Oritsemughone Ogbemi

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I want to be very clear that this is the wrong question. The real question is, where does scarcity still exist? It exists where it has always existed—in the distribution layer, with the limits on human attention.
Digital culture and entertainment insights daily: Attention is what makes us human
It’s the opposite of intimacy, isn’t it? To stalk an algorithm? Like climbing a tree to look into your crush’s window and realizing someone else got there first...
Digital culture and entertainment insights daily: What is the creator economy?
In the design and business worlds we often appoint ourselves as custodians of craft, imposing ideas of authenticity and preservation. But that desire can be counterproductive—craft is a living, adaptive skill. On a trip to Bhuj, I saw women making sheesha potlis using mirrored plastic and acrylic instead of glass and silk. What we might see as dilution, they saw as innovation—aspirational materials they were proud to use. We all respond to fine craftsmanship, and it’s easy to mourn the loss of skill. But why is the burden always on the karigar to preserve it? When will the life of a karigar be…
Brand strategist and advocate Malika Verma on challenging the romanticization of handmade craft – The Creative Independent
So here was this collision of very weird ambivalences I found myself grappling with after moving to the Netherlands: being more marginalized and disparaged racially, while being seen as culturally arrogant and impositional; being disgusted by the conspicuous consumption of this former colonial power, meanwhile the “puritan” country where we both grew up is hugely responsible for escalating global labor and resource extraction to catastrophic levels.
To Unfix Our Fixed Ideas | Los Angeles Review of Books
PURPLE asserts that art is the reality point that you should never let go of
Purple Anthology - purple MAGAZINE
A magazine is not exactly media, in the sense of information; it is a visual, textual space that can shape a generation. In its pages, a generation invents itself, finds itself, and deceives itself. In saying that purple is the portrait of a generation, I mean it’s a portrait of those who embody their times. At the same time, it’s a portrait of myself and Elein Fleiss, our ideas, our lives, and our aesthetics. If a magazine doesn’t reflect its creators, it has no real reason to exist — it’s just more press, a vehicle for information transmitted through images and articles that has no real qual…
Purple Anthology - purple MAGAZINE
A magazine is a dream — to quote the artist Robert Filiou, “a butterfly’s dream, but which one?” Seemingly light, with an extreme economic fragility, and a lifespan lasting only a few weeks, a magazine is capable of action that deeply affects the propagation of ideas, beauty, and their explosive power. It’s the dream of a group of people who share, and experiment with, a singular vision and a desire for change and escape — without necessarily knowing how to articulate it. All in a time when everyone feels change is impossible, a lost cause.
Purple Anthology - purple MAGAZINE
And integrating a few conceptual references to your visual vocabulary is arguably the easiest, most basic behaviour there is (see Olsen’s book The Influence – a bible on this strategy).
Basic, anti-intellectualism, and why you want The Row
Thinking became the ultimate cool.
Basic, anti-intellectualism, and why you want The Row
No one will ever be truly basic again.
Basic, anti-intellectualism, and why you want The Row
But when did intellectualising become the norm?
Basic, anti-intellectualism, and why you want The Row