Hullo,

I am ill today so veeeery minimal commentary for you today. It's about the senses, though! I came up with the theme in a time of health.

Jess Zimmerman has never disappointed and this piece is no exception. Side note based on the pullquote: what is your favourite Nickelback song? Mine Is "This is How You Remind Me".

Sometimes, hunger doesn’t even kick in until someone puts food in front of me. I will rely on any other cue—the ease or difficulty of procuring food, the time of day, what other people are doing, the timing of my work and gym and social plans—before I’ll remember to look inward. Imagine being told that your biggest secret—your weirdest sexual fantasy, your most embarrassing faceplant, your favorite Nickelback song—was supposed to dictate your behavior, publicly, as many as three times a day.

http://hazlitt.net/feature/hunger-makes-me

SMELL ART. It exists and this women does it!

“If you remove a couple of tiles from its wall, the smell of the German Democratic Republic would come off immediately,” she says. “It’s that of lignite and a detergent which I suspect was used in all the public buildings, probably supplied by the same, state-owned company. The smell is omnipresent as if The Big Brother is looking at you.”

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/this-artist-used-over-6500-scents-to-recreate-the-smell-of-35-world-cities

Take care of yourself and if you are feeling even a little bit unwell, GO HOME, this is not the season to be a martyr.

Alex x.