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CATEGORY: WEARING
“Why can’t someone be just as enthusiastic about their favorite maker of challah bread as they are about their favorite band?” - Andrea Hernandez. Since the early days of the pandemic, I made a concerted effort to shy away from the fashion houses and streetwear brands for casual wear items like t-shirts, hoodies and crew necks. I diverted my attention to supporting my local restaurants, cafes, and bars and began buying up their merch. I saw it as a potential movement much like “Normcore”. It seems as though it has stuck. read up on The rise of restaurant merchandise and Its cultural cache. / Via Forbes
CATEGORY: READING
Whether or not you read them, place them on your coffee table, stack them artfully, or meticulously place them on shelves books are still some of the best ways to create a collection of thoughts, ideas, learning, or entertainment. Idea Books is an ultra-cool curation of some truly amazing gems in print. / Via Internet
CATEGORY: LIVING
Ed Be and Jared Blake teamed up in 2017 to merge the worlds of furniture, interior design, industrial design, music, style, arts and contemporary culture in a way that hadn’t been done before. Through this journey they've assembled a dream team of multi disciplinary designers, creatives, and builders.
They’ve managed to permeate these otherwise autonomous worlds through collecting, recontextualizing, and formulating new thoughts on design. The main task at hand is to pay homage to the past while creating a new narrative to take us to the future. They continue to introduce new designs of their own and as well as fellow rising designers alike in a practical manner.
CATEGORY: LEARNING
For all the Harry Styles “stans” out there — there is an entire university course dedicated to the musician. The class will be offered at Texas State University, with honors college students given first dibs followed by non-honors students, as long as they show an “outstanding talent in an area of interest.” / Via Hypebae
CATEGORY: WATCHING
About a year ago I thought about starting a Substack called “Borrowed Nostalgia”, spoiler alert I only published one piece. I am thinking about picking it back up and only posting photo dumps on the subject. I will let you know if I ever get it back up and running. In the meantime read how How ‘Stranger Things’ is fueling an obsession with the 1980s—and why this nostalgia is unique Gen Z is helping to bring the ’80s back—but can there be nostalgia for an era they never lived through? / Via FastCo
CATEGORY: EATING
Rose Los Angeles’ gummy edible collaboration with Lexie Park of Nünchi matches the playfulness of her whimsical gelatinous desserts: The yellow ones are made with Bernard Ranches’ citrus fruits, while the dark blue ones are made with oolong boba. All are infused with Rose’s Hammerhead Banana flower rosin. If your tolerance allows, the two flavors can be smushed together for a multicolored, multi-sensory 10mg bite. / Via The Broccoli Report
CATEGORY: SEARCHING
Like many, I use Google to answer most of the mundane questions that pop up in my day-to-day life. And yet that first page of search results feels like it’s been surfacing fewer satisfying answers lately. I’m not alone; the frustration has become a persistent meme: that Google Search, what many consider an indispensable tool of modern life, is dead or dying.
For the past few years, across various forums and social-media platforms, people have been claiming in viral posts that Google’s flagship product is broken. Search google dying on Twitter or Reddit and you can see people grousing about it going back to the mid 2010s. Lately, though, the criticisms have grown louder. / Via The Atlantic
CATEGORY: REMEMBERING
One of the first albums I ever bought as a wee lad was a Devo album. “Whip it” was the catchy hook track that was an ever present ear-worm of the 80s. The more I listened to the band the more I learned that they were the antithesis of a pop band.
Devo started out as a Punk Rock/Post Punk band, who put a high priority on spreading awareness about devolution, even naming themselves after the concept. They started making music videos right from the start, and are considered by some to be pioneers of the music video.
Devo was also part soothsayer at times, predicting the doom scroll and the devolution of American society. / Via HighSnob