{"id":3626,"date":"2026-10-25T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2026-10-25T21:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:08:37","slug":"sunday-scraps-127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/sunday-scraps-127\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #127"},"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\/M_H8IEHzBnw?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>A fabulous documentary about <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Dx6tKujAAOY?si=1QYDpJm8fAg5kVzv\">Andy Warhol<\/a> \/ a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poppyshop.org.uk\/products\/pride-poppy-badge\">Pride Poppy<\/a> pin \/ a lovely blog post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officeofwilson.com\/bizarre-love-triangle\/\">product people<\/a> \/ the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iskandr.nl\/the-screen-that-speaks-for-the-house\/\">Apple home screen<\/a> is the least elegant smart home display I&#8217;ve seen in a long time \/ John made some lovely cards for anyone looking to work on their <a href=\"https:\/\/smithery.com\/methods\/peoples_emergency_briefing\">climate work<\/a> \/ a great visualisation of who is <a href=\"https:\/\/bl00d.money\/\">financially benefitting<\/a> from the Palestine genocide \/ I don&#8217;t know what an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seedaschool.com\/retreat\">erotic engineering retreat<\/a> is but it sounds great \/ a show about <a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/exhibitions\/tenderness-and-rage\">protest art during the AIDS crisis<\/a> \/ I am seriously considering spending a Saturday learning about <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.c20society.org.uk\/Default.aspx?tabid=63\">architectural magazines<\/a> \/ remember that November 27th is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buynothingday.co.uk\/\">Buy Nothing Day<\/a> \/ I spent a weekend in Budapest recently and the <a href=\"https:\/\/iiasa.ac.at\/blog\/aug-2026\/when-rock-of-starvation-appears-how-drought-is-tightening-its-grip-on-danube\">Rock of Starvation<\/a> was visible \/ a lovely <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/L9DrqawbOvg?si=aO2KVW2xCGAVQEUB\">old folk song<\/a> made modern \/ on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indeterminacy_(music)\">indeterminacy<\/a> in music \/\u00a0 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refugedart.fr\/?la=en&amp;rr=&amp;ind=&amp;his\">refuge d&#8217;art<\/a> hiking trail in France looks like fun \/ the new William Morris exhibition about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmgallery.org.uk\/event\/earthly-paradise\/\">activism<\/a> looks great .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Added to my <strong>commonplace book<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Evans gets out of the way. It&#8217;s as close to the absence of an obvious strategy that I know of. (photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wP6lP3UaP24?si=3UFsdWb3OmA9QQUW&amp;t=13\">Garry Winogrand<\/a> giving a lecture)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s only so much time in every day. You have to decide what you want it to be about.<\/em> (artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/sep\/07\/breath-liz-larner-hair-lashes-nasa-asteroids\">Liz Larner<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Sometimes I can boil a point to its provocative limit. [&#8230;] Writing is, obviously, when you have to choke off your curiosity and start to come up with some answers.<\/em> (from a lovely interview with the author of a new biography of <a href=\"https:\/\/nofencesreview.substack.com\/p\/remembering-chuck-berry-a-conversation\">Chuck Berry<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>When I am in a difficult or sad situation, I need to create some distance so that I am not swallowed by the event.<\/em> (artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/sep\/23\/sophie-calle-interview-artist-turner-contemporary-margate\">Sophie Calle<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>The only thing we should try to do, he says, is live a life which can naturally capture the light.<\/em>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/sep\/25\/ai-weiwei-unveils-mushrooms-new-public-artwork-tallawoladah-lawn-sydney-mca\">Ai Wei Wei<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>social news<\/strong>, I&#8217;ve been taking modern Greek lessons at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylit.ac.uk\/\">City Lit<\/a> on Monday nights and it&#8217;s been fantastic for my pattern recognition. I&#8217;m hoping to make good use of it next April in Hydra (my fifth trip there).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fabulous documentary about Andy Warhol \/ a Pride Poppy pin \/ a lovely blog post about product people \/ the new Apple home screen is the least elegant smart home display I&#8217;ve seen in a long time \/ John made some lovely cards for anyone looking to work on their climate work \/ a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/sunday-scraps-127\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #127<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-Wu","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","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=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}