What is Life?

What Is Life? (And Are We All Just Over­grown Pota­toes with Wi-Fi?) Let’s start with the obvi­ous: you’re alive. Con­grat­u­la­tions! You’ve suc­cess­ful­ly man­aged to exist for at least long enough to read this sen­tence, which, sta­tis­ti­cal­ly speak­ing, is more than can be said for the tril­lions of sperm that didn’t make it to the egg par­ty. But what does it mean to be alive? Is it the way your cof­fee goes cold just as you remem­ber it exists? The exis­ten­tial dread of real­iz­ing you’ll nev­er use that gym mem­ber­ship? Or is it some­thing deeper—like the fact that a sin­­gle-celled organ­ism […]

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Kitsch

Accord­ing to Wal­ter Ben­jamin, kitsch, unlike art, is a util­i­tar­i­an object lack­ing all crit­i­cal dis­tance between object and observ­er.

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365 Holidays

There is one for every ani­mal and one for every pur­pose. So of course it’s a bril­lant idea to turn them into t‑shirt designs. Sure­ly every­one wants to wear their birth date on their chest. And if not, there should be enough peo­ple thank­ful for hav­ing a present for their loved ones … But then, is it a good idea to sell shirts that peo­ple are like­ly to wear on exact­ly one day of the year? Well …

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Post with Mosaic Gallery

This is some dum­my copy. You’re not real­ly sup­posed to read this dum­my copy, it is just a place hold­er for peo­ple who need some type to visu­al­ize what the actu­al copy might look like if it were real con­tent. If you want to read, I might sug­gest a good book, per­haps Hem­ing­way or Melville. That’s why they call it, the dum­my copy. This, of course, is not the real copy for this entry. Rest assured, the words will expand the con­cept. With clar­i­ty. Con­vic­tion. And a lit­tle wit. In today’s com­pet­i­tive mar­ket envi­ron­ment, the body copy of your entry […]

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