💬 From Victor Papanek in Design For The Real World:
Man and his environment participate in molding each other. Man is now in the position of actually creating the total world in which he lives… In creating this world, he is actually determining what kind of an organism he will be.
As a 29 year old who has always felt his age, very rarely do I fall to prey anxieties about “time is passing” or “I’m getting old.”
But getting an advertisement for the 10th anniversary of Halsey’s “Badlands” album— which I listened to incessantly the year after I graduated— made me feel… strange.
✏️ New Word Learned:
Eleemosynary: relating to or dependent on charity; charitable.
✍️ New post on my blog: Moving From Curiosity To A “Thirst For Life”
Brief thoughts, simple, and thrown off quickly, but definitely a topic I’m going to be meditating on for a while.
Inspired by Open Style Lab’s exhibition of their footwear kit yesterday. In six weeks, the organization made a truly innovate kit for footwear that continues to make fashion accessible to people of all abilities, and raise the bar for thoughtful, intentional design.
🎥🍿 Thoughts On ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ by Spike Lee: bradley-andrews.com
💬 From Pablo Picasso (as quoted by Gertrude Stein):
“When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those who make it after you, they don’t have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when the others make it after you.”
✏️ New Words Learned:
Crepuscular: of, resembling, or relating to twilight
Matutinal: of, or occurring in the morning
Vespertine: relating to, occurring, or active in the evening
🎥🍿 My very low-stakes review of “Weapons' by Zach Cregger.
Warning: Spoilers!
Bumped my K1000 & jammed it up. I’m learning to repair & maintain my belongings where I can, so I watched a Youtube video and went for it.
In the end, it was a simple fix & I got to admire the inner workings of this phenomenal piece of tech. Can you believe this thing is older than me?
✏️ New Term Learned:
Amuse-Bouche: a small dish of food or a drink taken before a meal or the main course of a meal to stimulate one’s appetite
✍️ Some of my thoughts on a favorite Kendrick Lamar lyric and why Progress Is My Favorite Form of Procrastination.
If even the rich feel burdened by the lack of an ideal, to those who suffer real deprivation an ideal is first a necessity of life. Where there is plenty of bread and a shortage of ideals, bread is no substitute for an ideal. But where bread is short, ideals are bread.
💬 Design for the Real World, Victor Papanek
🎶 Unbelievable performance from Clipse last night in Brooklyn. Hip hop legends performing what is guaranteed to be rap album of the year.
💬 A thought about tricksters, creativity, and the sacred from Byrd Gibbens:
Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.
✏️ New Word Learned:
Refection: refreshment of mind, spirit, or body especially; NOURISHMENT
✏️ New Word Learned:
Caparisoned: to provide with or as if with a rich ornamental covering (especially of a horse)
📷 Washington Square Park, NYC
🎥🍿I wrote a brief analysis on Ari Aster’s Eddington:
Indeed, at its core, Eddington is a tale about communication—or, rather, miscommunication—of our desires, identities, and realities. The settings and personalities are held distant enough to let us laugh at the caricatures, but not held so far that we lose sight of our own reflections. Delightfully non-partisan, Aster manages to take the mick out of both the far right and far left in order to illuminate the subtle, but exponentially more influential, technological forces at play.
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