Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Sales don’t necessarily drive these sensorial pop-ups. “It’s not just about buying,” commented Jacquemus on his Instagram story. “It’s also an experience, a concept. The idea is to break the frontiers in the world of luxury. We want you to come in feeling welcome and have a great experience no matter what you do inside. You can also just walk in... See more
Vogue Business • From Jacquemus to Balenciaga: Luxury fashion brands go hyperphysical
Change sucks. It requires one to step into the unknown. To twist and turn into a new transformed self, team or firm. To leave the safety of the known path. Lift anchor and sail into a foggy horizon with no guarantee of safe harbor. Difficult as it is… Irrelevance is worse.
Funding yesterday at the cost of tomorrow is like starving one’s children so... See more
Funding yesterday at the cost of tomorrow is like starving one’s children so... See more
Rishad Tobaccowala • Six Keys to Change.
Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes—you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others. Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable,
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Relations make up our “I,” as our society, our cultural, spiritual, and political life. It is for this reason, I think, that everything we have been able to accomplish over the centuries has been achieved in a network of exchanges, collaborating.
Packy McCormick • Web of Relations
the online trend that links all of these disparate digi subcultures together: namecore, AKA the internet’s insatiable appetite for naming things.
Olive Pometsey • Namecore is the trend that unifies all trends
“If mass culture runs on conflict, then the only real counterculture left is love.”
TREND RADAR #10
As our current civilization begins to unravel on account of its internal failings, the strands that kept it tightly wound also get loosened. Every year that we head closer to catastrophe—as greater climate-related disasters rear up, as the outrages of racial and economic injustice become even more egregious, and as life for most people becomes... See more
Jeremy Lent • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
Did all these people really experience “trauma?” in a recognizably similar way?