Clouds. Unkashū. V.2. 1903.

romance is everywhere if you’re really looking

Monach butterflies (Danaus plexippus) rest in a tree in California, USA

by Robin Gwen Agarwal

Stamps of brides of Yemen, February 27, 1986

Rolf Ohst

blackwork print, c. 1620.

finally got one of these!!!!!

harness ornament in the shape of a carnivore, inner mongolia c. 500s-300s b.c.

Kenzo featuring Minami Kinoshita and Blesnya Minher ꩜ Surrender painted on skin, trust in anonymous arms

my homegirl wrote a really salient essay on substack about how reliance on algorithms ultimately stifles modern day listener’s curiosity and the livelihood of music artists themselves.

open.substack.com

Your Algorithm Hates the B-Sides

Notes About Streaming from a Music Listener

i def recommend giving it a read and reflecting on your own music listening practices and habits. a favorite paragraph of mine that speaks further to the evidence that we living in a dystopia today:

“Algorithmic curation has consumed every facet of people’s lives —they search for information on AI run search engines, they exclusively buy products on social media platforms that push hundreds of ads based on the posts they engage with, they build virtual communities amongst like-minded, aesthetically aligned and desirable online users. A revival of pre-streaming label street teams and independent CD pushers would fail for many reasons, one being that they’d find the streets desolate and empty.”