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A weekly newsletter about how designing for joy makes everything better. We focus on the #arts, #architecture & #design, and #technology. Based in #Toronto and just getting started. Account helmed by [email protected].
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@kai @gem @piper This is wholesome interaction involving good peeps I’m glad to be online and seeing. 💪🏻
@nicksherman I deliberately rewrite numbers people send me to be chaotic good. Every time.

This is a “company account” but it’s just me and I like watching #skate videos. I prefer skaters who are ... languid? Rather than powerful. Just discovered Andy Anderson. Really enjoyed this 5-minute video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=cJ_bnfIJpKM

Andy Anderson: a Short Skate Film

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This week, I wrote about why I love the #interview format, some practitioners who have recently hung up their microphones, and some great conversations that have stuck with me in recent months.

Thinking about this because we're soon to relaunch our own podcast. 🗣️

https://magazine.frontier.is/p/it-takes-two

It Takes Two

A good conversation is a gift: on interviews, featuring Jace Clayton, Tina M. Campt, Tyler Cowen, Katharine Rundell, Pico Iyer, Ezra Klein, & more.

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“I’m not totally sure what a finished stone means to a family.” A lovely meditation on being a memorial designer: https://www.are.na/blog/the-instability-of-stone
The Instability of Stone — Are.na

Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.

Today’s the first time, in more than two decades of writing, I’ve directly solicited support from readers. And there are no perks! Or, rather, the perks are for everyone (as I believe they should be).

Also subbed or renewed to a bunch of publications I admire, since I don't just want support but want to be part of a flourishing independent media ecosystem.

Read more about what we think we're up to here: https://magazine.frontier.is/p/wind-beneath-our-wings

Wind Beneath Our Wings

Frontier Magazine, subscriptions, unlocking the commons, community support, independent media, the arts, technology, the built environment

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This week’s newsletter reports back from Causal Islands, a conference held here in Toronto last week that laid out visions of human-scale, companionable technology:

https://magazine.frontier.is/p/track-changes

Track Changes

A report on the Causal Islands conference in Toronto. Technology, the distributed web, local-first software, local networks, politics, culture, society.

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Genuinely the best thread I've seen on Hacker News in years: "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

So many delightfully niche projects!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729232

Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? | Hacker News

There are so many easy moments of grace in this work. Telling kids these are THEIR books and we just take care of them for them. Telling them they don't have to be quiet; that they can help themselves to band-aids. Offering free menstrual supplies and sharps disposal in the gender neutral bathroom; letting them show me how the barcode scanner works (I am not great with it) and letting the kids do their own date-stamping. It's not perfect, it's far from perfect, but it belongs to us and I help.

“This is a show about publishing and printing. It is about trying to effect change through a modest means, through a system that is open to criticism and an alternative to capitalism." Artist Ben Kinmont’s new show in Paris:

https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/ben-kinmont-at-air-de-paris-28088

#contemporaryart #publishing #diggers

Ben Kinmont at Air de Paris

Documentation of Ben Kinmont at Air de Paris is featured on Contemporary Art Daily.

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