Top five - 04 jan 25

1980's Italy, Helen Dewitt, Green Planet, Jodojibambocho, the lotus code

1. 1980’s Italy street style

   

   I think she’s wearing a tshirt unitard over heather grey leggings, pushed up at the knees. A legendary use of exclusively cotton in an athletic tone. Impossibly 80s

   

   tiny italian kids in tiny swimsuits

   

   real men wear feminine white tees, dark denim and well-made, broken-in shoes. real men have peppered beards.

   

   bikini on a scooter

   

   dream retail space

   

   dream retail space 2

   

   three perfect yellow dresses

   All photographs by Charles H. Traub.

2. Helen Dewitt, The English Understand Wool

3. Green Planet on hbo MAX by David Attenborough. For a taste, please get to know this giant water lily that eliminates competition from the water’s sunlit surface by wielding their spiked buds like a club and then grow at an alarming speed.

4. On this day, seven years ago, I was in Kyoto, Japan. I woke up and hiked a nearby trail alone (my brother will not rise early). We visited some cafes in our neighborhood and the local library. Noodles for dinner.

   

   

   neighbor

   

   drinking water on the trail

   

   the best (fuji) apple juice I have ever had in my entire life

   

   another neighbor

   

   udon and tempura for dinner

5. I am a long time fan of Tessa Matthias’ work. In a nature reminiscent of many artists I love, she has been quiet until recently, in what seems like an outburst of creativity, emerging on my feed with several custom order pieces that embody her from-the-ancient-earth-and-from-the-future-stars approach to design and styling.

   

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Russian children’s book postscript:

Eva Janikowska "Something Always Happens to Me," drawings by Laszlo Reber, publishing House "Children's Literature" Moscow, 1975. See more here