SOTD by u/Engineered_Shave

August 29, 2022 – Austere August 29

• Brush: Cayuen Workshop with 30mm Timberwolf Synthetic
• Bowl: Cayuen Workshop – Dark Nebula
• Razor: Winning Razor by Wet Shave Club
• Blade: Gillette Winner Platinum (1)
• Lather: Chiseled Face – Midnight Stag
• Post Shave: Chiseled Face – Midnight Stag
• Fragrance: Chiseled Face – Midnight Stag
• Video: https://i.imgur.com/V7a6nwL.mp4

This is it, men. The final few days of Austere August. Meanwhile, I had another pleasant and efficient finish for a Monday morning.

#AustereAugust #SubstantialStag

Bonus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGV5U6fYzkw ← How To Give The Ultimate Hot Towel Shave – Players Barbershop in Hatboro Pennsylvania

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#sidetracked u/Teufelskraft :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAoLJ8GbA4Y ← Vienna Philharmonic – Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op.11 (Summer Night Concert 2019)

Here is another pleasant little jaunt into the realm of classical music. This is Samuel Barber's best-known classical work and he was a composer from the early part of the 20th century. This isn't something I listen to regularly but it does have a haunting, dreamy, yet sad aura about it.

As a fun little FYI, this song is the official song of mourning for the United States. You can read a little bit more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_for_Strings

I first came across this composition when I played an award-winning real-time strategy video game some 20 years ago called Homeworld. In that game there was a choral arrangement of this song which was a later adaptation of the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyyL_TICbrU

Some modern musicians have done some remixes of it, which you may (or many not?) enjoy here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHDOxREmdrw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1jlOp2lXrk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNEx6bzm0tE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ACjaomohU

See if this interests you.