and the (very understandable) preoccupation we’ve all had with the rather bloody massive issue of a global pandemic.
We realised that even things like walking to work, heading down the pub with mates or talking to random strangers provided us with new ideas and angles.
And in the absence of all this, we all needed a regular injection of creativity to help keep us inspired and expose us to new ideas.
We’d usually chat about our favourite things to see, do, watch and read when we were all hanging out together in the office (😭 I MISS YOU TOO NOT LONG NOW 😭), but we’ve been sharing stuff on Slack instead, and our resident cultural maven Emilie curates the best bits and turns it into a weekly delivery of brainfood for us all to digest at our leisure. Nice one, Emilie.
We thought it was high time we shared some of our favourite bits with you too. So here’s some recent brainfood tasters for you to sample, and if there’s anything you’d like to share that you think we should check out, drop us a line.
SEE: ‘Where Love Lives’, an amazing documentary by the people at Defected Records / Glitterbox, “a story of dancefloor culture & expression”. For everyone missing the dancefloor.
LISTEN: 1619, an excellent 5-part podcast by the New York Times, is an in-depth examination of the realities of being black in America over 400 years
READ: She is Fierce, a collection of 150 poems by women, from classic to modern, and spoken word stars to school girls and suffragettes.
DO: Pick up a new skill or healthy habit from stylist’s new Curiosity Academy – online workshops, how-to guides and video classes from some of the uk’s most in-the-know people, from paper marbling to poetry writing to learning how to fall asleep quickly.
FOLLOW: Patternity, who aim to “inspire positive living and wonder through the infinite wisdom, beauty and power of pattern”.
ALISON IN WONDERBED
