Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
One thing is certain: the authenticity aesthetic served as a cohesive for all of these developments. It tied the spectrum of consumable items, spaces, and identities into a single unified visual experience.
This is a good time to discuss the demand for authenticity and where it comes from. As I hinted at previously, there’s a personal dimension to... See more
This is a good time to discuss the demand for authenticity and where it comes from. As I hinted at previously, there’s a personal dimension to... See more
subpixel space • After Authenticity
the internet used to be a place! Or at least it was for me. I love how the internet exposes the weird and funny things about being a person alive in the world.
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
So as I approach the mystery of telling these stories again, the uncertainty of working into my mythmaking, I wonder if we could do something similar with our own narratives. What are we bored by, what needs to stay buried? What deserves to be re-imagined, re-seeded, re-beheld? That’s where the joyful work is. I’m handing you a spade.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
Through both the album itself and her content around it, Charli has been honest and candid about where she’s at. It’s a refreshingly honest contribution amidst a category clogged with insincerity. She’s holding the insecurity of being who she is, online, in the world, in these parties along with the rush of just being a person getting lit with her
... See moreGrace Gordon • How to Build Brand Energy
Freedom isn't something we fight for alone. It's something we practice together: in town halls and neighborhood meetings, in mutual aid networks and cooperatives, and in digital spaces designed for connection rather than extraction. The future of democracy depends not just on whom we elect, but on how deeply we are engaged with and can participate
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The terror of incoherence. Not as dramatic thing, but as constant low hum underneath everything else. The body that might not hold together. The self that formed in fragments because the context wasn't safe enough for continuous narrative. The organization shifting into something unrecognizable. The culture disassembling. The words that don't land... See more
Just a moment...
Alison Roman: “Not everything needs to innovate or evolve. It kind of broke my heart when I saw the Manischewitz matzoh rebrand (above). The box used to be perfect. It was ugly, who cares. Now it has this ‘Hello, Fellow Young People’ energy. Why do we have to do that? It’s a weird time.”
Blackbird Spyplane • Everyone's Disrupting and It's Exhausting
When I think about the clothes and accessories I want to buy, I assess how well they match with who I believe myself to be, propelling my ascension through each strata of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
Brands call the act of purchasing their product “converting,” counting how many “conversions” occur per day. This is perhaps my only religious ritual,... See more
Brands call the act of purchasing their product “converting,” counting how many “conversions” occur per day. This is perhaps my only religious ritual,... See more
Dirt • Dirt: Material girls
Today’s economic constraints may be enforcing a degree of sobriety, but even before the pandemic, the easy money was clearly concealing a stagnation. This is the thesis of the Umami essay: that material progress had plateaued, leaving us to manipulate symbols and create the mere illusion of value (this is also what David Graeber argues in his “we
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