Of hand-drawn stars & more

Kisse Kahein by Akash Tripathi & Others // Can’t stop listening. Won’t stop listening. This is my Bindiya by Ali Pirzada of this year.

Scriptorium // Wdym there’s a game where you play a manuscript artist taking orders to create bizarre, beautiful medieval art?!

‘Sober Raves’ taking over Karachi // Here for reframing social life as halal raves in art galleries. Because HOW COOL!!

Bill Gates’ seed crusades // If you weren’t already aware, here’s another anecdote on the billionaire philanthropist myth.

3rd chapter of the docu-series by AABP // Alliance Against Blasphemy Politics is releasing the 3rd short documentary in their advocacy series against the misuse of blasphemy laws. Like the previous ones, they're looking for co-posters to post on Instagram with them.

Khun Residency // A 6-week on-site residency for spatial practitioners is happening this summer in Gojal, Hunza. You’ll be renovating and repairing the summer khun of the host family with local materials, where they return each year to tend the grasses and trees.

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Orb soap bars // Handsoaps as collectible, sculptural objects? Yes I’ll take 5 of these please and thank you.

Decolonizing botanical gardens // This GORGEOUS essay by Sidra Khokhar’s uses a fictional dialogue between a daffodil at Kew and one in Lahore to unpack the movement of plants across the British Empire.

A very doodly night sky // This site is a digital stargazing space, each star hand-drawn by someone else in the world! Once it loads, there’s nothing at first. But the longer you linger, the more stars surface in all shapes and forms and fill up the screen. It mimics the behavior of your eyes taking time to adjust to the actual night sky, and spotting more and more stars the more you gaze. It’s one of the most human and beautiful things I’ve seen in the digital space recently in the movement to slow down.

Nothing else for today. Until the next one, shaam bakhair 🌅🤍

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