VOL 5, NO 6
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Picture miss. / Somewhere between quitting Instagram and trying very hard to spend less time fingerbanging my phone, taking pictures got a bit lost. Last week, while digging around my basement for a very specific cable stored in a box filled exclusively with very specific cables, I found my trusty old Ricoh GX100; a great camera that you can also just stick in your pocket. Ansel Adams said something about how photographs are made, not taken. That’s not me. I have no real natural aptitude for photography, but I do have a natural impulse to take pictures. Snapshots. Moments. Candids. Whatever.
I set up a Pixelfed (which I do not fully understand how to use — this federated stuff is conceptually cool, but practically it remains super fucking awkward), because nobody looks at the photos page of this website except my mom (the real victim in my Instagram exit). I am enjoying it a lot, but nobody I know uses it (or at least I haven’t figured out how to find and follow them), which raises some questions about my social media use: if I find peace in a social network because it is slow and mostly unpopulated, is it still social? Or am I really hoping for an anti-social network, where I have other people — I even need other people — but I don’t necessarily want other people. Or maybe my Platonic ideal of a social network is one filled with people that offers zero interaction.
Doesn’t that sound nice?
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Reseaux des stoppages, Marcel Duchamp, 1914
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Confusions. / 💬 What made blogging different. ❝I think of this now as the difference between living in a house you built that requires some effort to visit and going into a town square where there are not particularly rigorous laws about whether or not someone can punch you in the face.❞ / 🍪 Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites. / 🖨️ The Sherwood Forest Virtual Zine Library. / 🦋 The great butterfly heist. / 🥫 Looking back at The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol. / 🎤 Slipping away from myself at the KPop Demon Hunters sing-along. ❝But that night, in the Regal Alhambra Renaissance theater—a multiplex chain location that has nothing to do with regality, thirteenth-century Islamic architecture, or the Renaissance—we weren’t so sure about the value of authenticity. We were, after all, wearing costumes.❞ / 📐 Open-source blueprints for civilization. / 🤐 New zipper dropped! / 🔴 Here’s how they clean the balls in a ball pit. / 🚀 The Space Exploration Logo Archive. / Exoplanet Travel Bureau. / ⚱️ People who died: Diane Keaton, Daniel Naroditsky, Ace Frehley, D’Angelo, Soo Catwoman and Gilles Larrain. / Also dead: robots.txt. / ☎️ POP Phone. I guess? / 🚧 GifCities, a GeoCities animated gif search engine. / ✌️
