“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.”
– W.C. Fields
Good food is sweetest when shared with good colleagues …
Today was a good day to break bread with friends …
Sunday brunch on a sunny day at Villa of Matra with exotic Greg together with Dao and Lim and twins Elise and Ava.
Touch of Bohemian and Indian and even sprinkle of Vietnamese influence as well as snippet of Singaporean flavour … to boot, as in the movie “Menu” marinated flathead enveloped us with aromas taking us to traditional ginger and turmeric of Japan and sausages for the twin were pure ancient German cooking 🥘 ….
The barter in cuttings of native and herbal plants took a wrong turn when Andrea spotted some cuttings allegedly belonging to her …
All in all colourful afternoon as Vinot provided a corporate brief …
Finally, fruits are a must on a diet. I suggest apple pie, baci blueberry chocolate, and Raspberry ice cream
The Montreal Mafia Murders: Blood, Gore, Cannolis, and Hockey Bags
On Broadway, It Really Is The Best of Times And Worst Of Times
Halfway across the Nullarbor, Mad Ted and a busted charger ran us off the road
We’re five days in to a 5000km drive across Australia. It’s scorching hot. The battery on our electric car’s almost flat. And we’re being followed.
Invidious vitrines
Long exposure photographs of films by Jason Shulman/ gig videos at Brodie Sessions / beautiful furniture by the Jan Hendzel Studio / ‘The Spooky Quest to Build a Google Maps for Graveyards‘ / always a great series, 52 things I learned in 2022, for example, the existence of ultra-precise, high-value counting apps / ‘Incoherent, creepy and gorgeous: we asked six leading artists to make work using AI’, includes work by Polly Morgan / ‘governmentattic.org provides electronic copies of thousands of interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act / electronic copies of old Argos catalogues.
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Weird stuff. Inside architecture’s wildest conspiracy theory, the Tartarian Empire / The Racing Writer at the Center of a UFO Cult / forest sounds from around the world / What happened to the cockney riviera?Wainwright on Thamesmead, still a byword for not-quite-getting-it-right / Macabre: Fantasized by Benjamin Spiers, an exhibition / Naked and interiors by Hubert Arthur Finney, two exhibitions at the redesigned Modern British Gallery / Martin Parr + water damage = fireworks / Sweathearts, ‘Twenty-six characters in search of an author’, a new typeface drawn by Martin Groch.
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The Wellcome Collection has shut Medicine Man, the ‘phantom museum‘ of the collection of Henry Solomon Wellcome that is deemed to be without suitable context for the modern age / St Pancras’s architectural Christmas tree / the Chinese village of fake oil paintings (via MeFi) / Whatever happened to Britain’s nuclear bunkers? A deep dive into bunker culture around the world / art by Peter Judson / Second Sea, a typographic tool that gives you an insight into the cost of climate change (via Dezeen) / size differences in animals across the epochs / Kottke is back!
Flash back
Flashbak has a couple of galleries of London as it was it the recent past: King’s Cross before the ‘change’ and Photos of Vauxhall and South London in the 1980s. Both galleries feature the amazing photography of Peter Marshall / some new shots of Heizer’s City / visiting Orford Ness, ‘Britain’s Area 51’ (without the flying saucers) / the gallery of tech flops / crunchy off-kilter music from Iran Iran / In the Stacks, a story and a synthesizer (via MeFi) / the art of decorative books / the elegance of Alphaputt / architecture photos of the year / Venice’s lagoon is home to 2,000 dumped boats/ Tobebuild, ‘a visual journey into how buildings come to be’ (via Meanwhile) / discussions with daydreamers / if real-life was written like sci-fi: ordering a pizza, taking a flight (via AskMeFi).
Get on the ball
Horror in the Modernist Block, a fascinating-looking exhibition that completely passed us by / Paris then and now / Rosecrans Baldwin on the diaphanous void that is the internet / fictional food, both good and bad (via MeFi) / ‘Batshit exciting combat aircraft concepts of the Cold War‘ at Hush-Kit, ‘the alternative aviation magazine’ / beautiful, pricey, edition of The Gormenghast Trilogy / Dennis gets copied / on the Citroen DS taillight / ProxyAddress, a way of tackling the displacement and alienation of homelessness / The Grandeur of German Pipe Organs, photographs by Robert Götzfried / dramatic aerial photography by Rob Anthill / current predictions for the journalism of tomorrow / past predictions for the climate of the futurewere disturbingly accurate, inevitably suppressed / World Dom: Get on the Ball / Indie Heaven / best metal on Bandcamp / best experimental music of 2022 / Archiving Your Teen Self / Nick Cave muses on ChatGPT / AI as a curator? Heaven help us all. It was bad enough when it was decided that every decision was curation. Related, Is this by Rothko or a robot?Perhaps one unexpected benefit of the AI content goldrush will be a return to analogue source materials. A digital image of an imaginary Rothko might be indistinguishable from the real thing, but the ‘copy’ can be made in seconds for pennies. Although a physical canvas, with surface, patina, texture, even smell, could conceivably be reproduced by robots, it would be prohibitively expensive. Human expertise can once again shine through.