I think I would like them if they were treated like creative projects instead of 24/7 infomercials. There's a lot of creators that can really make some amazing art or convey thoughtful ideas in 1-3 minutes but instead we're all shouting into the void using trends to say a lot of nothing most of the time.
Apr 8, 2025
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so much content so much "aesthetics." Where are the STATEMENTS??? What's your point of view? Stacking a bunch of visual / sonic / aesthetic signifiers on top of each other does not make something interesting.
Feb 26, 2025
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“art”, media, whatever you create you create as a mode of expression first and foremost (which, imo, is why we all have a semi-innate distaste for work that feels derivative, disingenuous, or commerce-oriented claiming to be art.)
i think the arts landscape we find ourselves in (and the postmodernism of it all) incentivizes art that inspires dialogue, that is meant to captivate an audience and ideally a large one in both the fine arts and pop art arenas, and so we often congregate to forms like moving image, and other easily disseminated, easily digestible forms to express what is capable of being expressed through a variety of forms
if no one was there to receive our art we would still express ourselves. people expressed themselves before we had comms tech enabling immediate, mass dissemination. per meagre_graeme’s rec, forms with an emphasis on utility such as cuisine, materials work, etc. would certainly be viable and more “optimal” modes of expression, but writing would not go anywhere. photography would not go anywhere. the means by which people who do not consider themselves “artists” express themselves and use their creative faculties to capture and romanticize their lives would become the means by which we’d all express ourselves in the absence of an audience… so per taterhole… does the audience even matter?
Jan 17, 2025
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It's Ranch. The cap comes off to hold change. Larger compartment in the back. Second pattern I've written and so proud
Apr 9, 2025
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For over a year I had the "world's tiniest ruggedized phone". I don't remember the brand but I bet you can google it. Regardless, I still found myself using Instagram and Facebook on the tiny little screen 🥲. When they say social media is made to be addictive I fully believe it. App blockers, making my screen grey scale after 6pm, none of it works. I delete the settings, I remove the blocker.
The best things I've done for myself that is SO much easier said than done is 1. remove the thing from your life that you're trying to avoid and/or 2. Embrace the thing you're trying to avoid.
For me 1. Was a terrible job and 2. Was silence and boredom
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