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.”
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?”
Song of the Weaver's Hands
“Etched in the fading hues and worn paths of ancient roads,
Marking the passage to memory's embrace.”
Two case studies of fate: updated archetypes for our time
Obviously
And also you can’t read minds
As in I caught you!
And your psychic violence
Although I gave you these powers too
Your actual ones are far richer
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.
Please, Please, Please Father: Catholic Repression and Irish Boy Obsession
These men are vulnerable, honest, and embarrassed. Hot, hot, and hot. We want them to be a little nervous, a little objectified. They don’t want us looking at them! It’s fun, right? And really, after all the money for acting school or the Trinity College drama course, surely, they should’ve expected this?
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
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.
Are You What You Meat?
“To understand Indian vegetarianism as non-violent is unequivocally false”
Christopher Kane and Mihir Sardana deconstruct vegetarian food.
Filter Kaapi Lore
What's so important about a morning brew?
“Everyday, as the sun rises, we sip our kaapis next to each other.”
Aishwarya Sai concocts.
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
FBR Cafe: Computing the Coffee Industry with Sebastian Cincotta
What do we really want in the pursuit of optimization?
I think it’s an important relationship, and it’s how I got into coffee, but I don’t think we run the same way as a regular barista…You’re in my space, and I’m going put on a show for you”
Hugo Anthony Hay and China Meldrum spill the beans with Sebastian Cincotta.
Green Eggs and SPAM
The world’s most delicious cultural artefact…
“The humble can was transform into a measure of wealth and a marker of class through this exclusivity and marked-up, expensive price-tag”
Emilie Garcia-Dolnik pulls back the tab.
The C Word
“The disgust I have is not in the greige complexion of the bowl in front of me, but rather the rancid reminder I am refusing my own fate”
Genevieve Ripard reflects on flavour.
Weekend at Gorans: Europe Grill Newtown and the echoes of Yugoslavia
Reuniting nations, one meal at a time
"We sit together and drink rakija, watching on as burly Balkan men with names like Bogdan, Branko and Borislav waddle in and share the space with us”
Luke Mešterović reunifies. @luke.mesterovic