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Some people find peace in yoga. Others find it in fishing, gardening or long walks. And then there are the millions who find it in watching a tiny brush glide across a perfectly shaped fingernail. If you’re one of them, this clip is your new favourite meditation. It opens with a single stroke of glossy…
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Passengers usually see flight attendants in one setting only: the narrow aisle of an airplane, balancing trays and smiling through turbulence. But what happens when the plane lands, the passengers leave and there are twenty-four hours before the next flight? This clip lifts the curtain a little. It starts in a casual mood, with a…
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Most people walk down stairs without thinking about it. One foot, then the other, eyes on the phone, mind on lunch. Then there is the man in this clip, who treats every flight of stairs like a red carpet and every courtyard like a stage. The scene is a workshop somewhere warm and sunny. There…
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Every child who owns a pink toy jeep believes it is the fastest car in the world. Most parents smile, nod and quietly note that it tops out at roughly walking pace. In this family’s garden, however, the toy jeep seems to have had a little help. The setting is idyllic: a huge green lawn,…
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Some night drives are for thinking, some are for singing badly to the radio and some are simply for the view. This one, high on a winding mountain road with a whole city glittering in the valley below, was supposed to be the third kind. Then the headlights caught a pair of glowing eyes on…
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Every modern office brochure promises the same things: open spaces, natural light, a calming atmosphere. Somewhere in the fine print it probably also mentions water features. Nobody expected the water feature to arrive by itself one ordinary weekday morning, pouring straight out of the ceiling and down the main staircase. It began with a hiss…
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Every website needs a handshake, a little moment that says hello before the reading begins. Some sites use a quiet logo. Some use a slow fade to black. Carlos Now decided that a logo was nice, but a logo with two dancers in mirror-shiny leggings was nicer. The idea started, as the best ideas do,…
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Every morning Ioana read her horoscope the way other people check the weather. Most days it said something harmless: wear blue, call your mother, avoid big decisions before lunch. But on the grey, drizzly morning of the trip, the little app on her phone said something far more specific. Today, a bold leap into water…
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