Five delights: AUG 2023

In no particular order: five especially relevant signals worth tracking this season across culture, feelings (psychology, if I am generous), fashion and delightfully, dorky software.

Image: The Deep Sea by neal.fun

1: The Deep Sea. #sciencefactsandbadgraphics

Diving into useless facts is calming. Use 3 minutes of your day to dive into mostly-useless facts! An oft shared landing place when I am stressed, ‘The Deep Sea’ is a dive into scientific facts, specific to ocean depth.

Adorable and terrifying in equal measure.

Image: Scott Boms

2: I Take Full Responsibility Book. #sanitycheckingdevice

When there is no responsibility taken.

Lately I have been ruminating a lot on the idea of responsibility. What is mine? What is yours? Theirs? Does it matter?

This book has been a helpful tool from my friend Scott. He gifted this to me over a greasy diner brunch when we joined me on the path to the unknown.

Image: Emojipedia Top Five

3: 🧽 Emojipedia. #everydaytechnologytools

Now trending: Love and Death. Shockingly applicable and entertaining to search. Features emoji histories, versions across platforms, and what’s trending.

Image: The Cut; Photos: @subwaysessions/TikTok

4: 🩲f@SubwaySessionsasafashionresource

Voyeuristic and oddly pensive. Step into visceral discomfort. Celebrate ugliness. @Subwaysessions drags us kicking and screaming into FASHUN, accessorized with nervous energy.

Image: AnOther; The Red Shoes, 1948(Film still)

5: The Fraught Relationship Between Girlhood and Ballet shoes #diggingintodirtydancing

As #Barbiecore awakens the feminine side in all of us, I have been thinking about ballet. It defined what femininity looked like to me for years. Long, lithe, leggy, with pointy feet.

Enter: pointe shoes; the representation of the perfect ballerina and an object that I have come to love and loathe in equal measure.

This article tackles the pointy subject.