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Jordan Harper

Miscellany, waffle, gratuitously stolen links, and much, much less.
Permanent link to 'Eat your heart out Delboy. Mango Rooms in Camden, top cocktails.'
Eat your heart out Delboy. Mango Rooms in Camden, top cocktails.

Eat your heart out Delboy. Mango Rooms in Camden, top cocktails.

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Beautifully shot video from DTP.DDDD where the folks at Intelligentsia coffee in Venice, CA explain what makes an espresso great. I like.

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I was about to post Edouard Salier’s awesome video for Massive Attack’s Splitting the Atom, but seeing it reminded me of his equally awesome (but very different) video he made last year for Raphael Saadiq, that I don’t think I posted at the time. (Raphael Saadiq - Let’s Take A Walk directed by Edouard Salier on Vimeo)

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Fashion designer Alexander McQueen dies aged 40

I didn’t see that coming. Blimey.

Permanent link to 'Sapporo was laid out in 1869 and has a street plan like New York’s … The result is a checkerboard that was considered at the time of the city’s founding to be “modern” and “Western”. Ironically, the Japanese city that Sapporo most resembles in this respect is Kyoto, laid out on an exactly similar pattern in the year 794 in imitation of China’s three-thousand-year-old capital of Ch’ang-an. “Modernity” is an oddly blinkered concept.'

“Sapporo was laid out in 1869 and has a street plan like New York’s … The result is a checkerboard that was considered at the time of the city’s founding to be “modern” and “Western”. Ironically, the Japanese city that Sapporo most resembles in this respect is Kyoto, laid out on an exactly similar pattern in the year 794 in imitation of China’s three-thousand-year-old capital of Ch’ang-an. “Modernity” is an oddly blinkered concept.”

— Alan Booth, The Roads to Sata

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Happy Friday everyone.

Permanent link to 'Gorgeous covers for reissues of Cormac McCarthy’s back catalogue designed by the ever awesome David Pearson. It almost makes me want to go out and re-buy all of them (via It’s Nice That)'
Gorgeous covers for reissues of Cormac McCarthy’s back catalogue designed by the ever awesome David Pearson. It almost makes me want to go out and re-buy all of them (via It’s Nice That)

Gorgeous covers for reissues of Cormac McCarthy’s back catalogue designed by the ever awesome David Pearson. It almost makes me want to go out and re-buy all of them (via It’s Nice That)

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Wes Anderson’s Spider-Man. Heh.

Permanent link to 'The universe is observing itself through us'

“The universe is observing itself through us”

— Think about that one for a while. (via kapi)

Permanent link to 'Jamaican rum from the Long Pond distillery, 1996. Cask strength and bottled by the good folks at The Whiskey Exchange (who sell a mind-boggling array of rums as well as whiskey). It warms you up, some. And yes, that is a squirrel nut-cracker looking out over a rather messy kitchen.'
Jamaican rum from the Long Pond distillery, 1996. Cask strength and bottled by the good folks at The Whiskey Exchange (who sell a mind-boggling array of rums as well as whiskey). It warms you up, some. And yes, that is a squirrel nut-cracker looking out over a rather messy kitchen.

Jamaican rum from the Long Pond distillery, 1996. Cask strength and bottled by the good folks at The Whiskey Exchange (who sell a mind-boggling array of rums as well as whiskey). It warms you up, some.

And yes, that is a squirrel nut-cracker looking out over a rather messy kitchen.

Permanent link to 'Eko - Ecological & economical traffic light concept — what a great idea. Who’s going to put this into production then? (via Paul Irish)'
Eko - Ecological & economical traffic light concept — what a great idea. Who’s going to put this into production then? (via Paul Irish)

Eko - Ecological & economical traffic light concept — what a great idea. Who’s going to put this into production then? (via Paul Irish)

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“In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue.”

— Sayre’s Law

Permanent link to 'Stunning photo (via travelhighlights) Bright Black Sky by Julia Galdo Miami, Florida, USA '
Stunning photo (via travelhighlights) Bright Black Sky by Julia Galdo Miami, Florida, USA

Stunning photo (via travelhighlights)

Bright Black Sky by Julia Galdo

Miami, Florida, USA

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The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures

Exploring data from the OKCupid dating site. Fascinating stuff, and like @bengoldacre, I’d kill to rustle through the raw data.

Permanent link to 'Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshū Ejiri) by Katsushika Hokusai, taken from the series ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji’ (Fugaku sanjū-rokkei): one of my favourite works of art by one of my favourite artists. And come July, I will be attempting to replicate the shot in-situ, as I am now officially going to Japan for 28 days! I can’t wait. Can anyone recommend anything for me to do in Japan?'
Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshū Ejiri) by Katsushika Hokusai, taken from the series ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji’ (Fugaku sanjū-rokkei): one of my favourite works of art by one of my favourite artists. And come July, I will be attempting to replicate the shot in-situ, as I am now officially going to Japan for 28 days! I can’t wait. Can anyone recommend anything for me to do in Japan?

Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshū Ejiri) by Katsushika Hokusai, taken from the series ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji’ (Fugaku sanjū-rokkei): one of my favourite works of art by one of my favourite artists.

And come July, I will be attempting to replicate the shot in-situ, as I am now officially going to Japan for 28 days! I can’t wait.

Can anyone recommend anything for me to do in Japan?