Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
Complex cultural ecosystems with many sub-units provide inherent sources of novelty for the mainstream — e.g. minority cultures, subcultures, and countercultures create new conventions with potential to provide stimulation to mainstream individuals.
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
recent evidence of collection editors driving home page design based on their needs and desires
The hermitage - walk by Dunkeld with waterfalls
The #1 Custom Bedtime Story Generator and Narrator
sleepytales.aiTools and Things that disappoint me
I don’t know how to feel about it this - on one hand it seems interesting and probably more engaging for the kids - yet on the other it feels like another tool that’s creating distance between the humans. The memories of reading to my kids - making up stories for them etc is a treasure - to have it outsourced to an ai just - feels - - weird?!
Design is such a powerful word. It means everything and so means nothing. And our practice of design really was the whole thing. Ultimately, it was your experience. From the very founding ideas of what the product is and what it does and how it’s architected and how it’s built—its appearance is just one small part of the whole thing.
Gerrit Terstiege • Jonathan Ive - rams foundation
Fabric Docs
docs.withfabric.xyz
Our backlist brings in about a third of our annual revenues, so $300 million a year roughly, a little less.
— Michael Pietsch, CEO, Hachette
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
Catalog is everything…
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev
app.thestorygraph.com
Talking heads come&go but if you write book you are AUTHORity.
Julian May • Intervention: A Novel
what more does one want from art but hope?
How I Found A Steady Soundtrack For An Unsteady Life
Remind me Often and music
In a completely ultra-poptimist world, there would be no available incentives to create novel, complex, or ambiguous works of art. We would have to rely on artist altruism or insanity.
Culture: An Owner's Manual • Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Shocker huh!