Art Estelle Vigouroux Art Estelle Vigouroux

Lace Monster

“I reckon if I picked flowers the star power sucked from the ground like a naughty talisman — maybe the PH of the soil is altered by the amount of celebritydom decomposing, would my hydrangeas blush prudent pink?”

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Comedy China Meldrum Comedy China Meldrum

Rest in Pieces Bin Weevils

“Move over Club Penguin, there’s a new horrifically laggy, slightly problematic, bug-riddled, deeply iconic flash game to crash your parents' 2012 HP Spectre on.

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Comedy Clive Meldrum Comedy Clive Meldrum

The Children Yearn for the Bakery

“I now sported my shiny new Bakiez management badge, and became the perfect power-tripping 12 year old, telling off all the other inferior 12 year olds. I was no longer the trainee, I was the trainer.”

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Art Bonnie Huang Art Bonnie Huang

red-white-blue bag — 红白蓝袋子

“The plastic woven red-white-blue bag (红白蓝袋子) has become symbolic of resilience and hardship due to its utilitarian durability and working-class associations in Southern China, Hong Kong, and in countries like Ghana and Nigeria.”

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Culture Aden Zaki Culture Aden Zaki

Mucha, So Confusing

“To say, “this is a cigarette ad”, in the same way I can say, “this is a pillow”, or “this is a bookmark”. But isn’t summing it up reductive?”

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Place Holly Gerrard Place Holly Gerrard

Thoughts on fermentation.

So here I am, pussy out in the kitchen at 11:47pm, my left knee aching (I’d squat down too fast), and I am trying my luck with the back-of the fridge container.

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Culture Jem Rice Culture Jem Rice

Geo metrics

your eyes wander to their new leaves

curling at the sky -

110 emblazoned to the left of the screen,

you search for truth in their cycles but

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Art Ashray Kumar Art Ashray Kumar

10 PPI Mulch

“Yet when the pixel becomes distinct, and elementary, it distorts the image, breaking it down to its most rudimentary composition of shapes and colors.”

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Recess Mo Sturgess Giddy Recess Mo Sturgess Giddy

Wikipedia: Random

“Nicola Jane "Nikki" Groarke (born 2 June 1962) [1] is a British Anglican priest. Since 2014, she has served as the Archdeacon of Dudley. She trained for ministry at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and was literally ordained in 2000 Blah blasbhdbfgkjrmfds ugh boring.”

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Literature Jesse Carpenter Literature Jesse Carpenter

Falling-Star Disease

“The answer is you and I, it always is. In that sea of dust, there was nothing. Quiet, not a wave, not a sound. In that flat endless world, a soft and gentle breeze started to blow.”

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Place Nicholas Osiowy Place Nicholas Osiowy

A Night with the Burwood Literary Institute

Inner-West Ennui 


“Above came the rumble-tumble of trains, whines of whistles, the frantic blaring of approaching horns. From below the roars of old buses and the pop of a Porsche or broken-down Ford. A man in a green down jacket, young with spiky black hair, hurried through the soup of neon and sunset.”


Nicholas Osiowy wanders.

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Recess Eko Bautista Recess Eko Bautista

Biko

“As you pass from this world to the next, tátay tells me to prepare the table for the alay (offering). Candles are lit, coconut husks and incense sticks are burnt. The room is filled with cries and songs, some of sadness, others of joy.”

Eko Bautista venerates

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Food, Recess Christopher Kane & Mihir Sardana Food, Recess Christopher Kane & Mihir Sardana

Are You What You Meat?

“To understand Indian vegetarianism as non-violent is unequivocally false”

Christopher Kane and Mihir Sardana deconstruct vegetarian food.

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Culture, Recess Ondine Karpinellison Culture, Recess Ondine Karpinellison

Gleaning

Ever wonder what you might find in what is left behind?

“Some glean because they have been left no choice, others have sought out the gleaning lifestyle to participate ethically in society.”

Ondine Karpinellison sifts through the weeds.

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Food, Recess Miles Hiroshi Huỳnh Food, Recess Miles Hiroshi Huỳnh

CONSUME.OTF

Should we stop stuffing food in our typeface?

“The machine demands that typefaces be utilitarian; precise in their sharpness and uniformity. It demands the same of the food we eat: perfect and primed, glossy and crunchy.

Miles Hiroshi Huynh sends it back. @mileshiroshi

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