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It’s impossible to be “authentic” (to maintain some kind of “core integrity”) or to access anything resembling “true creativity” when plugged into social media. Social media destroys whatever it is I feel out, alone, in the middle of a big walk, connecting with people, writing, looking closer and closer still at the world (not the train-wreck version of the world; the world as it is in front of my eyes which is often magnificent and beautiful, full of kindness and compassion). The insidiousness of how quickly social media immolates the creative impulse, shocks.
Full Days and the Long Walk
Craig Mod
Anti-ageing is a disappointing pursuit. It has been since Ponce de Léon went searching for the Fountain of Youth and found Florida. There is no point at which the anti-ageing will have worked – when you look in the mirror and say, “I’ve done it! I’m anti-aged!” Once you buy into the concept of anti-ageing, you buy in forevermore.
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Jessica DeFino
The poetic work of American artist Duane Michals, famous for his existential photo series and for his wacky personality, is punctuated by portraits.
I don't care what people look like,
Blind - Masterclass With Duane Michals
www.blind-magazine.com
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