ISSUE 016

Crystal Aqua Velva

Sit down with a Crystal Aqua Velva before 2023 is upon us and enjoy a retrospective of the past year in leisure. With deep architectural tasting notes, sonic rabbit holes, eccentric lives and tales of hedonism, art, fashion and photography.

A special thank you to everyone who has been reading along with us since the beginning, and to all new leisure enthusiasts who have helped us break into the top ten culture publications on Substack. We can’t wait to build the largest digital leisure enclave with you in the coming years.

The good life beckons once more!

CURATE WITH US

We loved last week’s discussion in the comments about cool friends doing cool things — keep an eye out for our favourites further down in this issue!

This week we’d love to know…

What are your best tips to live a leisurely life in 2023?

Let us know in the comments 💭

Hottest Hyperlinks of 2022

This year, we shared 140 Hot Hyperlinks with you. Here are the ten most popular:

1. The Best Way To Answer “So What Do You Do?” with Clay Hebert

2. Warm vintage things & classic HiFi from HiFi + Plants

3. Hacking iOS16 to save outfits to the Notes app

4. Listen to radio anywhere around the world with Radio Garden

5. Explore the eccentric Alacati Stone House in Turkey

6. The classy house and techno set by LA LA that went off

7. 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I’d Known by Kevin Kelly

8. Discover every single genre of music on one site

9. An architect’s own tiny home only 3 metres wide

10. Inside an unapologetically fun Midcentury home in LA

SUMMER-ENHANCING LITERATURE

Your Favourite Issues of 2022

Palm Report launched earlier this year and since then we’ve dispatched 16 issues including this one! We recently moved to Substack and to weekly programming which will see that number increase significantly next year. We hope you’ve enjoyed coming along for the ride & we look forward to exploring more closely with you in 2023.

If you’d like to revisit or discover some of what we got up to, here are a few of our most popular issues:

• #004 ☼ Flower Boy Grown: Tyler, The Creator

• #005 ☼ St. Tropez Siren: Brigitte Bardot

• #006 ☼ Avant-Garde Icon: Issey Miyake

And our personal favourites:

• #003 ☼ Carb Crafter: Chloe Wise

• #007 ☼ The Lens of Leisure: Slim Aarons

• #008 ☼ The Pink Buzzcut: Evan Mock

A delightful new addition with our move to Substack is the comment section. Dive in here to discover cool stuff contributed by you:

• #014 ☼ Charlotte Taylor's Virtual Escapes

• #015 ☼ Refreshing Travel: Sam Youkilis

First Class JPEGs

Everyday we share images that pertain to The Good Life on our Twitter. Here are the definitive votes on High Leisure…

1. This Italian villa that overlooks Lake Como

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2:06 PM ∙ Jun 8, 2022

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2. This home by Ward Bennett

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3. The Macintosh Color Classic II

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9:10 PM ∙ Jun 28, 2022

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COMMUNITY CURATED: COOL FRIENDS DOING COOL THINGS

Last week, we did some recon on the coolest things your friends are working on in the comment section. Here are the top picks, curated by the community:

☼ Lifereel Academy (via Eliot)

☼ IndieWorld (via K C)

☼ SearchBar (via Sarah)

☼ Univaries (via Marty)

☼ Pay It Forward (via Tyler)

☼ Marqí (via Marty)

Hop in the comments this week as we discuss the best tips to live a leisurely life in 2023.

We wish you a very happy new year and see you on the other side :)

JOIN US

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🌴 Discover our Hour of Summer mixtapes on SoundCloud

🌴 Say hey, or drop leisurely content you’ve discovered in the comments below!