The Octet Digest: Scanning Darkly

This week's short reads, long reads, maybe wants, and kinda needs.

This is the first Octet Digest, a weekend microdose of what’s been in my sights over the past week. There are eight for regular subscribers, and eight more for paid supporters.

—Hamish

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Trade Winds (04), by Hamish Robertson. Edition of 1. Availability.

The nice people at IDEA discovered gun-toting motorcycle gang-member delinquent cats loitering in Japan →

Ideally, I’d read it cover to cover sipping from one of these nostalgic olde-milk glass coffee cups from New Zealand’s Coffee Supreme →

Smitten by Jacek Staniszewski’s clever depiction of Manhattan in his Polish-market poster for Bob Fosse’s 1979 classic, All That Jazz →

Likewise the beautiful illustrations by Michika Ishikawa on the Japanese handbill poster for Mike Mills’ superb 20th Century Women →

I recently toured Kelly Wearstler’s intriguing SIDE HUSTLE gallery project, housed in her personal pool house. I shared some images over here →

The photographer John Francis Peters (whom I first met when he photographed Andi and me for the NYT Styles back in 2015) recently joined this platform and wrote a beautiful and personal essay on who actually gets to be an artist →

And speaking of fresh Substacks, my other half, Andi, recently launched her own — go sign up for THAT BROAD →

A magnetic, modular shelving system that you can build along with your book or record collection →

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Paid supporters of The Octet can continue below for eight more links… thanks to all for your support, paid or not. I appreciate you.

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