Gallery: Zachary Friedberg.
Roald Dahl’s writing routine. Terribly cosy.
In the dystopian play “The Ventriloquists’ School” by Alejandro Jodorowsky, a ‘free man’ falls into a deserted street and, panicked, takes refuge in a non-place populated by slaves and masters where puppets and manoeuvres live under the control of the feared Sacred Director. Whether it’s a representation of a personal journey, the conscious renunciation of one’s will or a way to vent on some of the more uncomfortable aspects of the self, is up to the audience to interpret.
Sean Bonner on decentralising social media. A good read, possibly useful for others, and Sean tells me it no longer costs hundreds and thousands for the gas fees to mint NFTs, putting it more in the zone of a micro-transaction that recalls Jaron Lanier’s early insistence that emails should cost money to send. But this does also connect to a tendency I’ve seen among indieweb bloggers: working really hard to make sure they can reply to stuff on the internet. I’m not convinced that the value proposition to focus on is ensuring that your instant opinion gets shoved in someone else’s face.
“Home is not where you are born, it’s where all your attempts to escape come to an end.”