Ideas I want to write about

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working — Pablo Picasso

What brands have realized is, you can create a “halo effect” around this that drives revenue for your brand. People line up to buy the limited edition stuff, and if they don’t get it, they still buy something less exclusive because they have already decided that your brand is cool and desirable and they want to advocate.

Reggie Casagrande • The evolution of Energy Marketing from Street Culture to Main Street

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

In Search of New Software Cultures

Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.

“We should not forget that maybe not everybody only wants a camel cashmere turtleneck,” Olivier Rousteing remarked. Beyond the cyclical nature of fashion, Rousteing’s observation captured a mash-up of trends that has been solidifying into a durable aesthetic.

The age of functional maximalism

Fashion

That sounds fine, wonderful — real nonsense. Do more. More nonsensical, more crazy, more machines, more breasts, penises, cunts, whatever — make them abound with nonsense. Try and tickle something inside you, your “weird humor.” You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. I

Maria Popova • Do: Sol LeWitt’s Electrifying Letter of Advice on Self-Doubt, Overcoming Creative Block, and Being an Artist

Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the sense or the nerves as the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is the mind speaking to the mind ... if it fails to express precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say HIM, [sic] it says nothi... See more

Miguel • Issue #341: How to Earn Money from Your Writing

“Why isn’t it an app?” This argument feels like the make change from the inside. We know that’s not how the world works, but it’s hard to see that you’re in water as a fish.

But what’s hanging in the balance is the image-cultural environment of the future. One not dominated by a format monopoly.

In Search of New Software Cultures

from Reggie James