THE UNEXPECTED UNION — Issue 62 ✻ May 22 2022 — OF UNEXPECTED THINGS
If you're not angry, you're not paying attention.
x Varyer Team
First Car, Best Car: The Angry Carrot Artist Marty Kaleta illustrates Jazz Robinson's long lost but never forgotten "Best Car"—a handpainted Pontiac T1000 hatchback.
Playlist: Songs of Contempt This playlist is a compendium of a specific kind of anger, songs that are about thatperson: the unforgivable one, the one who truly and irreparably fucked you over. Not only do you hope to never see them again, but you get a spark of delight in hearing about their misfortune.
One simple way to begin understanding Web3 and its value is through the liberties of a post-platform society ≻ Boutique search and curated interfaces could be one utopian byproduct ≻ The a16z State of Crypto PDF has been floating around and is worthwhile homework, whether as a primer or an update ≻ Let’s circle back to circling the wagons on Nike’s circularity principles ≻ A dense annual roundup of beer branding currents and insights ≻ “People read [The] Wire to find out about what they don’t know about, rather than to have what they already know reinforced.”- a reflection on 40 years of The Wire ≻ Some form of canon: The Sabukaru Guide to Japanese ambient music ≻ And then there’s this human-powered recommendation platform for discovering music videos with less than one million views on YouTube ≻ Always a pleasure to sit in on a John Lurie conversation ≻ Here’s how you can help Dilla get a bus for his Chicago Mahogany Tours ≻ Icelandic horses will answer your emails while you’re out of office ≻ Some awareness for people who people want to be but don’t want to do ≻ Hot pink is finally back, bitch.
“[T]he funds were low and the stakes were high.”
— Jazz Robinson,First Car, Best Car: The Angry Carrot, May 2022