Long time, no write. Life kind of got in the way of a lots of things last year and by the time I had time to write about that…I didn’t want to.
Anyway, I couldn’t sleep early this morning so I started putting together this post in my head. It’s going to be a list that I keep updating of nice, useful, soothing and cute things for people to access while we are at home for the foreseeable future.
Listen to
- Lofi chillhop beats – I found a CD with some of these tracks last time I was in Tokyo. This is a youtube radio station complete with a very cute animation of a raccoon getting cozy in their bedroom
- Chilled cow – Similar to above with links to listen on lots of different platforms
- CalmSounds – lots of nature themed sounds
- Headspace – Headspace have some free meditations on their website/in-app geared at helping at the moment
- Punk shows in your living room – Tonight! I can particularly recommend Fresh and Jeff Rosenstock
- I listen to a lot of podcasts – if you want something to make you laugh – try flatshare slamdown, Richard Herring’s Leicester Square podcast (RHLSP) or The Off Menu podcast. For something that is fun, sad at times but also soothing – try Made of Human
- Our Plague Year – a new podcast from Joseph Fink who created Welcome to Nightvale
Watch/Look at
- Animal Cams around the world – someone tweeted this list of streaming animal cams
- Documentary Heaven – Documentaries to watch free about all sorts of topics
- All ages art workshops being streamed on youtube (you can watch later too)
- Stay Home comedy festival – online comedy with lots of amazing people like Josie Long, Sara Pascoe and Grace Petrie
- Another online festival – links on here to all sorts of online events going on around the world (it’s a little hard to work out times on here but there are SO many events listed)
Play with
- Mandala creator – make printable mandala patterns
- Make seamless patterns
- The paperclip game – click and make paperclips, build and empire, take over the world
- I need a prompt – get some inspo for a new creative project
- Patatap – make sounds with accompanying visuals
- Weave Silk – make calming patterns in a variety of colours
- Sporcle – online quizzes about all sorts of things
- Open Culture – huge directory of free things to watch, do, listen to and learn about
To read
- Radical zine archive – Over 800 online zines to read
- Vintage knitting patterns – Collected and digitized by the University of Southampton
- Free Online Magazines – Be Kind, Vegan Life, Plant Based and Om Yoga.
Virtual travel
- Step through the Secret Door to see where you end up in the world
- A list of Museums with virtual tours
- Travel into the past with the Museum of Endangered Sounds
Self Care/Help
- You feel like shit – an online series of prompts that can walk you through some small steps to take that could help right now