listening to the il postino soundtrack on the weekend reminded me of a neruda poem i read once, thought interesting and then promptly forgot.
it’s a particular kind of bittersweet pleasure, when something revisited resonates with you in a way it didn’t before.
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal [...]

i ran an amazon search looking for some kid koala album art, and i came across this, and oh my dear god, how i want it.

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my sunday saw me squeezing in an afternoon with elena and elliott before work. once full of chai and hot chocolate and scrambled tofu and conversation, we turned to elliott’s camera for entertainment.
highlights included elena’s [...]

it sat, in the palm of his hand, weighty, certain of its presence but of his scrutiny unaware.
it pulsated with its normal rhythm; it still worked, clearly. occasionally it would contract with such intensity as to constitute a wince.
his teased it with a finger; a pointing, accusing index finger, every inquisitive jab a why.
what are [...]

i came across a friend of mine doing reading for her phd the other day. she’s interested in the disappearance of the natural body. as for what constitutes or defines, the “natural” body, well, i suppose that’s what part of the 100,000 word dissertation is for.
she was reading a book about the ways we experience [...]

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if this were strip scrabble what do you think would’ve happened after this photo was taken?
(i kid. who plays strip scrabble??)

- what a pleasure it is to be able to understand the cantonese and mandarin dialogues, so that i can giggle at phrases like ee-eee-or-orr and hum sup*.
- i am probably the last person in the world to discover the addiction that is the in the mood for love soundtrack.
- i can’t believe i’ve been [...]

our current artist in residency, george khut, is doing test runs of his interactive artwork Cardiomorphologies v2 (beta) this saturday between 12 and 4pm.
his work is basically about biofeedback and navigating your bodily experience - you will be observing changes in your heart rate and breathing through a responsive audio-visual design, and seeing if you [...]

anyone up for the wong kar wai retrospective this weekend?

i finally got round to organising and putting up photos from last december’s little jaunt to thailand and singapore.
here they be.