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Another Sunday, Another Naive Weekly — Observations From The Internet Wilderness.
Good morning,
It is dark by 5 PM, and it is tearing us down. So we light colourful candles, drink another cup of coffee, and put on an extra pair of socks to warm our feet.
January is a strange month. It carries unfinished tasks from the previous year and the innocent promises of the new. Listening to Plays Softly helps me sit back, open a book, and remain calm as spring is still sleeping and Uno watches excavators.
With care,
Kristoffer
ROADSIDE FLOWERS
Mountain range for your browser window.
River Runner, updated.
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A clock made by timestamps in books.
FIELD NOTES
The five Levels of Hype
I was cheering from the sideline as Johannes Klingebiel received a much-deserved round of Internet applause for his visualization of hype. The scale shows the many different methods used to promote new technologies. In our small space for personal projects, Johannes shares frequent updates on the visualization and the associated undertaking. Reply if you’d like to know more.
On immersion
Laurel Schwulst is a gift to the internet. Over the years, I have shared many of her projects, including HTML Energy, The Life and Death of an Internet Onion, and How to Build a Bird Kite. Therefore, I was happy to learn that she is writing more because she is a rare Internet poet who imagines “social media as a catalogue of possible immersions” and writes a PSA for herself which starts like this: “You are here, on this social media platform. It’s actually a sandy beach.”
COLLECTIONS
Hi, I’m Kristoffer and you have just read Naive Weekly — Observations from the Internet Wilderness.
Last week this letter was sent to 787 people. Thirty 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.
What questions should we settle among the Naive Weekly readers?
I’m thinking a lot about how to screenshot/photograph the web.