Category: #sundayscraps

It’s felt like a long week for some reason. Maybe it’s the lunar eclipse, maybe it’s the end of a long oppressively hot summer. In any case I’m delighted to have a few days to reset under the rain. Dolly Parton’s song was inspired by  9to5, a 1970s feminist movement in Boston / I generally… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #125

Wrote most of this in YUL airport in anticipation of the horrible jetlag I’m suffering from. Past me was smart. I don’t really know how I feel about comparing how the Victorians lived to our own predicament. Consumer products are such a poor metric for societal progress. / A growing number of friends have been… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #124

Walking through the RA Summer Exhibition is like walking through a souq, it rewards patience as eventually you find some gems. Here are the pieces I loved most.           I’ve lived around Brixton since 2009 but I’m still discovering things as I walk the streets. The history behind this old radio… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #123

I woke up at 6am so here’s a quick link dump before I head out to work. On existential cringe / reading another Ben Lerner book and one of the characters talks about milieu therapy / Slavenka Drakulić was pretty kick ass and I hope her last book comes out in English some day /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #122

500 opened tabs on my phone are burning a hole in my pocket so here we go. I was delighted to hear Gener8tion (yes from that amazing video) studied art in Villa Arson which I visited last Christmas / Steven Ahlgren’s photographs of offices in the 90s are iconic / a lovely and deeply depressing… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #121

Back in the UK on Monday so these might still be orange blossom scented as I’m still in Greece. It’s been almost 20 years since I saw Martin Butler‘s The Girlfriend Experience and I wonder how you might recreate it today / going to have to buy this book on the history of home economics… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #120

This wonderful interview with Oscar Peterson makes me wonder how we can have deeper conversations about other art forms / I didn’t know about this 1980s BBC segment on women’s wardrobes / this talk about the gender history of dance looks interesting / I should watch this documentary about Mark Fisher / I didn’t know… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #119

  I’ve been ill this week and found the clip above in a moment of quietude. It makes me so happy because as a part time jiver I’m more and more interested by the lost art of social, synchronised and pleasurable bodily actions (and I don’t think of competitive sports as exactly the same thing).… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #118

It’s that time of the year where things get quiet for a few weeks so I’m trying to match the vibe by keeping my head down in writing. An interesting art piece about heat in data centres / such a fun use of infinite scroll / after new towns, new forests / on tech’s lazy… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #117

It’s sunny today. Makes it all so much more bearable doesn’t it. Well almost. Apparently Churchill got into painting which in turn inspired George Bush Sr. / an early open hardware handheld tablet made in India back in 2002 /  this article on design leadership in AI lost me entirely when it referred to exquisite… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #116