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Declarative Statements / Opulent Tips / The Future Party / The Fox is Black / Public Announcement / Champion Weekly / After School / Line Sheet / Today in Tabs / Dirt /

Hard Copy Los Angeles. Opening January 9th at Webber Gallery.

From Piers: Turns Out Blind People Really Love Taking Trips in Waymo’s Self-Driving Robotaxis / SFist

From Piers: also a list that reflects the bias we still have in our popular culture towards euro-centric fantasy… [London Is Quoted More Times In Movies Than (Nearly) Every Other City In The World] / Secret LDN

From Piers: Interesting to think about these companies with legacy names and the relationships with the estates. does omnicom still pay the Ogilvy trust I wonder (not much) [High Court rules Zaha Hadid Architects must continue paying to use founder's name]/ Dezeen

From Piers: maybe a first world problem will bring the issue home [A look into the future’: TV drama about Danish climate refugees divides opinion] / The Guardian

69 Theses: Predictions, Lessons, and Longs for 2025. Messages from the darkest corners of the crypto and AI sewers / Redphone Crypto

Michael Oxley Wants to Show You Something / Carla

What Magnus Carlsen’s Jeans Have to Do with Chess / The New Yorker

this YouTube account has many Thelonius Monk concerts

AMERICANS NEED TO PARTY MORE, theatlantic
Adolescents are engaging in markedly fewer risky behaviors than they used to; Jude Ball, a psychologist who has extensively researched this phenomenon, says a major cause is just that teenagers are having fewer parties.

From Geoff Renaud: US teens are using less of every substance – except for one

Teenagers in the US roughly doubled their use of nicotine pouches in 2024, despite turning away from alcohol and other drugs

Letting the Nitrous Oxide Talk We probably won’t like what it has to say / Dinner Party

The National Football League had 70 of the top 100 most-watched live events in 2024 — making it an off-year of sorts, down from 93 of the top 100 live event broadcasts in 2023. The presidential election and the Olympics ate into the league’s ratings dominance last year /

From Kevin Tachman: https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/a63342161/hiroyuki-sanada-golden-globes-2025-shogun-ralph-lauren/

Eugene Healey on Chaos & Meaning A THAT BUSINESS OF MEANING Conversation

From Isaac: Year of strange Movement by @matt_mccreary1 / IG

Playing Jenga with Maritime Shipping / FT

Have we reached peak ad network? / Digiday

Who thinks they are better than whom? An exploration of the shifting definition of "elite" through art, community, and culture / Cento

I’m Feeling Remarkably Upbeat About the New Year. Whether opinions shifting on Orwellian dogmas are due to political opportunism, hard lessons learned, or just the cyclical back-and-forth of the pendulum, it strikes Frederick M. Hess that the nation is starting the new year on a healthier, more genuinely tolerant, and more sensible note than it has in a while / American Enterprise Institute

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This January and 8 New York City Art Shows to Kick Off the New Year / Hyperallergic

New York’s Climate Museum secures permanent location / The Art Newspaper

Some fitness centers are trading the minimalist aesthetic for country-club preppiness / NYT

Preserving craft know-how is a must for Europe’s storied luxury brands; their future depends on safeguarding the traditions of the past. That’s why schools across the continent are working to ensure that younger generations learn about craft heritage / Monocle

After a week of bad press, Meta has seemingly deleted its nonhuman chatbot profiles from Instagram that quietly rolled out in 2023… signaling a potential retreat from its plan to offer a community of AI users.

Variety released a report on the social, immersive, gamified screens that Hollywood is mostly ignoring.

The LA Times spoke to the marketing teams behind Anora, Longlegs, and Conclave about the campaigns behind the hits.

Lupe Fiasco is going to teach a course about rap at Johns Hopkins University.

21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings. To kick off 2025, Dezeen is naming the 25 most significant buildings of the 21st century so far / Dezeen

Corollary: The best logos of the 2020s (so far) / Creative Bloq

Nissan unveils electric version of 1980s Skyline GT-R sports car / Dezeen

Vans installs A travertine ramp to forms the centrepiece of the Vans West End store in London / Dezeen

WOODY HARRELSON'S WEED LOUNGE. Michelle’s mission to have an extremely stoned chat with Woody / Rave New World

Brands brew up opportunities with in-store cafés. Can in-store cafés blend mass-market accessibility with luxury appeal? / Jing Daily

Financial Times speaks to the who’s who of interior designers to get their take on how we’ll live in 2025 / FT

‘It surprised me’: artist finds inspiration in what AI art gets wrong / The Art Newspaper

Psychedelic Exceptionalism Harms People Who Take Antidepressants. Shaming people who take antidepressants like SSRIs is just another example of psychedelic exceptionalism, a sentiment that's all too common within the culture / Doubleblind

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine. A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away / The Atlantic

Getty Images Eyes Merger with Shutterstock Getty Images is exploring a deal with Shutterstock to combine two of the biggest US providers of licensed visual content / Bloomberg

The Biggest Breakout Creators of 2024

How IShowSpeed Became a Global Phenomenon /

Chef Clare de Boer’s top New York restaurants / FT

PIG FUCKER MUSIC. The Jesus Lizard are back, keeping it tight n’ shiny / CREEM

teeth are so back / Twitter

DO YOU EVEN MAXX, BRO?, menshealth

You might just have to be bored. Or: How to fix an attention span / Embedded

Plant-based meat brand This drops mockumentary-style Veganuary campaign / The Drum

Haris Fazlani is chasing continuous refinement. Edmond Lau sits down with Creative Director and co-founder of WØRKS turned furniture designer, Haris Fazlani, to talk creative practice, designing furniture and why good design is necessary for a joyful life / World of Eso

What’s next for Web3 in 2025? / Jing Daily

Sheesh. Criterion Channel is killing it in January. / Criterion

HAMBURGER EYES No. 56 The Continuing Story of Life on Earth. James Han, Manu Jougla. Lex Kim, Don Standing and Thatcher Keats / Hamburger Eyes

Sara Moonves Moonves—who you should listen to on this new episode of the very good podcast What’s Contemporary Now?

Snowed in at Britain’s highest pub

Home equity could fuel a massive wealth transfer. But baby boomers might end up needing that money themselves, and what they pass on could widen the racial wealth gap / Marketplace

Artistry. Giving people what they want is commerce.Doing what you want is art / Lefsetz Letter

Creative Time on the occasion of the organization’s 50th anniversary. (Family Style)

Per Rei Inamoto: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/reiinamoto_brand-marketing-advertising-activity-7282058214165143552-TtkP?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Company creates Product

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Product attracts Customers

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Customers trust Brand

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Brand differentiates Company

What do movie producers actually do? / NYT

The Largest Survey of David Hockney Prints Lands in Palm Springs

TLDR: The Palm Springs Art Museum hosts 'Perspectives Should Be Reversed,' a major retrospective of David Hockney's prints, showcasing nearly 200 works until March 31, 2025.

Memecoins are set to have their heyday this year as digital gambling isn’t just accepted but encouraged.

How to Hit Peak Fitness After 40. You can’t train in middle age like you did in your 20s. But if you’re strategic, your best days can still be ahead.

Seventy may really be the new sixty. A study examined trends in intrinsic capacity, a comprehensive measure of cognitive, locomotor, psychological and sensory capacities that was recently developed by the World Health Organization. The results indicate that older adults in England today seem to be experiencing far higher levels of physical and mental functioning than did previous generations at the same age.

Should America privatize the postal service? / Marginal Revolution

Could a sleek rebrand make Tezza the trendiest photo app for social media? / Creative Bloq

Dollar Shave Club returns to its roots after Unilever ‘neutered’ its vibe / The Drum

McDonald’s drops diversity targets for its employees and suppliers. The fast-food chain is the latest company to overhaul its diversity, equity and inclusion policy

Shares in Tencent tumble after the company is added to a U.S. military blacklist. The Chinese social media and gaming giant’s stock fell nearly 10 percent at one point today after the Defense Department designated it as a “Chinese military company

Mikey Madison in the Criterion Closet