seeds
My GPS watch insists on tracking my running streak, my hitting-my-step-count streak, my drinking-enough-water streak. A friend mentions their Duolingo streak. An app offers to track my meditation streak, which seems to fly in the face of mindfulness. As I type this, I’m shown an ad for something called “Streaks,” billed as “the to-do list that help... See more
The Big Break
"When everything is readily available and consumable, contemplative attention is impossible." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)
The more people who buy a product, the further the product’s message spreads, the more money the company makes, the more they can invest in their projects. It's a virtuous cycle of creation and consumption. By making scale—the number of people who use or see the creation—an explicit part of the art’s statement, they naturally marry the business’s g... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
making scale the process not the work
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable, and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of con... See more
🌀🗞 The FLUX Review, Ep. 149
Brand and product designer Frank Chimero noted in a 2018 talk at the Substans Conference in Bergen, Norway, that “if we’re setting out to change the character of technology in our lives, we’d be wise to learn from the character of places.”*
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
“It’s published here on the understanding that it will never appear online, because of course, the last thing they’d want is for their favourite places to suddenly become ordinary.”
Steve from Stack Magazine on August’s issue
What we gain with algorithmic feeds in terms of availability-having instant access to a broad range of material to be scanned at will —we lose in connoisseurship, which requires depth and intention. It's ultimately a form of deep appreciation, for what the artist has done as well as the capacities of our own tastes.
— Filterworld, pg. 238
the objects we love most develop their own mythology
things hold memories!!
Emile Durkheim’s notion of “collective effervescence,” the ecstasy shared by participants in music, sports, dancing, or spirituality. Rosa believes that attuning ourselves to this intense feeling of invigorating camaraderie is a necessary alternative to measuring, mapping, analyzing, and exploiting the world. In this sense, resonance is the interpe... See more