Death Grips’ is a difficult music group to describe but many like to call them an “experimental hip hop group”, a category seemingly contrived for a group that resists classification through their mixing of different genres. Although the assignation of a genre is sometimes reductive, the “experimental” part is apt for describing the expansive nature Read More
The selfie of my loom My loom is like a housewife’s ill-used treadmill. It sits behind me in my office/studio beckoning me to ‘work’, to weave something, anything! Instead, at this point in my life I really need to read stuff, write things. My work table doesn’t hold fabric, waiting to be made into a Read More
What is ASMR? The neologism is just beginning to creep into contemporary jargon. The first Reddit thread referencing it appeared four years ago and posed this innocuous question — “who else gets this? [head orgasms?]”. For those unfamilar with the ambiguous acronym, it stands for autonomous sensory meridian response, a pleasurable physiological reaction provoked by certain stimuli (common triggers Read More