Dearest internet friends,

Welcome to this week’s instalment of what’s hot in life & leisure.

Much love ☼
Marty

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☼ Make something to learn more about what’s inside you

☼ Thrilled to introduce the successor to our incredibly popular VACATION by Vacation® unisex fragrance! Discover AFTER SUN by Vacation®. This exceptional blend marries notes from traditional after-sun gels, such as aloe vera essence, green tea verjus, cucumber, and cardamom absolute, with distinct tones of classic after-sun settings, like minibar gin, plush resort towels, and open-weave linen.

☼ 55 observations from taking a year off work (this is really really good, thanks Olly for sharing)

☼ Can someone in our community please buy this insane ‘98 Porsche 993?

☼ I’ve probably featured this before but honestly it deserves a mention every issue. This Instagram account is literally just photos of 3 exquisite Golden Doodle dogs cruising around Berlin in the back of their owner’s Mercedes 560 SL convertible. Does anything sum up the good life better?

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Hand picked with the utmost care exclusively for the most fervent leisure enthusiasts…

☼ Over the holidays I digitised ~30 old VHS tapes my parents collected when we were kids, and it was one of the most rewarding things I’ve done in a while. I used this device plugged into the back of an old VCR box to record the videos to an SD card.

☼ One of my favourite interior design publications, Sight Unseen, has their own 1stDibs storefront full of incredible vintage furniture pieces (if I could drop $12k on a coffee table, the Taarof Table by Kouros Maghsoudi would most definitely be in the running). In love with this too. I’m determined to design & produce a piece of furniture of my own this year!

☼ How to build an archive: “[The site] emerged out of the need to provide access for displaced, transnational, and immigrant families to feel empowered in (re)claiming, documenting, and sharing their own stories that have been erased”.

☼ Want to get excited about where you’re travelling to next? Want to fantasize about living life in a different city or country? Lit Cities lets you discover books set in different cities around the world by browsing an interactive map.

☼ On my quest to discover some sort of gluten free (celiac boi here), healthy, bread-like food I can eat on the daily, I found this 1 carb keto flatbread recipe which are very easy to make, highly recommend.

☼ I firmly believe that my villain arc is likely to be triggered by a recipe website while I’m trying to find the ingredients list & methods amidst the author’s 35 year career history, medical records summary & 750 word op-ed on their relationship with sweet potatoes, while battling 4 autoplaying video ads and 13 viagra pop-ups. So I’m thankful to have just discovered cooked.wiki – throw the URL cooked.wiki before a recipe URL (i.e. cooked.wiki/[original URL here] and it’ll automatically summarise the ingredients & method for you. You can save recipes if you create an account too.

☼ Portable cassette players are hitting the market again – we loooove to see it

☼ If you like taking photos and use Lightroom, the talented people over at The Classic Presets just released a new set of Lightroom presets to mimic Kodak’s iconic Kodachrome film stock. Below are some test shots I took at the weekend.

☼ Tune into the sounds of forests around the world with tree.fm. It’s powered by the Sounds of the Forest, a worldwide network of field recording enthusiasts collecting ambient sounds from the world’s woodlands. Very cool.

☼ Need some inspiration to go a little more medieval maximal with your home interior? Take a look inside Italian designer Alessandro Michele’s otherworldly apartment in Rome.

☼ Very into this Instagram account of miscellaneous scanned objects.

☼ A simple but stunning modern home in the hills of Argentina.

☼ Just an absolutely glorious spinning vinyl record storage shelf. This is a perfect product and I hope it makes them millions.

Until next time!

See you online ☼

Marty

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