Weekly appreciations from the forefronts of architecture, technology, culture, and education. By @briansholis.
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6 Dec 2023
I appreciate @Richard_Florida & his colleagues putting a name on this phenomenon, but I also feel it has distressing implications, so for this week’s newsletter I wrote a bit about why:
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7 Dec 2023
Ken Montague: “It’s possible to establish an art collection of portraiture that will be uplifting while being truthful to history and exploring ideas that are essential when we think about Black culture, Black identity, Black life.” magazine.frontier.is/p/ken-m…
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6 Dec 2023
“The idea is to make sure that these institutions reflect the communities that they serve on all fronts.” This week’s podcast: art collector & patron Ken Montague on Black joy and changing museums from the inside: magazine.frontier.is/p/ken-m…
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6 Dec 2023
The second in our series of products we can get behind: @rbeccazhou & Annie Kreighbaum’s @softservices:
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23 Nov 2023
Happy to have our podcast interviews with @djrupture and @longform_ed linked in today’s First Floor, a great music newsletter by @shawnreynaldo:
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22 Nov 2023
As we enter gift-giving season, I wrote this week on @freshkillspark & @vollebak, two very different organizations repurposing waste into something new and better.
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22 Nov 2023
On @freshkillspark: “It took decades to close the landfill; it is taking decades to rehabilitate its Staten Island site; and it’ll take yet more decades of awareness-raising and activism to reduce our great tides of refuse to a trickle.”
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22 Nov 2023
“The @vollebak product that caught our attention is less of a spectacle: the Garbage Fleece, launched last year.” magazine.frontier.is/i/13905…
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21 Nov 2023
Thinking about Humane’s AI Pin and @newcomputer’s Dot, I realize: “there is still plenty of room to grow within current paradigms of human-computer interaction. That runway is in designing conversation.”
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20 Nov 2023
The bad-neighbor effect was part of my argument against the MSG Sphere in July. Glad to see the London Mayor’s office taking their concerns seriouly.
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20 Nov 2023
London Mayor Sadiq Khan rejects Madison Square Garden’s plans to build a Vegas-style giant orbed shape entertainment venue in east London’s Stratford district trib.al/7vY0abo
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15 Nov 2023
This week: realizing I want AI that builds upon what I know, not what the world does. For me, that means @newcomputer over @Humane. Hardware is (almost) fungible; relationship-building isn’t. cc @jasonyuan & @sjwhitmore
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13 Nov 2023
On a new book about experience design: “Burickson’s framework does, though, give me useful ways to think about experiences that feel inconsiderate or hollow.”
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9 Nov 2023
Congrats to the @_andychung and the @read_cv team! Read an interview with Andy here:
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Super excited to launch some big new updates to profiles on read.cv today! Our new writing tab gives you the power to publish a blog, journal, or anything word-related right on your profile. We've also made attachments and text editing richer and more flexible ✨
Changes are live now, so let us know what you think!
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9 Nov 2023
Abraham Burickson’s @yalebooks title “Experience Design” reminds me of @notrobwalker’s “The Art of Noticing” and @austinkleon’s “Steal Like An Artist”—they all advocate for using our powers of observation and creativity when relating to the world.
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8 Nov 2023
This week: Abraham Burickson’s @yalepress @odysseyworks book “Experience Design” suggests a profound shift in how we conceive of the act of design:
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25 Oct 2023
The @pulitzerarts Foundation has a great-looking exhibit on the “lost buildings of St. Louis.” At the same time, its patron has a large real-estate project one block west of the museum. Urban-development advocates would benefit from linking the two.
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8 Nov 2023
Related: x.com/CityLab/status/1720870…
4 Nov 2023
The new exhibit “Urban Archaeology” shows off architectural relics salvaged from buildings destroyed during the urban renewal era in St. Louis trib.al/ykCWdbd
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1 Nov 2023
Independent-music communities are at a crossroads. There’s more great music, and more great music writing, than ever. But despite (because of?) technological progress, it’s getting harder to find & support it.
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7 Nov 2023
Following on from the piece above & from my interview last week with Jace Clayton: Spotify will soon no longer pay royalties on tracks with fewer than 1,000 streams. Here’s @dada_drummer rightly excoriating this policy:
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7 Nov 2023
Last one, for now, partly because it’s depressing to post these: x.com/zzzzaaaacccchhh/status…
1 Nov 2023
I spent a few months interviewing Discogs sellers and former employees about the site's decline, why it's flailing, and how the new fee increase is making it untenable for many longtime sellers. The piece is now live at @Stereogum:
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6 Nov 2023
This week’s podcast: an interview with Andrew Khedoori and Mark Gowing of @longform_ed, on their egalitarian ethos, emotional sustainability, and the value of curatorial vision in an algorithmic world.
Listen/read the transcript:
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6 Nov 2023
Some of my favorite @longform_ed releases are by @vantzouchrist, @colepulice, Melanie Velarde, @joseph_kamaru, Golden Retriever, & Sofie Birch. But these guys have impeccable taste and you can’t go wrong browsing longformeditions.com/
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6 Nov 2023
PS don’t take my word for it on the @colepulice: It was named a @pitchfork Best New Track: pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks…
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