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    <title>Opinion | How We Resist ICE: Car Pools - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-27T07:34:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the resistance we drive minivans, we take ’em low and slow down Nicollet Avenue, our trunks stuffed with hockey skates and scuffed Frisbees and cardboard Costco flats. We drive Odysseys and Siennas, we drive Voyagers and Pacificas, we like it when the back end goes ka-thunk over speed bumps, shaking loose the Goldfish dust. One of our kids wrote “wash me” on the van’s exterior, etched it into the gray scurf of frozen Minneapolis slush. Our floor mats smell like mildew from the snowmelt.

In the resistance we play Idles loud, we prefer British punk, turn the volume up, “Danny Nedelko,” please and thank you — we cast that song like a protective spell across our minivans: Let us be bulletproof, let us be invisible. We double-check the address, two new kids in the car pool today, three more families requesting rides in the Signal chat. We scan our phones to see which intersections to avoid: armed ICE action in Powderhorn; saw a protester get pushed down. This is in the weeks following the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents. Following the killing of Renee Good by a federal agent.

In the resistance we drive the high school car pool, that holy responsibility, the ferrying of innocents among the wolves. We drive kids we’ve never met before from families afraid to leave their houses, and most mornings we’re in our pajamas, a staling doughnut grabbed with yesterday’s cold coffee, teeth unbrushed — and OK, fine, that might just be me. You wouldn’t be the first to cock an eyebrow at my personal hygiene.

And OK, fine, I don’t even drive a minivan, if you’re going to be pedantic — it’s a dark Chevy Traverse that looks just like an ICE truck. So in those subzero mornings, when I pull up in front of a new address, I roll the window down and shine my smiley pink face into the day — I know how this looks, sorry, sorry! — and I wave wave wave my cartoon wave right up to the point where those eyes peering from behind bent mini blinds register the thought: No… no, I do not think that man could be ICE.

We’ve been doing this since December, eight weeks going on nine going on who knows. Kids stopped going to school when thousands of ICE officers arrived in Minnesota. They didn’t want to take the buses anymore, their parents too nervous to release their children onto the block, lest they get swept up by masked agents in flak jackets. This was before the 5-year-old in the blue bunny hat got taken, before a fourth grader in Columbia Heights disappeared, before my middle child’s middle school went into lockdown because ICE trucks were prowling outside her algebra classroom. A network of neighborhood moms and dads bloomed organically, divvying rides, vetting newcomers. There were no open calls, just friends talking with other friends, seeing who might want to help.

Today I’m driving a boy with big bright eyes and floppy hair and golden retriever vibes. He’s got his guitar case this afternoon, performed something for the class, and when I ask about it he smiles and nods and looks down at his seat. (I won’t name any of the kids I drive out of fear of government reprisal.)

Today I’m driving a girl with red lipstick and a gentle, cautious smile. Today I’m driving those sweet, shy sisters who politely take doughnuts from my proffered box even though they never eat them in the car. Today I’m driving the dignified and serious girl who told me English is her favorite class. They’re reading “Romeo and Juliet,” they’re writing sonnets. She told me next year she wants to take A.P. English. Today she’s going downtown to the protest, going because her parents can’t leave the house. Her father came out to shake my hand the first day I picked her up. Most mornings her mother waves from behind a cracked door. They’ve postponed her quinceañera for now; Mom says it’s going to be a Sweet Sixteen next year.

Today I’m driving a boy with braces and unstylish glasses, a dazed and daffy air. He’s always smiling about something. He is last on my drop-off list, four different stops today, and he was squeezed into the far back next to a girl in his grade. Am I wrong to think that neither was leaning away from the other, may in fact have been scrunching in a little closer? A gentleman never tells. Just before we reach his house I ask how his day went and he jolt-snorts awake, laughing. Oh, man, I was up so late last night, playing video games with my friends, he says. He’s bashful now. My friends are too funny. I pull up to his place and we scan the area for suspicious vehicles. I watch him turn the doorknob, step inside.

What they don’t often tell you is how beautiful the resistance can be. In the evening, on the day that Alex Pretti, an I.C.U. nurse, was shot to death by federal agents in front of Glam Doll Donuts, my wife and I drove through Minneapolis. There were candlelight vigils on nearly every corner we passed, some corners with four or five people cupping tiny flames, some corners with 50 neighbors milling about, communing, singing, stoking a firepit hauled to the sidewalk, lighting up the little Weber grill, just hanging out in the frozen dark.

What they don’t often tell you is how fun the resistance can be: the marches joyous and laced with adrenalized anger, people cheering the brass band that thumps its way down the block, chanting and pumping fists, belting out a ubiquitous profane call and response about ICE.

The biggest march was planned for a day of general strike, Jan. 23, when the weather was projected to be minus 9 degrees, wind chills reaching the negative 20s. People began to fret, worrying about low turnout, but when my wife and I arrived in downtown Minneapolis with our children we encountered one of the largest assemblies of humans I’d seen in person. Some news outlets reported 50,000 people.

I was not surprised, had not forgotten that people in the North have been practicing for this their entire lives. Mention a negative temperature and the Minnesotan eye is liable to glaze over in reverie — it is a near-erotic sensation, the act of considering which fleece to pair with which shell, which anorak has the thickest fur-lined hood, whether it’s time to bring down the warmest warm coat from the attic, whether the heated vest is still charged.
As we tramped through the arctic streets, a bearded dude pulled a wagon bearing a generator and a vat of bubbling soup, dishing up bowls for anyone who cared to slurp. My 13-year-old daughter carried a sign that said “You can’t shoot us all,” but most of the signs were funny and usually vulgar, along with numerous variations on crushed and salted ice. A young woman held a piece of cardboard with a message insulting ICE agents’ mommas; I did a double take a few minutes later when I saw a different person holding aloft a sign with the exact same phrasing, the sentiment universal, apparently.

After the marches are over, after we’re warm at our fireplaces, we laugh at videos of ICE agents performing unintentional vaudeville pratfalls on the slicked-out sidewalks, feet swooped from underneath. We share the clips of the white supremacist agitator who, aiming to profit from the city’s chaos, organized a march that was meant to culminate with a burning of the Quran in a Somali neighborhood — only to be abandoned by his scraggly followers and met by a crowd of jeering Minnesotans who pelted him with water balloons in the subfreezing afternoon. And there was satisfaction, of course, in seeing that cosplay commandant get yanked from the spotlight he appeared to so desperately crave and retired back to the desert, while understanding that his removal was symbolic, an action that changed nothing. Still, in these unsettled times, one must nurture joy wherever one can.

As the poet Toi Derricotte writes, “Joy is an act of resistance.”

Everyone is doing his part here, each to his ability. This is easier to accomplish, it seems, when joy and love are the engines. Outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, where detainees, some of them American citizens and legal residents, are being held without beds or real blankets, the grannies of the Twin Cities are serving hot chocolate to college kids in active confrontation with ICE. I know of an off-grid network of doctors offering care to immigrants, a sub rosa collective of restaurateurs organizing miniature food banks in their basements. A friend of mine is a pastor who went with around 100 local clergy members to the airport in protest. Another friend is an immigration lawyer who spends his days endlessly filing habeas petitions, has gotten 30 people released from detention over the past few weeks. He recently offered a training session on how to file habeas petitions and 300 lawyers showed up, eager to do the work pro bono.

Every day and night, in the neighborhoods most affected by ICE raids, volunteers stand on street corners and patrol the blocks, phones and whistles ready. The middle-aged ladies of the metro area still take their jaunty 5 p.m. walks, but wearing neon observer vests now. My wife told me about a plumber out in the burbs offering his services free to immigrants affected by the federal occupation — and truly, when the suburban plumbers are against you, you can be sure you’re on the wrong side of history.

Our loose parent network keeps growing, more than 80 of us now. The demand is greater each week, as people in hiding talk with other people in hiding. The first week we had five families riding the car pool; by the seventh, more than 60 families had requested rides, just in our small corner of Minneapolis. We’ve started driving kids’ parents to their jobs, started putting up rent for people who can’t leave their apartments. This is happening in neighborhoods and suburbs across the Twin Cities. We are legion, the local moms and dads, we cruise the city in our minivans. You can’t shoot us all.

Here’s what you need to remember: There is no reward that comes later. No righteous justice will be dispensed, not soon and not ever. Renee Good and Alex Pretti don’t come back to life. The lives of their loved ones are not made whole again. Thousands of people will remain disappeared, relatives scattered, families broken. This story does not have a happy ending, and I can assure you the villains do not get punished in the end. If that is your motivation, try again, start over.

But you also need to understand — and this is equally important — that we’ve already won. The reward is right now, this minute, this moment. The reward is watching your city — whether it’s Chicago or Los Angeles or Charlotte or the cities still to come — organize in hyperlocal networks of compassion, in acephalous fashion, not because someone told you to, but because tens of thousands of people across a metro region simultaneously and instinctively felt the urge to help their neighbors get by.

So in the resistance you drive the car pool. It’s fun, and it’s mostly not scary. Your invisible shield of whiteness has developed a small fissure. You understand that being a white mom dropping a kid at elementary school may no longer save you from being killed in the middle of the street, that being a bearded white bro may not stop government employees from firing their Glocks into your back outside the Cheapo Records. When these thoughts intrude, you slow down to the speed limit, you turn Idles a little louder, you play “Danny Nedelko” again. That song comes from an album called “Joy as an Act of Resistance.”

Today I’m driving a girl who never speaks other than to say thank you. She’s out of the car now and trying to clamber ungracefully over a dirty ice bank that walls off the roadway from her house. There is no entry point — she’d have to walk down to the corner to gain access — and I’m cursing myself for where I’ve dropped her off. The skies are an unsympathetic oatmeal. It is very cold, the dark dead of winter.

Out on the stoop of her building, the girl’s mom and little sister are waiting. The mother looks on nervously, wishing to minimize this vulnerable transition point between car and home. The little sister is probably 3 years old. She is in pigtails and wearing footie pajamas and she is radiant, leaping up and down, clapping, ecstatic to see her big sister come home. The quiet girl is stone-faced and stumbling, and eventually she makes it across the wall of gray ice to her stoop, where her little sister grabs her by the leg.

I’ll admit: This was the only time I cried, throughout this whole disgusting affair, as I sat in my car watching the girl in the footie pajamas clapping for big sister’s safe return. For a half-second I had the instinct to punch the steering wheel as hard as I could. But I’m not quite so melodramatic, and I was worried I’d just beep the horn awkwardly and look like a fool.

This afternoon I’m driving a brother and sister. We’ve been listening to the radio, which reports that almost all of the 3,000 ICE agents involved in the surge are leaving our state. No one believes it, not really, this declaration from the agency that asked us again and again to disbelieve our eyes, to accept that nurses were domestic terrorists, that children were violent criminals. In the meantime, the official story behind a third shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis has been outed as a lie, the offending agents now suspended for providing “untruthful statements” under oath. So you’ll have to forgive our collective skepticism. The drawdown has been rumored for a while now, but the car pool is still booked, with new families requesting assistance each week. Our network won’t be shutting down any time soon.

But there is a strange giddy energy in the car today. It’s the start of a long holiday weekend and the siblings are buzzing. The first time I met them, as they walked through the parking lot of their apartment building, I watched the sister draw a heart in the frost on the windshield of her mother’s car. When I ask about plans for the holiday, the sister says, I’m going to sleep all weekend. She starts laughing. I’m going to relax! It’s been so cold for so long, hovering around minus 8, minus 10, minus 15 since the start of the new year. But today the sun is out and the sky is a brilliant blue. The days are getting longer. A thaw is coming."]]></description>
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    <title>Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-09T16:51:18+00:00</dc:date>
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1my3jJ96cyKmHubZu5mTLgp3wzEWtXKJkqfP0kKcF6kE/edit?tab=t.0

0:00 Intro
4:06 Challenge accepted
6:55 Three Questions
24:14 Why no influences? (deskilling/narcissism)
35:50 Profiles of the Future
47:54 Good uses of Suno
59:05 Futurism/Techno-Optimism
1:16:22 New Virtues
1:22:03 Final Predictions"

[via:
https://blog.ayjay.org/faster/

"Near the beginning of this long, fascinating, and deeply depressing video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk ] Adam Neely says that he doesn’t think Mikey Shulman, the CEO and prime hypeman of Suno, is evil. I dunno, I think he might be evil. A person who makes and advocates for anything this destructive will likely be one of the following:

• Evil — happy to do any amount of damage to humanity as long as he gets rich;
• Sociopathic — unable to consider the consequences of his actions for others;
• Self-deceived — skilled at internally avoiding obvious questions about the validity of what he’s doing.

So being evil is not the only option here, but it’s definitely one of three.

There are so many bizarre things about this dude, but I was taken by one small thing: around the 8:40 mark of the video he says, “I know one person who is a songwriter who had a lull in creativity, and after finding Suno went from maybe making 50 songs a year to making 500 songs a year.” Now this is a ridiculous thing to say — but in an interesting way. Shulman knows so little about musical composition that he thinks that a person in a creative “lull” writes a mere fifty songs a year.

Let’s think about that. Consider Bob Dylan, whom some people think of as a prolific sngwriter. In his 65-year career he has composed roughly 700 songs. Pathetic! Even if he had experienced a lifelong “lull in creativity,” he’d have, by Shulman’s metrics, produced 3250 songs — and if he’d used Suno, why, he’d have knocked out 32,500 songs by now, with a few thousand more probably remaining to be processed by the Suno Song Extruder™.

As absurd sales pitches go, Shulman’s is solid gold.

Anyway, you should watch Adam’s human-made non-extruded video. It raises many important issues and makes many important points, especially about the relative value of patience and impatience. Shulman loves impatience, because impatient people are his primary marks. “Faster is obviously better,” he says, a comment he doesn’t seem to think applies only to music composition. Maybe he has the same view about eating, talking with friends, and sex. Faster! And then what? [https://blog.ayjay.org/and-then/ ]

But the most vital claim Adam makes, I think, is this: the arrival of AI slop machines like Suno will dramatically accelerate something that’s already well underway, the widening chasm between live music and recorded music. When musicians recorded live in studio, the gap between that and live performance was very small; now it’s vast and getting vaster. And as Adam says, people will always want to experience live music — and perhaps will value it all the more because of the contrast to an increasingly slop-dominated world of recordings. (Especially in human-scale venues where lip-syncing and pitch-correction are impossible.)

I happened to come across Adam’s video yesterday just after watching Julian Lage and his bandmates perform “Something More” [https://youtu.be/AECKSq8r2OM?si=WCJ4gW-viCdlYjAX ] — what a beautiful song, and look at that, it’s just four people in a room making that beauty happen. I only wish they were coming my way sometime soon."]]]></description>
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[See also:
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    <title>SFSU Art students create an extraordinary exhibition exploring the ordinary | SF State News</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-25T05:15:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["SFSU Fine Arts Gallery showcases findings from grant-funded Office for the Study of the Ordinary 

In these extraordinary times, we can learn something by stepping back and exploring the ordinary. At San Francisco State University, about 100 students led by an artist-in-residence have investigated the everyday, creating new works of art in a “fake” department called The Office for the Study of the Ordinary.  

A culminating exhibition in the SFSU Fine Arts Gallery showcases the processes, artifacts and printed material compiled over the past year by 150 overall participants. “Objects of Inquiry: The Office for the Study of the Ordinary” is on display Saturday, Feb. 22 – Saturday, April 5. Admission is free. 

“Bureaucracy and art seemingly wouldn’t mesh. Put them together and something weird comes out,” said Liz Hernández, the Harker Artist-in-Residence at SFSU, a position made possible by the Harker Fund at the San Francisco Foundation. “The ordinary can be extraordinary if you shift your focus.” 

Hernández worked alongside students in their classes for one to two weeks at a time to create collaborative art projects. Supplied with lab coats, magnifying glasses and measuring tape, students strolled the campus and took pictures of their observations. They created ID cards with fictional job titles for themselves: fantastical daydreamer, termite enthusiast, dust collector and so on.

About 12 students in an art studio work on a sculpture of an alligator surrounded by flowers and laying on a stretcher
Photo by Liz Hernández

Student Nanako Nirei has contributed an acrylic drawing for a large-scale comic about SFSU’s mascot, depicted as a fictional character named Al the Gator. Nirei is enrolled in the Art 619 “Exhibition Design” course that is responsible for installing and promoting “Objects of Inquiry.” 

“This is the first time I’ve been part of a big show,” she said. “I’m honored being in it and helping put everything up.” 

Upon entry to “Objects of Inquiry,” visitors are greeted at a reception desk assembled with old furniture from campus storage. They are then led on a self-guided tour highlighted by a false tale involving student protests against inhumane treatment of an alligator housed on the SFSU campus. (For the record, this never actually happened; fakeness and subversion are hallmarks of Hernández’s art). Hernández created a life-sized sculpture of an alligator with angel wings, laying on a stretcher.   

“I wanted to show the legacy of student-led protests at SF State. I was surprised that so many students didn’t know about it,” Hernández said. “I like to tell stories to the world through fiction in a way that doesn’t damage anyone, but gets you to think.” 

Collaborating with students has been the most rewarding part of Hernández’s residency, she says: “I’ve learned so much from the students. There are small moments of tenderness and vulnerability. I’d never expect students to open up that way.” 

An opening reception for “Objects of Inquiry” will be held Feb. 22, 1 – 3 p.m. Regular hours for the Fine Arts Gallery are Tuesdays – Fridays, noon – 4 p.m."]]></description>
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Come for the book analysis, stay for the balloon party!

ps. I finally figured out how to add subtitles."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Lego is the world's largest toy company but it's gained a reputation for being an expensive hobby. Since 2007, Lego has released dozens of sets that cost over $300. The most expensive Star Wars sets cost $850. And prices for vintage Lego sets can reach over $1,000. These high prices have caught the attention of thieves, who in some cases have stolen about $300,000 worth of Lego. So, how did we get here? How did Lego go from a children's toy to a collector's item? And why is it so expensive?

00:00 - Intro
01:12 - Lego's Rise
02:39 - The Lego System
05:39 - Lego's Fall
07:39 - Adult Fans Of Lego
13:07 - Conventions
14:32 - Lego Resale Market
17:34 - Lego's Rise (Again)
19:37 - Products For Kids And Adults
22:54 - Why Lego Is So Expensive
25:51 - Will Lego's Success Last?
28:04 - Credits"]]></description>
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As storyteller Andri Snær Magnason puts it, climate change is like a black hole: so big it’s larger than language. We understand it not by looking straight at its center, but by looking at its edges. On a journey retracing his grandparents’ annual spring pilgrimage to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, Andri searches for the stories that lie at the edges of our climate crisis in both scientific data and his family’s memories. Witnessing the inevitable decline of Europe’s largest ice cap with his son Hlynur, Andri pulls on the ties of love that connect past and future generations to grasp what the immense changes he has seen in just one lifetime will mean for the future of the planet.

Director
Adam Loften is an Emmy- and Peabody Award–nominated filmmaker and producer of virtual reality experiences and podcasts. His films include Sanctuaries of Silence, The Atomic Tree, Counter Mapping and Welcome to Canada. His work has been featured on PBS, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and The New York Times.

Director
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is an Emmy- and Peabody Award–nominated filmmaker and a Sufi teacher. His films include Earthrise, Sanctuaries of Silence, The Atomic Tree, Counter Mapping, Marie’s Dictionary, and Elemental. His films have been screened at New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Hot Docs, exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum, and featured on PBS POV, National Geographic, and New York Times Op-Docs. He is the founder and executive editor of Emergence Magazine."]]></description>
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    <title>Exhibit 06: Ray’s Hand– Designer Ray Eames</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ray Kaiser Eames (1912–88) trained as an artist and Charles as an architect but they each brought many more skills and interests to what—beginning with their marriage in 1941—became one of the most creative partnerships of the twentieth century; one that mainly covered design (from furniture and toys to exhibitions), short films (over 125), and multimedia presentations, rather than architecture or fine art.

Among the many other things the Eameses shared was a holistic approach to, and contagious enthusiasm for, life, work, and play, happily blurring boundaries while embracing their “inner child” and melding seriousness with fun. Charles died in 1978; Ray a decade later to the very day, as if to maintain their symbiotic connection even in death."

...

"That Ray saw everything as interlinked explains why she was puzzled when asked if she regretted giving up painting (a medium she was feeling dissatisfied with by the late 1930s) to work with Charles on what turned out to be design, film, and multimedia projects. She considered she was simply changing her palette. One can also think of it as her exploring yet another interrelated medium and means of communication. Indeed, she went to Cranbrook to expand her craft and design skills by taking Harry Bertoia’s metalwork class, Marianne Strengell’s weaving class, and Charles’s design class. Furthermore, she was one of a small group of students who helped Charles and architect and sculptor Eero Saarinen with their entry for MoMA’s 1940 Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition that included industrially mass-produced plywood chairs with complex curves. Ray worked on presentation drawings and therefore was familiar with the project. Thus, when the plans she and Charles had for making films about art and architecture came to naught, and Eero opted out of the plywood project when the chairs proved impossible to mass-produce, she was already vested in the project. Charles, who had worked in partnerships ever since working independently, and briefly with Eero Saarinen at Cranbrook, formed the last partnership of his life with Ray, and thereafter they both changed “ palettes” according to the projects in hand."]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | The Year the Millennials Handed the Internet Over to Zoomers - The New York Times</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For my entire professional life, I have started nearly every weekday morning with an extremely important productivity ritual: I make a coffee, I sit down at my computer, and I mess around on the internet for an hour or so. And, for most of my career as a writer, this has been an effortless task. I’ve had accounts on dozens of social networks, message boards and online communities thronging with similarly bored and truant peers, vibrant with creativity and delight. Or, at least, with tolerably decent jokes.

But recently I find the task of wasting time online increasingly onerous. The websites I used to depend on have gotten worse, and it seems as if there’s nowhere else to look. Twitter has been transformed under new management into an increasingly untenable social experiment called X. Instagram is evolving into a somehow-even-lower-rent TikTok, while TikTok itself continues to baffle and alienate me. Even Reddit, a stalwart last resort of time wasting, briefly went dark in June during a sitewide revolt over new policies.

Something is changing about the internet, and I am not the only person to have noticed. Everywhere I turned online this year, someone was mourning: Amazon is “making itself worse” (as New York magazine moaned); Google Search is a “bloated and overmonetized” tragedy (as The Atlantic lamented); “social media is doomed to die,” (as the tech news website The Verge proclaimed); even TikTok is becoming enjunkified (to bowdlerize an inventive coinage of the sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, republished in Wired). But the main complaint I have heard was put best, and most bluntly, in The New Yorker: “The Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore.”

It’s indisputable that we are living through a transitional period in the short history of the internet. The end of the low interest-rate era has shaken up the economics of start-ups, ending rapid-growth practices like blitzscaling and reducing the number of new internet businesses vying for our attention; companies like Alphabet and Facebook are now mature and dominant businesses instead of disruptive upstarts. But I suspect there is another factor driving the alienation and discomfort felt by many of the people who feel as though the internet is dying before our eyes: We’re getting old.

For more than a decade now, millennials like myself have effectively (and, in the case of our cohort’s richest member, Mark Zuckerberg, quite literally) run the internet. We were the earliest adopters of smartphones and we once consistently (not that I’d brag about it) led the generational pack in screen time. Over that period we’ve grown used to an internet whose form and culture was significantly shaped by and molded to our preferences. The American internet of the 2010s was an often stupid and almost always embarrassing internet — but it was a millennial internet. There were no social networks on which we felt uncomfortable; no culture developments we didn’t engender; no image macros we didn’t understand.

This now seems to be changing. There was a time in my life when it was trivial to sign up to a new social network and pick up its patterns and mores on the fly. Now, I feel exhausted by the prospect.

Google Search and Amazon may have gotten worse in an absolute sense, but so too has my patience for finding stuff. Millennials are increasingly joined online and off by people who have never heard the sound of a modem handshake in their lives and never asked “a/s/l” in an AOL chat room. We’ve been used to wielding an innate understanding of the web’s capabilities and culture to our advantage; our knowledge of “how to search Google” and “how to use emoji” and “how to deploy the ‘Sarcastic Wonka’ meme,” which may once have given us an edge in multigenerational workplaces and social settings, is simply irrelevant to people younger than us.

According to the consumer research firm GWI, millennials’ screen time has been on a steady decline for years. Only 42 percent of 30-to-49-year-olds say they’re online “almost constantly,” compared with 49 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds. We’re no longer the earliest adopters, even: 18-to-29-year-olds are more likely to have used ChatGPT than 30-to-49-year-olds — though maybe only because we’re no longer being assigned homework.

These stats confirm what a brief survey of popular posts on TikTok or Instagram or X will already tell you: The heaviest users and most engaged American audience on the internet are no longer millennials but our successors in Generation Z. If the internet is no longer fun for millennials, it may simply be because it’s not our internet anymore. It belongs to zoomers now.

Zoomer internet is, at least on the surface, quite different from ours. The celebrities are unrecognizable (Kai Cenat???); the slang is impenetrable (gyatt???); the formats are new (GRWM???). Austerely tasteful overhead shots of meticulously arranged food posted on Instagram have been replaced with garishly lit minute-long videos of elaborate restaurant meals posted on TikTok. Glibly chatty blog posts about the news have been replaced with videos of recording sessions for podcasts. No wonder millennials feel so alienated — the language and terrain of the internet are now entirely foreign.

And yet zoomers, and the adolescents in Generation Alpha nipping at their generational heels, still seem to be having plenty of fun online. Even if I find it all inscrutable and a bit irritating, the creative expression and exuberant sociality that made the internet so fun to me a decade ago are booming among 20-somethings on TikTok, Instagram, Discord, Twitch and even X. Skibidi Toilet, Fanum tax, the rizzler — I won’t debase myself by pretending to know what these memes are, or what their appeal is, but I know that zoomers seem to love them. Or, at any rate, I can verify that they love using them to confuse and alienate middle-aged millennials like me.

True, the fun I’m talking about is co-opted and exploited by a small handful of powerful and wealthy platform businesses. But platforms have sought to mediate and commodify our online activity since the beginning of the commercial web. Millennial memorials to the fun internet tend to rely on a rosy vision of the web of the 2000s and 2010s as a space of unmediated play and experimentation that doesn’t always stand up to scrutiny. Engagement-driven platforms have always cultivated influencers, abuse and misinformation. When you drill down, what mostly seems to have changed about the web over the last few years isn’t the structural dynamics but the cultural signifiers.

In other words, enjunkification has always been happening on the commercial web, whose largely advertising-based business model seems to obligate an ever-shifting race to the bottom. Perhaps what frustrated, alienated and aging internet users like me are experiencing here is not only the fruits of an enjunkified internet but also the loss of the cognitive elasticity, sense of humor and copious amounts of free time necessary to navigate all that confusing junk nimbly and cheerfully.

Frankly, that should be freeing. Being extremely online, on an internet geared to your interests (in the same way that heroin is geared to your brain), is not exactly a quality conducive to personal happiness. Young people themselves will tell you they have, at best, an ambivalent relationship to their internet. The more alienating the mass internet is to me, the more likely I will put to good use the hours I previously spent messing around. Or, at least, the more likely it is I will find corners — group chats, message boards and elsewhere — geared to my specific interests rather than the general engagement bait that otherwise dominates.

And even if you’re jealous of zoomers and their Discord chats and TikTok memes, consider that the combined inevitability of enjunkification and cognitive decline means that their internet will die, too, and Generation Alpha will have its own era of inscrutable memes and alienating influencers. And then the zoomers can join millennials in feeling what boomers have felt for decades: annoyed and uncomfortable at the computer."]]></description>
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    <title>On &quot;Quitting&quot; YouTube - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-20T19:52:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gotta find your hearts"

[via:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/20/24044533/mkbhd-weighs-in-on-the-trend-of-youtubers-quitting

"MKBHD weighs in on the trend of YouTubers “quitting.”Don’t worry: he’s sticking around. But he has an interesting perspective on the trend of big names like MatPat and Tom Scott stepping back and what it means to actually be a full time YouTuber."]]]></description>
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    <title>Is it Weird to Fall in Love with a Machine? - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-04T19:27:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["00:00:00 why I'm not talking in this video
00:02:00 my daughter Mila helping me make my new bench top
00:03:00 removing the pallet fork from a Felsa F760 wristwatch movement
00:06:50 comparing the working pallet fork with the spares that I have
00:11:00 using a Petermann Freres & Co Escapement Meter (Echapp'Metre) to aid in the comparison
00:22:00 using a Seitz pivot gauge to compare pallet fork pivot diameters
00:25:42 comparing the spare part in the movement
00:29:50 realizing that the pallet fork staff in the spare is too short
00:31:36 accurate measuring of pallet fork staffs with a vintage Bergeon watchmaker's micrometer
00:36:52 It's probably a good thing that I'm not a brain surgeon
00:38:33 "The Joy of Watchmaking" (my favorite Mark Lovick quote)
00:40:00 A true story about my Mother and me
00:49:35 searching for the spare part on the interwebs
00:56:49 finishing up and cleaning my workspace to clear my mind ;)
01:00:02 using my new-old Horotec screwdriver hollow-ground sharpener (also bought from Pascal in La Chaux-de-Fonds) to sharpen my 1.2mm screwdriver
01:03:35 Thanks for watching!"]]></description>
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    <title>Snakes of Wrath tabletop tile-laying strategy game • Weast Coast</title>
    <dc:date>2023-11-25T20:32:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://snakesofwrath.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Snakes of Wrath is an abstract tile-laying game with a simple ruleset and a wealth of strategy and tactics. Two players battle for dominance as a tangled tiled ouroboros grows into a handsome art piece on your table. 

Games last around 15-20 minutes, as players compete to build, heal, stab, and steal their way to the top. Lay your tiles strategically, incapacitate your opponent, and close all ends of your snakes to emerge victorious. Two-sided tiles mean the tides can change at any moment with a sinister steal or a well-laid trap. Be the first player to reach 13 points and win."

[See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWbVTIhOcA8

via:
https://wornandwound.com/watches-stories-gear-rebecca-struthers-the-abyss-returns-to-theaters-and-honest-vintage-at-sothebys/

"Bored of Boggle? Underwhelmed with Uno? Done with dominos? Have we got a game for you! Introducing Snakes of Wrath. Developed and illustrated by the duo of Dan Cassaro and Dan Christofferson, who together form the design studio Young Jerks, this brand new 2-player tile-based game is all about strategy, stealing, stacking, and… snakes! It’s ultra-giftable and comes complete with two high quality wooden privacy racks and a custom canvas “Snake Sack” full of 90 stunningly illustrated tiles—and yes, one of them is named Todd. Snag Snakes of Wrath today so you can go head-to-head over the holidays against either your most grudge-match-worthy loved one or your favorite archnemesis. It’s the gift that keeps on hissing."]]]></description>
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    <title>SFPL Explorer Map: A Mother-Daughter Journey - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2023-09-04T17:14:18+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How do you read 700 books over 1 year? Simonne and her mom, Brette, have the answer…completing the SFPL Explorer Map! They made a lifetime of memories exploring the Main Library, all 27 branches and the bookmobile on Treasure Island. Now is your time to take advantage of the warm SF weather and uncover the magic that awaits in the unique neighborhoods that make up our beautiful city. Visit any branch to pick up your very own Explorer Map and begin your journey today!"

[Nice to see a video about this. I visited all of the branch libraries in 2018 or so before the map was made and this summer (2023) I did it again with the Explorer Map. Great way to see the city and get to know all the branch libraries.]

[See also:
https://sfpl.org/sfpl-explorer-map
https://sfpl.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/3-2-explorer-maps111821_0.pdf
https://sfpl.org/sfpl-explorer-map/mapa-para-galugarin-ang-sfpl

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/13epe2s/finally_finished_the_sfpl_explorer_map/
https://sfstandard.com/2022/04/10/san-francisco-public-library-masfpl-explorer-champion/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8cG0GfgRrc

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertogreco/53127486942/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertogreco/53164592828/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>How Tumblr turned social media polls into a game design challenge - The Verge</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-20T13:17:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theverge.com/23643808/tumblr-social-media-polls-feature-game-design-vanilla-extract</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Home cooking, history, and horniness: Tumblr’s on-brand creative mayhem has adapted polls into a simple gaming platform."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2023-03-05T07:11:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.therealtime.show/episodes/episode-thirty-six-romaric-andre-seconde-seconde</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the Industry’s most disruptive and yet uniting figures joins us in the virtual booth for an exploration of his unique concept and approach to collaboration. Romaric Andre of seconde/seconde/ tells all."

[also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/romaric-andre-on-seconde-seconde-disrupting-and/id1652462121?i=1000602417452 ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-11-29T03:03:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Muhammad Ali Funny Moments - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-22T18:50:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Le Régulateur Louis Erard x seconde/seconde/ - Watch I Love</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Once again, Louis Erard is putting its iconic regulator to the test of free collaboration with an independent creator. And this time, a taboo has been lifted in the world of fine watchmaking: the internet takes its place at the heart of the mechanism, with the dreaded “404 Error” reinterpreted as a minute hand.

This new collaboration will come as no surprise to those already familiar with seconde/seconde/, aka Romaric André, and his modus operandi: Arsène Lupin-style appropriation of vintage watches for the Banksy generation. It will also be no surprise to those who have followed the recent shift in Louis Erard watches towards a mechanical triptych, artistic crafts and collaborations, the first of which are already a milestone — Alain Silberstein, Vianney Halter, atelier oï — with more to come.

For those climbing on the bandwagon, rest assured that no one will be left waiting on the platform — except, perhaps, for latecomers. The watch comes in a limited edition of 178 pieces: a symbolic number signifying that we are always stronger together. Louis Erard puts its iconic regulator back into play and gives carte blanche to the rising star of ultimate customisation, with independent Paris-based creator, seconde/seconde/.

seconde/seconde/ has made watch hands his playground and trademark, combining diversion, iconoclasm and a mix of styles. Clash of contrasts between deliberately ludicrous patterns and scrupulous execution at a fine watchmaking standard. The creator shamelessly draws from contemporary culture, the internet, the streets and video games. He extracts pop symbols, which he sets on dials like little bombs, exploding the meaning of every watch he lays his hands on.

His interventions shock, shake up and challenge. They’ll never leave you indifferent, because every intervention has a meaning behind it. Funny, clever and mischievous, his designs command attention and serve as a reminder that watches are not only functional. They must still tell the time, of course, and in the most beautiful way possible — Louis Erard is on-hand to make sure of that — but watches are also a marker of identity, an object that looks at us.

And Louis Erard has the courage to say so: human beings wouldn’t be complete without a good dose of humour and self-mockery. From Louis Erard to Louis Error. Le Régulateur, le régule à tort (wrongly regulates). Quelle erreur est-il? (What error is it?). Find the Error. 404 Error: just like faulty addressing in computing, there’s an error in the fitting — this hour does not exist. 404 Error: except that this hand returns to cross the dial with a blue line each time the minute strikes quarter to the hour. One small change, one big difference.

And the price? Two thousand… and 404 Swiss francs, of course."]]></description>
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    <title>‎Génération Do It Yourself: Early stage #2 - Romaric André - Seconde Seconde - Le temps et la lenteur peuvent-ils être les meilleurs alliés de l'entrepreneuriat ? on Apple Podcasts</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-24T08:14:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/early-stage-2-romaric-andr%C3%A9-seconde-seconde-le-temps/id1209142994?i=1000450191853</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[also here:
https://soundcloud.com/generation-do-it-yourself/early-stage-2-romaric-andre-seconde-seconde
https://open.spotify.com/episode/72UYe8ONQrCfa3TJC2nhSz
https://www.gdiy.fr/hors-series/romaric-andre/
and elsewhere]

"Pour ce deuxième épisode de “Early Stage”, je reçois Romaric André, fondateur de Seconde Seconde. Cette force tranquille, prend le temps de me parler… du temps justement. Après tout, quoi de plus logique pour un horloger?

Je remercie Hiscox, pour son soutien sur cette série d’épisodes. Si vous n’avez pas encore souscrit à une assurance Responsabilité Civile Professionnelle (la fameuse “RCPro”), cliquez ici pour obtenir un devis gratuit en moins de 5 minutes !  -> et ça prouve à Hiscox que c’était une bonne idée de me faire confiance

“Quand tu achètes une montre vintage, c’est une histoire que tu t’offres. Ça, il faut le respecter”

Clairement, si on devait résumer le parcours de Romaric en une phrase, ça serait “il faut prendre le temps de laisser faire le temps”. Avec lui, pas question de produire pour produire, tout est dans le détail. Patience et minutie sont ses maîtres mots. Alors, si la rapidité est ce que vous recherchez, on vous laisse passer votre chemin!

Pourtant, cette recherche du détail est aussi un problème. Romaric André, raconte sans filtre, sans édulcorer ou se chercher d’excuses, la faillite de sa première entreprise, Celsius, le redressement judiciaire qui s'ensuit et son projet de livraison de plat de chefs étoilés …  où il se fait doubler.

“Ça a été une période compliquée mais mes salariés étaient protégés, il n’y avait que moi. Alors j’ai décidé de rebondir et d’en faire une expérience positive”.

Mais n’allez pas croire que cela suffirait à le décourager. Au contraire ! Romaric prend la décision de changer de vie, de quitter les entreprises véloces où tout va toujours plus vite, où tout s’enchaîne pour se consacrer à sa passion : les montres vintages avec un léger twist, un grain de folie qu’il porte fièrement : une aiguille pop ! Une aiguille falcon millenium sur une zenith des années 50, une autre peace and love sur la montre officielle de la Wehrmacht … Si l’aiguille est modifiée, c’est pour raconter une histoire qui a du sens. Cette histoire, il nous la raconte dans cet épisode de #Earlystagegdiy.

On le sait bien, quand on crée son entreprise, tout s’efface un peu. On y met tout ce qu’on a, son coeur, ses tripes, son énergie. On garde le focus sur notre produit et nos clients. Alors, dans ce tourbillon, l’assurance c’est un peu un détail. Pourtant, ça peut rapidement nous coûter notre bébé.  L’idée avec Hiscox est d’avoir un devis en ligne en quelques minutes pour ce qu’on appelle la « RC Pro », la responsabilité civile professionnelle. Pour demander un devis gratuit, c’est juste ici."]]></description>
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    <title>Le Régulateur Louis Erard x seconde/seconde/ - Louis Erard</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-23T07:00:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.louiserard.com/creations/excellence/le-regulateur-louis-erard-x-seconde-seconde/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See also:

https://revolutionwatch.com/introducing-le-regulateur-louis-erard-x-seconde-seconde/
https://monochrome-watches.com/le-regulateur-louis-erard-x-seconde-seconde-http-404-error-live-pics-price/
https://www.fratellowatches.com/le-regulateur-louis-erard-seconde-seconde-left-me-speechless/
https://wornandwound.com/louis-erard-collaborates-with-seconde-seconde-on-a-new-error-filled-regulator/
https://asterinternacional.com/noticia.php?le-rgulateur-louis-erard-x-secondeseconde-&id_noticia=645 ]]]></description>
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    <title>Portrait de Romaric André, fondateur de Seconde/Seconde</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-21T10:38:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lesrhabilleurs.com/2021/05/seconde-seconde-portrait/#optin-modal</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://podcast.ausha.co/tourbillon-watch/episode-21-romaric-andre">
    <title>Tourbillon Watch | Épisode 21 : Entretien avec Romaric André, créateur de Seconde Seconde | Ausha</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-05T20:47:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://podcast.ausha.co/tourbillon-watch/episode-21-romaric-andre</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Aujourd'hui, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Romaric André, le créateur de Seconde Seconde.

Si vous ne le connaissez pas, je vous invite à embarquer dans notre conversation. Son concept est surprenant et son histoire l'est tout autant !

On vous souhaite une excellente écoute et on vous remercie de votre soutien ! 

N'hésitez pas à vous abonner ainsi qu'à partager le podcast s'il vous a plu !"]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://nivadagrenchenofficial.com/collections/depthmaster-jellyfish">
    <title>Jellyfish – Nivada Grenchen</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-05T20:34:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://nivadagrenchenofficial.com/collections/depthmaster-jellyfish</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["JELLYFISH

This great collab started on Instagram between Romaric André and Guillaume Laidet, they shared some ideas about what could be the best Seconde/Seconde touch to the Pacman and the Jellyfish idea came straight away.

The Jellyfish hands are manufactured in France in the last watch-hands manufacturer of the country.

5 colors are available (Blue, Orange, Yellow, Grey and Purple) and only 10 of each have been produced."]]></description>
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    <title>H. Moser &amp; Cie. and Minimalist Humour with Seconde/Seconde/ | SJX Watches</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-05T20:28:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Having become synonymous with stunningly minimalist fume dials and a peculiar sense of humour, H. Moser & Cie. now combines both in the new Endeavour Centre Seconds X Seconde/Seconde/.

A limited-edition collaboration with Parisian artist Romaric Andre, who specialises in modifying watches as Seconde/Seconde/, the new watch reimagines the brand’s signature time-only watch by replacing the traditional hour hand with a pixellated eraser – a tongue-in-cheek reference to Moser’s “concept” dials that forgo the brand’s logo.

Initial thoughts

When I first saw the press release for the new watch, I did a double take – was it an April Fool’s gag? The watch is funny and out there, and something only Moser could pull off successfully.

Being family-owned – with young, open-minded leaders – Moser can be adventurous than its peers. The Seconde/Seconde/ collaboration is Moser doing what it does well. In fact, Moser’s strength is obvious despite the “erased” logo – the watch is instantly recognisable as a Moser.

I’ve always liked Moser’s whimsical offerings, such as the Apple Watch-esque Swiss Alps Final Upgrade, and now the Endeavour Centre Seconds X Seconde/Seconde/. These watches have an undeniable fun factor rarely seen in haute horlogerie, which endows the watch with a playful charm. It’s an atypical watch that is typical of the brand.

At US$21,900, it’s priced identically to the standard Endeavour Centre Seconds in gold; this, however, has a steel case. That diminishes its value proposition somewhat, though steel is still a fashionable material for limited editions, which will make it more alluring for some collectors.

An eraser hand

With both sharing “a taste for the unexpected”, H. Moser & Cie. and Seconde/Seconde/ are a natural fit. Known for modifying vintage timepieces by installing quirky, cartoonish hands, Mr Andre has done the same here: the traditional hour hand is now a pink-and-purple eraser.

“A metaphor for removal and for minimalism” according to Mr Andre, the new hour hand is a reference to clean dial, something the brand debuted for its concept watches in 2015. It is also symbolic of “constant striving effort” says Mr Andre, as one often has to erase past attempts in creative endeavours, in say, designing a new watch, before arriving at the final work.

Each watch will be accompanied by a numbered artwork by Seconde/Seconde/ with “Less is more” written by hand on its lower corner, a nod to Moser’s watchmaking.

Beneath the hood beats the in-house cal. HMC 200. The calibre utilises a proprietary Straumann hairspring manufactured by the brand’s sister company, Precision Engineering, and boasts a handy three days of power reserve.

In addition, the rotor is 18k solid gold, with the movement featuring Moser’s signature alternating wide and narrow Geneva stripes, as well as the trademark V-shaped balance bridge."]]></description>
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    <title>Seconde/Seconde/ vintage watches are decorated for distinguished ‘badassery’</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-05T20:23:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wantedonline.co.za/watches-and-jewellery/2019-04-17-secondeseconde-vintage-watches-are-decorated-for-distinguished-badassery/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["NEW FRENCH FIRM HAVE OLD TIMEPIECES TICKING WITH NEW COOL"

"The highlights of many art and design fairs are to be seen on the fringes, where you’ll find the cool-guard of fresh thinkers and rule breakers. Watch fairs are no different.

I met Romaric André on the third floor of the Hotel Hyperion in Basel, Switzerland, at the “Time Lounge”, a super-energised consulting room shared by younger independents presenting velvet-clad trays with their latest models to equally excited press and potential customers. The young entrepreneur describes himself as a Parisian “with a slightly disrespectful French flare” and presented his “collection” in low-tech cardboard packaging more fitting a gallery store.

“My art is to rejuvenate vintage watches,” the keen watch collector says of his new venture Seconde/Seconde/. “I’m having fun with vintage timepieces, doing what you are not supposed to do - changing some elements of the watches. Usually, collectors give me a bizarre look.”

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While big brands offer interchangeable straps, dial options and maybe some engraving in answer to consumer demand for differentiation, this thirtysomething’s approach to customisation is going to appeal more to younger audiences who’ve most notably driven huge trade in the secondary market and interest in vintage watches.   

His background? In 2009, he launched the $250 000 Celsius X VI II LeDIX Tourbillon Mobile Phone with Richard Mille, and other watch and telecoms luminaries, on the board of directors. The company only sold about a dozen of the phones, so the clamshell was soon closed for good.

“It was a really complex challenge. The Celsius was new, innovative and crazy … merging electronics and micro mechanics. Each time you opened and closed the phone, you wound the movement.”

The extreme pricing at the launch, which coincided with the end of the financial crisis, and perceived system obsolescence, are probably to blame for its demise. However, with our smartphone obsession, combined with the growing interest in mechanical watches, I can’t help but think the concept was visionary and way ahead of its time. Maybe if it recharged the phone’s battery, it would have been more useful?  

André insists this time things are going to be much simpler. With his small team of watchmakers and friendly French artisans he is giving “really simple but extremely reliable vintage watches” a quirky, artful makeover. But “nothing after the 80s and nothing bigger than 37mm”, he says.

“Take, for example, the old Omega calibre from the 1960s; they are so strong and beautiful to observe. The same for the 1520 Calibre from Rolex, also from that period. Strong, classic, simple watches, which are authenticated and serviced before I put a twist on them.”

From the tone and retro design of the website, with its Dymo embossed labels, pegboard notes in typewriter font – “In short, we honor old watches, decorated for distinguished badassery” – and Lego characters, it’s clear that the narrative is serious, good fun.

“I’m keeping everything French, except the watches, because we have the best taste. For everything,” he says half-jokingly. Working with the last French hand manufacturer Gilles Buliard at family-owned La Pratique, in Morteau, André replaces the seconds hand of a vintage Seamaster with a tiny red beanie – a Jacques Cousteau reference –and lists it as “The real master of the sea” (batch 04). A Rolex Air-King is called “The real king of the air” (batch 1), and gets a cloud-shaped hand “which is about nature and not the obsession with speed” because he wants to be “more poetic”.

“It all started with a conversation with friends who also like vintage watches but are always pushing me to do something with military watches. I don’t like military pieces because the association is with something so dark. So, I took the ‘darkest’ watch I could find, a Zenith issued to the German army in the 1940s, put a peace sign on it and called it ‘Infinite expiation’ (batch 09).”  

Traditionalists, fear not - the original hands are removed and carefully stored in small glass tubes to form part of each customer’s presentation box, which also includes two new leather straps made in the French Jura region. Patina is also respected, like the tiny rust speckles on the 1960s Omega Constellation “A Space Odyssey” (batch 10) and, refreshingly, there are no logos of the artist, just 2-D, vector-style “pop culture images that are a bit cocky”.

Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Memovox from the 1970s is one of my favorites. The original automatic alarm watch was intended for busy people. Its chiming reminder has been interpreted by André as a provocative “Bzzzzzzzz” (batch 03) with a tiny “busy bee” spinning at its centrepoint, making it even more “charming” to me than the original.

The official launch of Seconde/Seconde/ is the end of April but the website is fully interactive, with a selection of watches already on view, just not for sale yet. For more information and pricing visit Seconde/Seconde/."]]></description>
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    <title>H. Moser &amp; Cie Endeavour X seconde/seconde/ | HYPEBEAST</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-05T20:22:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["seconde/seconde/ has carved out a niche of satirical vintage watch mods."

"H Moser & Cie, a brand which started removing its branding from watches in 2015, has called in satirical Parisian watch mod brand, seconde/seconde/, to take things further.

Moser turned debranding into a strategy, letting its case silhouettes and brightly colored smoked dials speak for themselves.

Now Moser has handed the concept over to Romaric Andre, whose second/seconde/ brand modifies vintage watches with newly created hands – made by France’s last surviving hand manufacturer – which pass comment on the specific watch brand or model.

For this H Moser & Cie Endeavour Centre Seconds Concept X seconde/seconde/, a limited edition run of 20 watches, Andre has replaced the watch’s hour hand with a brightly colored pixelated eraser.

“The ‘hand swap’ – this principle designed to switch one or more hands on an existing watch – has become my signature,” said Andre. “For me, it is driven by a latent disrespect impulse. I want to upset the balance. Create disharmony. This dissonance is my way of disorienting the product, deconstructing it. So that I can then reconstruct it. To reveal an unknown facet or show another perspective. My perspective. The eraser, I see it as a banal everyday object which is taking power over the prestigious exceptional object.”

The concept model is based on the 40mm stainless steel Endeavour Centre Seconds model with Moser’s Funky Blue dial and its 3Hz HMC 200 automatic in-house movement with three days power reserve.

The Endeavour Centre Seconds Concept X seconde/seconde/ is available now via H Moser & Cie, priced CHF 19,900 ($21,040 USD).

In other watch news, Mr Jones’ latest watch explores the allure of the Red Planet."]]></description>
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    <title>Inside Seconde/Seconde/, the firm customising vintage watches</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-05T20:22:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“The work of Seconde/Seconde/ is the most entertaining (and transgressive) take on vintage watches we’ve seen in years”

““Talking about it sounds weird,” admits Seconde/Seconde/ founder Romaric André, referring to his first, ill-fated business venture. After graduating from business school in 2005, the Parisian partnered with a childhood friend and established Celsius X VI II, a brand that made an ultra high-end mobile phone with an integrated tourbillon. The hinge of the clamshell phone would wind the mechanism each time it was opened or closed.

Ridiculous as it may sound, the project attracted venture capital funding, had Richard Mille on the board and H Moser boss Edouard Meylan as co-CEO. “Sometimes I like to consider this project like a baby Richard Mille,” André reflects. “Because Mille was showing to people that you don’t need 100 years of history to approach the high-end mechanical market.”

Even in the heady pre-crash days of the Noughties, an asking price of €250,000 per phone proved excessive, and the business eventually folded in 2015. But it left André with a network of suppliers in the watch industry, and an evident passion for fusing horology and technology in the most unpredictable ways. “I got really hooked on this business, with all of the workshops in the Jura, I liked this part.”

For the next two years, André went on to work with start-ups in Paris, though watches were never far from his thoughts. “I was still crazy about watches. I like vintage watches; I like simple, reliable, affordable watches. I like the patina.”

The genesis for Seconde/Seconde/ came when André was looking at the rich Champagne dial of a vintage Chronographe Suisse watch on his computer. “I drew a white line on it and when I saw the contrast between the Champagne dial and the pure white I was like, ‘Wow, that’s cool!’ But afterwards I realised just a colour was not enough; just repainting hands was not strong enough. What would be the message? I didn’t want to be a T-shirt with a message on it, I wanted to be a little bit more subtle than that. So I had to behave not like a designer just putting flashy colours on old vintage stuff, I had to use my own knowledge of vintage.”

André refined the concept further in search of missing “relevance”. His first progress was realising he could be disruptive with vintage watches as long as he was respectful. He decided to remove and replace a single hand but supply the original part in a glass vial alongside the watch. “I’m not suggesting my clients put back the original hand but they would be able to do so one day. I felt at this point I was being really respectful in not binning the nature of the watch but totally creating a new product. I’d found a balance for the concept.”

Restricting his source material to watches produced before 1990 and no larger than 37mm in diameter, André then decided to make a tongue-in-cheek cryptic statement with each piece, usually rooted in pop culture, through the pairing of the replacement hand and the watch itself. For example, Batch 003 is based on a Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Memovox alarm watch with a distinctly mechanical sound, so André replaced its second hand with the image of a bee.

This seam of quirky humour is crucial to the whole enterprise; laying a finger on vintage watches is a sensitive area at the best of times, let alone replacing the second hand of a Patek Philippe Calatrava with a Nineties-style Windows pointer icon. André’s creations tread a fine line, but are always built with quality and respect in mind; what looks like a Photoshopped joke is in fact a sensitive, loving tribute delivered with levity and a knowing humour not often encountered in the collector world.

“I want my stuff to be considered by people who know about vintage watches,” he rails. “I don’t want to be too easy to understand. When people ask me the meaning I don’t usually tell them. It’s your problem, the why; you’d lose all the magic. I prefer to give clues, to be elusive, cryptic. Sometimes I just want to be funny. I want to play the art card, I like to be ironic. I put a ‘pause’ symbol on an Omega Chronostop replacing the chronograph hand: it’s to tell you to stop rushing, live your life. But who am I tell you to stop rushing — I’m not a life coach.”

By replacing second and chronograph hands with graphics, illustrations and logos, he is happy to remove functionality in favour of creativity. To deliver these miniature works of art, André turned to France’s last surviving hand manufacturer, La Pratique in Morteau, a stone’s throw from Le Locle on the other side of the French/Swiss border.

“I’m not the first guy to have an idea — when they see you coming they are not judging the idea but whether you are serious about it. Since I’ve been doing this I’ve received enquiries about custom orders, so I guess [La Pratique] will have heard everything in the last 30 years and they have to separate out all these personal initiatives from real business. But once we’d met a few times I guess they realised I was serious,” he says.

But any industrialised supplier would be wary of creating such elaborate designs (despite their graphic nature the new hands must be manufactured using the same exacting tolerances as any other hand before being painted and varnished) in such small volumes.

André has certainly taken an expensive path when it comes to creating the hands, as the tooling costs to produce a single design remain the same whether the order is 10 or 10,000. While the watches he sells are all technically unique — as no vintage watch will have aged the same way — they are “produced” in small batches of differing sizes depending on how many examples of a specific watch he can source, usually between three and 12 pieces. André orders 20 pieces of each hand design which allows for fitting to finished watches plus spares. Each watch is authenticated and fully serviced and will be delivered with a custom-designed strap produced by Bouveret in Besançon.

News of the venture was sent out ahead of Baselworld and meetings at the show set as a barometer to gauge reaction, which in general has been positive especially on Instagram, with the brand having already taken orders through the social media channel. “It’s so powerful,” says André. “You’ve got the product and people are reacting immediately. It’s crazy.”

The entire proposition of Seconde/Seconde/ is so polished and stylishly realised that while it’s obvious André has learned innumerable lessons since the days of Celsius X VI II he has, in other ways, stuck to his guns. “I like to think a little differently. Is it smart to put a mechanical device on a digital mobile phone? Maybe, maybe not, but you don’t know, so let’s find out! I’m doing the same now. Is it relevant to play with vintage? People buy vintage watches because they are vintage, so why would you put a flashy yellow hand on it? But to me it makes sense because it creates a contrast on the dial, a war between two different time periods.””]]></description>
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    <title>Seconde/Seconde/ Watch Mods | Cool Material</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-05T20:20:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Parisan watch mod shop Seconde/Seconde/’s founder Romaric André likes to add modern touches to vintage, smaller diameter watches. While he chooses mostly older timepieces with some patina, he has Massena Labs on his speed dial for more modern creations. His art involves changing out the second hand with a playful modern icon (Millennium Falcon, Windows cursor, paper airplane, beanie hat), and each one has a simple “S” for his brand. They’re actually made by France’s oldest watch hands manufacturer, which reflects André’s respect for the original pieces, and he even saves the OEM second hand from the watch and puts it in a glass vial to send to the customer along with the modded watch. All of his projects use only pre-1990 watches, all with cases smaller than 37mm. Models include Omega Chronostop, Rolex Air-King, and even a Patek Philippe Calatrava. These little works of art for your wrist are very exclusive, and they bring a brilliant contrast no one has ever thought of… until now.”]]></description>
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    <title>horology artworks – seconde-seconde</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-05T20:16:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See also:
https://www.instagram.com/secondeseconde/
https://www.picuki.com/profile/secondeseconde ]]]></description>
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    <title>【F】 Hands On With The Nivada Grenchen Jellyfish Depthmaster</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-05T20:14:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“The daring French artisan keeps the serious watch world entertained

Romaric’s latest collaboration with Nivada Grenchen only confirms that we can hardly ever get bored with his creations. Meet a blue queen of the oceans, the Nivada Grenchen × Seconde/Seconde Jellyfish Depthmaster.

It has been almost two years since I got to know Romaric André. I instantly fell in love with his strictly limited runs of daringly creative and carefully manufactured watch hands he installs in vintage classics. We already had the chance to review one of them, the Omega Seamaster 2759-7SC 2761 from 1956 with a replaced second hand in the shape and color of the Cousteau cap.

From vintage to modern

I was sure it would only be a matter of time before Romaric and his Seconde/Seconde became a go-to in the watchmaking world. It was inevitable that watch brands would reach out to create some exciting collaborations. It all started late last year with the MassenaLab “Big Eye” Uni-Racer and was followed with H. Moser & Cie “Less is Moser”. Today we are looking at his 3rd collaboration project with Nivada Grenchen, and spoiler alert, there will be another two collaborations coming before the end of the year.

Seconde/seconde is as daring as the colors on its hands made by the last surviving manufacturer in French Jura. Their knowledge goes back to 1907 and their precision calculates to +/-3 microns. When Romaric first approached them with his idea, they might have thought he went crazy. But it seems it worked out for both and they have developed a nice partnership since. To see Romaric’s latest ideas on made-up watch+hands combos, I highly recommend you to follow seconde/seconde on Instagram. Not everything goes to production, but the seconde/seconde feed is a textbook example of originality and craft.

Nivada Grenchen meets Romaric

Do we need to introduce Nivada? I bet you already know their vintage stars such as the Chronomaster, Travelmaster, or Datomaster. And you already might know about last year’s rebirth story of Nivada and CSAD. Since Balazs has looked deeper into other Nivada revivals such as the Antarctic Spider or the legendary Pac-Man or Baby-Panerai Nivada Grenchcen Depthmaster. And it is the last mentioned juicy orange-lumed Depthmaster that got the special opportunity to be taken into custody by Romaric’s seconde/seconde fantasy.

Guillaume Laidet from Nivada is French too and he naturally exchanged some messages over Instagram with Romaric. Guillaume’s question was: “what would you think about that Depthmaster?” And it was just enough to get Romaric’s creative mind rolling. When I asked how many designs there were to choose from, Romaric instantly shot me down. “I have worked and come up with one design only. The final design.”

Jelly of the year

Well, in a very Romaric-like fashion, he chose what many haven’t opted for before. A jellyfish. I guess a seahorse or a turtle is more photogenic and appealing than the gelatinously clumsy ghost of the ocean. And that’s another link between Pac-Man and his escape from the ghosts chasing him since the 1980s. “I liked the fact that jellyfish are not marketed enough, they have never been used as emblems when it comes to divers watches. I can’t understand why…”, Romaric André explains the story behind his eye-popping jellyfish spinning in the new Depthmaster.

How does a jellyfish change the watch?

I will not take much time in introducing the Depthmaster or its specs — which include an automatic helium escape valve — as Balazs already did so a few months ago. I will rather focus on how seconde/seconde upgrades or downgrades the iconic Pac-Man. If I compare it to the previous two seconde/seconde collabs, I see this one as the best one. H. Moser & Cie. came up with a brilliant idea, but I found the final rubber-hand design a bit cumbersome and a bit hard to read. The Massena Uni-Racer was much better in terms of execution, but the idea was a bit too straightforward for my taste. It’s the Jellyfish Nivada Depthmaster that shows the best from seconde/seconde in my opinion. Why is that?

They found each other

You can put a funky pixelated whatever-shaped hand on any sports or dress watch. The bigger contrast in the style of watch and hand, the bigger the effect should be. Well, at least that’s what I thought, but I think the H. Moser collab does not confirm this hypothesis. When I saw the big-headed and big-eyed jellyfish escaping from the predatory indexes caged in the charismatic Deptmhaster watch case, I told myself that they were born for each other.

The jellyfish has that alarming look that only victims looking over their shoulders have when chased by the predator.

The square Jellyfish Depthmaster case bloats under the pressure to keep all the creatures inside. Its oval curves make you feel it will explode any second. Romaric added one particular detail that helps to build the Pac-Man story. Given the fact that the Jellyfish is designed in a simplified pixel art style, it’s astonishing how much character it has. The jellyfish has that alarming look that only victims looking over their shoulders have when chased by the predator. The three thin tendrils even look like they’re about to start running at times.

Was it a challenge to make it a jellyfish?

At some point, I asked myself, how safe it actually is to have a seconds hand like that fitted in your watch. “When you work on the second hand, you have to be vigilant about the specs of your design, weight, and right balance,” Romaric says. But he does it every day to a number of watches. And all his previous creations are running, so I guess you are safe in his waters. Nivada and seconde/seconde created a set of five colors, each available in a surprisingly low supply of just ten pieces. No wonder then that the €1,085 price tag made them all vanish seconds after the listing. The last batch should come alive with our friends from Hodinkee soon, so sharpen your eyes and pray to get lucky.

Shotgun notes

It wears like a charm. And though it may look tiny on the desk, it’s pretty present on the wrist. This is due to its water-resistant armor, ready to take it down to 1000m. Twenty points out of ten for the buckle design, and the same score goes for the thin bezel, its legibility, construction, and easy operation. Eight out of ten points for the soft vulcanized rubber strap that I struggled to get used to — it was either too tight or too loose.

Final thoughts

I spent two weeks with the Nivada Grenchen Jellyfish Depthmaster + seconde/seconde and it was quite pleasant indeed. Everything from the packaging to the wearing experience. I hate Hummer-sized watches, so this “Baby-Panerai” Pac-Man is just about right if you prefer a modestly-sized dive watch. The decent case specs allow it to be worn in the office as well unless you are under a black-tie curse. The case back could have featured something extra, but in the end, it’s a tool watch. If you are one of the fifty who managed to grab one, you definitely made one of the top investments of 2021.”]]></description>
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    <title>#TBT Seconde/Seconde Says It’s Time To Play With Watch Hands</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-05T20:14:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Please, might I order one Croissant central chronograph hand for my Patek and two Sword hour arms for my Rolex watches? Oh, lord, I additionally want that Pistol hand for my Cartier Tank. Sci-fi? By no means. The charismatic, inventive, and passionate French Romaric André, the brains and soul behind seconde/seconde, pivots his artistry in the direction of unexplored waters.

In addition to uniquely fine-tuned classic watches, seconde/seconde began promoting strictly restricted runs of daringly inventive and thoroughly manufactured watch arms. Everytime you really feel prefer it, you possibly can set up these handsets on the classic watch of your alternative. Will it break the design of your classic watch, or quite the opposite, will it make it even the extra timeless?

seconde/seconde watch arms

This isn’t just a few trend-backed stunt. For me, Romaric brings a brand new, exactly formulated, and stylized idea into the watch trade. Consider it as Bamford for classic watches. However much less fancy and extra artsy. Just a few world-renowned collectors have already tried it and liked it. Not many tasks beginning their pilgrimage within the watch trade get quick recognition and publicity. Only some of them, together with seconde/seconde, can say that their first-ever buyer ever was a heavyweight collector. Romaric modestly says he “simply performs with arms on classic watches”. Effectively, he does it in an unprecedented method. As was his first sale ever, straight to William Massena.

“I used to be at Baselworld final yr with the primary 5 actual watches and dozens of images of soon-to-come items. A good friend launched me to William, so I pitched him. After a couple of minutes, I heard him say ‘I’ll take this one’, pointing at ’50s Zenith chrono caliber 143-6 nicknamed Yugoslavian Air Drive with the Millennium Falcon watch hand.” It took Romaric a couple of days to understand what a vouch he simply obtained. He’s nonetheless in contact with William Massena, who advises and helps him in his endeavor.

Years of pondering

Romaric has liked classic watches for years, however the first inspiration got here three years in the past when he began drawing a plain white watch hand on a classic gold and closely aged Chronographe Suisse. The distinction struck him. Since that second his mind was eaten with the thought of easy methods to deliver a brand new, however a structured type of artistry to look at arms. For those who have a look at the seconde/seconde web site fastidiously, you’ll perceive that Romaric doesn’t wish to be just a few funky watch arms provider for random watch modifications. He respects the design of classic watches an excessive amount of to easily shame it. Subsequently, every hand is individually designed for a specific watch mannequin. A brand new hand displays the watch character and tries to reinforce the unique design with further artsy expertise.

With all due respect

“I needed to search out the aim of all of this. I needed to search out the hyperlink between artwork, the assumed sacrilege and respectful tribute,” that’s how Romaric explains the core values of his design strategy. He’s very conscious that he challenges a 50+ or 60+ years previous aesthetical steadiness. As a logo of respect to the unique magnificence, he by no means throws away the manufacturing unit match arms. He safely and initially shops them and implements them not solely into the narrative but additionally into the packaging. I appreciated it when Romaric stated that he permits “watch arms to swap for indefinite intervals of time”. That means, that it’s all the time up on watch proprietor, which hand will get the prime time.

WITH ME, THERE ISN’T ANY QUANTITY, SIMPLY TREMENDOUS RESTRICTED BATCHES FROM 1 TO 20 ITEMS.

Romaric’s search of the very best product high quality for his concept introduced him to the door of the one watch arms manufacture left within the French Jura. It’s a family-operated enterprise since 1907, now within the arms of the 4th era. Because it traversed numerous trade crises, it noticed all of the ups and downs of contemporary watchmaking. “When the household first heard my requests for customized designs in such low portions, their first response was like Who the f**okay is that this loopy man?!”, Romaric describes his first encounter with the producers.

When manufacturing a watch hand, essential parameters to get proper are mass, steadiness, and inertia. An important factor is to regulate the design to be technically protected and to not disrupt these pointers an excessive amount of. For every caliber they should determine the size and diameter of the watch hand tube. “We’re working at +/-Three microns right here. As soon as the pad-printing is finished, you begin to check the watch hand on its caliber and monitor the watch on an amplitude, fee, beat error, and energy reserve. It’s measured throughout a full cycle and in numerous positions, simply to make sure the “new” watch hand has zero affect on the way in which the watch works.”

No guidelines

I used to be curious to know whether or not it’s a watch-hand concept or “donor” watch first within the course of. “No guidelines. It might probably occur each methods,” Romaric explains. I can solely think about how time-consuming (and costly) it needs to be supply the right classic watches. I’m involved with Romaric for nearly a yr now and it thus got here as no shock to study a couple of weeks in the past that he desires to focus rather more on watch-hands manufacturing within the months to come back. Comply with the seconde/seconde Instagram and you’ve got a safe stream of stellar inventive inspiration. By the way in which, many occasions I’m speechless on the stage of art-direction and elaboration of his posts. It’s ardour, dedication, and artistry at its greatest.

Inconceivable to decide on only one

His Croissant hand for the Patek or his latest creation Coronary heart for Heuer with a pulsation dial introduced smiles to my face. Romaric additionally rapidly reacted to Eric Wind’s put up together with his creation of the Hearth for the alarm JLC Memovox branded Dunhill. The watch hand I might immediately go for can be the seconde/seconde Pistol for Cartier Tank. Whether or not it’s promoting pre-ready curated watches with new arms or simply the watch arms alone, I see shiny days forward for seconde/seconde. I feel it’s only a matter of time till Romaric additionally “hand-bombs” some new releases reminiscent of the newest Rolex GMT and even the Omega Speedmaster.

There isn’t a single watch on the earth Romaric wouldn’t dare to vary a hand on. “Since I simply substitute the watch arms, I don’t really feel like I’m being damaging and thus I might dare tweak any watch if I really feel prefer it is sensible.” He already had some prospects asking him to do ridiculous handset designs on watches they love. “I’ll by no means design a hand that doesn’t make sense for me.”

Nice mentors alongside the way in which

Twelve years in the past, Romaric co-founded an organization that loved the consideration of getting Richard Mille as a Board-member for a number of years. Romaric appreciated the imaginative and prescient that RM had for his model. Mille’s expertise, and his understanding of the entire high-end watch trade in each facet, was an awesome assist to the younger entrepreneur. “What struck me most was Richard’s sturdy won’t to duplicate what has been accomplished by others. Each when it comes to product and the enterprise,” Romaric unveils a little bit of the story behind his image with RM I discovered on-line. He discovered from the very best within the enterprise. And he discovered properly.

Unboxing

I’ve stopped counting the variety of individuals I instructed concerning the seconde/seconde web site. The imagery, story-telling narrative, vocabulary, and tonality is a unprecedented instance of the way it ought to be accomplished. Just a few clicks are sufficient to ascertain model aura and attraction. Once I was unboxing the Omega Seamaster Cousteau, I used to be as fascinated as I used to be nearly a yr in the past after I first discovered about seconde/seconde. I actually needed to pack the watch again up after I unboxed it, simply to have the identical expertise once more. I’ve by no means accomplished that with any earlier watch.

You don’t want fancy supplies or leather-based packing containers. Romaric dropped off all of the packaging clichés reminiscent of model books and instruction manuals. Utilizing a chunk of cardboard, two sheets of paper and some rivets he crafted a minimalistic, however memorable and “wealthy” presentation equipment.

Omega Seamaster Cousteau

Omega Seamaster 2759-7SC 2761 from 1956 appears to be like prefer it’s model new. The aged dial provides it monumental charisma. A barely smoky impact makes the dial appear to be a superbly flat cement wall. For those who look nearer, you’ll spot two considerably brighter triangular burns on the ten minutes to 6 place. I pull out the crown to make the arms flip slowly. When the arms attain the place, the burned spots completely copy the arms form and conceal behind them. There isn’t a doubt this Seamaster was saved untouched for years.

The tooling prices, the sophisticated set-up processes for exact chopping, tube becoming and pad-printing are often restricted to massive quantity batches. “With me, there isn’t any quantity, simply tremendous restricted batches from 1 to 20 items. I had a tough time explaining to them that I used to be on the unique and artsy facet of the trade.”

Bi-metallic concord

The 34mm case in diameter is sort of large and surprisingly clear. Whilst you often see tons of of tiny scratches, this piece is clear and contemporary. What you see is a Seamaster at its most simplistic magnificence. I nearly really feel responsible for even contemplating whether or not or not I like bi-metallic designs. The pale gold arms, hour indexes, and utilized Omega brand ideally match the metal case, revolver crown, and cold-gray aged dial. And right here we come. Burgundy nice leather-based strap and a changed second hand within the form and shade of Cousteau cap.

Is it a hand?

That’s truly one other level. Palms by seconde/seconde as Romaric designs them are sometimes not even arms within the basic sense of the phrase. It’s a new artsy object that crowns the watch and offers it a wholly new depth. Or top on this case, because it sits on high of the arms sandwich. Each single time I checked the time, I used to be certain that the watch stopped. With the second hand, sorry — “second cap” being so brief, it’s essential to focus for a couple of seconds to see it rotating. It doesn’t destroy the unique Seamaster magnificence for me. It’s the identical Seamaster as earlier than, simply higher.

I USED TO BE SHOCKED AT HOW EXACT, VOLUMINOUS, AND RICHLY COLOURED THE CAP IS.

It’s good, inventive, and daring. On the similar time, it’s mild and feels humble. It makes me assume, it conjures up and amuses me. I studied the hand-manufacture particulars beneath the loupe many occasions and was shocked at how exact, voluminous, and richly coloured the cap is. I wouldn’t make it a hair greater, nor smaller. The dimensions is nearly proper to not get misplaced or disturbed. Black outlines steadiness with the black Omega writing above, and the black Seamaster beneath. All strains are equally thick and central his virtually invisible without cost look. I simply spent two minutes serious about what would I’ve accomplished in another way. Most likely nothing.

Final ideas

For those who gather watches lengthy sufficient, you already know that unlucky hand swaps kill the watch immediately. Whenever you come throughout an unsightly Frankenstein watch you possibly can really feel in a second that one thing is off. What seconde/seconde does is gentle years away from low cost watch modifications. I consider what Romaric achieved is the flexibility to protect the grace of an authentic design whereas giving it a brand new stylistic and contextual stage. I’m purchased in and it’s only a matter of time till I land one in all his creations. Each single design that he introduces retains me increasingly more engaged. Anticipate a couple of seconde/seconde profitable collaborations with fashionable manufacturers and if the model chooses proper, 20 years from now we would have one other Urwerk-kind of story.”]]></description>
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    <title>Seconde/Seconde: French Revolution — Rescapement.</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-05T20:13:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Meet the Han Solo of vintage, fighting to make art of patina

Are watches art? It’s an oft-debated question: To answer in the affirmative is to imply that there are artists using watches as a medium of expression and creativity to explore new ideas.

“I feel more and more comfortable saying I’m an artist,” says Romaric André, the founder of France-based (Design studio? Art studio? Vintage dealer? “I play with hands on vintage watches”, Romaric modestly puts it with a mischievous smile) Seconde/Seconde. “But that puts some pressure on me to say I won’t do anything that’s not true to me as an artist. An artist has to say ‘fuck the convention, fuck the norm.’ I want to be edgy. I don’t want to do the simple things.” 

Ostensibly, Seconde/Seconde is in the business of taking vintage watches and swapping out the original hands with emoji-like icons offering a play on the vintage piece. Think a Tiffany-stamped Patek Philippe Calatrava with a croissant for a hand, or a Dunhill-branded alarm watch with a flame. If you don’t get it, that’s on you.

“The watch hands are so figurative, so I try to compensate by being a little abstract,” Romaric said. That means you won’t find explanations of the pieces on Seconde/Seconde’s website or in Instagram captions.

To keep purists pacified, Seconde/Seconde has a trick up its sleeve: It always includes the original watch hands with the customized timepiece. Still, Seconde/Seconde doesn’t just swap in any hand on any piece. 

“I decline a lot of requests to put icons on watches when there is no link between the icons and the watches. I won’t do things just for money,” Romaric explains. 

But to simply define Seconde/Seconde by what it does is to miss entirely what it is. 

Just a Seconde

Seconde/Seconde officially launched at Baselworld in 2019 (RIP), where its first client was industry veteran William Massena. Since then, Seconde/Seconde has continued to inject life in an otherwise conservative industry. Romaric has displayed a capsule collection with MB&F’s MAD Gallery, which you’ll now find in MB&F’s new online shop, and continues to entertain Instagram followers daily.

Romaric is something of an industry veteran himself: A previous business of his slapped a tourbillon into a mobile phone, attracting interest and investment from members of the avante-garde like Richard Mille and Eduoard Meylan (the latter of whom served as co-CEO). His years in the industry have given him a network of manufacturers and friends in high places that he’s drawn on in the launch of Seconde/Seconde.

“At first they were scared, then they thought it was cool, then they understood,” Romaric says of showing his concepts to collectors and friends. That the original watch hand was safe and sound in a tube included with the watch was crucial to their grappling with Romaric’s work.

Why so serious?

Take a look at Seconde/Seconde’s website or social media presence, and it’s immediately clear this isn’t some cruel joke being played on vintage purists. Not only is Romaric sourcing quality vintage watches, he’s doing it with respect. Every aspect of the brand is thoughtful, fun and a little bit subversive. 

“There’s a delicate balance between sacrilege and respecting the pieces. I do both,” Romaric said. He doesn’t just want to be “the guy making funny watch hands”; he’s meticulous and thoughtful about every aspect of Seconde/Seconde’s production and branding. 

Take production: he wanted to manufacture the watch hands in France, but since there is only one workshop left in the entire country that produces watch hands, he had to convince them to work with his brand. Because Seconde/Seconde is making hands in extremely limited runs and always testing new ideas, it wasn’t easy. Eventually though, the family-operated workshop in the French Jura relented, and Seconde/Seconde found a home for its super-limited production (any particular hand might have a production run of 1-30 pieces). 

Last laugh

While Seconde/Seconde takes production of its watches seriously — indeed, it must when tolerances are tight and manufacturing is done at the level of microns — when it comes to design, Romaric’s approach is more instinctual.

“The moment I’m not hesitating and just do it — when I put the watch hand on the watch and say ‘fuck the rest’ — that’s when it works,” Romaric said. In the beginning, he says he made too many jokes, wanting to be the “bad guy” in the watch industry.

Since then, he’s dialed it back, instead seeking balance to put the simplicity and beauty of the vintage watches on full display. For example, Romaric loves to play with paper: Because his hand icons are so bold and colorful, he strives to be clear and sober in the surroundings he creates for his pieces. The stark white gallery walls in which to display his artwork. 

“The patina [of vintage watches] are the perfect canvas for the colors I’m putting on them. It’s the perfect contrast. What works is putting my hands on sober, simple dials. I’m just playing on contrasts,” Romaric said. He likens this approach to another form of subversive art.

“It’s like street art: there are walls, but let’s put spray paint on them. I saw walls where nobody saw them. There are millions of walls — those old dials and vintage watches — let’s have fun with them and consider them as a canvas.” 

Solo Flight

As Romaric feels more comfortable thinking of himself as an artist, his work and vision raise the question: Where is the line between art and brand anyway? Romaric says he views himself as on the border of “artist’s way of thinking”, but that he’s also aware of the need to build a recognizable brand.

But when one can find popular artists like Koons or Murakami collaborating with brands like Louis Vuitton, Virgil Abloh (himself more brand than anthropoid) and even Uniqlo, where is that border between art and brand? Surely, art critics have grappled more capably with this question as the art world becomes increasingly subject to the whims of the all-consuming “market”, but Romaric, in addition to the efforts of modern artisans like F.P. Journe and Max Busser are forcing the watch world to come to grips with the same.[1]

As for Romaric, his work brings to mind a “shortcut” that Mr. Abloh himself often invokes: changing an existing object “just three percent” is often enough to make for a successful design. This gives short shrift to Seconde/Seconde’s work (and Abloh’s, for that matter), but the sentiment remains: Romaric saw canvasses all around him — why create something wholly new when there are vintage watches readily available? The backdrop of existing brands — and our preconceived notions and expectations that come with them — serve as the canvas for Romaric’s work. 

Every aspect of Seconde/Seconde is infused with Romaric’s artistic vision. Sure, each timepiece is thoughtful and thought provoking, but it’s more than that: Each Instagram post is photographic art, each webpage dripping with the reverent flippancy of an artist, who at once adores and is tortured by his patinaed muse.

Perhaps Romaric’s most subversive move — his most artistic moment, illustrating at once how he views himself and his position in the industry — came in that very first piece he sold to Mssr. Massena. It’s a piece he calls “Solo Flight”, and features an icon of the Millennium Falcon in place of the chronograph hand on a 1950s Zenith caliber 143-6. Of course, the Millennium Falcon is the dilapidated-but-powerful spaceship of Star Wars’ most famous smuggler, Han Solo, an instrumental leader in the Rebellion. Solo offered a sense of levity throughout the Rebel Alliance’s war against the Galactic Empire, with George Lucas describing him as "a cynical loner who realizes the importance of being part of a group and helping for the common good". Try as he like, Solo never totally ridded himself of the “bad guy” image either. And that wasn’t such a bad thing. 

The parallels are obvious and manifold: Romaric carefully fixing up vintage watches, each his personal Millennium Falcon, providing a bit of levity all the while. And like Solo, Romaric is fighting his own “war between two different time periods,” as he puts it."]]></description>
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    <title>How a game about making zines helped me recapture my creativity in lockdown | Games | The Guardian</title>
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    <link>https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/feb/22/electric-zine-maker-video-game</link>
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    <title>Pippi and the Moomins served as a social antidote to fascism | Aeon Essays</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“And rather than trying to indoctrinate these future citizens against fascism, the new generation of writers felt indoctrination itself was the problem. They favoured the ‘free schooling’ pedagogy of thinkers such as the … A S Neill or the philosopher Bertrand Russell.

[Lennart] Hellsing put it most clearly in his book Reflections on Children’s Literature (1963): ‘All pedagogical art is bad art, but all good art is pedagogical.’ For him, literature for children should aim to entertain, enlighten and stimulate, just like that for adults. Past children’s literature had done too little of this, he felt: ‘Filled with the most noble motives, propagandising for all conceivable human virtues, it has naturally been difficult for it to at the same time satisfy our need for laughter.’”

“Pippi represents my own childish longing to meet a person who has power but does not abuse it.” –Astrid Lindgren 

“Pippi satisfies children’s dream of having power and I believe that somewhere in that is the key to her popularity.” –Astrid Lindgren

“the Moomins challenge the nuclear family with a sort of ‘free collectivism’ … new friends are all given a place. ‘They just move in, and then Moominmamma just makes the table bigger and they add some new beds.’”

“In the more Left-wing political climate of 1970s Sweden and Finland, both Lindgren and Jansson came under fire for being reactionary. The truth is, however, that – particularly in terms of gender – both were ahead of their time.”

[In comparison to Tove Jansson] “No other children’s writer then was depicting gender fluidity and protesting the illegality of homosexuality”

“A host of new, progressive books, meanwhile, seem like a return to the kind of moralistic approach that Lindgren was trying to escape. +

“Books such as Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (2016-), or the many volumes on the environmental crusader Greta Thunberg, might have all the right intentions. But they’re also about ensuring that our children have those opinions we want them to have. And few of them are much fun.”]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Thanks to Alec Soth and the team of Little Brown Mushroom, a group of international artists and writers find themselves immersed in finding the stories hiding in plain sight within the marvelous mundanities of the Midwest.

“ALL OF THIS COULD JUST BE A MASSIVE FAILURE, one never knows,” Alec Soth shrugs, his slim frame curled into a Thinker pose as he rests in a swivel chair in the converted garage space that serves as his studio and office. He’s speaking about the Summer Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers, a recent arts workshop held at Little Brown Mushroom, the Saint Paul publishing house Soth co-founded. His “take it as it comes” attitude is fitting to the project, as Soth and his fellow instructors envisioned the camp as something of a repudiation of the glut of tightly scheduled, for-profit workshops that dominate the photography landscape.

As an internationally celebrated photographer, Soth gets invited to participate in those workshops all the time. “I’ve always avoided them for a variety of reasons,” he says, running a hand over his dark, close-cropped beard. “If it’s somewhere else, I don’t want to just fly off and go do a thing in Cuba or wherever. It always sounds exotic, but then that’s also problematic. They tend to be very expensive for the participants so that it can make money. And that’s fine, but it attracts dentists.”

Affordability and accessibility have always been cornerstones of the Little Brown Mushroom philosophy – their photo essay books generally retail for less than $20, with pricier special editions available for serious collectors. The idea is to produce high-quality artwork that stays in the price range of students, casual arts patrons and other folks who can’t or won’t pony up for the usual high-end art books. Not long ago, it dawned on Soth that the same ethos could be applied to those big-ticket workshops.

“I thought, I keep getting asked to do these workshops, but what if I did a workshop here? Because I’m hungry to be involved in education in some way, but I also want to do it on my own terms,” Soth explains. Once the seed was planted, the framework came together quickly: Little Brown Mushroom would invite artists to apply for a free, five-day workshop based in the cozily industrial confines of the company’s Saint Paul offices. Making the workshop cost-free was hugely important, not just because it kept things affordable for the applicants, but also because it provided Soth and his collaborators with a little more room to move. “It relieves some of the burden of having to fulfill a specific expectation,” Soth says. “It’s free to be more experimental. Also, it allowed us to cherry-pick really interesting applications. We got a ton of applications, really fascinating ones. We could’ve done it 20 times over. The only negative to this whole process so far has been saying no to people with these wonderful applications.”

That freedom also allowed the Summer Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers to focus on perhaps the stickiest aspect of the Little Brown Mushroom mission: exploring the possibilities of photo-centric narratives. In a side room the staff refers to as “The Cave” stands Soth’s sizable collection of photography books. The library ranges from well-known classics to recent obscurities, but in Soth’s eyes the real jewels are a smattering of books that attempt to wed photos to some sort of overarching narrative. There are children’s books, Mexican fotonovelas, even a few more adult-oriented artistic efforts like Daniel Seymour’s A Loud Song. Soth has long explored the intersection of storytelling and photography in his own work, most recently in his series of LBM Dispatch collaborations with author and Little Brown Mushroom team member Brad Zellar.

“The thing about Little Brown Mushroom is it’s always a combination of text and image,” Soth says. “We use a storybook, like Little Golden Books, as sort of a template for visual storytelling. It’s really storytelling at its most basic form. And then something like these “dispatches,” that’s more modeled after newspaper journalism, but also something like Life photo essays. It’s kind of a dated thing, but Dorthea Lange and Paul Taylor collaborated, Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell, these writer-photographer collaborations. It’s kind of a bygone era.”

Despite Soth’s fascination with and enthusiasm for narrative photography, he’s not convinced that it’s a particularly effective format. “Truthfully,” he says, “I don’t think they go together very well, images and text. I think they fight each other. But I feel hungry for it. As an artist, [this workshop] is a way for me to play around and experiment with other artists in terms of, ‘what are the possibilities of this?’”

With that loose mission statement in hand, Soth and the Summer Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers staff – Zellar, photographers Carrie Thompson and Ethan Jones, designer Hans Seeger, visual artist Jason Polan and filmmaker Galen Fletcher – sorted through the more than 400 applications and picked out 15 attendees from all around the world. The final roster included artists from corners as far-flung as Germany and Venezuela, with just one Minnesotan in the mix. (In the interest of getting as diverse a selection of perspectives as possible, the staff intentionally decided to limit the locals and only consider applicants with whose work they were unfamiliar.)

The campers roll in on Tuesday with little idea of what to expect from the undertaking. Much of their trepidation has to do with working in teams. “Collaboration is kind of a new thing for me,” says Jeff Barnett-Winsby, a photographer from New York. “But it’s definitely something that I’ve been enjoying. I think a lot of photographers [are concerned that], because our work is so representational, it’s also easily replicated or at least emulated. It makes for a really insecure artist. Those artists are notoriously bad at collaborating, because you have to give up control and authorship. I think we did a really great job – but maybe I’m just talking about me.”

When we speak, before camp starts, Soth admits that he himself has only a basic idea of how the week will unfold. “We’re going to pair people off for the first day to do little collaborative projects. Ideally we’ll get as much of a mix of mediums between those people as possible,” Soth explains. “They go out and they have to generate some sort of story. It can be a very simple thing… It’s like a children’s book, the primal form of storytelling. Like, ‘I went to Hawaii. I saw the dolphin.’ Except in a more sophisticated way: ‘I went to Menards. I photographed someone in a wedding dress.’”

He’s not kidding about Menards, either. Exploring the untapped wonders of Saint Paul, especially the nearby Saint Anthony and Midway neighborhoods, is very much a part of the workshop agenda. William Faulkner once said that a key to his success as a novelist was the realization that “my own little postage stamp of soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.” Soth clearly abides by a similar philosophy.

“They’re going out in this vicinity,” he says. “A big belief of mine is that I don’t have to go to Cuba to do a photo workshop, or to see the exotic people. It’s exotic here. It’s interesting. Menards is very interesting. One can do a photo workshop here as well as anywhere else. In some ways it helps to avoid some of the clichés.”

And so it is that a group of international artists and writers find themselves checking in at Al’s Diner in Dinkytown, wandering the woods outside of the city and otherwise immersed in the marvelous mundanities of the Midwest. The unstructured nature of the undertaking foments some peculiar – and, it seems, welcome – digressions. Easter Trouble Press founder Jim Reed, a fan of Soth’s work who traveled from Frankfort, Germany to take part in the camp, finds himself inspired to experiment with William Eggleston’s “democratic camera” concept during the group’s trip to the forest. “I decided I’m going to drink beer and get intoxicated, in the spirit of Eggleston, and go around and sit and stare at objects, try to give objects their full worth the way that Eggleston gave objects their full worth,” Reed says. He eventually evolves that idea into a sort of conceptual Easter egg hunt for the other campers.

There are probably a lot of arts workshops where that sort of thing wouldn’t fly, but as far as Soth is concerned, anything that helps an artist tap into a vein of storytelling is fair game. “Part of the name, the whole ‘Socially Awkward’ thing, is that photographers and writers are generally more reclusive people. Certainly I was. That’s part of my reason for doing it. But I am interested in storytelling as communication. Wouldn’t it be interesting just to experiment with this form of presenting material in a slideshow? And in part it comes from personal experience, because I’ve been forced into this situation. I’m not saying I’m good at it at all. I give the standard slideshow, like an artist’s lecture. But I thought there was potential here for something.”

From the look of things around the Little Brown Mushroom offices on Wednesday evening, after the second full day of workshops, the campers are finding the challenge daunting but are eager to rise to it. A dimly lit back room hums with quiet energy as duos hunch over MacBooks and try to pull loose narratives out of their day’s outing in the forest. Soth and some Little Brown Mushroom staffers mill about up front, chatting about upcoming projects and allowing the artists to go well over their allotted work time.

It’s pushing on past 8 pm when the instructors finally give the “pencils down” call. The campers have prepared a series of slideshows in which they’ve tied their photos together with some manner of narrative thread. It’s a practice run for the camp’s grand finale, a live slideshow event in front of an audience at The Soap Factory, complete with a DJ set by Brad Zellar and snappy patter from comedian Brian Beatty. The campers, who didn’t know coming in that there would be a performance element, seem both sheepish about sharing their day’s output and grateful for the chance to get in a few dry runs before the big event. While they come from a broad range of artistic backgrounds, theater is not the first item on anyone’s résumé. The storytelling is loose, brief and laced with in-jokes that make it clear that the group already has a fair bit of bonding under its collective belt. There are still plenty of bugs to work out, but it appears as though they’re making heady progress toward Soth’s goal of unearthing some new revelations about photographic narrative.

“I think it’ll be fun,” Soth says of the then fast-approaching performance. “Part of the thing about showing it to an audience is, it’s not that you have to entertain, but you have to engage on some level. I think there’s a tendency in the art world to sort of forget about the audience. ‘I’m doing this for myself.’ If you’re faced with an audience, there’s some sort of obligation to engage with them on some level. Make it compelling, so it’s not utterly boring. But maybe even making it boring is OK. If you choose to do that, that’s OK.”

That last sentence could be a thesis statement for the Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers, and that overriding sense of OK-ness seems like a solid groundwork for many more camps to come.”]]></description>
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Was it fun? In hindsight, I guess it was at times.

Was it traumatic? Yes. Still.

Did I learn a lot? Man, that’s an understatement.

Better you tour the press links: [links]“]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2020-01-23T00:54:53+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“The other day my daughter and I had a conversation about the event I was hosting at my studio, The Camp For Socially Awkward Storytellers. While she agreed that I’m something of an expert on social-awkwardness, she disputed the notion that I’m a storyteller. “You take pictures and put them into books,” she said, “but they aren’t really stories.”

Her words bruised a bit, but deep down I knew she was right. I know very little about storytelling. If anything, the camp was an elaborate con to get fifteen exceptional artists from around the world to travel to Minnesota to teach me about storytelling. Man, did it work. In five short days I learned more about the possibilities of visual storytelling than I’d probably learn in a year of grad school. But there was another lesson of equal importance: the value of having real encounters with real people in the real world.

I sometimes feel like I’m drowning in digital culture. More and more of my daily life is lived in a virtual space behind the screen of my computer. On Saturday night, this virtual space was turned inside out. Fifteen flesh and blood artists projected images onto a screen in front of a flesh and blood audience. The result was, in a word, alive.

In the last few weeks I’ve expanded my “social network” to include Instagram. As expected, I quickly became caught up in the Pavlovian ego-boost of the ‘like’ count. After Saturday night, I understand why screen actors return to the stage. The sound of people laughing and clapping means more than a million ‘likes.’

For the fourth time in 27 posts, George Saunders:

<blockquote>I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another… The writer… can put whatever he wants in there. What’s important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit… The black box is meant to change us.</blockquote>

A ‘like’ is not a change. Nor is a thousand ‘likes.’ I believe virtual social networks have great creative potential, but it is almost impossible to quantify. Sometimes you just need to climb into the black box with other people.

I’m so grateful to everyone who climbed into that box with me last week. Along with thanking the Soap Factory and their amazing audience, I want to individually thank the camp participants:

Wenxin Zhang, Tara Wray, Caitlin Warner, Jim Reed, Diana Rangel, Bucky Miller, Colin Matthes, Adam Forrester, Brad Farwell, April Dobbins, Elaine Bleakney, Julian Bleecker, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, Horatio Baltz, Delaney Allen.

The visiting artists: Brian Beatty, David Sollie, Vince Leo.

Our interns: Yara Van der Velden, Kayla Huett, Phil Bologna.

And the LBM team: Brad Zellar, Carrie Thompson, Hans Seeger, Jason Polan, Ethan Jones, Galen Fletcher.

I truly feel changed.

Alec”]]></description>
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    <title>Photographer Alec Soth mounts storyteller's summer camp awkwardly | MPR News</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-23T00:54:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Internationally acclaimed St. Paul photographer Alec Soth constantly pushes the boundaries of his medium. This week, he’s running a summer camp for artists from around the world. No one – particularly Soth – claims to know how it will turn out.

Until now, there’s never been a Summer Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers.

Sitting in one of the workrooms in his St. Paul studio, Soth tells the 15 participants he has decided speed dating is the best way to get everyone to meet as quickly as possible. Moments later, the room is filled with animated conversations across a very long table. Every two minutes at the clang of a cowbell everyone moves and meets another camper.

They are photographers, illustrators and writers. Soth and his staff selected them from more than 400 applicants for this free summer camp sponsored by Soth’s small press, Little Brown Mushroom. One came from Germany, another from Venezuela. All responded to a simple post on Soth’s website. There were few details.

Soth and Brad Zellar, his long-time collaborator writer, claim they are making up the camp as they go along. They use the speed dating session to decide what to do next.

Given that Soth called the camp Socially Awkward Storytellers because he’s so uncomfortable speaking publicly, that next thing - a slideshow - makes sense.

“This whole thing about social awkwardness and public speaking is that the slide projector is a great way to, like, pull people’s attentions away,” Soth says, switching on his projector. “That’s why I am diving right into it.”

This really is a camp about telling stories – with pictures. In a world where smart phones have made cameras ubiquitous, Soth challenges the group to return to an older form of storytelling – the slideshow.

“Given that we have a limited amount of time,” he says, “why don’t we use that as the model for this workshop and practice telling stories that way.”

And just to raise the ante, everyone will present their slideshow Saturday evening at the Soap Factory gallery in Minneapolis. It’s open to the public – another detail omitted from the original description of the summer camp.

No one seems too put off.

“You know I like Alec’s work, and I’d heard him talk and he didn’t seem like a jerk,” Brad Farwell says during a break.

Like many of the participants, Farwell, who came to the camp from New York, is interested in how photography has changed. He says for many people it’s become a performance, with people taking them without the intention of ever making a print.

“They sort of make a photograph, and then see it on the back of the camera and then a lot of those photographs exist on the back of the camera in the instant of their making, and then disappear.”

As the group ate lunch cooked on the grill in the parking lot, Wenxin Zhang – formerly of China, now of San Francisco – and Colin Matthes of Milwaukee, a visual artist who denies having any photography skills, compared notes.

“I think the schedule is like a spy schedule,” she says. “You are going to bomb this building today. Tomorrow you are going to dig into the ground and find some gold.”

“I like that we didn’t know anything beforehand,” says Matthes. “We had no idea about the schedule besides it starts around 9 or 10 every day.”

Twenty-four hours later the group is standing in a clearing in a Minneapolis park learning about their next mission.

It’s an artistic capture the flag game where they have to find their group leader hiding somewhere in the woods and document whatever he’s looking at. That group leader will be chugging beer too, so he may not be that focused.

Soth looks on, loving it. The previous evening he had sent the campers out to hunt down stories in the city.

“I mean they, within four hours, produced so much quality work, it was staggering,” he says.

There were explorations of Minneapolis, and a documentation of a receptionist’s life. One of the staff interns said they produced more in one evening than an entire year of grad school. Soth says the camp is still an exercise in spontaneity, but he this already thinks it’s been a success.

“This is fantastic,” he adds. “And it’s also a story. Something unexpected happened. I mean I had no clue that a fellow was going to run off in the woods and hide and we’re going to track him down. It’s an adventure, and that’s what it’s all about.”

Soth and Zellar both say, if nothing else, it’s given them a chance to get to know some interesting people.

“Some of these people are mind-blowingly talented,” Zellar says. “I mean some of these applications … they created a little project and a .pdf (document). It’s light years beyond anything I could conceive of, ever.””]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2020-01-23T00:35:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Little Brown Mushroom’s Summer Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers culminates in a public event Saturday July 13 at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis.

This weekend, 15 “visual storytellers” from all over the world are convening at the headquarters of Little Brown Mushroom (LBM), an interdisciplinary publishing outfit based out of photographer Alec Soth’s St. Paul studio. The LBM team – including Soth and photographers Carrie Thompson, Ethan Jones, Galen Fletcher,  writer Brad Zellar, plus a rotation of interns and collaborative partners – invited artists of all kinds to apply for a spot in their week-long Summer Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers. LBM selected a final list of 15 artists and writers from the pool of more than 400 who responded to the call; the international assortment of “campers” gathered in Soth’s studio for the free, five-day workshop this week.

The original call for artists describes the endeavor this way:

<blockquote>Visual storytelling tends to be a lonely business. As such, it attracts more than its share of wallflowers. Here at LBM (home to more than a couple introverts), we thought it would be worthwhile to bring creative loners together to see what we can learn from each other. We’re envisioning a gathering that is more summer camp than classroom. After various daytime outings, we’ll sit around the digital projector and tell each other stories. From there we’ll discuss the ways in which visual stories can be translated into book form.</blockquote>

In a recent email, Soth said the group will spend four days this week in various workshops. On the fifth and final evening, Saturday, July 13, the participants will offer brief, Pecha Kucha-style presentations of their work, at a public event emceed by comedian and writer Brian Beatty at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis. A party will follow, with a cash bar, socializing and dancing to tunes spun by DJ Vu-Vu Zella (aka Brad Zellar).

Participating “campers” include: the LBM team, plus Hans Seeger, Delaney Allen, Horatio Baltz, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, Julian Bleecker, Elaine Bleakney, April Dobbins, Brad Farwell, Adam Forrester, Colin Matthes, Bucky Miller, Diana Rangel, Jim Reed, Caitlin Warner, Tara Wray and Wenxin Zhang.

Photo courtesy of Little Brown Mushroom. Pro tip: The “summer camp” t-shirts pictured on the LBM team above will be available to buy at the event on Saturday, July 13. As far as I know, the RV is not for sale.

I’m telling you – this can’t help but be interesting. Little Brown Mushroom has been publishing such surprising, compelling stuff in recent years. Of particular note is the “LBM Dispatch,” occasional road trip photo and text collaborations by Soth and writer Brad Zellar – tabloid-sized newsprint pieces produced in the style of a small-town newspaper. Thus far, LBM has published five installments: “Ohio,” “Upstate,” “Michigan,” “Three Valleys” and, most recently, “Colorado.” (The pair recently wrote a fabulous piece on the project for Vice magazine, if you’re interested in reading more.)

Little Brown Mushroom’s Summer Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers runs from July 9 through 13. The camp culminates with an event, The Socially Awkward Storytellers’ Slideshow and Dance, on Saturday, July 13 at 7 p.m. at the Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE, Minneapolis. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.littlebrownmushroom.com."]]></description>
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    <title>Ep. 9: Please Let Me Rob You, I'm Woke (feat. Anand Giridharadas) from RUMBLE with MICHAEL MOORE on RadioPublic</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-29T18:54:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[also available here:

https://anchor.fm/rumble-with-michael-moore/episodes/Ep–9-Please-Let-Me-Rob-You–Im-Woke-feat–Anand-Giridharadas-e9s5iu/a-a182c6l
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3j3jewq1yxOQ5eQpE5GdtJ
https://overcast.fm/+V18Uxlflk ]

“While the majority of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and one emergency away from financial peril, a new study shows that the 500 richest people in the world gained a combined $1.2 trillion in wealth in 2019. In the U.S., the richest 0.1% now control a bigger share of the pie than at any time since the beginning of the Great Depression.

But what happens when the very people hoarding this wealth at the expense of democracy, the environment and an equitable society, re-brand themselves as the people who will fix society’s problems? What happens when the arsonists pose as the firefighters?

Anand Giridharadas has been studying these questions and he joins Michael Moore to name names and discuss what to do about it.

Rumble Reads:

Anand’s book, “Winners Take All” is here:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take-all-by-anand-giridharadas/9780451493248

Follow Anand here:

https://twitter.com/AnandWrites

The Jamie Dimon “60 Minutes” episode that Michael and Anand ridicule is here:

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/jamie-dimon-jp-morgan-chase-ceo-the-60-minutes-interview-2019-11-10/

The new survey about the wealthiest people in the world is here :

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-27/world-s-richest-gain-1-2-trillion-as-kylie-baby-sharks-prosper “]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2019-11-18T19:42:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/commplayground/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“A machine for thinking and imagining otherwise

The CommPlayground is a space of intellectual exchange and conversation. The idea behind it is to move beyond conventional academic formats of knowledge production (e.g. the seminar, the reading group, the paper presentation) to create a space of intellectual and pedagogic experimentation where it is possible to think and imagine otherwise.

The COMM Playground is organized around 5 simple (& nonnegotiable) rules

THE COMM PLAYGROUND Rules of Engagement

1.- The playground is a space of **play** not of competition
Egos should be left at home or will be confiscated at the entrance

2.- The playground is **flat**
Nobody owns the playground; although it can be temporally appropriated by anyone proposing a game

3.- The playground is a space of **games**
The playground only comes alive through games Games should be fun to play

4.- The playground is a space of **honesty and sincerity**
Bullies are not allowed in the playground

5.- The playground is a **creative machine**
The aim of the playground is to generate ideas, controversies and discussion“]]></description>
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    <title>Glance Back</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-25T07:17:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://glanceback.info/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“You spend so much time staring at your computer…
Doesn’t your computer deserve a chance to glance back at you?

get the chrome extension [button]

Glance Back is a daily photo diary, capturing the moments shared between you and your computer. Once a day, when you open a new tab, Glance Back will unexpectedly take your photo, ask you what you’re thinking about, and save both the photo and written thought to its locally stored archive.

------------

You know that feeling when someone is staring at you for a really long time? It’s super uncomfortable right? Especially if this gaze is unreciprocated. Glance Back grew out of a desire to recognize that this phenomenon occurs between ourselves and our machines when we spend so much time looking at our screen.

With this chrome extension, once a day at random when you open a new tab, Glance Back will quickly snap a photo of you and inquire: “What are you thinking about?”. Once you type your answer and press enter, the photo and thought will be collectively saved to your history of glances, cumulatively creating an archive of moments you share with your screen. Given that most of the digital photos we generate of ourselves today are highly curated (i.e. wait let me fix my hair and smile and please take at least 10 photos just to make sure there’s a good one!), Glance Back also acts as an antidote to this attitude by providing you with unexpected and often… unflattering… photos of yourself.

It’s important to note that all of the photos are saved to your browser’s local storage. This means that they never leave your machine. This is a collection shared purely between you and your computer. If you want the photos for yourself, you can choose to download them under the settings tab in the top right. You can also delete photos from the archive and choose whether the extension requires you to write a caption or not.

When using our devices, we’re pulled into and solely focused on the glowing world that exists on the screen. We lose both an awareness of self and of the real world context surrounding us. This extension aims to disrupt that trance and remind you that you are here and your computer is there and you are just staring at it and… wow is that really what I look like right now?

Glance Back is a project by Maya Man.”

[via: https://usesthis.com/interviews/maya.man/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | How High School Ruined Leisure - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-02T07:59:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/opinion/sunday/college-admissions-extracurriculars.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Summer is coming.

The season for school sports and activities is ending. For most high school seniors, it’s not just the season — it is, in some weird sense, their “career.” As a hockey, soccer, lacrosse player. A violinist, a debater, a singer in the a cappella choir. Unless they have professional aspirations or college commitments, whatever they’ve done outside of school — and for many kids, that thing has become a core piece of their identities — is shifting into a different gear.

It’s no longer going to help get them into college. They won’t step up to a better chair or make varsity. The conveyor belt of achievement has reached its end.

Now all that remains are the kinds of questions everyone comes to eventually: Do you still do your thing — whatever your thing is — when no one is watching? What do you do when it doesn’t matter any more?

“I’ve recently had to come to the realization that I won’t have a next year to prepare for as a member of this team,” said Sawyer Michaelson, a tennis player and senior at Southwest High School in Minneapolis. “This is the first time I haven’t had a future to look forward to. I hope to play tennis in college, but things aren’t set in stone like they were for me in high school.” This, he said, is “unnerving.”

“This is a real moment for a lot of kids,” said Christine VanDeVelde, an author of “College Admission: From Application to Acceptance, Step by Step.” “For some, who’ve had adults guide them all their lives, they don’t know what they want or what they like or what motivates them. For others, who’ve been competent or successful at a lot of things, it can be hard to know which one sustains them.”

In many ways, that challenge is amped up by the rigorous approach teenagers are encouraged to take to what used to be seen as hobbies, done outside of school and on a student’s own time. (Thus the term “extracurriculars.”) As the sports and activities kids once did “just for fun” sometimes led to prestigious academic opportunities, the grown-ups caught on and took over, and everything from baseball to math modeling was commercialized and turned into a means to an end.

The message was clear: These activities were important. What they weren’t was optional, at least beyond the initial decision to sign up. The season was mapped out, the schedule on the fridge.

It’s that structure that makes this shift more than just a standard rite of passage for new graduates. Teachers, coaches and parents strive to give students the best experiences in competing, performing or creating, but the more professionalized the process becomes, the more difficult it can be to return to an amateur approach. When your artwork has been given the gallery treatment and your entry into the final game was marked by fireworks and a sound system worthy of the Super Bowl, painting for yourself or playing a pickup game in the park might feel pointless.

Add in the college admission process, and even the most passionate teenagers say they feel as if things have reached an end rather than a turning point.

“There is definitely this sense that you are putting work into activities so you can get some sort of payback — admission to a top college — and afterward, your work is done,” said Ella Biehn, a senior and a songwriter and guitarist at DeKalb School of the Arts near Atlanta. She plans to keep performing in college, majoring in vocal music, and yet, “In a lot of cases I feel like a spent battery.”

Ironically, in placing so much value on activities that our children came to out of love or interest, we grown-ups replaced the intrinsic motivations we often claim to value with extrinsic ones. When you’ve been taught that every action has a purpose, it’s harder to find meaning in just doing something you enjoy, and much more difficult to persuade yourself to do it.

And so, with an anticlimactic awards ceremony and a round of applause and tears, we welcome our former student athletes and artists into the real world, where art and sport beckon alluringly in other people’s Instagram feeds, but leisure itself — the act of engaging in something merely because we enjoy it — is not much valued. The opportunities are there, but the will to take advantage of them, to make choices for reasons other than profit or productivity, has to be yours.

Maybe this is the most important lesson our new graduates can learn. “This is part of the human experience,” said Susan Avery, a college counselor at Harvest Collegiate High School in Manhattan. “These kids have spent 17 years listening to adults. Now they have to learn to listen to themselves.”

Ms. Avery’s daughter, a dedicated pre-med student who never pursued the arts in high school, signed up for theater club for fun at a freshman fair in college and will soon be graduating as a theater major. “When she first mentioned it, I was like, ‘Do it!’” Ms. Avery said. “‘I like it, I want to try it’ — that’s a good reason.”

The secret of adulthood, the one those high school seniors don’t know but soon will, is that there are some questions we never really resolve. Do you still do your thing — whatever your thing is — when no one is watching? Both the magic of that question and its existential angst lie in the freedom it presents. Maybe you do. Maybe you don’t.

It really only matters — really only has to matter — to you."]]></description>
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    <title>Review PAPERANG P1 Mini Wireless Paper Photo Printer Portable Bluetooth 🖨️ 😍 - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-04T00:35:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h7QTJuLqP0</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See also:

"PAPERANG P1 Portable Paper Printer - Gearbest.com"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8937p98s70

"HOW TO Journal Bullet with PAPERANG P1 Photo Printer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xaAq0qdt4w

https://www.amazon.com/PAPERANG-P1-Wireless-Portable-Bluetooth/dp/B077YLF5XW
https://www.gearbest.com/printers/pp_009292443229.html?lkid=18819494 ]]]></description>
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    <title>UNBORED: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-03T20:43:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://unbored.net/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The UNBORED team — coauthors Josh Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen, and designer Tony Leone — are friends who got tired of lamenting the fact that we couldn’t find any activity books for families who enjoy getting unbored both indoors and outdoors, online and offline. So we decided to make one.

Our inspiration? Do-it-yourself guides from the 1970s like The Whole Earth Catalog, maker/builder websites like Instructables and Make, parenting blogs, old scouting manuals, and even Neal Stephenson's sci-fi novel The Diamond Age.

In creating our first book we drew on our own memories of childhood — the made-up games we played, the rhymes we used to figure out who was “It,” the handicrafts we enjoyed, you name it. We also drew on our experiences as parents of kids growing up in the 21st century… with the Internet and smartphones and apps. And we roped in a couple dozen scientist, activist, and maker friends to help out, too. Perhaps most importantly, we recruited three very talented artists — Mister Reusch, Heather Kasunick, and Chris Piascik — to contribute hundreds of illustrations."

…

"UNBORED GAMES
2014
Paperback, 176 pages

In the fall of 2014, Bloomsbury published the paperback UNBORED Games. In its 176 (full-color, richly illustrated) pages, you’ll find the rules to dozens of indoor, outdoor, online and offline games, including: back of the classroom games, bike rodeo games, jump rope games, alternate reality games, clapping games, apps and videogames, secret-rules games, drawing games, rock-paper-scissors games, card and dice games, backyard games, guerrilla kindness games, stress-relieving games, and geo-games.

PLUS
Expert essays by gamers Chris Dahlen, Catherine Newman, Stephen Duncombe, and Richela Fabian Morgan; Best Ever lists; DIY game-building projects; Secret History Comics; Q&As with Apps for Kids podcasters Mark and Jane Frauenfelder, Anomia inventor Andrew Innes, and others; Train Your Grownup features; classic literature excerpts; and brain-teasing Mindgames."

…

"Our second book received glowing reviews, too. (For example, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune described it as “chock-full of smart, totally not-lame ideas to amuse and give the brain a workout.”) So our team set to work on a third book…"

…

"UNBORED Adventure
2015
Paperback, 176 pages

In the fall of 2015, Bloomsbury published the paperback UNBORED Adventure. In its 176 (full-color, richly illustrated) pages, you’ll find adventure apps, adventure gear, adventure skills (from building a fire to open-mindedness), adventure-building projects (e.g., bean shooter, box kite, ghillie poncho, paracord bracelet, upcycled raft), indoor adventures (e.g., sewing your own ditty bag, survival origami), instant adventures, and outdoor adventures (from the pervasive game Assassin to fire-pit recipes to shootin’ craps).

PLUS
Expert essays by adventurers Chris Spurgeon, BikeSnobNYC, Catherine Newman, and Liz Lee Heinecke; Best Ever lists; Secret History Comics; Q&As with Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura, Playborhood author Mike Lanza, and urban biking activist Elly Blue, among others; Train Your Grownup features; and classic lit excerpts."

…

"Our third book was also well-received. We think it’s our best book yet! But a whole new phase of the UNBORED project was just beginning…"

…

"UNBORED ACTIVITY KITS [x4, so far]…
Unbored Disguises…
Unbored Treasure Hunt…
UNBORED Carnival kit…
UNBORED Time Capsule…"]]></description>
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https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/board-games-for-adults/ ]]]></description>
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I was supposed to do my math homework but instead I figured out what the Cantina Theme would sound like if your instrument was a pencil. (Volume all the way up)

With music for those wondering what the heck this is. 
(Excuse my reddit tag, I wasn’t about to re-edit the video for Twitter, no sir)

Here’s the Imperial March my friends"]]></description>
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I do not speak any German at all, so I can’t really tell you much about this woman—I was browsing Twitch Creative and clicked on the profile for MarmeladenOma, because she seemed nice. Upon plugging in my headphones I realized she wasn’t speaking English. I’m not sure what she’s reading, but she seems like she’s about to bring me some milk and cookies. I’m sold!"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dana Cuff: You told us that you get asked about City of Quartz too often, so let’s take a different tack. As one of California’s great urban storytellers, what is missing from our understanding of Los Angeles?

Mike Davis: The economic logic of real estate and land development. This has always been the master key to understanding spatial and racial politics in Southern California. As the late-nineteenth century’s most influential radical thinker—I’m thinking of San Francisco’s Henry George not Karl Marx—explained rather magnificently, you cannot reform urban space without controlling land values. Zoning and city planning—the Progressive tools for creating the City Beautiful—either have been totally co-opted to serve the market or died the death of a thousand cuts, that is to say by variances. I was briefly an urban design commissioner in Pasadena in the mid-1990s and saw how easily state-of-the-art design standards and community plans were pushed aside by campaign contributors and big developers.

If you don’t intervene in the operation of land markets, you’ll usually end up producing the opposite result from what you intended. Over time, for instance, improvements in urban public space raise home values and tend to become amenity subsidies for wealthier people. In dynamic land markets and central locations, nonprofits can’t afford to buy land for low-income housing. Struggling artists and hipsters inadvertently become the shock troops of gentrification and soon can’t afford to live in the neighborhoods and warehouse districts they invigorated. Affordable housing and jobs move inexorably further apart and the inner-city crisis ends up in places like San Bernardino.

If you concede that the stabilization of land values is the precondition for long-term democratic planning, there are two major nonrevolutionary solutions. George’s was the most straightforward: execute land monopolists and profiteers with a single tax of 100 percent on increases in unimproved land values. The other alternative is not as radical but has been successfully implemented in other advanced capitalist countries: municipalize strategic parts of the land inventory for affordable housing, parks and form-giving greenbelts.

The use of eminent domain for redevelopment, we should recall, was originally intended to transform privately owned slums into publicly owned housing. At the end of the Second World War, when progressives were a majority in city government, Los Angeles adopted truly visionary plans for both public housing and rational suburban growth. What then happened is well known: a municipal counter-revolution engineered by the LA Times. As a result, local governments continued to use eminent domain but mainly to transfer land from small owners to corporations and banks.

Fast-forward to the 1980s. A new opportunity emerged. Downtown redevelopment was devouring hundreds of millions of dollars of diverted taxes, but its future was bleak. A few years before, Reyner Banham had proclaimed that Downtown was dead or at least irrelevant. If the Bradley administration had had the will, it could have municipalized the Spring-Main Street corridor at rock-bottom market prices. Perhaps ten million square feet would have become available for family apartments, immigrant small businesses, public markets, and the like, at permanently controlled affordable rents.

I once asked Kurt Meyer, a corporate architect who had been chairman of the Community Redevelopment Agency, about this. He lived up Beachwood Canyon below the Hollywood Sign. We used to meet for breakfast because he enjoyed yarning about power and property in LA, and this made him a unique source for my research at the time. He told me that downtown elites were horrified by the unexpected revitalization of the Broadway corridor by Mexican businesses and shoppers, and the last thing they wanted was a populist downtown.

He also answered a question that long vexed me. “Kurt, why this desperate, all-consuming priority to have the middle class live downtown?” “Mike, do you know anything about leasing space in high-rise buildings?” “Not really.” “Well, the hardest part to rent is the ground floor: to extract the highest value, you need a resident population. You can’t just have office workers going for breakfast and lunch; you need night time, twenty-four hour traffic.” I don’t know whether this was really an adequate explanation but it certainly convinced me that planners and activists need a much deeper understanding of the game.

In the event, the middle class has finally come downtown but only to bring suburbia with them. The hipsters think they’re living in the real thing, but this is purely faux urbanism, a residential mall. Downtown is not the heart of the city, it’s a luxury lifestyle pod for the same people who claim Silverlake is the “Eastside” or that Venice is still bohemian.

Cuff: Why do you call it suburbia?

Davis: Because the return to the center expresses the desire for urban space and crowds without allowing democratic variety or equal access. It’s fool’s gold, and gentrification has taken the place of urban renewal in displacing the poor. Take Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris’s pioneering study of the privatization of space on the top of Bunker Hill. Of course, your museum patron or condo resident feels at home, but if you’re a Salvadorian skateboarder, man, you’re probably headed to Juvenile Hall."

…

"Jennifer Wolch: Absolutely. However it’s an important question particularly for the humanities students, the issue of subjectivity makes them reticent to make proposals.

Davis: But, they have skills. Narrative is an important part of creating communities. People’s stories are key, especially about their routines. It seems to me that there are important social science skills, but the humanities are important particularly because of stories. I also think a choreographer would be a great analyst of space and kind of an imagineer for using space.

I had a long talk with Richard Louv one day about his Last Child in the Woods, one of the most profound books of our time, a meditation on what it means for kids to lose contact with nature, with free nomadic unorganized play and adventure. A generation of mothers consigned to be fulltime chauffeurs, ferrying kids from one commercial distraction or over-organized play date to another. I grew up in eastern San Diego County, on the very edge of the back country, and once you did your chores (a serious business in those days), you could hop on your bike and set off like Huck Finn. There was a nudist colony in Harbison Canyon about twelve miles away, and we’d take our bikes, push them uphill for hours and hours in the hope of peeking through the fence. Like all my friends, I got a .22 (rifle) when I turned twelve. We did bad things to animals, I must confess, but we were free spirits, hated school, didn’t worry about grades, kept our parents off our backs with part-time jobs and yard work, and relished each crazy adventure and misdemeanor. Since I moved back to San Diego in 2002, I have annual reunions with the five or six guys I’ve known since second grade in 1953. Despite huge differences in political beliefs and religion, we’re still the same old gang.

And gangs were what kept you safe and why mothers didn’t have to worry about play dates or child molesters. I remember even in kindergarten—we lived in the City Heights area of San Diego at that time—we had a gang that walked to school together and played every afternoon. Just this wild group of little boys and girls, seven or eight of us, roaming around, begging pennies to buy gum at the corner store. Today the idea of unsupervised gangs of children or teenagers sounds like a law-and-order problem. But it’s how communities used to work and might still work. Aside from Louv, I warmly recommend The Child in the City by the English anarchist Colin Ward. A chief purpose of architecture, he argues, should be to design environments for unprogrammed fun and discovery."

…

"Wolch: We have one last question, about your young adult novels. Whenever we assign something from City of Quartz or another of your disheartening pieces about LA, it’s hard not to worry that the students will leave the class and jump off of a cliff! But your young adult novels seem to capture some amount of an alternative hopeful future.

Davis: Gee, you shouldn’t be disheartened by my books on LA. They’re just impassioned polemics on the necessity of the urban left. And my third LA book, Magical Urbanism, literally glows with optimism about the grassroots renaissance going on in our immigrant neighborhoods. But to return to the two adolescent “science adventure” novels I wrote for Viggo Mortensen’s wonderful Perceval Press. Above all they’re expressions of longing for my oldest son after his mother moved him back to her native Ireland. The heroes are three real kids: my son, his step-brother, and the daughter of our best friends when I taught at Stony Brook on Long Island. Her name is Julia Monk, and she’s now a wildlife biologist doing a Ph.D. at Yale on pumas in the Andes. I’m very proud that I made her the warrior-scientist heroine of the novels, because it was an intuition about her character that she’s made real in every way—just a remarkable young person."]]></description>
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    <title>Maira Kalman’s Bohemian Bliss Above a Bakery - WSJ</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-16T03:21:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The illustrator and writer recalls her artist husband, Tibor, and their first Greenwich Village apartment"

…

"Artist Maira Kalman, 65, is the author and illustrator of 24 books, including “My Favorite Things” (Harper Design) and “Ah-Ha to Zig” (Rizzoli), both based on a December exhibit she is curating for New York’s Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. She spoke with Marc Myers.

The apartment I shared with my late husband, Tibor, between 1976 and 1982, wasn’t pretty but we were happy. We both came of age in that fifth-floor tenement walk-up at 29 Cornelia St. in New York’s Greenwich Village. I was just beginning to illustrate and Tibor was starting M & Co., his graphic-design firm. We didn’t need much.

The railroad apartment had three rooms, one after the next. What we lacked in space and fancy furnishings was more than made up for by fun and love. Back then the neighborhood was still home to three generations of Italian families and poor artists. Our rent was $125 a month, and everything was possible in our lives and careers.

Tibor and I met in 1968 while attending New York University. Throughout the early 1970s we would break up and get back together, so we lived in a series of places before settling down. When you entered our Cornelia Street apartment, you were standing in our living room. Then you passed into the kitchen—the center room with a rough concrete trough of a bathtub that had a wooden cover when it wasn’t in use. The third room was a small bedroom that faced the back of A. Zito & Sons bakery. In the morning, the smell of bread baking filled the room.

Tibor and I were both strangely content. Even climbing five flights with groceries or with the laundry was part of the experience. We just thought, here we are, we’re together and in love, and isn’t that great.

Our decorating style was no style at all. Our furnishings were hand-me-downs or things we had found on the street. One piece was a beautiful armchair that we had reupholstered. I still have it. I don’t know why someone chucked it out, but that’s New York.

In the kitchen, we had a ’50s dining table. My studio wasn’t set up yet, so I drew at the kitchen table. I’d draw everywhere, from the park to cafes.

One day, when Tibor was at work, I decided I hated our horrible brown wall-to-wall carpeting. I ripped it up halfway before I became exhausted. When Tibor came home I told him the carpet had to go. He ripped out the other half without a word of complaint. Then I painted the wood floor in the living room butter yellow—the walls were already white—and I instantly felt lighter. That’s what’s interesting about changing layers of your living space. How you feel changes, too.

Eventually Tibor and I wanted more space, so we built a loft bed in the bedroom. It had lots of heavy, raw wood and looked rather dreadful. It was a hippie time, so you have to forgive us. At one point we also upgraded the kitchen by ripping out the tub and putting in a shower.

We were always putting up and taking down art from the walls. One night we hung an onion ring on a nail high up on the kitchen wall. I don’t remember why. I was from Israel and Tibor was from Hungary, so we were always fascinated by vernacular. Fast food was part of the American scene—diners, coffee shops and hamburger stands. All of that Americana was joyful and optimistic and funny to us. That was the beginning of our onion-ring collection. The onion rings we installed never deteriorated, which was amazing. We had dozens of them, and some we framed and gave to friends.

When I think back to our apartment now, I think of it as empty—just shapes of rooms and light. What I do remember vividly is that the space was filled with friendship and love and a never-ending curiosity about everything.

Tibor and I married in 1981, and the following year we moved to a one-bedroom apartment on 12th Street when I became pregnant with our daughter, Lulu. We soon bought the place. A few years later, Tibor and I had a son named Alex, at which point we also bought the apartment next door. Tibor died in 1999, and I still live here.

I’m about to have my apartment repainted white, as always, but I fear it’s going to be a daunting task. There are too many whites to choose from."]]></description>
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    <title>The Mystery Is Resolved – The Rain That Never Stops</title>
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    <title>The Importance of Recreational Math - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-03T05:50:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/opinion/the-importance-of-recreational-math.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Baltimore — IN 1975, a San Diego woman named Marjorie Rice read in her son’s Scientific American magazine that there were only eight known pentagonal shapes that could entirely tile, or tessellate, a plane. Despite having had no math beyond high school, she resolved to find another. By 1977, she’d discovered not just one but four new tessellations — a result noteworthy enough to be published the following year in a mathematics journal.

The article that turned Ms. Rice into an amateur researcher was by the legendary polymath Martin Gardner. His “Mathematical Games” series, which ran in Scientific American for more than 25 years, introduced millions worldwide to the joys of recreational mathematics. I read him in Mumbai as an undergraduate, and even dug up his original 1956 column on “hexaflexagons” (folded paper hexagons that can be flexed to reveal different flowerlike faces) to construct some myself.

“Recreational math” might sound like an oxymoron to some, but the term can broadly include such immensely popular puzzles as Sudoku and KenKen, in addition to various games and brain teasers. The qualifying characteristics are that no advanced mathematical knowledge like calculus be required, and the activity engage enough of the same logical and deductive skills used in mathematics.

Unlike Sudoku, which always has the same format and gets easier with practice, the disparate puzzles that Mr. Gardner favored required different, inventive techniques to crack. The solution in such puzzles usually pops up in its entirety, through a flash of insight, rather than emerging steadily via step-by-step deduction as in Sudoku. An example: How can you identify a single counterfeit penny, slightly lighter than the rest, from a group of nine, in only two weighings?

Mr. Gardner’s great genius lay in using such basic puzzles to lure readers into extensions requiring pattern recognition and generalization, where they were doing real math. For instance, once you solve the nine coin puzzle above, you should be able to figure it out for 27 coins, or 81, or any power of three, in fact. This is how math works, how recreational questions can quickly lead to research problems and striking, unexpected discoveries.

A famous illustration of this was a riddle posed by the citizens of Konigsberg, Germany, on whether there was a loop through their town traversing each of its seven bridges only once. In solving the problem, the mathematician Leonhard Euler abstracted the city map by representing each land mass by a node and each bridge by a line segment. Not only did his method generalize to any number of bridges, but it also laid the foundation for graph theory, a subject essential to web searches and other applications.

With the diversity of entertainment choices available nowadays, Mr. Gardner’s name may no longer ring a bell. The few students in my current batch who say they still do mathematical puzzles seem partial to a website called Project Euler, whose computational problems require not just mathematical insight but also programming skill.

This reflects a sea change in mathematics itself, where computationally intense fields have been gaining increasing prominence in the past few decades. Also, Sudoku-type puzzles, so addictive and easily generated by computers, have squeezed out one-of-a-kind “insight” puzzles, which are much harder to design — and solve. Yet Mr. Gardner’s work lives on, through websites that render it in the visual and animated forms favored by today’s audiences, through a constellation of his books that continue to sell, and through biannual “Gathering 4 Gardner” recreational math conferences.

In his final article for Scientific American, in 1998, Mr. Gardner lamented the “glacial” progress resulting from his efforts to have recreational math introduced into school curriculums “as a way to interest young students in the wonders of mathematics.” Indeed, a paper this year in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics points out that recreational math can be used to awaken mathematics-related “joy,” “satisfaction,” “excitement” and “curiosity” in students, which the educational policies of several countries (including China, India, Finland, Sweden, England, Singapore and Japan) call for in writing. In contrast, the Common Core in the United States does not explicitly mention this emotional side of the subject, regarding mathematics only as a tool.

Of course, the Common Core lists only academic standards, and leaves the curriculum to individual districts — some of which are indeed incorporating recreational mathematics. For instance, math lesson plans in Baltimore County public schools now usually begin with computer-accessible game and puzzle suggestions that teachers can choose to adopt, to motivate their classes.

The body of recreational mathematics that Mr. Gardner tended to and augmented is a valuable resource for mankind. He would have wanted no greater tribute, surely, than to have it keep nourishing future generations."]]></description>
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    <title>I Am Fun</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-27T04:58:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/i-am-fun-51731</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I am fun.

I enjoy fun. I both have fun and can be fun. Fun is a word that accurately describes me and a large quantity of things of which I am fond. I appreciate fun when I encounter it, and I have even been known to partake in activities that produce fun for myself and others. Fun is something I often have when amongst a group of people. In such situations, I am capable of amusing others and, in turn, of being amused by them.

Thus, I am a fun person.

Perhaps it would be helpful for me to provide an example of a fun thing I do. I take part in levity. I enjoy jokes, which are fun. When the occasion presents itself, I have been known to make jokes of my own, thereby creating fun for those around me. This is because, like many other people I encounter, I have a sense of humor. A sense of humor is crucial to having fun and to being fun. When situations are humorous, I signal my recognition of the fun by laughing, just as you do. Just as most people do."]]></description>
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