A new shape
thought without agency is just yearning, but acting without imagination is just busywork.
From Radar futurist collective
Can you afford to break down any barriers between your work and the audience? (monetary, language, accessibility, etc.)
What can you gain, that is not money, from the work?
Who, that is not you, can gain from the work?
Can you remove yourself from the center of the work?
Does the work consider its impact on our planet?
Does the work consider your politi
— Cortney Cassidy: “These principles act as a soft manifesto for myself, and for anyone else who wants to be an artist practicing for softer reasons at softer paces in softer spaces.”
In Pasadena, California, photographer Gregg Segal embarked on a project capturing individuals from diverse backgrounds and ages within his garden. Utilizing three distinct settings - water, beach, and forest - Segal juxtaposed each subject amidst a week’s accumulation of their waste. Participants were tasked with gathering and preserving all their refuse, including recyclable materials, for the duration of a week. Through this unique approach, Segal’s project not only highlights the intimate connection between individuals and their waste but also prompts reflection on consumption habits and environmental impact in a localized context. “The idea was to make the problem of consumption and waste difficult to ignore by personalizing it. I just started with friends, neighbors, relatives, and anyone else I could convince to save their garbage for one week. They would lie down in it and be photographed so you can see their garbage really clearly. We’ve become so immune to the products we consume that it felt like something that I needed to do. And I photograph my own family as well, because I didn’t want to come off as if I am pointing my finger at everyone else. I think of the consumer as both victim and perpetrator; we are victims of the whole system in a way that we are also contributing to that very same problem.” - Gregg Segal #greggsegal #waste #overconsumption
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This week’s podcast and substack have the same message—hang on to the thread! It’s a metaphor that’s bringing me freedom and peace here at the top of this tumultuous year. I hope you’ll give it a read (or listen, I embedded the audio right into the post this time!) By the way, I’m experimenting with work flow and content creation as I write my next book. If you have thoughts about how you like to receive your content—substack, podcast, audio embed in the substack app—I’d love to hear them via DM or in the comments! Either way, I’m so glad you’re here! 💜
instagram.com‘In the technocracy, nothing is any longer small or simple or readily apparent to the non-technical man’, wrote Roszak. ‘Instead, the scale and intricacy of all human activities – political, economic, cultural – transcends the competence of the amateurish citizen and inexorably demands the attention of specially trained experts’. Technocrats might ... See more
Risk is expensive, and it does not figure into P&L. When the pressure is to show YoY growth on the quarterly basis, as is the case of the publicly traded companies, or when expectation is to deliver wild returns in case of PE-backed ones, no one wants to make anything remotely surprising or different. Prada is able to put forward fearless creativit... See more
Ana Andjelic
To win one of these coveted positions, then, you need to do everything exactly right from your freshman year of high school onward: get good grades, garner strong recommendations, work in the right labs, publish papers in prestigious places, never make anybody mad, and never take a detour or a break. (I occasionally get emails from high schoolers b... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Ideas Aren’t Getting Harder to Find and Anyone Who Tells You Otherwise Is a Coward and I Will Fight Them
In Japanese culture, the discomfort of silence is not only acknowledged but embraced through the concept of ma.
Ma refers to the spaces between—between sounds, between actions, between words. It’s the pause between breaths in conversation, the silence between notes in music, the stillness that gives meaning to movement. Yet Ma isn’t interpreted as e... See more
Ma refers to the spaces between—between sounds, between actions, between words. It’s the pause between breaths in conversation, the silence between notes in music, the stillness that gives meaning to movement. Yet Ma isn’t interpreted as e... See more
Ana Andjelic