colombene @colombene@social.coop
design & solidarity | beneluxe.net | los angeles, calif.
Joined May 2018
J.B. MacKinnon on the Wardrobe Crisis podcast - an accessible, mainstream-friendly conversation about the role of consumption and system change IRT climate change. https://thewardrobecrisis.com/podcast/2021/7/6/ep-144-the-day-the-world-stopped-shopping-jb-mackinnon
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I think we on the left could use a lot more friendly, approachable media. While I love me some good aggressive graphic design, right now, I think the right is consistently winning the propaganda game in part because they wrap their ideas with really easy-to-swallow tone and appeals to common sense. We can do that too, in pursuit of a more compassionate, humane, and just world.
So I made a couple images for my local chapter of the IWW that I'm pretty proud of.
I have SVG versions of these if people want to play with them. I'm happy for these to be spread widely; please download them, share them, modify them, whatever. Information wants to be free!
So I made a couple images for my local chapter of the IWW that I'm pretty proud of.
I have SVG versions of these if people want to play with them. I'm happy for these to be spread widely; please download them, share them, modify them, whatever. Information wants to be free!
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Possible Futures is a newsletter that catalogues movements towards ethics, social responsibility and systemic change in tech, design and culture. ✨🧡
You can subscribe here: https://possiblefutures.tech
affirmations from Duncan Trussell…
If you find yourself from time to time not meditating as I often do and think, “My God, I’m not meditating!” Remember, you’re thinking about meditating and that’s a wonderful thing. Even if it’s in the negative. You’ve been given the gift of feeling bad about not meditating. The grace is that you could be thinking about McDonalds right now. You could be thinking about, “Fuck man, when’s the McRib coming back?” But your mind is being drawn towards these things.
"Amazon isn't alone in reportedly destroying unsold goods. Nike, Burberry, H&M and others have also come under fire for torching their own products." https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-destroying-unsold-goods-report-other-nike-burberry-fashion-2021-6
love this real life design criticism "Coffee shops in gentrifying neighborhoods: Why design matters"
https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/coffee-shops-in-gentrifying-la-designs-matter/coffee-shops-in-gentrifying-neighborhoods-why-designs-matter
May issue of Possible Futures with @clayton is on Current State of Open Source with resources about ethics, design, labor and what's next. https://possiblefutures.tech/
Etude de la plante : son application aux industries d'art (Study of the plant: its application to the art industries) by M.P. Verneuil 1903. Art Nouveau style illustrations of plants https://archive.org/details/gri_33125005959479/mode/2up
Pink Gothic Revival Roseland Cottage, 1846 in Woodstock, CT https://roselandcottage.org/
My young house-nerd self marvels at the tech of innerweb 360º architecture tours and documentation. 1938 Gropius house in Lincoln, MA http://gropius.house/
coolest song I've heard about zazen... "The Meditation" by TNT Band, 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuRItWpulFU
Template for a Cooperative Network of Small Architecture Practices by The Architecture Lobby https://www.mascontext.com/observations/template-for-a-cooperative-network-of-small-architecture-practices/
After the pandemic, outdoor dining and ‘slow streets’ should live on https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-04-11/pandemic-public-spaces
Launching Possible Futures today with @clayton - a blog cataloging movement towards ethics, social responsibility and systemic change in tech, design and culture. We share some of the inspiring (and critical) stuff we find by people redefining :futuristic: for the better. The first issue is on Workplace Democracy... https://possiblefutures.tech/ #tw
And we ran out of Repair Shop. Still got a few Worn Stories.
Oy, that Endeavour show is not good yet we keep watching it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess it can’t all be No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.
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For this week’s episode I spoke to Emaline Friedman. She's an activist for the Commons Engine, part of Holochain, a social critic and theorist, has a PhD in psychology, a writer for Mad In America, a researcher at GCAS, and author of a recent book on Internet Addiction.
During the interview we talk about her research for her new book at the intersection of psychology, big data on social media platforms, and how it all brought her to #Holochain and the Commons Engine.
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/moral-panic-about-the-internet-try-data-sovereignty/
A very big list of community models and ideas on Rosieland https://rosie.land/posts/a-very-big-list-of-community-models-and-ideas
looking forward to spring break
RT @doctorow@twitter.com
David Schleinkofer https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/641178312200339457/david-schleinkofer
design & solidarity | beneluxe.net | los angeles, calif.
Joined May 2018
