This week: liminal spaces, duct-tape typography, and 9/8 time.

• Bright Sun Travels visits the dated, tired Circus Circus hotel in Las Vegas. "Our Uber driver, no word of a lie, literally started laughing at us for going there. But how bad could this really all be?" Fans of liminal spaces will enjoy parts of this video.
   
• From Flightradar24, which I thought was just an app that tracks planes but is in fact also making YouTube videos: on the flight deck to the most remote Atlantic island. This is a trip to St Helena, with its legendarily-difficult landing. This does assume a bit of technical knowledge (it could really use some narration or even on-screen text to explain things like ETOPS and windshear), and they really need a good microphone! But the footage is worth the watch.
   
• Comedian Paul Scheer talks to fifty dads at Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. I know, I didn't think it was my sort of video either, but this is heartwarming, and if you'd like something that's just nice in the dark days between Christmas and New Year, I can recommend watching this. (As a heads up, this video has no content warnings, but the rest of the channel is a high-profanity podcast that I haven't remotely checked.)
   

• A duct-tape typographer has been honoured with a design award: "Over the years, a cultish appreciation has grown for Shuetsu Sato’s work with fans dubbing his clean-line, rounded edge typography as Shuetsu-tai (Shuetsu font)"
   
• Farewell to the Stansted people-mover: was it a gadgetbahn, or just a relic of the past?
   
• And Australian animal news! A koala has been rescued from a Brisbane city bus after a death-defying dash.

And finally, on TikTok: The Winner Takes It All, but in 9/8 time. (Alternate link for desktop.)

All the best,

— Tom