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There’s an old story about Octavia Butler that I often return to: A young man once asked the visionary science fiction novelist the answer to ending all the suffering in the world. “There isn't one,” Butler replied. “So we’re doomed?” he asked, confused. “No,” said Butler. Then she delivered the words that would remake my understanding of the... See more
Welcome to Janelle Monáe’s Dreamworld
in the movie inception the architects
find that they can finally realize their
wildest dreams
because they're in fact designing inside
a dream
the arctic hero cobb explains how he and
his wife wanted to live in a house with
a garden but preferred to live in a high
rise
in real life we would have to choose he
says
but in a dream we could get it as we
wanted it
find that they can finally realize their
wildest dreams
because they're in fact designing inside
a dream
the arctic hero cobb explains how he and
his wife wanted to live in a house with
a garden but preferred to live in a high
rise
in real life we would have to choose he
says
but in a dream we could get it as we
wanted it
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That’s not even comedy, that is the absolute highest form of storytelling.
Told, by our generation’s greatest orator.
Protect Dave Chappelle at all costs.
Told, by our generation’s greatest orator.
Protect Dave Chappelle at all costs.
Dave Chappelle Stand-Up Monologue 2025 - SNL
Philosophers and practitioners of architecture have long studied the relationship between physical spaces and ritual, ritual and the creation of culture, culture and the embodiment of thought.
It’s why, as a complete novice to the field, one of the first things you learn is that architecture is an irreducible mode of thinking in its own right . It’s... See more
It’s why, as a complete novice to the field, one of the first things you learn is that architecture is an irreducible mode of thinking in its own right . It’s... See more
Rebecca • Architecting digital spaces
... See moreTaste is an abstract, ineffable, unstable thing. A listener to music or reader cannot truly tell if they will enjoy something before they experience it; pleasure in a piece of art is never guaranteed. So when encountering an artwork, we immediately evaluate it by some set of mental principles, and, hopefully, find the beauty in it, feel affirmed,
In order to fill each deck, I have to mine references - reaching both into the past and as close to the present as possible. And in doing so, I come across rich histories I didn’t know existed. It reminds me the spawn point of this technology is rooted in Black history. Further defining what I bring to the club, office, and my home.
Reggie James • The Body As Mixer
note2self: DJ kool Herc. hiphop created trillions. turn table + culture.
Shifts in values and beliefs slowly change the topography of our cultural landscape, but in some places we experience landslides that happen so quickly, we can lose our bearings. Cultural borders that we thought fell in one place now, strangely, fall in another, and the way we measure the distance between our values requires an update.
The spaces in... See more
The spaces in... See more