{"id":3259,"date":"2025-07-21T21:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:18:06","slug":"sunday-scraps-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/sunday-scraps-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tvxwv0wNj5s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/annals-of-inquiry\/why-so-many-people-are-going-no-contact-with-their-parents\">New Yorker article<\/a> about children who go &#8216;no contact&#8217; made me think a lot about my own experience so I might write about it some day \/ I finally got round to watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jun\/04\/showgirls-review-paul-verhoeven-erotic-melodrama\">Showgirls<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Piano_Teacher_(film)\">The Piano Teacher<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0 I had some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/food\/2020\/sep\/16\/david-athertons-recipe-for-barberry-fennel-and-hazelnut-garibaldis\">garibaldi<\/a> biscuits for the first time \/ we need more niche digital design conferences like <a href=\"https:\/\/2025.typographics.com\/\">Typographics<\/a> \/ didn&#8217;t know the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Ernest_Henley\">author<\/a> of the poem <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/invictus\">Invictus<\/a> contributed to the popularity of Rodin and Whistler and was the inspiration for Long John Silver \/ I&#8217;m not a dev but <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/inbox\/post\/167893366\">distributed ledgers for health records<\/a> sounds weird \/ the more I stare at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/figure\/Contrast-of-Technical-System-Design-and-Living-System-Design_fig4_273379786\">charts that claim that some things are alive and some aren&#8217;t<\/a>, the more I want organic chemistry classes in primary schools \/ I have a moratorium on buying cookbooks but I might make an exception for this Patience Gray <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/aug\/20\/patience-gray-the-wild-life-of-the-cult-food-writer-honey-from-a-weed\">classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In social news, I&#8217;m dropping by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.ac.uk\/colleges\/london-college-of-communication\/whats-on\/lcc-shows-2025\">UAL LCC<\/a> degree show and have both a <a href=\"https:\/\/therestartproject.org\/\">Restart Project<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workingclasscreativesdatabase.co.uk\/\">Working Class Creatives<\/a> board meetings.<\/p>\n<p>In job seeking news, a few things have landed. The first is a 10 week project acting as a project manager for a client I&#8217;ve worked with many times. I&#8217;m also finalising a conversation about a contract which would kick in after that. I much prefer full time work but it&#8217;s ok. Keeping the wolves from the door focuses the mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This New Yorker article about children who go &#8216;no contact&#8217; made me think a lot about my own experience so I might write about it some day \/ I finally got round to watching Showgirls and The Piano Teacher\u00a0\/\u00a0 I had some garibaldi biscuits for the first time \/ we need more niche digital design&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/sunday-scraps-92\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #92<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-Qz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}