Jess Henderson's Blog, page 4
May 14, 2020
On The Subject Of: An Interview with Grace Ebert
How many of us have toiled painfully at the task of writing a bio? To condense ourselves into a paragraph, let a lone a sentence, is a resounding task of discomfort. What’s key? What’s irrelevant? What’s interesting (as interesting to others as it is, or is not, to me)? Essentially, how to say more with less?
The well-worn saying ‘I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time’, rings truer now in our time-stricken lives, than it did when it was French philosopher and mathe...
May 9, 2020
The Puzzle of Post-Growth
Last week I received two emails, which felt like obtaining the two pieces missing from a 2000 piece puzzle sitting before you. The first was an issue of the bliss of the spam, a casual newsletter from radical curator Dalia Maini, and the second a shared article by economist Niko Paech.
In the latter, Paech outlines perspectives on a post-growth economy, and how that provides a lens to contemplate the future in the context of the corona crisis. In the former, Maini provides a call to precariat...
April 30, 2020
All Roads Lead to Lofi
The rise of chill as an aspirational state suggests that perhaps the best thing to feel is not much at all.
– Amanda Petrusich in Against Chill, New York Times (2019)
It’s 7th April and I am still trying to find ways to expand this small apartment. For the moment, music seems to be helping. This recording by Garcia’s People was made exactly a month ago, at the small space Nublu NYC. It’s available on Bandcamp, one of the platforms forfeiting the fee they usually take from artists in an act...
April 25, 2020
Slices of Life from LA
Our view of the US at present is obscured by the news, from our position in Europe. Here are dispatches from across the city of Los Angeles, reporting from life on the ground as the skies clear and the initial panic-dust settles. For now.
Wyatt Troll. Age: 30-something
Director of Photography and Photographer.
Position: Los Feliz
How would you describe your days in lockdown?
Los Angeles: it is quiet. the air is clean unlike anything in the last 75 years. the larger % of the population...
