A few weeks ago I showed you a video my friend, Steve Greenberg, produced of our trip to Egypt on an app called yours.co.

I couldn’t wait to try it for myself. I uploaded my iPhone photos from our trip to Mexico City with the Fountainhead Residency and the rest was taken care of for me.

The company set the video to music and did the editing. They also figured out the proper sequence of events.

I hope the people that we traveled with will be thrilled. The video captures the art galleries and art collectors we visited in a much more creative way. The whole point of the trip was to see new bodies of work

This app is brilliant. The company told me they are about to introduce new features that will enhance the videos even more! I can’t wait.

Enjoy!

https://app.yours.co/share/4OGpq6phKlarswyl73jcMxcsdb33/-L_sXnyenoqw5LBDERT4

https://app.yours.co/share/4OGpq6phKlarswyl73jcMxcsdb33/-L_sXuCMfkJqefszrLRe

https://app.yours.co/share/4OGpq6phKlarswyl73jcMxcsdb33/-L_sXx6XnoGDQ16vJN4p

Take a good look. These adorable animals are not what they appear to be. A friend of mine posted these photos on Facebook because she couldn’t believe her eyes, and wanted others to see these unbelievable transformations, from rock to miniature animal.

That’s right. These objects are actually stones that Japanese artist Akie Nakata turned into pretend animals that you can hold in the palm of your hand. The animal paintings are truly conversation pieces.

I don’t think we have ever seen anything like this before. Read how each stone has its own destiny. Click here.

Eliot and I own two sets of silver plate silverware. Each set is for 12 people. Both sets are about 45 years old. Needless to say, they are not as shiny as they once were.

I don’t like to use them when we have company because they look slightly tarnished. It’s a shame because they are valuable, and in today’s market, it would be very costly to replace them.

Francis and Guy came to the rescue. That’s a couple we met on a tour in Ireland last summer. I don’t remember how or why, but I told them about my silverware situation during one of our many conversations. I wanted to know how I could clean the silverware without spending days polishing the many knives, forks, spoons, etc.

When they told me how they clean their silver, I couldn’t believe it. It seemed so simple. It’s been months since they told me what to do. I finally got the courage to try.

I filled a 1/3 of my sink with hot water. I lined the sink with aluminum foil, and then added a tablespoon of baking soda and a table spoon of salt. I then stirred the water so everything was evenly distributed.

I placed 12 utensils in the sink at a time and let them soak for 15 minutes. After, I rinsed them off, I put them in the dishwasher for a good cleaning. The results? Spotless and shiny silverware. It was that simple.

If you want to learn this trick, and not spend hours polishing your silverware, watch the video for specific instructions.

Have fun! It’s really easy.

https://youtu.be/U-hAXGhXcVM

I took this off of Facebook, but I can’t remember who posted it. Thank you, and please identify yourself, so I can properly thank you.

I always wondered why my friend, Doug Garr, had the guts every month to jump out of an airplane. I sometimes would stare at him, and wonder, what makes him tick? He looks pretty normal, and never exhibits any daredevil tendencies. Why is he so different? Surprise, surprise! A blog for the company, 23andMe, a genetic service company, explained that Doug may have the right type of genetics that gives him the ability to take high risks.

The blog said that scientists, from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC), conducted a study that “identified 124 genetic variants associated with a person’s willingness to take risks.”

They were able to capture “the combined effect of a million genetic variants to reach an estimate showing that genetics accounts for about 1.6 percent of the variation in risk tolerance across individuals.”

The blog also pointed out that the role of genes that regulate neurotransmitters such as glutamate and GABA — are chemical messengers that both stimulate and calm the brain.

Are you a risk taker? The study examined “whether having a risk tolerance in one area, say a willingness to bungee jump, corresponds with taking a risk in another realm, like taking a risk financially.” The researchers found evidence of shared genetic influences across risk tolerance and risky behaviors.

I wonder if this information is going to influence your future behavior?

Read about it here.

I heard of Antonio Monteiro for some time, but today I actually got to see him in action.

Last month, Monteiro set the Guinness World Record in February for owning the record-breaking collection of 20,139 video games.

The video above is a look at what all these video games look like together.

All of the games are stacked on the floor to the ceiling. You have never seen anything like this.

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