Ana’s Birthday Month
Another Sunday, Another Naive Weekly — Observations From The Internet Wilderness.
Good morning,
Saturday is Ana’s birthday. We’ll be celebrating the day in Athens before exploring the Greek islands for the remaining part of the month. Uno and I are sidekicks while Ana is working. I’m grateful for the opportunity to spend long days with Uno at the beach and witness Ana do what she loves.
And today is May 1st, Labour Day. It is the perfect day to consider what we acknowledge as work because far too many essential activities are not honoured as such, including cleaning, cooking, raising a child, and similar maintenance tasks, primarily lifted by women.
The internet is also not shy of unpaid labour, from posting on social media to moderating online groups. I am fortunate to voluntarily participate in these activities, but many are not. So with the yarning for racial, social, and gender equality, Happy International Workers’ Day.
With care,
Kristoffer
ROADSIDE FLOWERS
Sounds of Home is for all of you returning to the office.
Drawing Club is a small circle to share your marks.
{Shan, Shui}* is an infinite procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting.
Waterworks is a map of student tears.
FIELD NOTES
Cursor Mag
Cursor is an internet project that “aims to build your feminist tech utopia”. Using the rhythm of print publications, Cursor publishes writing and web art in themed issues. The project is only single-digit weeks old, but it is already receiving submissions for its third issue, so the pace is as fast as the themes are broad and contributions hybrid. “Towards Digital Hygge” and “Nombres Inv’§alidos” are my favourite contributions.
Our Friend the Computer
One of the most difficult challenges in writing Naive Weekly is to break out of the Northern/English dominant hemisphere. Most of the articles and projects I include in the newsletter represent a tiny fraction of the world. Therefore, I enjoy encountering projects like Our Friend the Computer, a podcast exploring alternative computing histories. I’m only two episodes deep, but I gained a lot of insights into pre-internet networks in Chile and the Soviet Union.
Your Website for Your Brick and Mortar Business Sucks :/
Cute short blog post about how to make a good website for a physical store, including a couple of good and bad examples. File under: mother fucking websites.
COLLECTIONS
Hi, I’m Kristoffer and you have just read Naive Weekly — Observations from the Internet Wilderness.
Last week this letter was sent to 887 people. Thirtyone are crazy enough to chip in every month/year to support me making time to write. Logo by Studio Hollywood. Print by Luka. Photograph by Ana Santl.