XXIIVV - now

Woe, make me your student Devine Lu Linvega's journal 2025 19Z 2025-12-27 O May I join the choir invisible I've had the growing impression, in recent years, that it has become thoroughly uncool to do your best. Exceeding expectations is embarrassing, meeting them worthy of ridicule. I see it all the time. You're caught rehearsing, or journaling in public? how performative. It kept you up at night, did it? you poured sweat into it? such a try-hard. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world. But I don’t think this is new. It’s that ol' familiar cynicism, one we’ve cycled through before. It usually precedes a moment when people grow tired of poorly made things, and what is done carefully and thoughtfully can once again be appreciated without shame. I'm hopeful that we're about to emerge into a renaissance, and convinced that my friends who are giving their honest best are just avant-garde. If despite it all, you keep going and give it everything you've got. I'm here for it and thank you! 19Y 2025-12-12 Tumbling Weeds I find myself wandering the once familiar streets of Nightfall , following the intermittent buzzing of a flickering neon bulb toward what used to be a bustling part of town. After much detouring, dead ends and stepping over debris, I finally reached our ol' kiosk . The dusty shelves laid bare save for a few issues from Rek , Felix and myself. I wonder where all the people that used to write for this corner have gone, if there isn't a shinier corner with avider readers that called them away, or if maybe writing has done its good work onto them so they didn't feel the need to anymore. Well, I'll hope so, it is now the fifth year since I began writing these bi-monthly pamphlets. After this, there will be one more left to pen this year. 19X 2025-11-27 0,0000000001mm Spent the last few days between Bregenz and Hohemens, in Austria , for the Ultramateria festival. I was invited to talk about the Hundred Rabbits design philosophy and take part in a round-table discussion on the topic of Utopias . On saturday, I gave an Orca workshop to a crowd of people, including students from the CIM Lab in Ravensburg, and played some techno in the gorgeous Collini Areal building . I also took this opportunity to meet with local activists fighting for fair wages for artists, get lost in the train system, wander up snowy hills at night and practice my non-existant German. 19W 2025-11-17 a playlist to romanticize stack shuffling Dogwood, camellia, hazel, jasmin, hellebore, snowdrop, holy. Look! We're ready too. Musty from three seasons tucked away in boxes, sweaters, socks, scarves and tuques are all laid out to breath. To the back of the pantry with the summer spices. A cup of lapsang souchong in hand, nestle by the crackling woodstove after a stiff walk through the moist haze that marks the...

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