Peeling Mandarins
Eileen Ahn, Surf Club Zine, Soft, and Emily Adel
Dear reader
Happy new month, as they say here in Athens. Our weekly farmer’s market now features mandarins, avocados, and the first oranges. I wish I could send you an early mandarin to peel and eat. It is one of those simple pleasures worth living for.
With care
Kristoffer
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Field notes
1.
»My archive of websites is a history of my self-learning journey, but also reminds me that my relationship to net art and web design had been parochial and flattened by big website builders: I had been building websites for others this whole time.«
— Eileen Ahn in A History of My Websites
2.
Surf Club Guide Zine Issue #2 is out with guides on how to make pixel art, web-collages, clip art, and other core webskills.
3.
I usually avoid linking to apps that require a login, purchase, or specific hardware. But I’ll make an exception for Soft, an iPhone camera app that allows your environment to shape the photos you take. Soft is a part of the growing movement of situated software and joins the resurgence of photo apps, hardware, and websites (a topic for another time, perhaps?). Its creator, Jake Dow-Smith, created a hundred testing spots for naive readers.
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»'I’ve found my people' and 'I’m not sure what to do with my life': the two themes of Naive Yearly that bonded us all together.«
— Emily Adel in An internet get-together to remember
5.
Poetic Web Calendar: Tiat #9 (Nov 3, SF), Laurel Schwulst: Energy Spheres Workshop (Nov 9, Korea) and Cursor #6 Launch Party (Nov 9, Copenhagen).
Collections
Did you know that I always hide a link to a small web game in the logo?
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