Supposedly the “jazz shoe” is making a comeback, “Repetto’s Zizi is made using the same 1960s cousu-retourné stitch-and-return technique; demand for the style has grown by 10 per cent over the past three years, buoyed by the collective shift towards softer, lower-profile footwear. (According to Edited’s Katharine Carter, shoes on the market described as “chunky” and “platform” are down 33 per cent year-on-year.)”
I started to feel a little better yesterday, managed to overextend myself by cleaning out the chicken coop and turning the compost bins, and then got mild food poisoning. I’m ready to lay down on the edge of the property and get eaten by pigs like in DEADWOOD.
I have remembered, for the first time in a week, to do my short stack: 2000mg liposomal nicotinamide riboside with TMG and Pterostilbene, Vit D3 and K2, 1 Floradix for insurance, taken with a bowl of blueberries, blackberries, almonds and honey.
SpaceX shifts focus from Mars to Moon, which seems from here to be about Musk working hard to realign himself with the White House. Also, since the US is all about the Moon in terms of space policy right now, the money is right there, and SpaceX has its eye on ramping to 10,000 launches per annum, largely in pursuit of lofting space-based AI compute. It’s also worth nothing that Japan have now started beaming space-based solar power back to earth via microwave.
PROJECT HAIL MARY trailer. People are saying it contains spoilers. It does not. A trailer for a buddy movie that introduces both buddies does not constitute a spoiler.
Bought myself a leather notebook cover that can contain up to six Field Notes notebooks, from InkitLeather here in the UK.
I also had my eye on the covers from Veyrona, but it looks like they might be winding down.
Additionally, I saw something unusual on MUJI, of all places: a Vietnamese variant on the French chore jacket, long-cut/fingertip-length, in a blend of denim and kapok, which I picked up in a medium grey with matching wide-leg trouser.
I’m wearing a new ribbed grey 100% cotton henley that I picked up for a song from a site that didn’t appear to know they were selling it, under a black Carharrt work shirt I’ve had for a dozen years and which seems to be indestructible, paired with a black Carharrt utility pant. I love workwear and I cannot lie. I fell back in love with clothes a few years back and am enjoying it a lot.
STATUS: siiick READING: A FIELD GUIDE TO REALITY, Joanna Kavenna (UK) (US+) , M SON OF THE CENTURY, Antonio Scurati (UK) (US+) LISTENING: Just discovered Duo Ruut via Night Tracks on Radio 4:
About to switch on the Retro Nano and stream some podcasts from the phone: I deleted hundreds of episodes of stuff from the app that I know I will simply never get to.
So I just took delivery of twenty clothes hangers.
A couple of years ago, I had to make some dietary changes due to having entered the “age-related food intolerances” era of life. Basically, my genetic heritage says that I am nearly dead, and therefore my body believes I no longer need to digest lactose or gluten properly and should instead be preparing to leave the village and die in a ditch in the wilderness so as not to be a further burden on the community.
(The real hack here was buying a stack of unbreakable bowls that I can just throw leaves and protein and nuts into and stir with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. We refer to these as “the sadness bowls” in our house, as in “yes, I am having a sadness bowl for my lunch again.” These bowls are also for the berries, almonds and honey I have for breakfast.)
(Also worth noting that I made a few further adjustments after reading ULTRA PROCESSED PEOPLE)
Said dietary changes have led to me losing around four inches off my waist over a couple of years, which I wasn’t expecting. This was a good excuse to buy new clothes, as I love clothes. I am, however, bad at throwing clothes out, and there’s a voice in the back of my head that demands Cornish pasties and thinks that one day a perfect gluten intolerance tablet will be invented that will allow me to go face down in a six foot pile of them so I should probably keep the baggy jeans.
Therefore I now own more clothes than I have since my thirties. So many more, in fact, that I’ve had to order a lot of clothes hangars, each one of which will have to hang three garments as I tend to buy clothes as capsules, a few of which capsules have a matching shoe so oh shit I just realised I need a shoe rack too.
Accidental weight loss turns out to be expensive and somehow also space-consuming.
While companies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink are hard at work on brain-computer interfaces that require surgery to cut open the skull and insert a complex array of wires into a person’s head, a team of researchers at MIT have been researching a wireless electronic brain implant that they say could provide a non-invasive alternative that makes the technology far easier to access.
They describe the system, called Circulatronics, as more of a treatment platform than a one-off brain chip. Working with researchers from Wellesley College and Harvard University, the MIT team recently released a paper on the new technology, which they describe as an autonomous bioelectronic implant.
Sportswear brand Nike has unveiled its Mind 001 and Mind 002 trainers, designed in collaboration with neuroscientists to improve the connection between mind and body.
Described as the company’s “first neuroscience-based footwear”, the shoes were created using data collected from brain scans at Nike’s recently established Mind Science Department.
“These are the first shoes designed from the brain down, not the ground up,” Nike chief science officer Matthew Nurse told Dezeen.
morning computer: some useful things first thing in the day.
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Join Elizabeth Alker with a selection of fresh music from genre-defying artists as we journey through landscapes of ambient and experimental sounds. Tonight she plays highlights from some of Unclassifield’s favourite artists’ live concerts at the Edinburgh International Festival.
I suspect this embed won’t work, but I got reminded of the time I stayed at the Juvet Landscape Hotel, now famed as the location for EX MACHINA and SUCCESSION season 4:
As part of my rapid acceleration into my boomer years, I almost always have my phone on loud. It goes back on silent as soon as I get inside the M25. But in the country, where it’s windy and blowy, I have it on loud because I don’t hear it otherwise. Also when someone calls me, it announces who is calling. I am actually 70.
While the exhibition is physically immersive, its conceptual focus is time (or rather, how time is experienced in prison). As Caputo explains, “Time in prison is never neutral; it is structured, regimented, and often experienced as an oppressive force.” The exhibition’s title, Prison Times, nods to this fragmented, fictional timescale, where the outside world runs on one clock and the incarcerated on another.
A jacket with built-in electric fans designed by Japanese fashion brand Anrealage keeps staff cool at the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation pavilion at the Osaka Expo.
The pavilion aims to depict the future of communication, and Morinaga applied the same idea when designing the uniforms.
“These clothes transcend division and disparity, connect the dots and expand human potential by sharing senses,” the designer explained.
morning computer: some useful things first thing in the day.
