No.23
A curated mix of thoughts, discoveries and fresh perspectives to kickstart your day.
Reg Yates has written a beautiful piece about the slow homogenisation of how we live. The beige. The curated calm. Spaces that look right but feel like they belong to nobody.
His argument isn’t anti-minimalism, it’s anti-erasure. The scratches, the books you’ve owned since childhood, the objects with no aesthetic reason to be there but every personal reason to stay. Evidence of a life, not a showroom.
We loved it. And couldn’t help feeling the same argument applies well beyond interiors.
Tokyo photographer Takashi Yasui has spent 15 years chasing light through the streets of Japan. By his own admission, he didn’t set out to become a photographer, he just walked in directions that seemed interesting.
The results are extraordinary. His entire Instagram is one of the most calming corners of the internet we’ve found in a while.
On Monday, a small underwater camera in a canal in Utrecht, Netherlands goes live for the spring. Every year, thousands of fish swim through the city looking for somewhere to spawn. But the lock is often closed.
When you spot a fish on the livestream, you press a button. A lock keeper is alerted and opens the gate. The fish continues its journey.
That’s it. That’s the Fish Doorbell.
Last year, 2.3 million people from around the world took a moment out of their day to help a fish through a lock. We find that genuinely wonderful.
The best discoveries come from friends, not algorithms. Forward or share if you think of someone who might enjoy this.
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