Hi, my name is Anthony Volodkin and I am

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with people and life.

I wake up in the morning to get people excited about music. I do this with a team and a website. Why do you wake up? Email or respond on your blog.

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Nov 5

Catbus, featured in My Neighbor Totoro (via Zoya)

Nov 2

Jonathan Harris: World Building in a Crazy World

This is the best thing I’ve read in weeks.

“When building tools (like Google or Wikipedia), minimalism makes a lot of sense. But when building worlds to house our digital selves, minimalism quickly crushes our individuality and leads to the kind of blah undifferentiated landscapes of shopping malls, corporate office parks, and many of today’s social networks. When building worlds, minimalism for its own sake should usually be avoided.” Jonathan Harris on simplicity.

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Most online experiences are made, like fast food, to be cheap, easy, and addictive: appealing to our hunger for connection but rarely serving up nourishment. Shrink-wrapped junk food experiences are handed to us for free by social media companies, and we swallow them up eagerly, like kids given buckets of candy with ads on all the wrappers.

These experiences are sensitive neither to individual humans nor to the human collective, but only to page views and growth (in a corporate, not personal sense).

” I fucking love Jonathan Harris. Read all of World Building in a Crazy World notes.