With tasting notes of a Parisian video store, bold street photography, ancient pizzas, and 1:2 scale Ferraris your dog could (maybe) drive…

The good life beckons once more!

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☼ A guide to achieving the more joyful and interesting life that we know is within our grasp, from The School of Life (also thoroughly enjoyed their other short reads: A Simpler Life and Relationships)

☼ New Poolsuite mixtape! An Hour of Summer #20 from Neil Frances (also on SoundCloud)

☼ An exceptional collection featuring hundreds of vintage Swatch watches goes to auction on July 19th

☼ The Short of the Week YouTube channel premieres the best, most ground-breaking short films from emerging filmmakers

☼ How pro chef Abby Lee (of Mambow, London) designed a perfect kitchen for Malaysian home cooking

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Thoughtfully assembled to meet the exacting preferences of the leisure class...

☼ Flighty is probably the best app on earth for people who fly often

☼ An enjoyable lesson in confidence and confrontation with street photographer Trevor Wisecup

☼ Never gets old: the warming, inspiring conversation between music icons Pharrell and Rick Rubin.

☼ Art collective Rotganzen’s Le Carré is an exquisite side table featuring a disco ball squashed between green marble blocks

☼ Wes Anderson visits a Paris video store and walks though his favourite movies (check out the full Vidéo Club series from Konbini)

☼ Diving into the act and art of digital creative archiving

☼ A fresco painting discovered by archeologists in Pompeii has revealed a distance ancestor to modern pizza (recipe included!)

☼ Current obsession: Fuji X Weekly is an app for iPhone & Android which serves up custom profiles for Fujifilm digital cameras to make their photos look like 35mm film directly in-camera, no editing required

☼ Because I missed it two months ago: Ben Kingsley plays Salvador Dalí in the first trailer for Mary Harron’s upcoming Daliland film

☼ The Little Car Company makes stunning, scaled-down, electric reinterpretations of iconic vintage cars (immediately off to research the legality of one of these being my daily driver)

Until next time!

Sunshine always,

Marty