We live in a culture of magpies
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We live in a culture of magpies
“Genre, medium, and format are secondary concerns and, in some instances, they seem to disappear entirely.” One piece of intellectual property inspires a feeding frenzy of podcast, documentary, and miniseries offshoots. Single episodes of streaming-service TV can run as long as a movie. Visual artists’ paintings appear on social media alongside the... See more
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
Content creation has been gentrified.
There's no soul in what was once an artistic expression, a way of sharing new ideas.
Content is now a rehashing of those same ideas at scale without any&
... See moreGraphic design, the discipline of aesthetic production, is facing a crisis as it reconciles with catastrophic effects of network technology on its profitability. Even prolific designers who produce work with a characteristic original aesthetic are quickly copied. As their work is pillaged and reproduced downstream (leftstream), it becomes increasin... See more