Month: February 2024
SPACEPORT
Travel through space and futuristic dimensions while working from your computer terminal with this excellent release from Martin Stürtzer.
BLOGS AND MP3S
Here I am in 2024, reading a post linked from Kottke.org, and listening to my music files using an app called Swinsian.
Back in my music blog days I got a lot of samplers, pre-release CDs to check out before anyone else.
One of them was rough cuts and demos of ‘De-Loused In The Comatorium’ from The Mars Volta. I remember this on a CDR, shipped in a padded mailer. That was in 2003, before I moved to NYC. My goodness, this is a gem.
Bands used to post demo MP3s on their websites, too. I have a handful of those, too.
I’ve also got some files that don’t play, which I think maybe are tied to the iTunes store? Thankfully I don’t have too many of those.
“Don’t write online for fame and glory. Oblivion, obscurity and exploitation are all but guaranteed.”
James Shelley
Via Patrick Rhone
WE GROW TOGETHER
Found this image from pketh, in their post ‘Why and How I Added Comments to My Blog.’
The image comes from this rad project called Mushroom Compadres on Behance.
One bit of FOMO I feel from leaving social media is find design stuff like this, but when you think about it, most all of these cool designs come from websites – portfolios of designers, and sites like Behance and Dribble and Posts.
L.DRE AND VYBE VILLAGE – LOFI GUY V: THE CONCLUSION
Smooth and chill, made for long walks in the rain, drinking coffee, staring into space.
GIVE ME MORE LAKES
The biggest benefit of deleting your social media accounts is having more time for adventures. This includes the planning and doing and the editing (this image is a still from the video I shot).
It reminds me of when Merlin Mann got out of the productivity game, with stepping away from 43 Folders.
I’m pretty sure, if I remember correctly, he said something at the time like, “yeah, we’re being so productive, but what we making?”
Getting off of social media is great, but then what?
“When should it be posted? If the event is tomorrow, the answer is not tonight. Most people won’t see it until two days from now – it’s too late. Like when restaurants post their daily specials at 6 pm – great, hope your dinner service was wonderful. I saw it at noon the next day, and it means nothing to me now, I wish I had known about it sooner so I could plan.”
Chelsea Bradley from ‘Your Content is Killing Your Brand‘
“Find people who inspire you and create dope shit together.“
Jesse Nyberg
GROWING WITHOUT SOCIAL MEDIA
This is a response to a comment left by Craig Lewis on what of my Substack Notes:
how do you practically make that move to talking to those closer to you/simply putting out quality content if no-one is seeing/interacting with it?
If you never post on socials etc, no-one ever sees what you do. If you have an audience already, it’s cool to get stuff out to them and they will hopefully do you a good turn and shout about it for you.
But if you’re still building an audience… back to shouting into the void?
Craig Lewis
You’ll need to get 100 new followers on social media to reach 10 of them.
Or you can just get 10 people to subscribe to your email list.
New post for Social Media Escape Club coming on Monday or so.