Day: December 9, 2020

Hi All,

Hope everyone is taking care of themselves during this finals period. I came across this zine-like cookbook about rice through an instagram account that does flash tattoos, who was linking a publishing write Eda Yu as collaborator for the project. While the project is not spanning across Afro-Asia like our own cookbook, it’s tracing experiential and historical memories of three Asian rice dishes similar to our own ingredient genealogies. It’s also self-evident but still worth noting both this project and our own use Instagram as a distribution platform. I’ll attach links and screenshots to check out!

1 Nasi Padang   |   2 Sinigang   |  2 Biryani

Jane

Kaytranda dropped a single called “Look Easy” featuring Lucky Daye about a month ago. He just released a video and I thought the video’s content was somewhat correlated to the subject material we learn in this class, specifically, aesthetics. This video reminds me of that scene sequence in black panther where they have a fight in a casino that is hidden in a fish market. I think Kaytranda has some sort of connection to the Japanese market/aesthetic because he was recently the cover of GQ Japan. I did some research and also found out he spent last summer there, perhaps working on some music. Nonetheless, it is a great song and an amazing visual story.