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Lala Lala announces new album 'Heaven 2,' her first for @subpop.bsky.social; hear the new songs "Even Mountains Erode" and "Heaven 2"
Lala Lala Announces New Album 'Heaven 2': Hear Two Tracks
In October, Lala Lala signed to Sub Pop and unveiled the wonderful song “Does This Go Faster?” Now the indie-pop force (who we rightfully named a Band To Watch in 2018) is back with the announcement o...
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January 8, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Lala Lala announces new album 'Heaven 2,' her first for @subpop.bsky.social; hear the new songs "Even Mountains Erode" and "Heaven 2"
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A retiring father, through the eyes of his photographer daughter. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad
In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was.
www.newyorker.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
A retiring father, through the eyes of his photographer daughter. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
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Hua Hsu takes his adolescent son to an exhibit on teen counterculture and tries to keep his lunch down during the rides at Universal Studios—hitting gift shops as childhood slips into something less defined.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Edge of Adolescence
Nineties teen counterculture, a trip to Universal Studios, and the modern American dream of perpetual childhood.
www.newyorker.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hua Hsu takes his adolescent son to an exhibit on teen counterculture and tries to keep his lunch down during the rides at Universal Studios—hitting gift shops as childhood slips into something less defined.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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We are sad to note the passing of Martin Parr, the hugely influential Magnum photographer whose long career took him on a worldwide odyssey to prove the everyday remarkable. His lens dwelt on the mundane and the unintentionally odd, imagining us all as human, all too human buff.ly/ZsvPsGG
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We are sad to note the passing of Martin Parr, the hugely influential Magnum photographer whose long career took him on a worldwide odyssey to prove the everyday remarkable. His lens dwelt on the mundane and the unintentionally odd, imagining us all as human, all too human buff.ly/ZsvPsGG
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A retrospective at MOMA puts forth a persuasive case for Ruth Asawa, an artist who saw making her work and living with others as inextricably entwined. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/ruth-asawas-art-of-defiant-hospitality
Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality
A retrospective at MOMA puts forth a persuasive case for an artist who saw making her work and living with others as inextricably entwined.
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A retrospective at MOMA puts forth a persuasive case for Ruth Asawa, an artist who saw making her work and living with others as inextricably entwined. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/ruth-asawas-art-of-defiant-hospitality
Lovely light this evening.
October 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Lovely light this evening.
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Many American children’s books have some sort of mission or goal, modeling professional careers. But “the Japanese have a high respect for childhood as a distinctive period of life,” the children’s book author Yuki Ainoya wrote, “treating them as little adults.”
A Children’s Book That Actually Feels Like Childhood
In “Sato the Rabbit,” the aim is not to educate but to surrender to the rhythms of daily life.
www.newyorker.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Many American children’s books have some sort of mission or goal, modeling professional careers. But “the Japanese have a high respect for childhood as a distinctive period of life,” the children’s book author Yuki Ainoya wrote, “treating them as little adults.”
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Between 1899 and her death, in 1962, the photographer Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some 24,000 negatives documenting life in her small Wyoming town, whose fortunes boomed and then busted along with the region’s copper mines.
A Woman’s Intimate Record of Wyoming in the Early Twentieth Century
Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some twenty-four thousand negatives documenting life in her small town.
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August 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Between 1899 and her death, in 1962, the photographer Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some 24,000 negatives documenting life in her small Wyoming town, whose fortunes boomed and then busted along with the region’s copper mines.
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"Succumbing to one right-wing moral panic could be regarded as a misfortune; repeatedly falling for the same playbook starts to look like something much worse than carelessness."
Another Liz @lopatto.bsky.social banger
Another Liz @lopatto.bsky.social banger
How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right
And blowing its credibility in the process.
www.theverge.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Succumbing to one right-wing moral panic could be regarded as a misfortune; repeatedly falling for the same playbook starts to look like something much worse than carelessness."
Another Liz @lopatto.bsky.social banger
Another Liz @lopatto.bsky.social banger
"Our smallest actions create norms. Our norms create values. Our values drive behavior. And our behaviors cascade.
The anti-social century is the result of one such cascade, of chosen solitude, accelerated by digital-world progress and physical-world regress."
The anti-social century is the result of one such cascade, of chosen solitude, accelerated by digital-world progress and physical-world regress."
The Anti-Social Century: a thoughtfully long read about why and how people are spending more time alone and its negative impact on each of us and our communities.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
www.theatlantic.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Our smallest actions create norms. Our norms create values. Our values drive behavior. And our behaviors cascade.
The anti-social century is the result of one such cascade, of chosen solitude, accelerated by digital-world progress and physical-world regress."
The anti-social century is the result of one such cascade, of chosen solitude, accelerated by digital-world progress and physical-world regress."
Lovely work.
Indeed: "Both freedom of choice and intelligence are constantly challenged by high standards of immediacy. Speed has now become our main environment. We don't live in a geography no more but into the world time." — Paul Virilio
See more: www.systermans.com/slowdown
@acreteysystermans.bsky.social
See more: www.systermans.com/slowdown
@acreteysystermans.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Lovely work.
Summer memories.
January 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Summer memories.