Miriam van Ommeren

Read it here: https://hyperallergic.com/442123/francisca-sutil-mute-ii-nohra-haime-gallery-2018/

A collection of critical writing (essays, interviews, reviews, et cetera) that combines fiction, art criticism and poetry leaving you with an ecclectic, sometimes confusing but very inspiring book. It includes an interview with the great Cosey Fanni Tutti.

Catland

I love cooking and I’m fairly good at it, so sometimes I fantasize about ‘leaving it all behind’ and going to work in a kitchen as a line cook. But then I read an article like this one and immediately change my mind.

“I traveled to Selma, Alabama, because I had to, because no other walk on Earth made sense to me, or my rage, at a time when walking was the only activity for which my despair made a small hollow.” Great article by American writer Rahawa Haile, whose article ‘Going it alone’ (which I enjoyed a lot when reading it in 2017) is being turned into a book.

“Wood’s existence is rather ordinary these days. He lives in Los Angeles and works as a long-term insurance care agent. He’s settled down. He’s a family man. But the kid in the picture resurfaces from time to time.” Interesting article about the boy in the famous Diane Arbus picture, now a 63-year old man. On Fatherly.

After watching the video for ‘Ric Flair Drip’ that came out on March 1st, I stumbled upon this in-depth article from a respected, popular watch-website about the Patek Philippe reference made by Offset. A quality read.

’JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD’ One of my all time favourite YouTube-video’s, revisited in February.

More birds! "[R]esearchers showed that the urban finches rely so heavily on feeders that their beaks have adapted: they’ve become longer and deeper to accommodate the sunflower seeds typically on offer, which are much larger and harder than the small cactus and grass seeds that rural finches eat. This adaptation has altered not only how urban males sing, but also what urban females prefer in a mate.[...] Evolutionary theory aside, however, I was stuck on one point: There’s such a thing as a finch Brooklyn accent—thanks to feeders like mine."

I love looking at charts, in all shapes and forms, so it was a happy day when I stumbled upon Michelle Rial’s Real Life Charts.

"The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man."

Flight of the Starlings

‘Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou [...] spent the past five years trying to capture the elusive contours drawn by birds in motion, or, as he says, “to make visible the invisible.”’

Disturbing selfie with cherries.

Oh, I been flying... mama, there ain't no denying.