Erikc Perez-Perez
@perez
Chicago photographer.
Erikc Perez-Perez
perezx.com
METALABEL: You made a short video for the album that has a line I can’t stop thinking about: “Sometimes it feels like your house is a store and your life is a job.” Can you talk about that feeling?
CLAIRE : It's something we talk about a lot. The more you notice it in the world around you, the more real it feels. It speaks to the fact that as... See more
CLAIRE : It's something we talk about a lot. The more you notice it in the world around you, the more real it feels. It speaks to the fact that as... See more
YACHT • New Media IRL: "New Release" by Yacht
But right now I want to tell you what beauty is NOT.
It doesn’t require validation by an institution.
It can’t be manipulated by a corporation.
It doesn’t need or want theory or interpretation.
It’s not mediated through a critic.
Now you can begin to understand why beauty is dangerous. It’s the closest thing to anarchy and liberation in our public... See more
It doesn’t require validation by an institution.
It can’t be manipulated by a corporation.
It doesn’t need or want theory or interpretation.
It’s not mediated through a critic.
Now you can begin to understand why beauty is dangerous. It’s the closest thing to anarchy and liberation in our public... See more
"Novelty emerges from an individual mind, when it is judged by a committee, orthodoxy will usually prevail."
But the ancient questions are reemerging due to the unsettling nature of technological change. We are being forced to confront these timeless, existential questions by developments that cause conflict between the three cities: like the possibilities of artificial intelligence, or the moral questions raised by genomics, or the tension between... See more
”It’s normal for me to take 2 days to read my emails and 2 more days to reflect on the matter and respond calmly. The culture of immediacy and the constant fragmentation of time are not very compatible with the kind of life I lead” - Lucy Hunt
People are struggling, and the market is flooded with think pieces on whether inflation is real or the complexities of geo-politics. It’s interesting that the instinct is to try to make sense of every new thing that happens in the world (now that is a hampster wheel) rather than to understand the things that will never change.
Emotional reactivity... See more
Emotional reactivity... See more
useful and imperfect simplification may be that technology has mostly continued to do what it has done: expand the range of human choices. Most things are more accessible to more people than at any other point in human history. In the process, we're finding out how people handle that ability. The results are certainly mixed. As somebody who thinks... See more
Now the point of this myth is the fact that men at once become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any material other than themselves.
- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media - The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis
- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media - The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis