{"id":3349,"date":"2025-11-02T18:23:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2025-11-02T22:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:43:06","slug":"sunday-scraps-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/sunday-scraps-102\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #102"},"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\/g0NDS8XmsRA?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>Getting into Alan Watts is one of the more acceptable ways to have a mid-life crisis \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enclothed_cognition\">enclothed cognition<\/a> is an interesting phenomenon \/ the Japanese have a standard size for <a href=\"https:\/\/i-ori.com\/products\/su-imabari-towel-sports-towel\">sports towels<\/a> so it&#8217;s a shame we can&#8217;t find more over here \/ it&#8217;s always useful to compare <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celtic_calendar#Medieval_Irish_and_Welsh_calendars\">calendars<\/a> \/ I don&#8217;t understand why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complexityoutcomes.org\/\">relationality<\/a> has become so popular in design circles \/ an old critique of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monochrom.at\/hacking-the-spaces\/\">hackspaces<\/a> \/ the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/vvfa.space\/radio\">Very Very Far Away<\/a> is very 2009 (in a good way) and I&#8217;m sorry I can&#8217;t attend their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/playhouseeast\/1902767\">upcoming<\/a> event \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/daraltaqwa.com\/\">Dar al Taqwa<\/a> is a bookshop in West London that has started a <a href=\"https:\/\/daraltaqwa.com\/pages\/don-t-let-us-close-the-book-donate-now\">fundraiser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A new section here that could best be described as a &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commonplace_book#\">commonplace book<\/a>&#8216;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Beauty in language, fun in hell&#8217; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/oct\/09\/laszlo-krasznahorkai-wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2025\">A review of L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;That peculiar loneliness that comes from knowing and seeing a lot that you can&#8217;t do much about&#8217; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/oct\/12\/the-story-behind-the-spy-stories-show-reveals-secrets-of-john-le-carre-craft\">On John Le Carr\u00e9&#8217;s craft<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Architecture is trapped inside each of us&#8217; &#8211; heard on a tour of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/895127\/10-chapels-in-a-venice-forest-comprise-the-vaticans-first-ever-biennale-contribution\">Venice Vatican Chapels<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;you find yourself dimly reflected, implicated among the things in the room.&#8217; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/oct\/21\/electrifying-genius-gerhard-richter-review-louis-vuitton\">A review of Gerhard Richter&#8217;s exhibition<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Look at Ukraine. Look at Gaza. I haven\u2019t changed a solitary thing. I mean it. I feel as if I\u2019ve been riding on other people\u2019s pain over the last 60 years, and their pain hasn\u2019t helped prevent this kind of tragedy. We\u2019ve learned nothing.&#8217; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/ng-interactive\/2025\/oct\/29\/its-been-a-cesspit-really-my-life-war-photographer-don-mccullin-on-19-of-his-greatest-pictures\">Don McCullin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s a shame we can&#8217;t find more over here \/ it&#8217;s always useful to compare calendars \/ I don&#8217;t understand why&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/sunday-scraps-102\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #102<\/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-3349","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-S1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","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=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3353,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}