2023-02-17 – Google Pixel 3a
Reviung5 keyboard with Pac-Man printed keycaps, Placerville, California
→ (youtube) Gunship «Eleanor Rigby»
recently stumbled on Matt Alt’s «The joy of clutter» on Aeon which in turn references Tsuzuki Kyoichi’s Tokyo Style – Japan has long been stereotyped for Zen Buddhism and minimalism – Tsuzuki took his camera and photographed real, lived-in apartments around Tokyo – deciding to show how people actually lived rather than the staged and sterile photos of architectural magazines – despite first being released 30 years ago, we continue to clutch to this stereotype – in no small part due to the publisher money invested in selling us «minimalism» despite multiple commentaries on the elitism and hollowness of minimalism – and these same forces are invested in making sure we conflate «clutter» with «hoarding» and TV shows making sure we know just how «evil» hoarding is
→ (aeon) The joy of clutter
→ Tsuzuki Kyoichi, Tokyo Style (1995, 2003, 2024)
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