alice smith
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alice smith
When reading about the motivation for launching these various curation initiatives, it’s clear that it’s not only about rebellion, but also about the critical act of archiving.
idle gaze 033: defending the eccentricity of human taste.
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
Curators slow down the unending scroll and provide their followers with a way of savoring culture, rather than just inhaling it, developing a sense of appreciation.
Kyle Chayka • The New Generation of Online Culture Curators | The New Yorker
Computers can see us as large groups, but they’re glum and only aggregate us to sell us stuff. In reality, the computers give great insight into the power of common identity between groups. No one’s using that. What’s sitting with the computers is a way of seeing new groups, new common identities between people.
Adam Curtis • The Creative Independent
In the last ten years, pattern recognition has become a cultural activity. You see that on the bad end, like QAnon, and on the more fun end with the pervasiveness of trend forecasting.
Normcore Was Always a Misunderstood Fantasy | SSENSE
Overmining, extracting and under funding, are we killing culture?
morningfyi.substack.com
“We’re moving away from the need to say, ‘These items put together are an aesthetic,’ and moving towards a more fluid state,” Panzoni says. Instead of “grabbing” an aesthetic as a whole, consumers can take elements and incorporate them into their own style. “This shift is why we haven’t seen a micro-trend pop in a little bit,” she says.
Did micro-trends kill the trend cycle?
this is interesting bc with the abundance of info, we are now turning to each other and those who we aspire to to see what they’re consuming to get the 'best' and their personal curations. Additionally, as ppl become more comfortable with wanting to know every detail, it's only a matter of time before we start using the 'following' feature on IG
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