Napping Declutters Your Mind

If your boss catches you napping under your desk Costanza-style today, direct them to this article from NY Mag’s Science of Us. Basically, sleep is like housekeeping for your mind, and a nap “is like letting Marie Kondo loose in your brain”—meaning a bunch of your non-essential and irrelevant information is decluttered. The process is called “synaptic pruning” and it’s the reason we feel refreshed …

Snakehips feat. ZAYN: Cruel

British electronic-meets-R&B music duo Snakehips (aka Oliver Lee and James Carter) have just released their collaboration with Zayn Malik (aka the Geri of One Direction) and the result is dance-pop at its best. “Cruel” refers to Malik’s object of affection as a “Venus in Converse”—a beacon in a messed up world full of noise, death and tears. It’s a sweet, uptempo tune that ebbs and …

Mirka Mora + Gorman Artist Collaboration

The 88-year-old Australian icon has her paintings translated into delightfully bold fabrics

Perhaps little known outside of Australia, Mirka Mora’s art is legendary Down Under—specifically in Melbourne, where her gloriously busy paintings and mosaics adorn laneways, restaurants and (of course) gallery walls. The French-born artist (to a Romanian Jewish mother and Lithuanian Jewish father) migrated to Melbourne in 1951 and—along with her husband—founded one of the first commercial galleries in the city, along with three cafes and …