Category: #sundayscraps

Time marches on. It’s my birthday next month so I tend to rush around to ‘get things done’ before all my numbers change. With that in mind, this is a longer list than usual as there are many tabs to close. I had totally forgotten about IBM’s Watson but it’s so funny to read it… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #103

Getting into Alan Watts is one of the more acceptable ways to have a mid-life crisis / enclothed cognition is an interesting phenomenon / the Japanese have a standard size for sports towels so it’s a shame we can’t find more over here / it’s always useful to compare calendars / I don’t understand why… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #102

Went to an open studio night and had the pleasure of meeting the artist Barby Asante / am going to try to go see Claire Fontaine‘s show and the AA Gallery show about Ursula K Le Guin’s maps  / the concept of a memory palace is so interesting / calling floppy disks old makes me… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #101

As 90s baggy jeans are coming back, maybe we should revisit this documentary about the role of hip hop in racism / the Institute for Public Architecture is doing some really interesting work on Governors Island / the visualisations done by Common Wealth are chef’s kiss / I am so here for Alfie’s project to… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #100

It’s been an exhausting few weeks so I’m a bit late with my links. The David Mellor museum looks interesting / I didn’t know Camille Pissarro lived in my area before Crystal Palace burnt down / refreshing to hear Malcolm Gladwell reflect on The Tipping Point / the growing number of people around me investing… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #99

I’m glad someone thought deeply about the popularity of ‘hits different‘ which I’m too old to say without wincing / the Hjalli method of raising boys and girls differently in nursery to improve equality is quite something / I was at Fixfest last week thinking it’s been 10 years since NESTA looked at the makerspace… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #98

I’ve been hanging out at Somerset House it was weird to see a cupboard labelled the West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library overnight / insert.art is an interesting digital magazine /  Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia’s surrealist inspired videography is the kind of stuff AI wish it could come up with / remembering… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #97

Someone should make a documentary based on the life of Hong Kong photographer Nancy Sheung / I don’t understand what the eel collective does but it sounds interesting /  bookmarking this article on car-free Devon for future long weekends / a friend told me about asafoetida in indian cuisine / theheat.io climate conference in Oxford… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #96

The anxiety of living makes us want to judge, be sure, have a stance, definitively decide. Having a fixed, rigid system of belief can be a great relief. – A Swim in a Pond in the Rain If you want a quiet week, don’t read the history of Mandatory Palestine / I loved this short… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #95

I wish I’d grown up with Pina Bausch / instead you can find me at Julie’s jive classes on Monday nights / going to watch this 1994 documentary about the late Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène  / the inventor of the television lived in Crystal Palace near a Tecton beauty  /  there’s a clock museum down… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #94