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An incredible resource. This exhaustive archive of newspaper cuttings was assembled by Edda and Hans Tasiemka, and is now housed at Hymag in Woolwich Arsenal, London. Bulging foolscap document wallets in muted yellows, pinks and blues have themes jotted on ad hoc printer paper spines in Sharpie, groupings like Crimes Committed by Children, Accupuncture, Coal, Sienna Miller, Whales. Each file is bursting with hand cut articles from the British press on these very subjects. I spent a productive day there last year, reading and writing in the run up to recording our second album.
Jun 23, 2022
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Whether you need inspo, are curious about the discourse over the last few decades, want to get into a new hobby or whatever else, you can download open source magazine issues from decades past. They have magazines from as early as the early 1900s too! I have been obsessed with old video games lately so I have been looking at the old club nintendo magazines and it has been so fun. Like look at some of the covers these magazines used to have
Aug 7, 2024
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there are a lot of really cool magazines and other things archived here i think it’s a really good resource
Oct 2, 2024
we stock 80s and 90s issues of The Face at my work and part of my job is scanning them to upload to the website. obvi this includes a lot of browsing … had not heard of the brand new heavies until i came across the ad for their (then-upcoming) album. really good stuff fun and funky
Mar 13, 2024
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I was first given this by my friend Elizabeth who bought it at Books Peckham, an excellent second hand bookshop in South London (highly recommended!) run by another old friend, Peter Willis. It’s homemade by a woman called Sophie and contains Lavender, Clary Sage, Majoram, Mugwort and Roman Chamomile. I realise this is quite a mysterious description but if you find yourself in London go to Books Peckham and it will be there. It makes a tour bus smell like home! And when you are staying in a different bed every night it offers a familiar and heady smell to fall asleep to.
Jun 23, 2022
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I love this podcast. It’s about language. More specifically you could say it’s about conversational speech, intonation, and the host John McWhorter does a great job of bending his voice around the phrases and words he’s talking about. He’s a fan of musical theatre and plays a few show tunes with lyrics which relate to the themes of the episode. I like to have podcasts, or tv, people talking, on pretty much all the time I’m at home. I also need that on flights (I don’t like to fly but I have to do it often). So this podcast feels like a friend.
Jun 23, 2022
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A designer specialising in romantic, funny, slouchy, pre raphaelite cabbage leaf clothes. If you want to look like a grumpy baby in a long christening gown and at the same time a medieval vision emerging from a lake with some pond weed trailing then this is for you. I hope I can own some one day. At the moment they’re a little out of my league financially speaking ;) but for now I’m ok to enjoy them with my eyes only. But the need is great. I think they’re the most beautiful clothes.
Jun 23, 2022