Brian Thomas Clark
@btc
Strategist/Producer/Collector
Digital Experience Director @risd
Brian Thomas Clark
Boys Club
boysclub.vip4/4. Be a good assistant to yourself. Prepare and gather, make notations and sketches in your head or phone. When you work, all that mapping, architecture, research & preparation will be your past self giving a gift to the future self that you are now.
That is the sacred.
Jerry Saltzx.comTo correct the state of AI discourse today, we need to channel this same spirit and train our attention on the messy facts of the human, material world in which these technologies play. Only when we’ve stopped fetishizing “realism” will we be able to turn our attention to very real air, water, ecosystems, and people these technologies consume in... See more
It’s the Real Thing! | Leo Kim
digital life and futures
What I do know is that we are in an era marked by a crisis of masculinity that is neither warranted nor deserved. That young men feel very alienated. That they are very online. That there is a paradigm shift away from what has been true for the past 60 years: boy leaves home; boy reacts against his parents’ puritanical values; boy becomes some sort... See more
Sophie Kemp • New Tyrannies
KRF : How do you define taste?
BD : Taste is the natural tendency to filter, mix and recombine the like and the unlike to approximate sublimity.
BD : Taste is the natural tendency to filter, mix and recombine the like and the unlike to approximate sublimity.
The Taste Report™: Ben Dietz
In his retrospective of 2023 for his company Acquia, a SaaS platform built on top of the open source (and browser-based) Drupal software, Buytaert noted both the dangers and opportunities for the web going forward. “On one side, the rise of AI in information gathering will decrease the need for traditional websites,” he wrote. “On the other side,... See more
Richard MacManus • Drupal Creator: Websites Needed More Than Ever in the AI Era
Howard Blum, a former staff writer, is the first to declare the Voice “a precursor to the internet,” an idea that recurs, with diminishing shine, throughout the book’s five hundred and thirty pages. Notes of elegy sound throughout, laments for something too good to last, but also for a moment of honest and urgent revolt. When there seemed no such... See more
Michelle Orange • How the Village Voice Met Its Moment
Thinking of yourself as an observer is better for your happiness than obsessing over being observed.
Arthur C. Brooks • Don’t Objectify Yourself
Every carefully tended knowledge garden is a fingerprint of consciousness: A unique archipelago of interests, insights and inspirations that could never be replicated, even by the most sophisticated AI.
By thoughtfully collecting and connecting the ideas that move us, we not only create an invaluable external memory system (which can be great for... See more
By thoughtfully collecting and connecting the ideas that move us, we not only create an invaluable external memory system (which can be great for... See more