Just raided Barnes & Noble, can’t wait to fill my head with these. Do I feel like a hypocrite, working in digital and clinging on to my love for print? Maybe a little. It makes me smile to think that while digital can provide incredible experiences for us, so can these pages. It’s the “technology” of our imaginations that really do the work, and writers are capable of programming some of the best “software” around.
I love this, for the insight that intimacy impels powerful communication, but also for the designer’s ingenuity in challenging the norms of intimacy through technology. Separated by thousands of miles, how close can we actually get to physically touching – and to the emotional experience that comes with putting hand to hand? Maybe closer than we think…
We need advertisements that urge us to buy into truth and life. We also need to do something productive with all of our digital moments, rather than just letting them float in the ether of social platforms and other Internet spaces.
So: here is the first in a series of Vivid & Vague “posters.” I’ll be dropping some lines over my Instagram photos – perhaps taking the filtered, emotional “hipsterness” to new heights, or maybe actually making something that resonates with someone. Probably both. Would love to hear what you think.
I just returned to Brooklyn from a week-long vacation in California, which included a weekend in Indio for Coachella, several days in Los Angeles, and a day trip to Santa Barbara. It feels great to be back home, but the West Coast definitely put me in a good place…so here’s my tribute poster to a perfect getaway.
Last week, Givers + Theophilus London played a “secret” show in Brooklyn for La Blogotheque (The Switch, sponsored by 5 Gum). Luckily I was in on the secret, since the shows were played at a friend’s apartment. Nothing like the good energy of live music in a small space.
EL GUINCHO | Bombay from MGdM | Marc Gómez del Moral on Vimeo.
Great song, matched to a series of abstract visual ideas that seem to make perfect sense.
What is Curation? from Percolate on Vimeo.
Great thinking on how we filter information and why we do it. I really appreciate the work of my favorite curators, who bring me poignant content and lead me to the depths of the Internet that I may otherwise never come across.
This is something new I’m trying – taking snippets of Vivid & Vague and serving them up in short form, almost like a postcard. Sometimes, all it takes is one sentence or a simple concept to shift perspective. Send, post, share!
