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- a river’s right to flow with clean, cool water is not something we should just aim to protect; rather, we should aim to empower the river with its own tools and resources so that, in a way, it can protect it self
from A New Order of Regenerative Kinship
from “A New Order of Regenerative Kinship”
- But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the o... See more
from the scenic route by Jasmine Sun
- In the post-hipster era, you listened to what Spotify told you to listen to. If you read a book, it was because the precise pattern of blobby pastel-coloured shapes on its cover contained coded instructions to TikTok’s algorithm that sent it zooming to the top of your feed. Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline machin... See more
from All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge by Sam Kriss
One's ability to articulate an idea always lags behind the understanding of the idea, and the understanding of an idea often lags behind the embodiment in which it is first given life. It can take a surprising amount of time to come to understand what a prototype is trying to "say", and longer still to say it oneself.
-Bret Victor
from Felt Time
Sculpture by Nicolás Lamas from his 2021 exhibition, ‘Times in Collapse’.
- The ongoing collapse of advertising revenue within the creative media landscape certainly exacerbates the issue, with publications forced to rely on reader subscriptions, sponsored content, or pay-for-play coverage to fund their platforms – two out of three of which limit any negative feedback almost entirely.
from “I picked a bad time to become a critic” – Elizabeth Goodspeed on the collapse of design critique
by Elizabeth Goodspeed.
[the industry is now a positive feedback loop].
- A lover who loves everything is insincere.
from “I picked a bad time to become a critic” – Elizabeth Goodspeed on the collapse of design critique
by Elizabeth Goodspeed
