Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
cocktail recipe: The Spirits #135: The Joy Division – Plus: Some novels you should consider reading this summer (Richard Godwin/The Spirits). Looks yummy. I love the idea of using a dash of blue curaçao, too.
long essay with photos: Like shining from shook foil: An endorsement of new forms of travel (Shore Leave). “There will be time enough for Yelp reviews in the grave. Fly wherever’s cheapest and learn to throw knives in the first bar you find. …You have to create your own mythology if the world isn’t supplying it.” Also, a short travelogue from Lijiang in China’s Yunnan province.
short video: Asking AI to Generate the Tour de France (crit.meme /Instagram).
images: An Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds (Luke Stephenson). (Scroll left)
essay/architectural tour: The Hanging Gardens of Barbican: One of the wonders of the modern world (Andrew Eberlin/Photos, Photographers and Photobooks). “Designed as a city within a city it houses 4000 residents, two schools, a church, a library, a lake, a conservatory and an arts centre. This is an example of how a 1960s brutalist project can look, when it is built with quality materials and is properly maintained.” Plus, nestled among, “one survivor from the Blitz, the Gothic Church of St Giles-without-Cripplegate.”
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