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The earliest known photo of the döner kebab (is a very popular takeaway in Western Europe) by James Robertson, 1855, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire

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Scavenger Reign (Animated 2023, HBO Max), is sci-fi with a mix of adventure on an intergalactic alien planet where the crew is stranded. Every crew member is on their journey to their one mother ship, the Demeter while trying to make sense of this new habitat and its hidden mysteries. The visuals are almost identical to Moebius comics and the game Sable. Some critics are also describing this animated series as an alien nature documentary which is evident in the quality of its world-building, the music is deeply mystic.

As the title already suggests, scavenging is part of the narrative where it becomes an essential skill to survive when one is stranded on an alien planet; understanding and making use of our immediate surroundings also needs high cognitive ability which only humans are capable of as we have been awarded numerous times the all-time best invasive species on the planet. But the act of scavenging has always fascinated me, in various life forms, what and how we find resourceful. Our ability to recognise the shapes and forms and their ideal function to achieve a task.

The other facet of the TV series is when a robot tries to understand the new life form on the planet where it is disconnected from the central system of the mothership hence, an independent AI which later becomes one in harmony with the local form of life by adapting.

Throughout the series, the creators also ask the universal fundamental question about life and the actual meaning of it all.

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August in Paris...

A little ray of sun every tuesday !! 🌞

🌞 D H O O O P 🌞

Doing a master’s in design research leads you to multiple angles, dimensions, viewpoints of thoughts and opinions, here is the beginning, to bring you my research and various outwarded and inward(ed) sights to the horizon as a beam of light, as the sunlight or as the ray of sun; dhoop (धूप). As a child when I was growing up with my grandmother, waiting for my school van, early in the morning on a non-cloudy day, she always prayed to the God of the Sun, "Surya Devta", a solar deity on the veranda of the house, feeding God with a "lota" full of water.

- That’s that

To grow this side hustle, I will bring you an object from the streets of Paris, and by that I mean, from flea markets or vide-grenier (garage-sale) for you to get to know a little history around that discarded and obsolete object for you to dive into its history. A tool lost forgotten, a measure of humanity’s success to way forward, in the form of a ray of the sun, give new life, waiting for a new home ?! Bought this slick camera last year and was very fascinated to see this 110 film format for the first time in a camera, I knew I had to have it and maybe try it out as an experiment and see the results. (never got a chance but it’s up for sale on etsy, check it out) Revue Pocket 202 Ladyset - Vintage camera is in its prime condition and will be a killer combo with the Lomography 110 films.

- Read Read Read

Big "AI" companies are "openwashing" their products to evade regulation and silence critics, but their products are neither "artificial" nor "intelligent" nor "open."

Design tokens are the secret sauce that makes design systems sing.

If you’re not in an existential crisis as a designer. Design you’re not doing it right !

- Listening to The Radiance

The Radiance by Linkin Park, produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda, track 2 on the album, A Thousand Sun (2010) brought that same recording of Oppenheimer way before Nolan thought of starting his blockbuster with :

[J. Robert Oppenheimer] ”We knew the world would not be the sameFew people laughed Few people cried Most people were silent I remember the line from The Hindu Scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty And, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says: "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" I suppose we all thought that, one way or another”

- Moon Landish

An irony, faced firsthand, last week when I was watching the live broadcast of the Moon landing of India’s spacecraft “Chandraayan-3”, the algorithm of the live subtitles was indeed in deep waters trying to translate the Hinglish, the narrator was speaking, here’s a screenshot I took :

In this age of advancement, our AI will always need polishing and we can not truly rely on them, one giant leap of mankind summed up in this single frame, contradicting its own intelligence. The people designing our digital systems and infrastructures are not working with communities on the ground level to see the new possibilities, merging two into one, unlike franglais which has turned into a meme-producing alternative catering to both French and English speakers, Hinglish, on the other hand, is embedded in South Asians or its diaspora’s daily life because initially speaking fluent English was seen as a cultural and societal upliftment which is even true today, Hindi language (or any other South Asian language for that matter) and its future is held up in the very idea of fusion and hybridness between the globalisation and identity. YouTube has failed to acknowledge that yet.

- postcards

Earlier this month I bought a cheap Pentax prime lens - SMC PENTAX 1:1.7 50mm and got a lens adapter to fit into my age-old Canon EOS m, here are a few shots from my stroll in Paris.

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August in Paris...

A little ray of sun every tuesday !! 🌞

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"Cultural anthropologist often observes that individuals instinctively assume their formative intellectual frameworks—shaped by upbringing and professional immersion—are natural, universal, and immutable, a universal human bias. Yet ideas are inherently transient, evolving through cycles or shifting paradigms, and no framework, however entrenched, is immune to collapse. Having witnessed such transformations, it’s clear that even our most deeply held beliefs, products of our specific environments, are neither permanent nor universally valid, underscoring the fallacy of mistaking cultural constructs for enduring truths." - Gillian Tett

we are solving the climate in a wrong language !!

sustainable - धारणीय, development - विकास et quoi...?!

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Observe the observer #notetoself

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How Oligarchs Took Over The World

भाड़े का टट्‍टू (Bhade ka tattoo) - "Hired Pony"

starting 2025 with a blast... ☀

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Welcome to the world of oligarchy.

भाड़े का टट्‍टू (Bhade ka tattoo) - "Hired Pony"

starting 2025 with a blast... ☀

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भाड़े का टट्‍टू (Bhade ka tattoo) - "Hired Pony"

starting 2025 with a blast... ☀