February is the month of shiny love stories.
“Stories … are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live with, that allow human beings to advance.” – Neil Gaiman.
We write for you stories that allow Love to advance.
We’d love to hear from you. It is fascinating to see what some long tail (stardusted) keywords can create.
Art by Michael Cheval.
Looking for a CEO who will personalize Beauty:
https://www.beautycare.ninepointfive.vc/
Art – Harold H. Piffard – Ottoman Beauty with a Butterfly
Why a gin maker invented its own history:
https://www.1843magazine.com/design/brand-illusions/why-a-gin-maker-invented-its-own-history
Hendrick’s gin looks like it has been plucked out of the Victorian era. But the brand was launched in 1999.
All this is a twist on “nostalgia marketing”, a common term in contemporary advertising signifying a brand using its history to excite the imagination of consumers. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research, feeling nostalgic “weakens a person’s desire for money” – or, to be more direct, encourages them to buy lots of stuff.
https://www.1843magazine.com/
“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
– Anaïs Nin
Art – Le violiniste bleu by Marc Chagall, 1929
1,000 True Fans? Try 100
by Li Jin
More than a decade ago, Wired editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called “1,000 True Fans,” predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of people to make a living off their creations, whether an artist, musician, author, or entrepreneur. Rather than pursuing widespread celebrity, he argued, creators only needed to engage a modest base of “true fans”—those who will “buy anything you produce”—to the tune of $100 per fan, per year (for a total annual income of $100,000). By embracing online networks, he believed creators could bypass traditional gatekeepers and middlemen, get paid directly by a smaller base of fans, and live comfortably off the spoils.
View the full article: https://a16z.com/2020/02/06/100-true-fans/
Harold Feinstein – Reading Poetry, Paris, 1988
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
― Claude Monet
“Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it,”
– Toni Morrison
Art by Marcela Bolivar.
Vanlifer of the Heart at Medium.com
WRITTEN BY
Iulia Halatz
The heart has a puzzling shape
the moment you thought it broke
becomes twofold.
The moment in a relinquishing evening
you thought it whole.
It breaks
until the morning
when the shape is restored
and your feelings pour like early April rain
over thirsty lilacs…
“The heart is an organ of fire” –Michael Ondaatje
It flickers and lights the embers of any glib desire.
https://medium.com/intricate-intimacies/vanlifer-of-the-heart-80daab4d2d08
Edvard Munch – Love and Pain, 1895
“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“People in the world have every reason to be in a state of total rage. What we do with that rage together is important.” – Judith Butler
Maybe rage channeled such artful imagery:
Alan Clarke
