Physical and Digital Aesthetics

November & December 2022

Hello everyone!

I am finally back in my childhood home after a hellish final two months to the semester. Many different tasks culminated all at once, and I did not have much extra energy or time to write. One of my tasks was to finish writing my undergraduate rationale (a miniature thesis, of sorts), which I am considering editing and publishing here as a special New Years post. Would you all be interested in reading? I am also planning an update on my post about Quality: I have stumbled quite a few pieces of literature that expand on Pirsig’s views. (My first highlight is stronger explanation of Pirsig’s overall theses.) I will see if I can muster the energy for both.

Given my the gap from my last edition, I have gathered quite a few sources (after trimming many more) but think some fun themes have bubbled up from my mass of links. I have once again added a collage at the end :)

Highlights

• Short piece on the book that inspired by post on Quality.

• Soccer logos over time, great thread:

  The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

  Why have so many football team badges been simplified into corporate logos?

  

• Alexey Titarenko's City of Shadows - I really like this photo series. I might take a photo class next semester!

• Cooperation Jackson.

Architecture

• ‘How to Recycle a Building’ - has nice visuals :O. c/o special friend of the newsletter Lily!

• Thought the use of space in this apartment was unique.

• The glass in this house 😍 (kendrick carries a piece of this glass in his latest music video and I got so excited hahaha).

• What a dope AirBNB - thanks Wenxi!

• :O mountain/lake house

• Relatively comprehensive take on how non-market housing can help with rent prices.

• Economics-forward writer on US city planning futures.

Explorative Aesthetics

Physical World

• Paintings/illustrations that explore city futures.

• Mine visualization.

• Think the design of these is refreshing.

Photography

• Favorite photographer went on a 6 week cross-country and back motorcycle trip and made a mega video about it!

• The Life of Barbie and Ken in the Soviet Union by Lara Vychuzhanina

• Was reminded of this old Time photo essay on typical groceries around the world - I remember when I was looking at this in elementary school!

• Dugan on his new photo book.

Digital & Computing

• Obsolete Sounds - major soft internet/html energy; also c/o Lily

• Video essay on why the Japanese internet is designed differently.

• Sick collaborative art project? Memes and all sorts of people in this digital space.

• Adam Tinkle’s ‘Screenbathing.’

• Paper collection of old computers :)

• Programmable ink.

Fabric

• Rundown of UK Gorpcore. From a Japanese publication.

• Outside interview with Nicole McLaughlin!

• Mushroom Color Atlas - catalogue of how certain mushrooms dye fabric! Also c/o Lily.

Interactive

• Future Museum of Sex Games - simple HTML zine / click adventure; c/o Lily.

• Womp 3D - just fun to play around in.

• Alma - playground for generative graphics. Also fun to play with!

Music (and adjacent)

• Stromae’s visuals are so dope & he did a Tiny Desk!

• Count Me Out - Kendrick (one of my favorite videos of the last few years).

• Fred again interview with Zane Lowe.

• Kaytranada & Pinkpantheress on Rolling Stone.