yearning for real things
“People are reaching for work with a little dirt under its nails. Designers are rediscovering soul,” Spencer continues. “You can feel it — this hunger to make things that breathe, that feel lived in. This isn't about rejecting digital — it's about bringing humanity back into it.”
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Watched an interview with Casey Neistat today, who talked about how all the teenagers take selfies on point-and-shoot cameras instead of smartphones now.
iPhone photos have gotten too perfect. The automatic photo editing software has gotten so good that photos have been stripped of personality. By contrast,... See more
David Perellx.comKnow that you might be looking for something that doesn’t feel like an issue — it might just feel like sadness or anger , like the sadness of not being seen, or the frustration of not feeling like your work is meaningful. Once you’ve surfaced something, ask yourself: Have I done my best to come up with a set of potential solutions, using all the... See more
Cate Hall • Maybe You’re Not Actually Trying
I never have really tried to actually give art a go, because I’ve always been too scared of failing and not able to deal with my expectations of perfection not being met.
Stepping towards this would bring on a whole other string of issues, like when the clown pull out the handkerchief, and then it just keeps going and going.
Im noticing that when each year passes, the feeling of deep regret is incrementally inflating inside my stomach - slowly spreading like a noxious gas that might take over my whole body and eventually ill retch the creativity out of me. The source of this regret is the idea that I could go my whole life without actualising any of my creative endeavours with my full, unrestrained devotion.
And what hurts even more is that I go on living my life in denial of what I actually want to pursue all because of something as trivial as the internalised fear of failing.
Why are hand-painted signs coming back? Didn’t society work so hard to make all of these things much easier. Digital is better, digital is future. But what are we doing now, watching this person measure out the kerning of each letter for this trendy cafe sign? Or on the side of that old refurbished Volkswagen van.
It seems like we’ve all become so
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Adam Mastroianni • The Decline of Deviance
broader topic to delve into - the standardisation, the best-practise method…what has it done, now everything is just the same
Second, because we can mass-produce “flawless” content, “flawless” content now feels cheap. It’s supply and demand: when you can generate 100s of blemish-free photos, podcast “recordings” without a single grammatical error, and detailed “research reports” in seconds, the value of these outputs drop to zero. AI made efficiency so simple that... See more
Jack • Camcorders are back, let's hang in SF, tune into my weekly livestreams?
The decline of deviance is mainly a good thing. Our lives have gotten longer, safer, healthier, and richer. But the rise of mass prosperity and disappearance of everyday dangers has also made trivial risks seem terrifying. So as we tame every frontier of human life, we have to find a way to keep the good kinds of weirdness alive. We need new... See more
Adam Mastroianni • The Decline of Deviance
One of things that’s so exciting about ghost signs is that they recall a time of professional artisans deeply interwoven with everyday culture and society. Many values of the early years of the internet, including openness, creativity, and connection, are deeply appealing now.