Collective Notes

The poem <n>Sometimes it happens</n> by <n>Brian Patten</n>.

A quote shared by <n>Thought Catalog</n>.

<n>L'été</n>, a 1937 drawing-poem by artist <n>Joan Miró</n>.

Poster for <n>Walk the Line</n> at <n>Zeughaus Teufen</n>, featuring artists <n>Johann Ulrich Fitzi</n> and <n>Klaus Lutz</n>.

A 1970s photograph of a girl in a <n>Lunar module replica</n> at a museum.

A handwritten quote from <n>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</n> attributed to <n>F. Scott Fitzgerald</n>.

My dream is for people to drop out from these major websites, but stay online. Keep the urge for connection and sharing that makes social media so appealing, but satisfy the urge in individual, unique, wonderful ways. I want people to maintain personal sites in the same way they wrote zines. I want people to share homemade music through homemade social networks, and to create both just for the pure love of it. I want our personalities to come through not just in the words or links we share, but in the URLS we use and the code we write. I dream of regional communities forming online, based around organically grown web rings, and for idiosyncrasies to form in the aesthetics of our sites based on the communities we learned to code from. Basically, to bring back all the things that made the early internet so exciting and open and welcoming. It's a little bit harder, but that's part of the charm. It means the connections you make are intentional, and everything you create and share online will always be yours, because you made everything yourself.

<n>Intimacy These Days</n>, a piece by writer <n>Jess Janz</n>.