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"Culture is a kind of mass hallucination, designed for middle-aged people. Because culture works best for them, you know, when you're less than middle-aged you're trying to figure out the rules of this collective hallucination, if you're past middle-age and you have been paying attention you know it's bullshit so you don't care anymore." - Terence McKenna

"I settled down to long sweet sleeps, day-long meditations in the house, writing, and long walks around beloved old Manhattan a half hour subway ride away. I roamed the streets, the bridges, Times Square, cafeterias, the waterfront, I looked up all my poet beatnik friends and roamed with them, I had love affairs with girls in the Village, I did everything with that great mad joy you get when you return to New York City." ~ Jack Kerouac

Joel Meyerowitz New York City 1978

Marshall McLuhan predicting social media in 1967

Last night I was arguing with a friend about why design from the 60s–90s often feels better Maybe because it sprung from a culture where people observed more than they consumed? Studied instead of scrolled Pre-dopamine-economy with attention spans, so the work could demand more

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Yūsaku Kamekura (1915–1997) was a pioneering Japanese graphic designer, dubbed the "Boss" of post-WWII design for blending modernism with national motifs. Born in Niigata Prefecture, he studied at Tokyo's Institute of New Architecture and Industrial Arts, launching his career with book covers and posters in the 1930s. His corporate logos for Nikon, TDK, and Japan Airlines elevated Japanese visual identity globally. Kamekura's masterpiece is the 1964 Tokyo Olympics emblem, unveiled in 1961. Amid a competition with designers like Ikko Tanaka, his minimalist design, a bold red sun disk (evoking the Hinomaru flag) atop the five golden Olympic rings on white, paired with sans-serif "Tokyo 1964" text, won unanimously. Created hours before the deadline, it symbolized Japan's post-war renewal as Asia's first host Games. #logodecks

the projector is real, not the motion picture. and, still...

Aerial view of Toronto Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

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All the greatest adventure stories were written by White men because they seek glory and heroism. Odyssey by Homer Aeneid by Virgil: Publication Year: 19 BC Nationality: Roman Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Publication Year: 1605 Nationality: Spanish Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Publication Year: 1719 Nationality: English Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Publication Year: 1726 Nationality: Irish Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss Publication Year: 1812 Nationality: Swiss Ivanhoe by Walter Scott Publication Year: 1819 Nationality: Scottish The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper Publication Year: 1826 Nationality: American The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Publication Year: 1844 Nationality: French Moby-Dick by Herman Melville Publication Year: 1851 Nationality: American 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Publication Year: 1870 Nationality: French Roughing It by Mark Twain Publication Year: 1872 Nationality: American The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne Publication Year: 1874 Nationality: French Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Publication Year: 1883 Nationality: Scottish King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard Publication Year: 1885 Nationality: English Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Publication Year: 1886 Nationality: Scottish Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope Publication Year: 1894 Nationality: English Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling Publication Year: 1897 Nationality: English Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Publication Year: 1900 Nationality: Canadian The Call of the Wild by Jack London Publication Year: 1903 Nationality: American The Sea-Wolf by Jack London Publication Year: 1904 Nationality: American Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs Publication Year: 1912 Nationality: American The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle Publication Year: 1912 Nationality: Scottish The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan Publication Year: 1915 Nationality: Scottish Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini Publication Year: 1922 Nationality: Italian The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Publication Year: 1922 Nationality: English Beau Geste by P. C. Wren Publication Year: 1924 Nationality: English The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson Publication Year: 1941 Nationality: Swedish The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat Publication Year: 1951 Nationality: English Lord of the Flies by William Golding Publication Year: 1954 Nationality: English Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian Publication Year: 1969 Nationality: English Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Publication Year: 1987 Nationality: American The Beach by Alex Garland Publication Year: 1996 Nationality: English

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But it also gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” — Thomas Mann

North Italian lake life remains unmatched

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NYC is no longer a city, it is an algorithm. If you live in, say, Cincinnati, when you go to get ice cream with your friends, you really are just going to get ice cream with your friends. In NYC, this is not possible. You cannot just go to get ice cream, because, against your will, you are very self-consciously “someone who lives in NYC, going to get ice cream with their friends, in NYC.” You are never able to achieve full presence of mind because you are constantly placing yourself inside a chapter in some made up, schizophrenic and highly disorienting book. Put another way, as a New Yorker, you do not live in a city, but a massive, procedurally generated simulation of one. You are nothing more than a vapid unit of flesh and bone trapped since a Baudrillardian infinity mirror, where the references have their own references. You become more of a vague concept than a real person—some strange, soulless mix of ambition and violent/sexual impulses—and in your constant confusion you fail to ever become a true subject. You pay $17 for the ice cream cone. Then, you pull out your list of saved Instagram Reels which tell you where to get reservations for pasta later. When you arrive, you find yourself stuck in yet another long line, with people who look just like you. The longer you wait in lines like these, the harder it becomes to ever recover the soul of the person you were before you moved into your East Village studio.

Connor Paton @connorpaton

3 weeks ago

nyc has a froyo epidemic line is pure insanity

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Salvador Dalí’s house in Portlligat, a small seaside village near Cadaqués on Spain’s Costa Brava. Dalí purchased a small fisherman's hut in 1930 and expanded it over 40yrs into a labyrinthine home. It was his only permanent residence and main studio.

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“There is not in Europe any such thing as a pure race. Russians have an admixture of Tartar blood, Germans are largely Slavonic, France is a mixture of Celts, Germans, and people of Mediterranean race, Italy the same with the addition of the descendants of slaves from every corner of the Empire imported by the Romans. The English are perhaps the most mixed of all. There is no evidence that there is any advantage in belonging to a pure race. The purest races now in existence are the Pygmies, the Hottentots, and the Australian aborigines; the Tasmanians, thanks to the British, who were probably even purer are now extinct. There is a special absurdity in applying racial theories to the various populations of Europe.” — Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, Ch. VII: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity

JUST IN: Russian health ministry now classifies people aged 39 & under as “young.”

what a downgrade!

Auraja ‡ @Twee_Papillon

3 weeks ago

1990 vs 2026 This is probably the part of the city that has changed the most over the past 36 years 🇱🇹Vilnius

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Nicole Kidman visits Constantin Brancusi's ‘Danaïde’ | The S.I. Newhouse... youtu.be/nMDlal5tQP8?si… via @YouTube

Gustav Klimt’s sensual 1907 Danaë shows the Greek princess curled up as Zeus descends on her in a stream of gold. It blends myth, intimacy, and that unmistakable Klimt gold style.

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.” — Umberto Eco