Taste 🧐
Thoughts on aesthetics, discernment, preference, and taste. Why some things feel right, some things don’t, and how judgement gets shaped over time.
Taste As Interface Behaviour | Weeknotes #443
It’s an apparatus that observes you observing, then changes its own behaviour based on that observation, which in turn shapes the future view you see though the window.
Just Like Stuff
I’ve had a hard rule for almost twenty years: I don’t argue with people about anything on the internet.
Eating From the Trough
For the next week, at least, I’ve decided to eat as much slop from the trough as possible. To find out what it’s like.
Meme Stash as a Folk Archive
People collect and arrange all sorts of things they find meaningful. Pinterest represents an aspirational self, the meme stash an ironic one.
Dig Back In | 2424
If you create something that’s to your taste, you have to dig back in. Figure out exactly what it was that worked for you and not the algorithm. Iterate on it, and do it again.
Make Something to Your Taste | 2423
You can, you know, just make any creative work you want, and post it on the Internet.
Conflict of Disinterest | 2413
We should abandon the external ‘Battle for Attention’ and instead engage in an internal ‘Conflict of Disinterest’
Settling In
The idea that a new work must come out, be consumed, burn bright before we all collectively move on to the next thing is a crazy one. It’s rotting peoples brains, its rotting culture.
What About This Excites You?
When you are reading a tweet, watching youtube video, or looking at an Instagram post, ask yourself: “What About This Excites Me?”
Good Taste Online | 2303
Given the affordances of different social media platforms. How does one demonstrate taste in the digital realm?
Animal Crossing Is The Place For Taste | 2019
Grammars of Virtual Worlds and the demonstration of taste within the constraints of the toy box that is Animal Crossing
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