Recently I’ve been thinking about home.
Is it a physical location? Is it a feeling? Who decides?
What happens when you outgrow a place? What about when you’re forced to leave?
What are my neighbors doing inside their houses right now? Are they wondering what I’m doing?
I remember the house I grew up in. What will our kids remember about this house when they’re older?
The illustrations this week are from this zine.
This week in fragments, links, and tangents:
“With a bold, playful, and deliberately lo-fi aesthetic, the brand transforms curiosity into a defiant act of self-expression.” Playful and appropriately irreverent branding for Super Genius Society by Otherwhere Collective.
“It’s precisely the scarcity of these photos and the selective way they’ve been collected and stored that makes them interesting. In this form, they’re sources of wonder and mystery, suggesting but not revealing people’s lives beyond the frame. And their visual and tactile qualities as objects reveal information about the time in which they were taken.” Talia Barnes on Photos in the age of digital hoarding
“have u always wanted ur own website?” Resources for website-curious friends from Katherine Yang. I’m intrigued by Pika. Has anyone used it?
Do you think everything should just be an app? Anton Repponen would probably encourage you to think again. “The idea is simple: you take a book from your shelf, place it into the device, and it ‘recognizes’ the book, then begins reading it to you.” I love the intentional relationship between the physical object and the digital experience.
I’ve been waiting for a good “AI in the workplace” story and Aftermath delivered. This one is specifically about video game development, but it’s really about any job.
Thanks! See you next week.
*pointing at a hasta plant* “Look! The pasta is growing!”
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thanks for the shoutout!
I've been writing on a Pika blog for a while now: it's simple and good — I've owned my own website since the early '00s, in the beginning I took care of everything — meaning the setup and coding part — with the earlier version of WordPress which became increasingly bloated over time.
Now I just want to write both 1) without thinking about what's underneath (in terms of tech stuff I need to put my hands on) but also 2) thinking about what's underneath (in terms of being mindful of the principles guiding the platform that I'm using).
And this latest aspect has become increasingly troublesome, as most platforms are becoming rotten to the core – both Substack and WordPress, for different reasons, are platform that I either abandoned or plan to abandon soon.
Pika is good (or Good Enough - ha!).