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1.24.2019
trying a gimmick here
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P.S. If you're enjoying this letter and know others who would, too, would you be so kind as to introduce us?
let's go.
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Best line: Guillermo has described the project as "a ship on land"—modest structures just comfortable enough for short stays yet designed to beckon visitors out to sea.
Life there revolves around the weather. "From May to September, the days are very short, which promotes sleep and reading," he says. "Between October and April the days are very long—sixteen hours of light—and we spend our time on the beach, with friends, and sailing."
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A riveting interview with photographer Monique Jacques about her mission to give a voice to women in Gaza, where girls often live in close quarters with their family and aren't given much freedom to make mistakes.
Best line: "If you google Gaza now, you’ll only see photos of destruction and men, but that was not what I was seeing. I started asking people from Gaza if they felt represented in the media and the answer from women was almost always no. That’s why I started taking these pictures."
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The architecture of the internet is as fascinating as the architecture of our world. Once, it felt like the Wild West. Now, it it's like there are 10 sites we all visit on the reg. What happened in between?
Best line: In sacrificing a sense of utopian ambition to give its early users something closer to their physical surroundings, [Geocities] also enacted a spatial politics rooted in American history, bound to the nation’s history of settler colonialism and suburban sprawl.
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Best line: “It’s home,” Rosario said in Spanish. “Every Dominican likes to eat their food, and this is the closest to my mother’s cooking. It makes me feel better. Sometimes you just want to eat your rice and beans and Dominican-style meat.”
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What I like: Printed maps with beautifully restored cartography, presented in a vintage format. But it's not just atlases; they've got botanical charts and zoological prints, too.
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