Category: #sundayscraps

So glad I went to catch some sun by the sea over the weekend as this rain is getting so boring. We should also rename it dreich. My scraps are going to veer into the smart homes domain as I start writing the second edition of Smarter Homes. I apologise in advance if this bores… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #114

  It’s really hard to understand what Lindsey Vonn was thinking but I hope my nephew (now competing at a high level in acrobatic ski back in Québec) isn’t watching the Olympics / there must be a german compound word for a location that gets used over and over again in the visual arts /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #113

A book about the Concorde /  can’t wait until Pol Esteve Castelló publishes their book about the architecture of discos / will someone curate an exhibition about the instructions we give to protestors / I posit architects started using arrows when universal road signs were developed / Scrutton street might be redeveloped and i’m a… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #112

  I really hate having to worry about American politics so this Ezra Klein podcast episode made me feel a little better / I worry when AI unicorns start making promises they probably can’t keep / the more I look at it, the more I see that LLMs are a response to the plethora of… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #111

My Spotify Discover Weekly mix was excellent this week. I take this as a good omen. A friend is helping make and install public benches  where they are needed and I so wish London would get over its propensity for hostile architecture / I didn’t know radon in buildings was a cause of lung cancer… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #110

The closing of CCA is a sign, we should gird our loins / a great lecture on media literacy by danah boyd / Maya Angelou’s only album was described as exotica which was a thing back then / the Garden Museum’s exhibition of Rory McEwen paintings was wonderful / an AA talk about the role… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #109

God I love holidays. I went to Nice and had a fabulous time (even popped over to Marseille to spend the new year with friends). I hope you also enjoyed yourself. As a reminder, I started Sunday Scraps in 2018 as a way to clear my open tabs. Best to think of these as digital… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #108

Last one of the year and it’s definitely influenced by the Mediterranean (where I’ve decamped to for a week). I visited Villa Arson for the first time today and it’s doing what the Barbican should do with art education / even if Marty Supreme is basically a film about toxic masculinity, the soundtrack is amazing… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #107

The critique of the Vanity Fair White House photoshoot is on point / I’m late to the party but Articles of Interest is an excellent podcast about clothes which led me down a rabbit hole where I found out Levi’s created ‘casual fridays’ and a mysterious death in the 1940s / I’m not sure we… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #106

Last week was a bit emosh, but hey, the show must go on. I am not reassured by HSBC closing a 160 year old management training programme / I was really pleased to find out a bit more about Adrienne Górska who helped Eileen Gray understand architecture / to think people used to name their… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #105