Author: Max
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On sound and movement.
A concept I’d been kicking around for a while is the dynamics of something like music performance and audience response. Getting a sense of what a crowd responds to or is into might influence the alteration of a set on a micro- or macroscopic level. There’s a few vectors of hardware and interaction I’d like…
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Glass Ceilings.
In contemporary culture clothing has been commonly subject to the aestheticization of wealth; labels, styles and materials perform double duty as potential objet d’art as well as status symbol. Sitting alongside cars, smart devices that we perpetually have on-hand have become high-dollar evolutions of the feature phone. While older ‘dumb phones’ may have had a…
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Streetwear and credibility as commodity
Hip-hop and streetwear have always been about access on some level. False scarcity drives up second-hand prices and increases one’s credibility for owning and flaunting notably rare items of clothing. Acquisition of these goods requires knowing when and where to go, and having the means with which to purchase them.
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Some thoughts on transforming dresses and the technology aesthetic
It’s interesting to see the full video of Hussein Chalayan in contrast to the animated GIFs that first hit my radar by way of Errolson Hugh’s Twitter and then later by an io9 post. Both broadcasts were distillations of the video down to those few key moments in which models tug at their dress only…