Off Hours

Travel with Your Pens Full

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Backpacks—an unsolvable problem. Chris has an unexpected run-in with some surrealist art, followed by a discussion of dealing with the realities of travel.

  • Masters of Contemporary Watchmaking An additional book highlighting the work of independent watchmakers, that we ought to have mentioned in Episode 27
  • Watchmakers The Masters of Art Horology A book Chris picked up recently that catalogues the work of modern independent watchmakers
  • 12 Faces of Time The 12 Faces of Time details the lives and works of a dozen of the foremost independent watchmakers of our era
  • Engine Turning Chris demonstrating the art of engine turning
  • Geometric Chuck A paper about geometric chucks which are simplified versions of the full engines used in security printing.
  • Matthews Documentary A trailer for the engine turning documentary featuring Martin Matthews
  • MoMA SF Official website of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • René Magritte Chris caught a temporary exhibit of the work of surrealist artist, René Magritte, while on layover recently in San Francisco
  • Steven Strang Local artist & friend of the show whose work is similar in genre to Magritte’s
  • Magritte’s The Human Condition
  • Magritte’s The Promenades of Euclid
  • Thomas Crown Affair A film that prominently features Magritte’s Son of Man
  • Banksy Shredded Art Video of a Banksy painting being shredded the moment after the hammer came down for the winning bid at auction
  • Gerhard Richter Another of the artists on display at MoMA SF
  • XKCD A perfect encapsulation of the woes of shopping for a backpack

    • Osprey Bags One of Jon’s favourite backpack brands over the years
    • Mountain Hardwear Frequent Flyer 30 Jon’s most recent everyday backpack
    • How to Knock Off a Saddleback Leather Bag
    • Flight Bag The bag Chris uses most
    • Peak Design Everyday Backpack 30L Chris’ current backpack of choice
    • Packing Cubes A handy way to keep things organized when packing for travel
    • Superior Labor Leather Pen Roll The roll Chris uses to hold pens & a watch when travelling
    • Lightning to SD Card Reader A useful adaptor for transferring photos from an SD card to an iOS device
    • High Watt USB-C Charger While still far from being a perfect universal spec, one nice thing about USB-C is being able to carry a single, high-watt charger rather than multiple, different chargers when travelling
    • USB-C to Lightning A cable that allows an iPhone or iPad to be charged using the same charger that now ships with Apple’s MacBooks
    • Anker PowerCore Jon & Chris both use Anker’s battery packs to keep devices topped up when travelling
    • Control Plane Mac utility A utility Chris uses to manage network traffic on his MacBook, unfortunately, it is no longer under active development
    • Luna Display An app & adaptor that together turn an iPad into an external display for a macOS
    • Bose QuietComfort 35 Chris’ go to headphones when travelling
    • Nexus Card
    • HS-NY Lectures Video lectures from the Horological Society of New York
    • Clickspring YouTube Channel
    • Reconstructing The Antikythera Mechanism A preview of the Antikythera project by Clickspring on YouTube
    • The Perfectionists A book about humankind’s relentless pursuit of perfection & the compounding effects it has had on society
    • Creative Selection
      • Written by a former Apple software engineer, Creative Selection provides a rare glimpse into what the design process was like at Apple when Steve Jobs was alive
    • Why We Sleep A book Jon’s been reading recently about the science & benefits of sleep
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      Off HoursBy Chris Manning & Jon Edwards
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