cool websites
🍊 Marigold Town
A webhosting provider for personal webpages that take on the role of a "business, organisation, or [community] space". It's like a rural digital village located outside the city that is Neocities/Nekoweb.
🍊 Moku Blog
A microblogging feed where people share what they've eaten!
🍊 Status Cafe
A place to read and share small life updates by people across the interweb.
🍊 Gentle Earth
Submit something you can't say aloud. It could be posted, or it could remain in the void.
🍊 Type Into the Void
For getting things out of your system with no trace.
🍊 Dollect
A non-profit, extensive database of fashion dolls and toys for the purpose of archival and collection tracking.
🍊 Our Grandfather Story
"A digital publisher dedicated to uncovering timeless and overlooked stories across Southeast Asia by exploring society, culture and the human condition."
🍊 Reflections of Life
Two filmographers who aim to showcase the "infinite beauty of being human" through interviews with people around the world.
🍊 Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute
"An online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera from the 1970s [to the present]."
🍊 CARI - Are.na
Official associated Are.na page for CARI.
🍊 Evan Collins - Are.na
A more extensive catalogue available on this page by Evan Collins, one of the founders of CARI.
🍊 Institute of Network Cultures - Longform essays
In another life, I would've been a sociologist or anthropologist. I love socio-cultural essays on digital phenomena.
articles
🍋 The Harvard student who killed her roommate - Melanie Thernstrom
"A junior premed student took the life of her closest friend, then her own. She left behind a shocked campus, unanswered questions, and her diary."
🍋 Intimacy and the Machine: Slouching Towards Girlblogging - Biz Sherbert
The re-emergence and heightened visibility of toxic femininity sub-cultures hide behind an elusive and coquetteish appeal.
🍋 Avatars and Identity in the Metaverse, Part 1 - Nameer Hirschkind
The human need for identity and collective belonging is even apparent in the metaverse, where similar aesthetics are consistent among demographics and communities.
🍋 Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety - Reuters
Reuters made a cozy video game about cozy video games.
photography
🥝 Home for a time - Nur Aishah Kenton
"A collaborative photographic project that looks at young adults living in share houses across Australia."
🥝 Projects - Nguan
A Singapore-based photographer who captures the nuances of Singapore beautifully through a pastel lens.
favourites
🫐 Lofi Cafe
More often than not, I get distracted while listening to music with lyrics. This, alongside the temptation to doomscroll, is why I use this lofi radio over a music streaming platform to try and focus.
🫐 Epoch ホイップる / Whipple Craft - Catalog
Alongside Aquabeads and many other craft toy franchises from the 2010s, the first U.S. iteration of Whipple Craft'n'Fun Creme served as my introduction to decoden and was one of many of my inspirations for 3D modelling. I haven't been able to find any databases on the international products so far, but given their origins in Japan, I was able to find this catalog!