Laurie Penny; New Statesman…
“There is nothing wrong with making things that people want. The problem is that personhood and desire are constrained by capital; money affects whose wants appear to matter. The kids in Startup House may want a pizza delivery drone, but not in the same way low-income families want health care, or the elderly men lying in their own faeces on Howard Street want a safe place to sleep. There is nothing wrong with making things people want. It’s just that too little attention is being paid to the things people need.”
“We put together this mix to celebrate 30 years of acid. We decided to pick one track per year, since 1984 – the year Roland stopped making the 303. Starting with Chicago House, expanding out into Detroit Techno and the evolutions in the acid sound from the UK & Europe, then into the late 90′s Warp/Rephlex territory, right up to the present day.”
“The strategy for the worst case apocalypse scenario is the very same thing as the strategy to avoid the worst case apocalypse scenario.”
My favorite talk from last year’s XOXO Festival. Always an inspirational re-watch.
“It is an oversimplification to say that this is the result of business valuing profit rather than product, for no one should be expected to do business without the incentive of profit. The actual trouble is that profit is identified entirely with money, as distinct from the real profit of living with dignity and elegance in beautiful surroundings.” Alan Watts, Does It Matter?
Foggy Forest (Going Home), Mountain Cloud series — Miya Ando
Sara Horowitz; Fast Company…
“[T]he richest 5% of Americans are back to spending like they’ve got Gordon Gekko’s Visa card. They’re now responsible for 38% of domestic consumption (up from ‘just’ 28% in the go-go ’90s).
And since the recession ended, spending by the rich has risen 17%. The rest of us? Just 1%.
We’ve stopped looking for more. Instead, we just want enough. And better.
We’re saving. We’re eating healthy and local. We’re thinking about what each purchase means–for us and for our community.”
What happens to the successful when everyone else decides that success is measured as something more subtle and meaningful than simply ‘more than most’?
Graham Jenkin; Wall Street Journal…
“Designers have their own language. They have their own way of thinking. They have unique ways of approaching problems and of approaching work in general. Unless you’re one yourself, you may struggle to understand your designer and to take advantage of his or her abilities. Here’s my shortlist of tips for successfully working with designers.”
“It’s not hoping for some wholeness…Disappointment sets in…Then lets philosophize. No. You come out of the womb…Awh shit. We in space and time.” —Cornel West
