Plutonic Rainbows

In a time when the world shimmered with optimism and edge, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren reigned as icons of the late nineteen-eighties, their adverts capturing more than clothes — they captured desire. Calvin’s vision was athletic minimalism: clean lines, sun-bleached denim, and the suggestion of motion even in stillness. Ralph, ever the storyteller, spun Americana into elegance, all polo fields and windswept hair, his models cast like Gatsby’s heirs. These brands didn’t just sell garments — they conjured a lifestyle, one of convertible drives along coastal highways, glances exchanged on tennis courts, and the promise of summer stretching endlessly ahead.

Each campaign was a window into a dream, printed across glossy magazine pages with grainy textures and radiant light. The faces, the fabrics, the fonts — they spoke of youth, confidence, and aspiration dressed in linen and ambition. Even now, decades later, those adverts hum with nostalgia: a soft-focus reminder of when fashion felt mythic and a slogan could make your pulse race. To revisit them is to time-travel, not just through style, but through feeling—back to a golden hour of elegance where image became legend.

Watching Ready Player One. It's a good movie but not one of Spielberg's best. It's a dazzling visual spectacle that revels in pop culture nostalgia, but beneath its flashy veneer lies a somewhat shallow narrative that doesn’t quite live up to its potential.

I ordered a sample of Cartier Oud & Santal. The last fragrance I purchased from the house was the reimagined Pasha de Cartier Parfum from 2020 — an excellent modern interpretation of the classic scents Cartier created during its golden era in the 1980s and 1990s.

New album from Perila. A release on West Mineral records.

One of contemporary Ambient’s preeminent figures lands on its leading label, enacting a transition into a new phase of rhythmic noise and tonal shadowplay laced with peculiar sensitivities, wrangling Dilloway-influenced tape noise thru ASMR ambience, fritzed Dub Techno, layered vocal drone and ritualistic mantras - big tip IYI Grouper, Porter Ricks, Pharmako or Civilistjävel!.

I’ve implemented a series of performance enhancements based on my GTMetrix analysis to significantly improve the blog’s loading speed, particularly for users in China. The most impactful changes addressed the critical request chain latency — previously measured at 796ms — and reduced JavaScript execution time. This was accomplished by introducing resource preloading, applying defer attributes to non-critical scripts, and refining the requestIdleCallback logic with appropriate timeouts. Additionally, I improved the font loading strategy by switching from font-display: optional to font-display: swap, which helps ensure that text remains visible during font downloads. This is especially important in regions where Google Fonts tend to load slowly.

To further boost rendering efficiency, I implemented content-visibility: auto with intrinsic size hints for key elements such as images (800x600px), post content (1000px), and post items (500px). This allows the browser to skip rendering off-screen content, improving scrolling performance. I also adopted a non-blocking CSS loading technique for Lightbox styles, where styles initially load using media="print" and switch to media="all" after loading, thereby avoiding render-blocking. These combined optimizations reduce First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and Total Blocking Time (TBT), delivering a noticeably faster, smoother, and more responsive experience for users.