Go Flip Yourself: week42, 2024
kids screen time - music business - the sanrio machete - irl parties - gardening - storytelling - nostalgia - video games - DJ Mehdi
Every week, I intend to recap here what I’ve written and published myself on k7v.in and the best things I’ve watched, listened to, read.
You can expect stuff around life, culture, tech, parenting, street. Not specifically in that order obviously.
Last week on k7v.in
Kids screen time is an urbanism problem
Compare both these situations: (a) your kids can run downstairs and hang out with plenty other kids doing cool and dumb stuff that made them laugh, in this case, well, i’d bet they’d all forget quickly about lil’ black screens (b) on the opposite, you’re 10 yo, kinda stuck in a golden-jail full of comfort named ‘big family house’ but alone, no life in the streets outside + 100% dependent on your parents’ will to drive you anywhere, well, better jump online.
What's next for music?
From
’s 9 predictions for the future of the music business to some collectively owned new initiatives and the physical music sales revival.Stuff worth checking out
🍄🗡 The last object I was expecting when we talked about an Objet column in Dirt was The Sanrio Machete. But
did it and it’s a banger.“Do you feel badass with your machete?” No, I thought, I feel like Simone Weil handling a firearm.
🪩 Of course, since we’re throwing regular soirées with Objet -on that note: one is coming in NYC next month; another one in SF in Dec. and the last one of the year in Paris- I can’t agree more with
and re: gatekeeping and IRL Parties.It is a great time to start doing things IRL
🌱 Reading Cortney’s interview gave me some sort of ‘Perfect Days’ vibes: calm, meditative, wise. Growing Beyond the Computer.
Going through this upheaval has helped me discover that it’s actually much easier to simplify your life in order to do something you love, than it is to be miserable at a job you don’t like, spending all your earnings on things to cope with that. My new life now is very local and offline, making it simpler and slower.
⛪️ Another one from Are.na resonated -both with me personally and with Objet: Storytelling as Gift, Storytelling as Currency.
To embed meaning and stories in everything. We extract the purest essence of an idea, value or lesson and then tell it through as many means as possible so it lives on with possibility of endless continuation, in collaboration with the past and future.
🧠 Wonderful post about the limit and danger of nostalgia; which can be resumed in one sentence only: “It’s hard to remember how you felt when you know how the story ends.”. A Message From the Past (Thoughts on Nostalgia).
There’s a Russian saying about nostalgia: “The past is more unpredictable than the future.” It’s so common for people’s memories about a time to become disconnected from how they actually felt at the time.
🎮 And talking about nostalgia, that one from Manuel resonated. I also grew up in the 90s and even though the PlayStation wasn’t my console -at first, I then jumped on the #2 and collected so much fun memories- I agree with the joy of replaying many games from this period. Constraints in video games.
I am, technically speaking, a child of the 80s…just barely. I grew up in the 90s and the console of my childhood was the PlayStation. I then jumped to the PlayStation 2 in the 2000s
🎛 What a story, what a life, what a time, what a sound. If you wanna know more about the french touch -and french rap before that- do yourself a favor and watch this documentary.
Enjoy the upcoming week 🥂💎 peace ✌️
Thanks for the shoutout!!