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The Small Batch List
October 5th, 2018

Five things I thought you might like this week:

1) I have been enjoying a couple of playlists sent to me by one of my oldest friends. We grew both grew up in Australia. My friend grew up in Canberra and I was living in Adelaide and then Melbourne but our parents had known each other since university so we spent many school holidays playing together, then hanging out together, and then some time sharing a house together while studying and slothing in the 90s. When he got past his early 80s Star Wars obsession, he started getting into music, and he always introduced me to the most interesting stuff.
Mixed tapes first, then mixed cds and now decades later he lives in New York and I live on an island the Pacific Northwest and he sends me spotify playlists. Apart from playlists, he also finds me husbands. Well - the one and the only. He match-made us all the way back in 1996, with some deft, highly calculated moves for which I will be forever grateful. He has some good taste. This week I am sending you in the direction of not a husband but some great music; Jesca Hoop, whom I never knew before and I'm so glad to have found her. Thanks Dom.
2) It's week two of my Taika Waititi (director, actor, activist, artist, cool guy) Film Festival. Last week I suggested checking out his short Two Cars, One Night. This week I think we could all use a laugh, so I am suggesting you have a look at What We Do In The Shadows. This piece of pure hilarious silliness will give you that. In Waititi's TIFF masterclass, he explained that at one point during the making of this film, he said to co-creator and actor Jermaine Clements "Uhhh, we're turning this five minute idea into a feature film, what are we doing?" and Clements replied "Dude, the world needs stupid shit". Indeed, sometimes it really does. I'm very excited to see that it's being turned into a tv series... but a different cast. Boo.
3) Daily Bread:  these portraits of children from around the world and what they eat over one week by American photographer Gregg Segal are so interesting - not only visually, but also sociologically. It makes me want to take photos of my kids in the same way. One would be surrounded by bowls of buttery popcorn and the other would be illuminated with bowls of cereal with way too much milk. These portraits remind me a little of the series Toy Stories by Gabriel Galimberti which focuses on kids and their prized possessions. 
4)  Pantone has released a colour IQ test which is free and online. Apparently 1 in 255 women and 1 in 12 men have some form of colour vision deficiency. This test might lead you to some kind of realisation about how you see colour. We have a set of mugs in our house that is a constant source of argument. It's either the "green mugs" or the "blue mugs" depending on who's asking.  (I believe the green mug people in our house will fail this test. There is no such thing as robin's egg green... okay?). Speaking of Pantone, I am reminded that the colour of the year (chosen by a team of trend and colour experts at Pantone) for 2018 is Ultra Violet. I can't say I have noticed a lot of ultra violet in my world this year, have you? Next year is all about fetish foods, apparently. Those macarons look good. 
5) Dolly Magazine was an Australian publication that was always in the school bags and on the bedroom floors of every prepubescent and adolescent girl I knew when I was growing up. While it was full of fashion and celebrities and make up tips, it was the Dolly Doctor page that was never skipped over. An agony aunt column written by a doctor, who answered the curly questions of young girls across the country. Within her answers was where we all really found a sexual education - it was a whole lot more real and informative than the weird, incomprehensible diagrams of uteruses, fallopian tubes and ovaries that we otherwise knew from the classroom wall. This interview and video about Dr Melissa Kang, who was the Dolly Doctor for 23 years, is a nice little throwback. (H/T Pip)
Thank you for not unsubscribing after last week's batch of atrocious typos! I have a pretty healthy attitude of "publish and be damned" about this newsletter, because there are more important things in life, but even so, that was a little much.  I must point out that I didn't give my dad a chance to do his usual proofreading last week, so none of that was to do with him. It was all on me. And clearly... I need my dad! 

See you next week.



Claire Robertson,
The Small Batch List
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xo

p.s. 100 points for guessing the quote in the subject line!  This one is especially for my dad who will guess it in a nano-second. See if you can beat that. Last week was from Blackadder the Third

p.p.s. Blue or green?
 

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