Cereal Box Records Sound Horrible. They Still Look Incredible.
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Cereal Box Records Sound Horrible. They Still Look Incredible.
In just under one generation, we moved from appreciating albums as cohesive works to consuming individual tracks, and then to music becoming reduced to muzak: background noise for gaming, viral videos, or endless scrolling. Disappearing is music as an art in its own right, which commands sustained attention and deep engagement. A song’s success is... See more
Default Friend • No, Culture is Not Stuck
Betting on print media to make a comeback. It won’t be glossy magazines, maybe it will be an evolution of zines at scale, or something else. Not niche like Monocle or trendy fashion magazine fare. Something halfway mass and meaningful.
Physical and tangible and analog matters again, partially (mostly?) as a pendulum... See more
Michael J. Miraflorx.comSecond, because we can mass-produce “flawless” content, “flawless” content now feels cheap. It’s supply and demand: when you can generate 100s of blemish-free photos, podcast “recordings” without a single grammatical error, and detailed “research reports” in seconds, the value of these outputs drop to zero. AI made efficiency so simple that... See more