A Eulogy for the Mix CD, the Best Way to Tell Someone 'I Like You'
Floppy discs, records, VHS tapes…if you could bring back one type of physical media, what would it be?
deathtostockinstagram.comIn the digital era, when everything seems to be a single click away, it’s easy to forget that we have long had physical relationships with the pieces of culture we consume. We store books on bookshelves, mount art on our living-room walls, and keep stacks of vinyl records. When we want to experience something, we seek it out, finding a book by its... See more
Essay: The digital death of collecting
We were getting ready to board a bus for our school trip, and he’d made me a mix CD with Papa Roach and Staind on it—songs about being alone and nobody understanding.