Hyper-connectivity
To me, the key to keeping taste is to be true to yourself. While I recognize that that sentiment would be more appropriate on a wine mom’s wall hanging, it is surprisingly hard. When no one cares about you and you make objects for the simple joy of creation, you’re under no pressure to conform your taste to anyone. When your audience grows—when... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
There’s a magical number of people that are meant to enjoy or experience something…the second you cross that threshold it becomes a pumpkin…greed scaled it to a point where it [Vice] mutated and no longer ressembled what made it special in the first place.
Vice is Broke, Eddie Huang 2024
Documentary for Mubi
« We are writing our story from the beginning from that moment in time. Tranquility comes with anonymity, the ability to write our story every time we meet someone new. When you are known you loose the ability to rewrite or tell from a different perspective, you are owned by the word. » Trevor Noah
https://open.spotify.com/episode/01bkWcFMXRCqISUzHP
... See moreLetter 14: Susan Sontag on the Unbearability of Not Taking Photos (And Not Sharing Them)
poetfromearth.substack.com
Photographs as a substitution for presence/in real life connection.
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs
is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.”
— Susan Sontag, On Photography
Photographs, she argued, are rarely innocent: they turn experience into an object that can be owned, a world to be collected.
Something to think about in social contexts, in particular at social events such as social dances - are people coming to experience and connect vs consume and own.
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