Entheogenic Emily
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Entheogenic Emily
make websites cool again!!!! // visual diary #015: some interesting website interfaces i’ve seen lately.
Arrianesubstack.comWe can’t address the decline in empathy without addressing the decline in attention. Empathy requires a degree of sustained focus:
Paying attention to an experience someone is sharing
Recalling experiencing a similar emotional response
Sitting with your own and ... See more
Dr. Samaiya Mushtaqsubstack.comThis reminds me of how I’ve been feeling lately regarding the lack of edutainment in the Disney Parks— it used to feel like edutainment anchored sensory aspects into every experience centered around this, and it feels like something is missing in much of the parks today because of how much this has changed. But it feels like it’s making a slow comeback in Epcot with Journey of Water and the new Test Track at least 🙂
The audience comes last. The audience doesn't know what they want. The audience only knows what's come before. - Rick Rubin
it's my party and i'll use AI if i want to
wildbarestepf.substack.com
When photography was invented in the 1800s, painters declared it was the death of "real" art. How could a mechanical device that simply captured what was already there compete with the human hand interpreting reality? The French painter Paul Delaroche supposedly proclaimed, "From today, painting is dead!" when he first saw a photograph.
Spoiler alert: painting survived. In fact, photography freed painters from the obligation to simply document reality, leading to Impressionism, Cubism, and abstract art. But nobody wants to talk about that part.
Then came digital photography, and film photographers went through the same pearl-clutching. "Digital isn't real photography!" they cried. "You're not a real photographer if you're not dealing with the grain, the chemistry, the darkroom!" As if the struggle itself was the point, rather than the image you created.
What this exercise shows students is that just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it. Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness. Or, in slightly more general terms: access is not synonymous with learning. What turns access into learning is ... See more
The Power of Patience
eflecting on these points, you might say the process feels messy and unpredictable. Indeed, it should. The birth of something great is never serene. It’s a series of cracks and contortions in the rock, each break revealing a new gleam beneath the surface. Over time, what was once ambiguous becomes inevitable—what was once a mad experiment looks, in... See more
Antonio Garcia Martinez on startups: “If your idea is any good, it won’t get stolen, you’ll have to jam it down people’s throats instead.”