From Jean Baudrillard’s ‘The Evil Demon of Images’:

‘It is precisely when it appears most truthful and most in conformity to reality that the image is most diabolical…’

‘There is … a seduction, a force of diversion and distortion. There is a kind of fatal strategy of conformity.’

Instagram doing incredible things

I spoke to @jcz.bsky.social about his album Horizons™ and what it can tell us about the metaverse and its strange, empty spaces

For @digital-frontier.bsky.social

www.digitalfrontier.com/articles/metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds-john-zobele

Only just realised how much I need to see Casey Frey dance to a song from James Ferraro’s BEBETUNE$ album

Starting one of those technostalgia TikTok’s where you’re holed up in the woods using outdated gadgets and listening exclusively to this

ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ɪꜱ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴏʏ ᴛᴏɴɪɢʜᴛ? ɪ ʜᴏᴘᴇ ʜᴇ'ꜱ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ ʟᴀɴᴅꜱ. ᴍᴀʏʙᴇ ʜᴇ ᴡᴏɴ'ᴛ ꜰɪɴᴅ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪ ᴋɴᴏᴡ... 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖙 𝖌𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖔𝖜𝖓 🌹🖤💀

Big bandcamp friday selections:

ꜰ​ʀ​ɪ​ᴇ​ɴ​ᴅ​ʟ​ʏ ᴅ​ᴇ​ᴠ​ɪ​ᴄ​ᴇ ｓ​ʏ​ｓ​ᴛ​ᴇ​ᴍ .​ᴡ​ᴀ​ᴡ – HUi!

LUX [Unmastered] – Asleep Country (Octa Möbius Sheffner)

Bedtime for Ravers – Tim Six (from @seasidebliss.co)

SKYLIVE 2024 – @agnar.bsky.social

Enthralled by 00s technology and the retrospective explorations of it atm. Researching Frutiger Aero and talking to the person that coined the phrase, she said it was the most 'funded' aesthetic there's ever been. But it has such an inviting positive sheen of progression to it...