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April 15, 2026·Edition 20

Would you eat your purse?

Internet Microdoses

Live Nation and Ticketmaster are officially a monopoly after a jury found them liable for breaking antitrust laws. The jury found fans were overcharged on every single ticket with dubious moves like “convenience fees.” For a generation priced out of live music, the ruling is a sigh of relief.

Allbirds fully pivots to AI, ditching its wool sneaker business to rent out GPUs and cloud compute for AI companies instead. The move might seem random, but it’s already paid off with a 600% stock surge. The shoes really were that bad.

Issey Miyake turned waste paper into furniture at Milan Design Week, pressing and marbling discarded sheets into rigid, stone-like surfaces. The studio’s decades-long commitment to sustainable materials is now committed to the page itself.

FKA twigs and Dev Hynes head to the Vatican for a major installation at the 2026 Venice Biennale. They’ll join Brian Eno, Patti Smith, and many others at the event, which kicks off next month. We always knew experimental music was a blessing. The Pope just made it official.

Kodak just released new 65mm film stock. VERITA 200D was developed for Euphoria Season 3. The stock delivers high saturation, deep blacks, and a shorter dynamic range designed to recall golden-age color film. Euphoria is also the first TV production to shoot significant volumes of 65mm — a format typically used for the likes of Oppenheimer, not suburban California.

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Blue Zones. White 'phones. Styles' tones.
Edition 19 · April 8, 2026

Blue Zones. White 'phones. Styles' tones.

Diamonds crash. Luddites win.
Edition 18 · April 1, 2026

Diamonds crash. Luddites win.

Aesthetic Study

The Blue Zones

The Blue Zones — those five global regions where people routinely live past 100 — went mainstream thanks to a Netflix docuseries. Since then, the longevity data has been picked apart, but nobody talks about what these places actually look like — and why that visual language keeps showing up in design. Stone walls weathered past any single owner. Outdoor tables set for twelve. Sun-cracked skin, terra-cotta, linen on a line.

It feels luxurious, but it’s not luxury. In Ikaria, Sardinia, Okinawa, nothing was designed to be beautiful — it just is, because it was built to last by people who weren’t optimizing for anything. They were just living slowly enough that their beauty became a byproduct. The whitewashed stone, the handmade ceramics, the wood worn smooth by decades of use — none of it was ever meant to be aspirational. Sure, Loewe, Flamingo Estate, Loro Piana on a yacht, a Jacquemus campaign, a Soho House pool deck — they may borrow the aesthetic, but they can never replace the century of patience that made it.

  • Ikaria and the art of longevity
  • The fight over centenarians and Blue Zones
  • Are Blue Zones a mirage?
  • The 2012 piece that put Blue Zones on the map
Cover of The Blue Zones collection
The Blue ZonesBy @cosmos
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April 15, 2026·Interview

Oscar Boyson

The producer behind Uncut Gems and Good Time on Lou Reed, sleep masks, and how wars are run like casinos.

Oscar Boyson
Oscar Boyson

A moment with

Oscar Boyson

The producer behind Uncut Gems and Good Time on Lou Reed, sleep masks, and how wars are run like casinos.

Oscar Boyson’s filmography doubles as a play list for the best contemporary indie cinema. He collaborated with Noah Baumbach on Frances Ha and Mistress America, and, as co-founder of Elara, produced the Safdie brothers’ Good Time and Uncut Gems. His directorial debut, Our Hero, Balthazar — a satirical comedy-drama about gun control — premiered at Tribeca last year and hit theaters in March. Here he talks Lou Reed, sleep masks, and an article about how wars are run like casinos.

What do you do when you hit a creative block?

Come up with a new question to ask.

What’s the last film you watched that moved you deeply?

Straw Dogs (1971)

What book have you gifted most?

Ella Quittner’s Obsessed with the Best.

What’s something you bought under $100 that changed your life?

My Manta sleep mask.

Where do you go to find peace?

Maine.

Who is your forever inspo?

Lou Reed.

What’s the last article you sent to a friend?

“Maybe Turning War into a Casino Was a Bad Idea?” by Charlie Warzel.

What’s the best investment (money, time, habit) you’ve made?

Running, an investment in my wellbeing.

Follow Oscar on Instagram.

Object Love

Pearl Headphones

Pearl Headphones

Over-ear headphones with enormous, pillowy ear cups wrapped in iridescent fabric — like wearing two giant pearls on either side of your head. These are circulating through mood boards and IG dumps (and Cosmos collections), but no one knows what they are. Whenever they emerge, someone’s asking where to buy them, and no one answers because no one knows. We built Cosmos on provenance, on tracing every object to its source, but even we can’t find them. That might be why we can’t stop looking at them.

The closest dupe came was Nova Products, a Munich startup that Kickstarted pearl earrings with wireless speakers hidden inside the stones. They raised €103,703, debuted at CES 2023, went insolvent before most backers got a pair. Then there’s the clam phone in It Follows — a pink shell-shaped e-reader that we’d all own if it existed. But some objects are only perfect because we can never have them. The wanting is the whole point.

Quick Hits

  • Apple names John Ternus as new CEO.
  • IKEA officially released a Swedish meatball lollipop.
  • Adidas made a full clothing line for pets.
  • Cassette players are getting a luxury reboot.
  • The Getty Center is closing for a year-long renovation.

Into the void,

Tania