alice smith
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alice smith
“A post for the creatives who just need to hide
away. It is safe to hide away for a while darling. Momentum
won’t leave. You will make momentum. You won’t lose
opportunities, you will make them. Because in the quiet
you will find more and more art. In the silence ideas will... See more
instagram.comIt’s long past time that we realized these systems are not benefitting culture. Creators and consumers alike are pushed into preset formats that we may ultimately have no organic interest in. By giving in to algorithmic feeds, we are letting tech companies determine our tastes.
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have we lost our sense of taste? which is why we need curators now
Because brands are only as old as the people who direct them. That’s why you’re now seeing a deterioration of people following brands, as opposed to designers and stylists.
So it’s going to be about celebrity?
It’s going to be about visionaries.
So it’s going to be about celebrity?
It’s going to be about visionaries.
Thom Bettridge • VIRGIL ABLOH: “Duchamp is my Lawyer”
Between Entities and Identities: The Internet of Egregores
Exploring the concept of egregores, the text examines how collective online identities and fandoms manifest as influential forces within digital platforms, shaping social dynamics and individual experiences in the digital landscape.
zhexi.info“even a ‘main character’ on the timeline means partaking in a conscious performance and leaning into a particular version of a public character”
The problem goes deeper than this. Increasingly our tech also opens us up to new vectors of anxiety. Regardless of whether you’re working more or less, your nervous system is now plugged into a neurotic and hypersensitive globe-spanning information system that’s constantly pushing unnecessary things into your consciousness.
Brett Scott • Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster
tech being more convenient comes at a cost
In Curators are the new Creators, Gaby argues that this will create opportunities for curators — increasingly, we will pay people with good taste to help us sort through the ever-growing mass of information.
The business of good taste has been well documented. There are plenty of businesses that address the question “what should I read?”; The... See more
The business of good taste has been well documented. There are plenty of businesses that address the question “what should I read?”; The... See more
Sari Azout • The rise of community-curated knowledge networks
Brands are just tools for consumers to describe their personality. If your personality is flat, then you wear obvious things.
Thom Bettridge • VIRGIL ABLOH: “Duchamp is my Lawyer”
As Shumon Basar put it, we're living in the era of LoreCore: 'a prevalent stage of reality in which we're all characters; characters who are also audiences.' From Coquette to Mermaid fashion, from Doe to Siren Eyes, codified styles are 'guiding' our characters' journey, while optimizing it for digital consumption.
SKIN DEEP
My perennial thought will always be, if the internet didn't exist in the state that it did now, we would have so many rich, interesting scenes, because people have to work to share that.