If The Internet Was A Place
if the internet was a physical place, what would we want it to feel like? look like? be like?
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If The Internet Was A Place
From Fugazi and Beastie Boys to The Royal Society: Kickstarter's co-founder on the future of Media (DiS011 | S2 EP3)
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long lasting cultural impact
An ode to magazines:
you're entering a universe that's only there
convey a feeling, an amplitude, a point of view
it's an opportunity for meaning-making
what if Taylor Swift has a magazine?
all this is hard (an essay, a song) it takes time
the inward search for emotional truth; connecting with the source -- it's not about the money
doing it for yourself is underrated these days
celebrate the source, the art
a deeper definition of music journalism: to do that well means: really caring; be in it; in that scene
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
― Jorge Luis Borges
Nowhere But Here: Femi Adeyemi on the Possibilities for Placemaking over the Airwave — Deem
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The difference between schools and libraries
From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education (via Austin Kleon):
From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education (via Austin Kleon):
To begin with, libraries are usually comfortable, clean, and quiet. They are orderly places where you can actually read instead of just pretending to read.... See more
For some reason libraries are never age-segregated, nor do
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“We want to think of the internet as a physical place. It is not about making the virtual physical, but rather to argue that the virtual also exists physically.”
- Woon Tien Wei
- Woon Tien Wei
NET ART ANTHOLOGY: alpha 3.4
The site is also like a home in that it’s a collection of many things which are unified only by the person who collected them. I feel as if someone is giving me a tour of their apartment: I’m looking at the papers on his desk, the notes stuck to his fridge, an album of butterfly photos taken by his brother, and so on. Sure, he probably tidied up... See more
My website as a home
All those tech-driven foods are still around, but they don’t tempt consumers the way they once did. Instead, the fastest growing categories in the food business are built on an entirely different vocabulary: gourmet, artisan, healthy, organic, nutritious, sustainable, local, homemade.