Honda Advanced Design. Additionally, Jason has been assigned four patents in augmented and mixed reality, with several more pending. To learn more about Trigger Global, you can visit triggerglobal.com. Jason, welcome to the show. Jason: Alan, thanks for that kind introduction. Alan: It’s amazing, just that introduction; you think “Holy crap, you’ve done work with Honda. You’ve done work with Lego. You’ve done work with Snapchat, and Facebook, and Google.” It’s crazy, the things that you’ve done. And you joined us on stage at AWE this year, to talk about supercharging your marketing. Tell me about some of the things you guys are working at right now. Jason: Yeah, I think for us on the marketing side it’s actually quite an interesting time. We’re seeing basically the market maturing a little bit and then kind of dividing into two big chunks of work. On the introductory to AR side of things, we have the social lenses. So that’s the Snap/Facebook/Instagram approach, where it’s a small experience for a smaller budget and it’s going through someone else’s app, but it’s a much larger user base, which is a good way to start it off. And then the other group of projects that we work on are kind of larger development, where the brand can own their own app or they have an existing app and we’re pushing an AR module into that existing app. Alan: Let’s break those into pieces, here. The first one you mentioned is smaller ones with social lenses. Can you maybe talk about some of the work you’ve done in that? Jason: Sure. We were one of Snap’s first agencies — the Lens Studio partners. We actually were kind of a guinea pig as they were developing the Lens Studio itself. I believe we’re probably one of the first people outside of Snap to actually use the tool. On the client side, we’ve worked with everywhere from Adidas, Pepsi, the NFL, all from sports and brands on the lens side. On the Snap side, typically they are coming to us. We either bring opportunities to Snap w

Lou and Joel kick things off discussing their experiences with Netflix original content. Joel builds up another documentary about the LEGO House in Denmark while Lou hangs on to a predictable thread in Skyscraper. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.