© Ying Gao (via Vimeo)
2526 refers to the number of hours invested in the creation of the two polymorphic robotic garments, from ideation to the finish, from the first line of drawing to the last stitch.
Absolutely blown away by these two mesmerizing pieces of kinetic clothing by Montreal-based fashion designer and professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal Ying Gao. Definitely check out the other fashion projects on his website, there’s a lot of amazing stuff to discover;
© Blaise Hayward (via Vimeo)
This short film tells the story of Walter Strohmeyer who for almost all of his 90 years has been swimming in the waters off Long Island. An honest and at times heartfelt story about the power of ritual.
The Swimmer by Blaise Hayward is a wonderful little short, I love everything about it.
We cannot make social media good, because it is fundamentally bad, deep in its very structure. All we can do is hope that it withers away, and play our small part in helping abandon it.
According to Ian Bogost from The Atlantic The Age of Social Media Is Ending. Yes, please!
theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074
© ECM Records (via YouTube)
Bordeaux Concert is a special document from Keith Jarrett’s last European tour. Each of Jarrett’s 2016 solo piano concerts had its own strikingly distinct character, and in Bordeaux the lyrical impulse is to the fore.
© Amistat (via YouTube)
Please treat yourself kind
Give yourself a gentle year
The next lines we’ll receive from you will tell the storm has cleared
Folks, we’ve entered melancholic-music-season again! Let’s celebrate with this hauntingly beautiful stripped-down version of Brave by Amistat recorded during a Live Session From Home.
The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary constraints.
A wonderful plea by freelance journalist Alex Vuocolo for The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance.
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.
The Science of What Makes People Care is part of an online series called ‘Essentials of Social Innovation’ published by Stanford Social Innovation Review by Stanford University. There’s a lot of great lessons to be found in this “starter kit for leaders of social change”.
ssir.org/articles/entry/the_science_of_what_makes_people_care
What if the future isn’t Artificial General Intelligence and 100x increases in computing power? What if it’s cheap-and-flexible mesh networks? What if the future isn’t replacing untrustworthy institutions with blockchain governance? What if it’s replacing untrustworthy global and national institutions with revitalized local trust? What if the metaverse isn’t the future because, in the future, people commit themselves to improving and monitoring their vulnerable surroundings?
Interesting essay –with a bunch of hyperlinks to some other great resources– about Tech futurism’s blind spot written by Dave Karpf, a Professor at the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University.
At this point, you could even say that the point of the theory is so obvious, it’s cliché—people talk about longing for the days of weird web design and personal sites and listservs all the time. Even Facebook employees say they miss the “old” internet.
Never heard of the “dead-internet theory” before, but as a lover of the “old” internet, I kind of get how this pretty far-out-there idea got its followers. At least it’s an entertaining, relatively little-threatening conspiracy theory.
theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-internet-theory-wrong-but-feels-true/619937/
There are no rules to blogging except this one: always self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing you can own. Your career will thank you for it later and no-one can take it away.
I second everything addressed in this short plea for blogging (on your own domain) published by Robin –of course– on his personal blog; Take Care of Your Blog.
© 4AD (via YouTube)
It finally hits me, a mile’s drive
The sky is leaking, my windshield’s crying
I’m feeling sacred, my soul is stripped
Radio’s painful, the words are clipped
The National is always a win, and so is Bon Iver. The yesterday released song Weird Goodbyes is just as hauntingly beautiful of a collaboration as you’d expect from those two bands.
© SUGi (via YouTube)
SUGi’s mission is to empower rewilding and bring Nature closer to anyone anywhere. Our Forest Makers and Ocean Gardeners use your funds to restore biodiversity and regenerate ecosystems.
From the YouTube-Channel by the beautiful SUGi project. If you want to know more about the propagated Miyawaki method and the idea of the “Mini-forests”, there’s a book by Hannah Lewi.
One for my growing antilibrary.