Tab Cleanse - July23–Oct23

Things

oof i had 96 tabs open this time

art

• Blue and white porcelain (Google search)
• Lexica
• Gingko Press
• Anchovy Studio

places

• Portsmouth Square
• Dranouter, Belgium

people

• Tu’er Shen
• Long mu - mother of dragons 🐉
• Aaron Cometbus - zine creator in the bay area punk scene
• Siyu Chen - illustrator of a book i borrowed about chinese mythology
• Fran Lebowitz

plays

• (pray) by nicHi douglas - watched this at The Art House with my friend Becca
• To the Ends of the Earth - watched this at Jack (Brooklyn) w T+N

resources

• Playdate Catalog
• SFPL Digital Collections
• mmm.page
• Vietnamese Alphabet
• caribBEING - found this out via bowery boys podcast - food tours of flatbush

tech

• Circuitbenders - hardware glitch art
• Flipper zero - hardware hacking

etc

• Jet Set Radio - sick dreamcast game - anti-establishment, hip hop, grafitti, skating
• Dazzle camouflage
• Super Lemon Haze - james showed me this strain - good for flow state
• Bratpunk music

Interesting articles

math/science

• curvilinear - consisting of or bounded by curved lines
• List of scientific misconduct incidents
• Happy number
• Narcissistic number
• Lemniscate - figure-eight or infinity-shaped curves
• Post-quantum Cryptography

history

• Sumer
• Post Office Reports of Site Locations, 1837–1950
• Female beauty (bijinga)
• 1967 Detroit Riots
• Manuals Showcase - A showcase of unusual or interesting manuals
• Romanov Family
• Why a Black man dressed as a Union soldier tore down San Francisco’s Confederate flag
• Talking Trash: A History of New York City Sanitation
• The Troubles

transportation

• Federal Aviation Administration
• Slip coach
• Can opener bridge
• List of bridges and tunnels in New York City

fun things to know

• simulacrum - representation or imitation of a person or thing
• The Big Cover-up: Tattoo Culture in China
• The Four Parts of Accountability
• Flecktarn
• Chelsea Manning
• “irony poisoning”
• Aleksander Karelin

To read (books)

• Classic Chinese novels
• Gender, Labor, and the Commodication of Intimacy in K-pop
• The Latehomecomer - Kao Kalia Yang
• Toxicology - Jessica Hagedorn
• Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
• The Art of Gathering - Priya Parker
• How to Do Nothing - Jenny Odell
• The Courage to Be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi
• Emotional Labor - Rose Hackman
• Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race - Mary-Jane Rubenstein
• Madonna in a Fur Coat - Sabahattin Ali
• How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand
• Greek Lessons - Han Kang
• The Talented Miss Highsmith - Joan Schenkar
• Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City - Robin Nagle

To listen

• Grudgepacker - queer punk band (LA) recommended by my hairdresser
• Pure Hell - early punk (philly)
• Bad Brains - early punk (DC)
• Mutant Strain - friend Rhi was wearing their shirt

To eat

• Pelmeni

To watch (add to Letterboxd)

• Emily the Criminal (2022)
• Turn it Around: The story of East Bay punk
• S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
• First They Killed My Father
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
• Downtown 81 (2000)
• Citizenfour (2014)
• Try Harder
• TPB: AFK
• Blindspotting
• Joe Pera Talks with You
• Kidding
• Takeover (2021)
• A New Old Play
• The Kingmaker