folks directory
making folks directory happen!
folks directory
I never thought of it as a what we’re doing a building an exit route for people but in some ways, yeah, I can see that
Choosing our own medium and making it our own will flood us with a sense of agency in a way that jamming it onto instagram just never will. Imagine the experience of creating a printed local event calendar: you choose the type or you handwrite it all yourself, you pick the color and paper and if you want to add any weird flair, you get to talk to... See more
Field Guide to Creative Survival
open.substack.com
how about creating case studies for different potential users of of the directory (project managers, estate agents, venue owners, festival organisers, musicians)
Instead of spending the majority of our time on self-promotion, perhaps more of us could be focusing on finding ways to form solidarity among artists or among disciplines, especially in fields where there is no single industry-wide union that protects individual creators.
Rebecca Jennings for Vox Media
Digital Spaces Directory | New_ Public
newpublic.org
Especially like the way they talk about what a directory is good at
Vanessa Clark Art @folkestoneinspired
instagram.com
try contacting Vanessa Clarke to announce the directory on her podcast?
Because secrets do not increase in value if kept in a gore-ian lockbox, because one's past is either made useful or else mutates and becomes cancerous. We share things for the obvious reasons: it makes us feel un-alone, it spreads the weight over a larger area, it holds the possibility of making our share lighter. And it can work either way - not... See more
A stab at making connection is exactly why I started