Go Flip Yourself.

🌐 The title says it all: For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website. You know what to do then.

To me, having my own website, even one I run as a business with my friends, gives me a degree of freedom over my own work that I’ve never had before.

🗝 I’ve been truly interested in are.na for a while, and been a fan of Cab’s ‘It’s Not Business, It's Personal’ series too. The fact that both of them are skateboarders isn’t lost on me haha. USB Club is one of a kind so if ‘entrepreneurship on your own terms’ feels attractive -or just consumer hardware- check this one out: An Interview with Yatú Espinosa.

My wish is not for more founders like Yatú but for more founders to realize that they can approach their own work in a similar way to Yatú — to give themselves freedom to explore their own ideas to the fullest extent, with humor, creativity and ambition.

🏴‍☠️ That one resonates on multiple levels since our work with Objet is also to embed memories into people’s clothing for eternity: Heirlooms as Memory.

the role of objects is to carry memories. The real meaning of the thing then is within its mnemonic value. In a way, the chair becomes a sort of transformational object, gaining more significance after the passing of its owner. […]

These stories create a history around the object, signifying the biography of the object itself, which “is no longer simply a dead or inanimate thing,” as Clive Dilnot proposes. “It possesses—or we attribute to it in our imaginations—sentience and power.”

By their nature, heirlooms tend to carry extra significance. The chair as a family heirloom is now a device that conjures memory and connection across time.

The biography of an object should not be restricted to an historical reconstruction of its birth, life and death. Biography is relational and an object biography is comprised of the sum of the relationships that constitute it.

🗾 I’ve written about my innate attraction for Japan a little while ago. Thanks to Eugene, I now know why i keep 'delaying' this first trip: I fear I'll never be the same. Missing Japan.

Japan is one of those places you have to visit in order to get it. It has its own sense of je ne sais quoi that is hard to put into words. Edward Luttwak once wrote in the London Review of Books, “One can fly to Japan from anywhere, but from Japan one can only fly to the Third World.” He knows.