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It's ok. The broad message that fully-automated luxury communism (henceforth FALC) isn't going to magically solve everything is good, but I didn't think the specific issues it raised were particularly compelling. 1. Points out that many (most) "luxury" items are Veblen goods, thus scarcity...

Playing the long game

Ever shallower "collaborations" and re-combinations of the same old symbols and signs.
A $500 t-shirt that says "Francis Fukboiyama".
An LV X Supreme boot stamping on a human face - forever.

thinking of a bot trained entirely on style zeitgeist forum posts and smiling serenely

Talking of which:

https://youtu.be/t7kTaO1czuk?t=1016

Seems kind of fucked up that they are spending all this money on a helmet that shows you Command & Conquer cutscenes instead of letting you see where you're flying the plane

Some guy trained a neural network on Balenciaga lookbook photos... The guy who did that Balenciaga neural network stuff, Robbie Barrat, does loads of other interesting neural network art as well. He makes much of his code available open source, and a French "AI Collective" used large chun...

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This thread made me think of Skin from Skunk Anansie (teens who presumably have no idea who the hell that is: they're a band from the 90s. Please see spoiler). I have a clear recollection of her with big purple crystals attached to her head in a line, like an amethyst mohawk. It looked sick. I've tr...

Dreamt I was watching a turn of the millennium south american sci-fi film. It revolved around an alien transmission that somehow caused ever greater numbers of people's identity to blend into each other, across time and space, so some guy from future Argentina would suddenly find he was a woman in V...

Nearly 20 years behind the times here but hadn't seen Alexander McQueen's Givenchy AW99 collection before. Well cyber m8 https://assets.vogue.com/photos/5720df0fbbf2c5632163a785/master/pass/GIVENCHY-FALL-1999-RTW-085.jpg https://assets.vogue.com/photos/5720df18bbf2c5632163a789/master/pass/GIVENCHY-F...

Some JJVE drawings / concept art from a

If you're of the opinion (as I am) that the "unmasking" is shitty and entirely unneeded then you probably are going to have avoided the initial article. So the articles that are supposedly critiquing it will actually be the ones the end up ringing that bell for you. I can only assume it's ...

http://i.imgur.com/BBGNElu.jpg Kickstarted a reprint of a book by Daphne Oram (she invented some great synth shit back in the day) and it came with this tote bag. Would be better if it was a bit bigger but it fits 15-20 records so good for picking up some tunes. http://daphneoram.org/wp-content/upl...

This is a great thread, thought I would contribute. A few years ago I started buying clothes by Jan-Jan Van Essche (there's a thread for him here but it's a bit empty, sadly). These days it's probably about 90% of what I wear and I'm slowly getting rid of most of the rest of my wardrobe. All his clo...

Jan-Jan Van Essche has got some dungarees coming up next collection in a couple of different fabrics. These are the paper (washi I assume) + cotton ones. http://i.imgur.com/A8H89G5.jpg Also done a few jumpsuits already http://i.imgur.com/bmPfinU.jpg http://i.imgur.com/A8MjmX0.jpg http://i.imgur.com/...

Like that Catherine Christer Hennix Copeland , have you heard Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music? That's my go to tune for some droning / chanting vibes. Continuing the ambient theme I bought this yesterday: [bandcamp width=350 height=470 album=1770892091 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=f...

Seems to be broken. I blame soundcloud.

Think this is what you were trying to embed, right?

The other day a dude on the bus said I dressed like I was gay and I wasn't really sure how to respond. I went with “Thanks”. Weird way to strike up a conversation with a stranger, unless he was trying to hit on me. Later I went to a gay club and a (different) dude said I looked like a “ridiculously ...

Think that things like the old hauntologist stuff, the vaporwave mc-lunar is talking about, and things like Burial (first couple albums, not so much current prog-Burial) are all quite explicitly nostalgic and you’d struggle to present a case against that without being extremely obtuse. I think the a...

Talking of Style Zeitgeist collabs, is it just me or is this http://www.styleforum.net/content/type/61/id/2219311/width/500/height/1000/flags/LL one of the worst pieces of graphic design going? Moving the tiny f over to the big O in the middle of "A Diciannoveventitre" to make a weird &quo...

Dunno if it was the first to be playing with samples with that way, though maybe it made it a relentless focus in a way that hadn't been tapped into before. I have to admit that I don't really know a huge amount about vaporwave, I thought the prototypical example was Far Side Virtual, which is less ...

No idea if that film is real but it's a great and not completely implausible back story. There are a completely overwhelming number of youtube videos out there from hundreds of hyper-local US dance styles, and that's before you get anywhere near the one-off routines that go with one particular song ...

Incidentally "gnashing of teeth" would be a good name for a tedious industrial techno / "rhythmic noise" act if anyone's got one on the go atm. You'll have a record out on Hospital before you can say "Jeff Mills didn't die on the cross for this".

It's pretty nuts. The fact that something as massive as Fabric isn't safe really shows how fucked clubs in general are in London at the moment. Sadiq Khan (new mayor of London) has promised to "protect nightlife" whatever that means, and is creating a new position for "night czar"...

http://imgur.com/ofetfmL.jpg http://imgur.com/aEvpnq9.jpg + http://imgur.com/rNxmDta.jpg + http://imgur.com/aORJWYW.jpg = http://imgur.com/tsBViXd.jpg Available now at noted ~serious artisanal clothing~ shop Daad Dantone

Think Peir Wu / Schneider seems like better reference points than Yohji / Comme (the "experimental" frankenstein jacket excluded (which is pretty meh)). I quite like it, though it looks quite boring in the non-lookbook photos on Vertice: https://www.verticelondon.com/mens/designers/junli

I went to Labyrinth last year and it was amazing, though Scuba was a bit boring and I found PVH's set so relentlessly, overpoweringly anthemic I had to go and sit down for about 5 hours. Definitely a) the best soundsystem and b) most beautiful place to dance I have ever been. Hope you have a good on...