Category: #sundayscraps

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’ve seen in a long time / John made some lovely cards for anyone looking to work on their climate work / a… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #127

I just came back from a few days in Venice for the art biennale so wanted to share some of my favourite works as it’s still on till November 22nd. Here they are, in order of how much I loved them: Canicula, a series of 8 films at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto (an old care home)… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #126 (Venice edition)

It’s felt like a long week for some reason. Maybe it’s the lunar eclipse, maybe it’s the end of a long oppressively hot summer. In any case I’m delighted to have a few days to reset under the rain. Dolly Parton’s song was inspired by  9to5, a 1970s feminist movement in Boston / I generally… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #125

Wrote most of this in YUL airport in anticipation of the horrible jetlag I’m suffering from. Past me was smart. I don’t really know how I feel about comparing how the Victorians lived to our own predicament. Consumer products are such a poor metric for societal progress. / A growing number of friends have been… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #124

Walking through the RA Summer Exhibition is like walking through a souq, it rewards patience as eventually you find some gems. Here are the pieces I loved most.           I’ve lived around Brixton since 2009 but I’m still discovering things as I walk the streets. The history behind this old radio… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #123

I woke up at 6am so here’s a quick link dump before I head out to work. On existential cringe / reading another Ben Lerner book and one of the characters talks about milieu therapy / Slavenka Drakulić was pretty kick ass and I hope her last book comes out in English some day /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #122

500 opened tabs on my phone are burning a hole in my pocket so here we go. I was delighted to hear Gener8tion (yes from that amazing video) studied art in Villa Arson which I visited last Christmas / Steven Ahlgren’s photographs of offices in the 90s are iconic / a lovely and deeply depressing… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #121

Back in the UK on Monday so these might still be orange blossom scented as I’m still in Greece. It’s been almost 20 years since I saw Martin Butler‘s The Girlfriend Experience and I wonder how you might recreate it today / going to have to buy this book on the history of home economics… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #120

This wonderful interview with Oscar Peterson makes me wonder how we can have deeper conversations about other art forms / I didn’t know about this 1980s BBC segment on women’s wardrobes / this talk about the gender history of dance looks interesting / I should watch this documentary about Mark Fisher / I didn’t know… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #119

  I’ve been ill this week and found the clip above in a moment of quietude. It makes me so happy because as a part time jiver I’m more and more interested by the lost art of social, synchronised and pleasurable bodily actions (and I don’t think of competitive sports as exactly the same thing).… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #118