Hi, art lovers!
What were you like in high school? I suspect a lot of us wish we'd been bigger keeners as kids, because the most popular article on the site this week was this story: an interview with a 16-year-old graphic designer from Scarborough, Ont., who's absolutely killing it. Since teaching himself the craft, he's built an all-star client list. Rappers, influencers, Toronto Raptors: they've all called on Benjamin Bwamiki.
Meanwhile, I'm frittering away my post-teenage years, spending way too much time on the internet. So here's a few of the best random things I've read this week. A hilarious analysis of "garbage" corporate language. An argument against watching Love Is Blind (though I totally binged it, and I regret nothing). The case for more "niceness" in reality TV (tied to another extremely watchable Netflix series, Next in Fashion). TikTok is even creepier than you thought. It's 2020, and frogs are the new cats. And mushrooms are the new frogs.
The world desperately needed a portrait of Billie Eilish in the style of Caravaggio. I didn’t know it till I saw it, but there you go. (Painter Jesse Mockrin explained the project to Vogue.)
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