Continuing Activities - Month Two

[smallhobbit]

Firstly, I finished two more FutureLearn courses: Music Psychology: Why does 'Bohemian Rhapsody' feel so good? (Griffith University - Brisbane, Australia).  I like Bohemian Rhapsody, and sing along loudly to it in the car, air guitaring at traffic lights.  However, the psychology failed to impress since the impression given was we like music because we can predict how it's going to go, but BR breaks those predictions, which is why we like it, because it's unpredictable.  Also, the lecturers were baseing their thoughts on first hearing it in the film Wayne's World, and saying 'of course, if you'd heard it when it first came out, you would have had a different experience'.  I bought the album A Night at the Opera, which featured BR, when it first came out.

I also completed Flexagons and the Math Behind Twisted Paper (Weizmann Institute of Science).  I enjoyed the initial stages and making the basic flexagons (pdfs to print out were provided) although I did get rather sticky glueing the two sides together.  But it became too complicated and theoretical for me.  But the idea proved useful for a ficlet I've just written for fan_flashworks 

Meanwhile, my cross stitch continues apace:

 

To the point where I was able to say I was one-quarter of the way through:



And to my current position:

 
 

Comments

[aome]

Oh, that's just getting lovelier and lovelier.

I actually don't remember where (or even when) I first heard BR, but it was neither via Wayne's World nor via a proper Queen album. The radio, most likely?

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much.

It probably was the radio - it still gets played, even after all these years :)