Food and Spring Time

April 2023 Curated Ingest

Hi everyone,

April really has flown by! I’m excited to welcome the warmer weather in the city — I’m running a race in a few weeks, and then it’s time for graduation! Some personal updates:

• I updated my personal site :)

• I am two weeks out from graduating. I have two projects left to complete before I graduate... no papers or tests!

• I am excited to be traveling to Japan in early June for two weeks -- let me know if you have any recommendations!

• Next, a poem I recently found I wanted to share:

1970

Saturday all things happen to us:

drink lots of brandy and go to bed early.

Saturday we make a pillow and revolutionize the apartment.

- Frank Lima

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AI Implementation

• Great example of how I think AI can be used as an aide in Spline 3D

• Open source GPT-4 you can run on your laptop

Architecture & Clothing

• Bell Labs NJ remodel - interesting in the context of ‘turn office spaces into apartments’ discussions. They use the exterior of this building in Severance.

• Finalists for a competition around 'new kinds of home communities' in the UK. The way they show their work is so interesting to me!

• I like this cabinet texture

• Bloomberg piece on bus dwellers — features cool animations!

• Interview with the Nike Vaporfly 3 (racing shoe) designer.

• New Yorker on Prep fashion

Misc.

• 2nd edition of the html review

• Infra that looks like sci-fi

• Anti-distraction Android skin

• Fictional brand archives

• Notes on taste - I like #12

• David Harvey on capital’s new position

• So many glasses for drinking!

• Women’s only sports bar in PDX

• I just like the filmmaking in this

BONUS: NYC

• Fletcher C Johnson’s History of Williamsburg

• Bike Kill :O

• History of NYC Weed Store Fronts

• Made in Situ - Portuguese cork made furniture (thanks Connor!)

• Found Poems

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That’s all! I hope you are all doing well and are able to enjoy the spring time. I’ll leave you with another poem that I quite liked:

I Need a Poem

Can we talk about the moon

tonight? Low & full

in the baby-blue sky. A friend

at my door, the sound

of her laugh & well-loved

heart. I want to be held

up like that. I need a poem

about happiness I haven't

written yet, an ode

to the ducks in my neighbours'

pool, another for the pink

magnolias of spring - some trees

make it look so easy: Yes,

I can hold all this beauty up.

- Kyla Jamieson (2018)

‘till next month,

Andrei