Food for thought
We want surprise and suspense, but we also crave order and closure. The artistry of the mystery box is in the balance: give away too much and we’re bored, give away too little and we’re lost.
Jonah Lehrer • Mystery: A Seduction, A Strategy, A Solution
One of the saddest things to me is the cultural decay cycle in our new age of virality.
Sub-cultures that took years to form through meaning are essentially destroyed within days or weeks.
If you think about it, a niche culture builds their own language, symbols, aesthetics or rituals to... See more
Tobias van Schneiderx.comI carry around the ghosts of fascinating ideas that don’t have a home yet... and so they float around me, demanding to be processed.