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From our latest newsletter:
Forgotten love letters - A history-and-folliness mix - Time machine substitutes.
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From our latest newsletter:
Appreciating your city, but how? - YW’s pear-shaped dreams of folliness - How Shawn Micallef's writing has inspired us.
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Great advice & a wonderful example of #folliness. Couldn’t agree more.
Totally!! It's a type of folliness.
It reminds me of this book:
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars
https://www.youngw.ca/product/the-99-invisible-city-by-roman-mars/
Also check out https://www.folliness.com
This wouldn't just work as a book, but also as trading cards, like these:
https://www.youngw.ca/product/edmontonia-trading-cards-pack-of-8/
Still thinking about what would be a good Toronto example of this... maybe the white squirrel lore of Trinity Bellwoods?
A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design Hardcover, 400 pages, ISBN: 9780358126607 Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020 Buy this book from independent bookstores or those who support them: Canada only (select your indie bookshop): US only (Bookshop.org): UK only (Bookshop.org): (Young W may make a small commission if you buy this book via the links on this page. Please note that prices may vary from the one listed here.)
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@eveainsworth Hello Eve! Welcome!
Mastodon takes a bit of getting used to, but after being on here for about 1 week, we find it’s actually quite nice. Lots of great hashtags to explore! We’ve created our own too, #Folliness. We’re just taking it one step at a time…
We are obsessed with #Folliness. What is Folliness?
Folliness is engaging in all aspects of one’s life with extravagant, eccentric, absurd, playful and folly-like artefacts, concepts, behaviours, patterns, symbols and structures which have no apparent practical purpose and have been created primarily for amusement.
This includes, but is not limited to, architectural folliness in the form of (architectural) “follies”.
Read more about it here:
https://www.folliness.com
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