https://monthlynotions.cargo.site 2026-08-08T15:14:22+00:00 always 0.5 https://monthlynotions.cargo.site/july-2026 2026-08-08T15:14:24+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2793523315616220535069639901479/horizontal-3.png <a href="https://www.needlebound.ca/shop/p/the-original-book-ttzy8-7nfah">Needlebound Volume 3 (!)</a> Been chipping away at the most ambitious volume of Needlebound yet. It’s almost ready to print and sitting at close to 300 pages. This anthology focuses on the spaces that textiles occupy. Place, in the context of fibre and stitch, is never singular. It exists in the tension between the global and the intimate, in the distance between hand and material, in the threshold where body meets cloth, and increasingly, in the mediated spaces of digital networks. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N3065810707185663119354552120584/1.png This Can’t be the Place: Alternative Theories of the Internet Essays drawn from INC's Longform series. The collection moves from vernacular image forms (the screenshot, the shitpost, the deliberately stretched Reel) through platform critique, to online performance of gender, to the physical spaces people post from (bedrooms, home offices, internet cafés in Romania). https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G3065810795545567232423304361224/3.png Exit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold <a href="https://www.neroeditions.com/product/exit-reality-2/" target="_blank">Valentina Tanni</a> An ambitious (and I would argue successful) project to scaffold, categorize and document liminal internet subcultures that have accumulated online over the past fifteen years. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M3065810868723800972829095621896/2.png <a href="https://www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2016/10/24/mary-ruefles-my-private-property" target="_blank">My Private Property </a> "My Private Property" is the title essay of Mary Ruefle’s second collection of prose. It begins by lamenting how underappreciated the art of shrinking heads has become, then leaps associatively between the mechanics of the craft, her teenage infatuation with a Brussels museum, and the death of her mother, circling the question of what it means to long for something and to own it. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M3065811108974195788822295868680/5.png <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3122458">On the Architecture of the Folk Game: The Case of 'The Floor is Lava' A case study is "the floor is lava," traced to the layout of the postwar American suburban home,</a> <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3122458">holding a latent space of games that can be discovered independently in many places at once.</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E3065811298551384634335357826312/6.png <a href="https://www.rhidancey.com/shop/p/zoe-top-ltngp?utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer_notification">Rhi Dancey - Juicy Baby Tee</a> Saw this at SXC Showroom in Berlin but they didn’t have it in my size so I promptly ordered it onine. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D3065811563686437205762743203080/7.png <a href="https://falsearalia.bandcamp.com/album/false-lp-a-topdown-dialectic">False LP A - Topdown Dialectic</a> Heavy rotation, sketches & variations of dub techno that evolve across the entire LP. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N3065813694580525624395307676936/IMG_3996.JPG Drawers of type specimen at Museum für Gestaltung Zürich <a href="https://museum-gestaltung.ch/en"></a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z3065813845345764938823473034504/IMG_4122.JPG Swans in Zurich https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M3065813962298122366142030279944/IMG_4549.JPG Mountainside houses in Lauterbrunnen https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G3065814104264264757410739516680/IMG_5056.JPG The well-pampered cows of Grindlewald https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I3065814211642762010474039473416/IMG_5820-2.JPG Beautiful moment of synchronicity while working on Needlebound and watching The Game https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J3065814356671063917978534278408/IMG_6124.JPG I have to be the most critically engaged chronically online person at the pool for some reason https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K3065814536932647006268272669960/IMG_4924.JPG Spiritually ascending in the Swiss Alps https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V3065820741771717359581601985800/4.png <a href="https://www.needlebound.ca/shop/p/the-original-book-ttzy8-7nfah">Needlebound Volume 3 (!)</a> Been chipping away at the most ambitious volume of Needlebound yet. It’s almost ready to print and sitting at close to 300 pages. This anthology focuses on the spaces that textiles occupy. Place, in the context of fibre and stitch, is never singular. It exists in the tension between the global and the intimate, in the distance between hand and material, in the threshold where body meets cloth, and increasingly, in the mediated spaces of digital networks. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U3065825519367751985913213220104/11.png SHOPPING4IMAGES Influencer Polo I wore this a ton during the World Cup. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q3065829415855055931508091516168/IMG_6191.JPG Getting back into the knit pillow production cycle https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O3065829683498865696959975912712/IMG_3973.JPG This David Rudnikified yuzu lemonade https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U3068881331248671543582500844808/Copy-of-May-2026-Notions.png <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/techno-spin-class-brooklyn-sweat-equity/">I Went to a Techno-Only Spin Class And Discovered the Joy of Being a Gym Thot </a>I have been going to spin class regularly for the past few months and my primary gripe is that the music is genuinely horrendous. I wanted to see if any studios have partnered with DJs that spin tracks beyond the usual Rufus Du Sol/early 2000s Beyonce rotation. Turns out Discwoman partnered with a spin studio a few years ago to bring their grassroots club culture to an Equinox. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y3068885698367757041729169519880/Copy-of-May-2026-Notions-1.png Internet Archive Tote Bag My most complimented accessory. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W3068905150809870905851830072584/14.png Kem Coba Kem Coba flavours this month have been popping off. Notable highlights include the coconut & orange sorbet soft serve, miso yuzu, lime praline and obviously their mainstay pandan. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q3068905331329708411173502186760/22.png <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9GPhjwRkBM&pp=ygV1ICBDQSAgU2tpcCBuYXZpZ2F0aW9uIFNlYXJjaCAgICBDcmVhdGUgIDkrICBBdmF0YXIgaW1hZ2UgUGF1bCBTdC4gSGlsYWlyZSAmIFJlbsOpIEzDtndlIC0gRmFpdGggKFZveCBNaXgpIFtSZS1VcGxvYWRd" target="_blank">Paul St. Hilaire & René Löwe - Faith (Vox Mix) </a> I heard this at a reformer pilates class at Palestra and it has been on repeat since then. I might be even more obsessed with the YouTube rip, which pairs it with early 2000s footage of someone walking through Tokyo. The comment section also https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X3068905443836400516728057492744/20.png Brainrot Lecture: The Psychology of Attention in a Digital World w/ Dr. Sarah Shepherd TIAT has had some absolutely incredible programming in July, none of which I’ve been able to attend IRL. They have been uploading lectures from their Slop Epistimologies programming on Youtube, which I’m eternally grateful for. This talk in particular was fantastic. More quantitative measurement of the affect of videos overlaid with Subway Surfers, please. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U3068905529337059298371829232904/19.png <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8NAE2KKO8w&t=28s&pp=ygUQYm9yb3MgY29sbGVjdGlvbg%3D%3D">Meet the collectors | Karen and Christian Boros</a> Imagine if more people with unchecked access to wealth had taste as good as Karen and Christian Boros. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N3068906174456593044142268347656/Copy-of-May-2026-Notions-2.png <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJSbWTpnYSQ&t=607s&pp=ygUrY2hpcCBtYW51ZmFjdHVyaW5nIHByb2Nlc3MgYnVzaW5lc3MgaW5zaWRlctIHCQnECwGHKiGM7w%3D%3D">Inside The Chip Factory 1,000 Times Cleaner Than An Operating Room Been </a> really into these Business Insider videos this month. They feel a bit like if How It’s Made dove deeper into macro/behavioural economics. Chip manufacturing is so beyond my comprehension no matter how many behind-the-scenes videos I watch about it. https://monthlynotions.cargo.site/june-2026 2026-08-08T15:14:24+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2793523315616220535069639901479/horizontal-3.png <a href="https://www.scheidegger-spiess.ch/en/product/the-tea-towel/1650" target="_blank">The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item - Basil Linder, Vera Roggli & Eva Wolf </a> My favourite research-creation projects hone in on a single hyper-specific, quotidian object and dissect it from political, sociological, and material angles: in this case, the tea towel. this anthology shows how loaded the humble kitchen cloth is bound up with unpaid care work, colonialism, and equality, while sliding between museum-shop design object and cheap mass-produced good. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E3003974323546710068483609589000/5.png my feet were killing me walking 20k+ steps a day in berlin, so I picked these up out of desperation at Muji. unfortunately it had the inverse effect and gave me gnarly blisters, but I think once I break them in they will be a staple https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I3003974323583603556631028692232/7.png Picked this up in up in Good Hood in Shoreditch. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G3003974323528263324409900037384/4.png <a href="https://www.scheidegger-spiess.ch/en/product/the-tea-towel/1650" target="_blank">The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item - Basil Linder, Vera Roggli & Eva Wolf </a> My favourite research-creation projects hone in on a single hyper-specific, quotidian object and dissect it from political, sociological, and material angles: in this case, the tea towel. this anthology shows how loaded the humble kitchen cloth is bound up with unpaid care work, colonialism, and equality, while sliding between museum-shop design object and cheap mass-produced good. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q3003974323472923092188771382536/1.png I went against my own personal rule of not buying widely available perfumes while traveling to buy this. I sampled it too many times in a few days and fell in love with the yuzu + fig combo which is fresh but sexy. I had sampled it too many times in my first few days in london that I had already developed an association with it. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J3003974323565156812557319140616/6.png <a href="https://softcover.at/product/spike-magazine-87-everythings-computer/" target="_blank"> Spike Magazine - Everything’s Computer</a> Had been on the hunt for this for ages since finding out that Ann Hirsch and Sophie Publig have work in there, this issue is curated around the premise that there's no longer a meaningful line between 'real life' and life online. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V3003974323491369836262480934152/2.png This divine moves hat by KAP that I got at Voo Store in Berlin, designed by Ehsan Morshed focusing the emergent meaning arising from collaging found tabloids. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N3003975505780091008455063106824/3.png extremely haunting paintings by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yves_ciroc/?hl=en">Pol Taburet </a>that I originally saw at the Boros Collection https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G3006488617346500850688207615240/9.png <a href="https://www.qingfibre.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorkoTbJcj6G9qfBxxCrAkxZ70BEZ6jI8ZJ-GSKXWitgGkyUkXOv">Qing Fibre was extremely kind to invite me to their studio while I was in London and let me live out a ‘criterion closet’ moment at their warehouse. Suri Baby Alpaca has been extremely coveted for me since it’s hard to find the colorways I love in Canada, so I grabbed a few skeins while I was there.</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C3006489130221326332034871194888/5.png <a href="https://www.setmargins.press/books/the-pyromaniac-images/">The Pyromaniac Images: Theory-Fiction of Generative AI - Pierre Cassou-Noguès & Gwenola Wagon </a> Another wonderful release from Set Margins. A philosopher and an artist team up to write short speculative stories about generative AI, using fiction to ask what it means that every AI image burns real energy, so our endless appetite for generated pictures is a kind of fire or an addiction the authors call "pyropictomania” https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J3006489711515125582770261718280/10.png Bought this for Tito for an anniversary gift, both hotels I’ve stayed in on my trip have had this as the bathroom products and it makes me miss home. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X3007035516176855230565717636360/17.png <a href="https://sweetchunk.bandcamp.com/album/save-state-expansion-pack" target="_blank">this tape by Baychimo </a>that pays homage to early 90’s drum n bass and garage from playstation games that I picked up at OYE records in Berlin https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K3007035610292143494631849981192/16.png I got a copy of <a href="https://www.sourcetype.com/store/51534/dictionary-of-the-illegible" target="_blank">Dictionary of the Illegible by Laurenz Brunner, </a>I especially love something about miffy filling a journal with marks only she could read feels like the truest picture of keeping a diary, the writing was never for anyone, not even for language. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N3007035767255488817826424681736/14.png <a href="https://bildbandberlin.com/products/charlie-engman-hello-chaos-a-love-story?srsltid=AfmBOoooqUyjMeLVD4urRoAaoTeQcuIA3flBkhee8wdNhK6o1QDpKmba">Hello Chaos, A Love Story - Charlie Engman</a> This short book recasts Hello Kitty and Mickey Mouse as estranged lovers. acute, mute kitty chasing mickey's attention in vain. through their cat-and-mouse longing and a dense mix of original and found images, engman picks at the horny, horrible vulnerability of looking and being perceived. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R3007035917873154179664913626376/13.png also this page from Hello Chaos...just read it https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L3007089703598252216815846946056/IMG_3063-2.JPG beautifully arranged glassware at a boutique I forget the name of https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X3007089903579404719901096015112/IMG_2688.JPG waiting eagerly for the tour at boros collection https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L3007090028629882795578146419976/IMG_2579.JPG heart shaped blocks at an exhibition at hamburger banhof https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V3007090175244604693421662663944/IMG_2414.JPG what i wore to berghain (all black canadian tuxedo) (I got in) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S3007090477199358435973313066248/IMG_3077-2.JPG a sign that caught my attention in charlottenburg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K3007090996788798760150253434120/IMG_1651-2.JPG tracey emin's bed at the tate. i've only ever known it flat and by a few angles reproduced in art history books and papers. standing beside it is something else entirely. exquisitely intimate, like being let into a room you were never meant to see. a bed that was truly lived in that still holds the shape of the body. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C3007091154287099661482405131528/IMG_1518.JPG beautiful objects i found at APOC store in london https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S3007091252829606503238829864200/IMG_1371-2.JPG cop copine shirt that i found that fits like a glove at a thrift store in London https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J3007091385719950810242439705864/IMG_1358.JPG pulling up to london at about 7am with a lovely cab driver who was singing the praises of how much he loves halifax/canadian east coast https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P3010306562564698006880371864840/18.png saw the <a href="https://jsfoundation.art/exhibitions/mark-leckey-enter-thru-medieval-wounds/">Mark Leckey retrospective at the Julia Stoschek</a> foundation in Berlin and it left me speechless. over fifty works spanning twenty-five years (video, sound installations, sculpture) all exploring rave culture, class, and how technology shapes memory. one of the best artist retrospectives i've ever seen. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L3010306627312769705600898037000/19.png <a href="https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/the-music-is-black-a-british-story?srsltid=AfmBOorx_JNjRdoQU5VDRbR1ac5Sr_1vvcvFS_bNOl3Phb4igKF0iq6L">The Music is Black at V&A</a> east floored me. it treats artifacts of black british music as an archaeology starting with slave trade documents and charters from the 1600s, then layer by layer showing how that history flows all the way into jungle and grime. the location-responsive audio in your headset was incredible, and by the final room people were literally dancing together. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C3011943388578366344848491410696/June-2026-Notions-1.png <a href="https://www.silicity.co/">Silicity Protocols - 404</a> This publication is self described as “navigating the liminal spaces between media, culture, mysticism, and technology.” This issue focuses specifically on 404 errors, namely how ‘ the error code not as a technical fault but as a cultural figure: the link rot, the place, the map which refuse to reach.’ https://monthlynotions.cargo.site/june-2026-substack 2026-08-08T15:14:24+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2793523315616220535069639901479/horizontal-3.png <a href="https://www.scheidegger-spiess.ch/en/product/the-tea-towel/1650" target="_blank">The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item - Basil Linder, Vera Roggli & Eva Wolf </a> My favourite research-creation projects hone in on a single hyper-specific, quotidian object and dissect it from political, sociological, and material angles: in this case, the tea towel. this anthology shows how loaded the humble kitchen cloth is bound up with unpaid care work, colonialism, and equality, while sliding between museum-shop design object and cheap mass-produced good. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E3003974323546710068483609589000/5.png My feet were killing me walking 20k+ steps a day in Berlin, so I picked these up out of desperation at Muji. unfortunately it had the inverse effect and gave me gnarly blisters, but I think once I break them in they will be a staple. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I3003974323583603556631028692232/7.png Picked this up in up in Good Hood in Shoreditch. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G3003974323528263324409900037384/4.png <a href="https://www.scheidegger-spiess.ch/en/product/the-tea-towel/1650" target="_blank">The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item - Basil Linder, Vera Roggli & Eva Wolf </a> My favourite research-creation projects hone in on a single hyper-specific, quotidian object and dissect it from political, sociological, and material angles: in this case, the tea towel. this anthology shows how loaded the humble kitchen cloth is bound up with unpaid care work, colonialism, and equality, while sliding between museum-shop design object and cheap mass-produced good. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q3003974323472923092188771382536/1.png I went against my own personal rule of not buying widely available perfumes while traveling to buy this. I sampled it too many times in a few days and fell in love with the yuzu + fig combo which is fresh but sexy. I had sampled it too many times in my first few days in london that I had already developed an association with it. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J3003974323565156812557319140616/6.png <a href="https://softcover.at/product/spike-magazine-87-everythings-computer/" target="_blank"> Spike Magazine - Everything’s Computer</a> Had been on the hunt for this for ages since finding out that Ann Hirsch and Sophie Publig have work in there, this issue is curated around the premise that there's no longer a meaningful line between 'real life' and life online. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V3003974323491369836262480934152/2.png This divine moves hat by KAP that I got at Voo Store in Berlin, designed by Ehsan Morshed focusing the emergent meaning arising from collaging found tabloids. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N3003975505780091008455063106824/3.png extremely haunting paintings by Pol Taburet that I originally saw at the Boros Collection https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G3006488617346500850688207615240/9.png Qing Fibre was extremely kind to invite me to their studio while I was in London and let me live out a ‘criterion closet’ moment at their warehouse. Suri Baby Alpaca has been extremely coveted for me since it’s hard to find the colorways I love in Canada, so I grabbed a few skeins while I was there. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C3006489130221326332034871194888/5.png <a href="https://www.setmargins.press/books/the-pyromaniac-images/">The Pyromaniac Images: Theory-Fiction of Generative AI - Pierre Cassou-Noguès & Gwenola Wagon </a> Another wonderful release from Set Margins. A philosopher and an artist team up to write short speculative stories about generative AI, using fiction to ask what it means that every AI image burns real energy, so our endless appetite for generated pictures is a kind of fire or an addiction the authors call "pyropictomania” https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J3006489711515125582770261718280/10.png Bought this for Tito for an anniversary gift, both hotels I’ve stayed in on my trip have had this as the bathroom products and it makes me miss home. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X3007035516176855230565717636360/17.png this tape by Baychimo that pays homage to early 90’s drum n bass and garage from playstation games that I picked up at OYE records in Berlin https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K3007035610292143494631849981192/16.png I got a copy of Dictionary of the Illegible by Laurenz Brunner, I especially love something about miffy filling a journal with marks only she could read feels like the truest picture of keeping a diary, the writing was never for anyone, not even for language. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N3007035767255488817826424681736/14.png <a href="https://bildbandberlin.com/products/charlie-engman-hello-chaos-a-love-story?srsltid=AfmBOoooqUyjMeLVD4urRoAaoTeQcuIA3flBkhee8wdNhK6o1QDpKmba">Hello Chaos, A Love Story - Charlie Engman</a> This short book recasts Hello Kitty and Mickey Mouse as estranged lovers. acute, mute kitty chasing mickey's attention in vain. through their cat-and-mouse longing and a dense mix of original and found images, engman picks at the horny, horrible vulnerability of looking and being perceived. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R3007035917873154179664913626376/13.png also this page from Hello Chaos...just read it https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L3007089703598252216815846946056/IMG_3063-2.JPG beautifully arranged glassware at a boutique I forget the name of https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X3007089903579404719901096015112/IMG_2688.JPG waiting eagerly for the tour at boros collection https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L3007090028629882795578146419976/IMG_2579.JPG heart shaped blocks at an exhibition at hamburger banhof https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V3007090175244604693421662663944/IMG_2414.JPG what i wore to berghain (all black canadian tuxedo) (I got in) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S3007090477199358435973313066248/IMG_3077-2.JPG a sign that caught my attention in charlottenburg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K3007090996788798760150253434120/IMG_1651-2.JPG Tracey Emin's bed at the Tate. i've only ever known it flat and by a few angles reproduced in art history books and papers. standing beside it is something else entirely. exquisitely intimate, like being let into a room you were never meant to see. a bed that was truly lived in that still holds the shape of the body. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C3007091154287099661482405131528/IMG_1518.JPG beautiful objects i found at APOC store in london https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S3007091252829606503238829864200/IMG_1371-2.JPG cop copine shirt that i found that fits like a glove at a thrift store in London https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J3007091385719950810242439705864/IMG_1358.JPG pulling up to london at about 7am with a lovely cab driver who was singing the praises of how much he loves halifax/canadian east coast https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P3010306562564698006880371864840/18.png saw the Mark Leckey retrospective at the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Berlin and it left me speechless. over fifty works spanning twenty-five years (video, sound installations, sculpture) all exploring rave culture, class, and how technology shapes memory. one of the best artist retrospectives i've ever seen. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L3010306627312769705600898037000/19.png The Music is Black at V&A East floored me. it treats artifacts of black british music as an archaeology starting with slave trade documents and charters from the 1600s, then layer by layer showing how that history flows all the way into jungle and grime. the location-responsive audio in your headset was incredible, and by the final room people were literally dancing together. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C3011943388578366344848491410696/June-2026-Notions-1.png <a href="https://www.silicity.co/">Silicity Protocols - 404</a> This publication is self described as “navigating the liminal spaces between media, culture, mysticism, and technology.” This issue focuses specifically on 404 errors, namely how ‘ the error code not as a technical fault but as a cultural figure: the link rot, the place, the map which refuse to reach.’ https://monthlynotions.cargo.site/may-2026 2026-08-08T15:14:24+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2793523315616220535069639901479/horizontal-3.png <a href="https://darkforest.metalabel.com/asexualhistoryoftheinternet?variantId=1" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">A Sexual History of the Internet by Mindy Seu </a>I was fortunate enough to catch one of the first runs of the performance/lecture hybrid counterpart to this book two summers ago at <a href="https://heartbroadway.love/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">HEART</a>. Very happy to have the physical book. The mobilizing force in charge of internet infrastructure is, and always has been, perversion. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2964099972528862425048280462600/4.png <a href="http://Teapot Sonder by Ode Ona" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Teapot Sonder by Ode Ona</a> Hojicha tea & pink pepper that smells like a glass of warm, slightly bitter almond milk. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2964099972565755913195699565832/2.png <a href="https://darkforest.metalabel.com/asexualhistoryoftheinternet?variantId=1" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">A Sexual History of the Internet by Mindy Seu </a>I was fortunate enough to catch one of the first runs of the performance/lecture hybrid counterpart to this book two summers ago at <a href="https://heartbroadway.love/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">HEART</a>. Very happy to have the physical book. The mobilizing force in charge of internet infrastructure is, and always has been, perversion. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2964099972547309169121990014216/3.png <a href="https://www.leeannhuang.com/product-page/running-horses-patch-hoodie" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Leanne Huang Running Horses Hoodie</a> Eduard Muybridge core with lenticular appliqués that animate the gallops. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2964104318600212935092350743816/Blog-1.png <a href="https://www.totei.com/story/trevor-paglen-holly-herndon-art-ai" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Trevor Paglan & Holly Herndon in Conversation</a> This was such a refreshing dialogue in the midst of the ‘what does it mean to be an artist in the age of AI”-think-piece-pocalypse that we’re still in the thick of. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2964412428368370096966583448840/5.png <a href="https://chopovalowena.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopF0xkVhShFlsrIa2QQeMciftZD7W1eM3Y_y8WQ_EU_B7ml_VR4" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Chopova Lowena</a> Yellow Guy Shirt I found this unworn a a thrift store with the SSENSE tags still on. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2964412428349923352892873897224/6.png Bliss Lace-up Sneakers by <a href="https://en.rockfish-weatherwear.co.kr/category/sneakers/337/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Rockfish Weatherwear</a> I used to wear a pair of <a href="https://www.dancewearcentre.com/products/freeform-dance-shoes-capezio-ff01-adult?variant=1023714387" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">jazz shoes that I bought from a dance equipment online shop </a>that obviously weren’t meant to be worn outside. I loved the way they gave me full articulation of my feet. These fill the same void and are much more equipped for the elements. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2964416230851066242937586709768/IMG_0449.JPG Heart shaped cliff at Sutro Baths. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2964424015819787206137397900552/Blog-2.png This massive collection of <a href="https://grocerylists.org/collection/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">found grocery lists</a>. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2964431487839494958854665925896/IMG_9266-2.JPG A dirty martini under a fake sunset at the Venetian, Las Vegas. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2964434945607884599415278138632/IMG_0658.JPG 3pm nap with Goose, nearly a daily ritual. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2965335394384667559158578935048/2.png <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/306629989088" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Working Women: The Appalling Uses and Abuses of the Feminine Form by Jessica Strang</a> I found this at a fantastic secondhand bookstore in SF (<a href="https://etaletc.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Et Al, Etc</a>) for 10 dollars. The thesis of this book is really just to be a woman is to perform. On the cover that I have, it depicts a nutcracker with a woman who crushes shells between her thighs, which I would argue subverts that narrative. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2965335518605042151518699517192/3.png <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/3477-how-to-see-like-a-machine?srsltid=AfmBOop2VC007LXmE7UazElhxSzi30k0ASz3wlSDqGeR4g1RMNQqyYoD" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">How to See Like a Machine by Trevor Paglan</a> The most recent release from Paglan on investigating what ‘vision’ looks like without a human eye, especially when most images are completely fabricated. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2965341311620551059266289005832/6.png Children’s illustrations of the internet by <a href="https://findingctrl.nesta.org.uk/draw-the-internet/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Nesta</a>. “Younger children (aged six to eight) tend to draw “networks” of people, houses, clouds, and flowers. For these children, “the internet” seems to be something that floats in the air and connects things. As they get older, their relationship with apps and brands quickly becomes dominant. “The internet” gets diminished to icons that live on smartphones, tablets and computers.” https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2965341445322552105513119118600/2.png <a href="https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/backrooms-and-the-rise-of-the-institutional-gothic/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Backrooms and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic</a> We've transposed the Gothic genre's ancestral sins and crumbling aristocracies onto the mundanity of fluorescent lighting and offices that remain empty after COVID era remote work. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2965348406957744826834513032456/9.png This <a href="https://kudzuaudio.bandcamp.com/album/ge1-tape-kzu002" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">mix by PLO Man</a>, but basically any mix by PLO man. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2965349128594372990352172250376/7.png <a href="https://nudapaper.com/front-cam-reconsidered/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Front Cam Reconsidered: The Micro-history of the Front-Facing Camera</a> 2016 cakey makeup as ‘stage makeup’. Before the front camera, you took a picture of yourself. After it, you took a picture while looking at yourself. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2965354313992578854180841059592/54C1805E-4DDD-4DA8-9D04-5E803475FACD-3.jpg A screenshot of<a href="https://www.instagram.com/dazy_chains/p/DZAvaLNFKoH/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> eye tracking heat maps that I took looking at AI slop images of impossible knits</a>, which I then converted into a knitting chart to knit myself. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2965355933303113876626410566920/IMG_0216.JPG Numbers on the side of the Internet Archive stage, which riff off of the idea of including notation to bible passages in a church (the Internet Archive is housed in a former cathedral). The numbers represent HTTP status codes, with 200 = ‘OK’, 404 = ‘error and 451 = simultaneously representing ‘unavailable for legal reasons’ and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451">the temperature at which the paper of a book spontaneously ignites when exposed to heat.</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2965358033372692948090314290440/IMG_9526.JPG As part of my work conference, I saw the Backstreet Boys at the Vegas Sphere and they were wearing head-to-toe Issey Miyake. https://monthlynotions.cargo.site/may-2026-substack 2026-08-08T15:14:24+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2793523315616220535069639901479/horizontal-3.png <a href="https://darkforest.metalabel.com/asexualhistoryoftheinternet?variantId=1" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">A Sexual History of the Internet by Mindy Seu </a>I was fortunate enough to catch one of the first runs of the performance/lecture hybrid counterpart to this book two summers ago at <a href="https://heartbroadway.love/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">HEART</a>. Very happy to have the physical book. The mobilizing force in charge of internet infrastructure is, and always has been, perversion. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2964099972528862425048280462600/4.png <a href="http://Teapot Sonder by Ode Ona" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Teapot Sonder by Ode Ona</a> Hojicha tea & pink pepper that smells like a glass of warm, slightly bitter almond milk. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2964099972565755913195699565832/2.png <a href="https://darkforest.metalabel.com/asexualhistoryoftheinternet?variantId=1" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">A Sexual History of the Internet by Mindy Seu </a>I was fortunate enough to catch one of the first runs of the performance/lecture hybrid counterpart to this book two summers ago at <a href="https://heartbroadway.love/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">HEART</a>. Very happy to have the physical book. The mobilizing force in charge of internet infrastructure is, and always has been, perversion. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2964099972547309169121990014216/3.png <a href="https://www.leeannhuang.com/product-page/running-horses-patch-hoodie" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Leanne Huang Running Horses Hoodie</a> Eduard Muybridge core with lenticular appliqués that animate the gallops. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2964104318600212935092350743816/Blog-1.png <a href="https://www.totei.com/story/trevor-paglen-holly-herndon-art-ai" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Trevor Paglan & Holly Herndon in Conversation</a> This was such a refreshing dialogue in the midst of the ‘what does it mean to be an artist in the age of AI”-think-piece-pocalypse that we’re still in the thick of. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2964412428368370096966583448840/5.png <a href="https://chopovalowena.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopF0xkVhShFlsrIa2QQeMciftZD7W1eM3Y_y8WQ_EU_B7ml_VR4" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Chopova Lowena</a> Yellow Guy Shirt I found this unworn a a thrift store with the SSENSE tags still on. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2964412428349923352892873897224/6.png Bliss Lace-up Sneakers by <a href="https://en.rockfish-weatherwear.co.kr/category/sneakers/337/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Rockfish Weatherwear</a> I used to wear a pair of <a href="https://www.dancewearcentre.com/products/freeform-dance-shoes-capezio-ff01-adult?variant=1023714387" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">jazz shoes that I bought from a dance equipment online shop </a>that obviously weren’t meant to be worn outside. I loved the way they gave me full articulation of my feet. These fill the same void and are much more equipped for the elements. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2964416230851066242937586709768/IMG_0449.JPG Heart shaped cliff at Sutro Baths. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2964424015819787206137397900552/Blog-2.png This massive collection of <a href="https://grocerylists.org/collection/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">found grocery lists</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2964431487839494958854665925896/IMG_9266-2.JPG A dirty martini under a fake sunset at the Venetian, Las Vegas. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2964434945607884599415278138632/IMG_0658.JPG 3pm nap with Goose, nearly a daily ritual. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2965335394384667559158578935048/2.png <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/306629989088" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Working Women: The Appalling Uses and Abuses of the Feminine Form by Jessica Strang</a> I found this at a fantastic secondhand bookstore in SF (<a href="https://etaletc.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Et Al, Etc</a>) for 10 dollars. The thesis of this book is really just to be a woman is to perform. On the cover that I have, it depicts a nutcracker with a woman who crushes shells between her thighs, which I would argue subverts that narrative. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2965335518605042151518699517192/3.png <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/3477-how-to-see-like-a-machine?srsltid=AfmBOop2VC007LXmE7UazElhxSzi30k0ASz3wlSDqGeR4g1RMNQqyYoD" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">How to See Like a Machine by Trevor Paglan</a> The most recent release from Paglan on investigating what ‘vision’ looks like without a human eye, especially when most images are completely fabricated. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2965341311620551059266289005832/6.png Children’s illustrations of the internet by <a href="https://findingctrl.nesta.org.uk/draw-the-internet/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Nesta</a>. “Younger children (aged six to eight) tend to draw “networks” of people, houses, clouds, and flowers. For these children, “the internet” seems to be something that floats in the air and connects things. As they get older, their relationship with apps and brands quickly becomes dominant. “The internet” gets diminished to icons that live on smartphones, tablets and computers.” https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2965341445322552105513119118600/2.png <a href="https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/backrooms-and-the-rise-of-the-institutional-gothic/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Backrooms and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic</a> We've transposed the Gothic genre's ancestral sins and crumbling aristocracies onto the mundanity of fluorescent lighting and offices that remain empty after COVID era remote work. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2965348406957744826834513032456/9.png This <a href="https://kudzuaudio.bandcamp.com/album/ge1-tape-kzu002" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">mix by PLO Man</a>, but basically any mix by PLO man. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2965349128594372990352172250376/7.png <a href="https://nudapaper.com/front-cam-reconsidered/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Front Cam Reconsidered: The Micro-history of the Front-Facing Camera</a> 2016 cakey makeup as ‘stage makeup’. Before the front camera, you took a picture of yourself. After it, you took a picture while looking at yourself. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2965354313992578854180841059592/54C1805E-4DDD-4DA8-9D04-5E803475FACD-3.jpg A screenshot of<a href="https://www.instagram.com/dazy_chains/p/DZAvaLNFKoH/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> eye tracking heat maps that I took looking at AI slop images of impossible knits</a>, which I then converted into a knitting chart to knit myself. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2965355933303113876626410566920/IMG_0216.JPG Numbers on the side of the Internet Archive stage, which riff off of the idea of including notation to bible passages in a church (the Internet Archive is housed in a former cathedral). The numbers represent HTTP status codes, with 200 = ‘OK’, 404 = ‘error and 451 = simultaneously representing ‘unavailable for legal reasons’ and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451">the temperature at which the paper of a book spontaneously ignites when exposed to heat.</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2965358033372692948090314290440/IMG_9526.JPG As part of my work conference, I saw the Backstreet Boys at the Vegas Sphere and they were wearing head-to-toe Issey Miyake. https://monthlynotions.cargo.site/guestbook 2026-08-08T15:14:24+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2793523315616220535069639901479/horizontal-3.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2964099972528862425048280462600/4.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2964099972547309169121990014216/3.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2964412428368370096966583448840/5.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2964412428349923352892873897224/6.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2964416230814172754790167606536/IMG_0209.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2964416230851066242937586709768/IMG_0449.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2964424015819787206137397900552/Blog-2.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2964431487839494958854665925896/IMG_9266-2.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2964433081158567581443477206280/IMG_0020-2.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2964434945607884599415278138632/IMG_0658.JPG