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The Ten Year Challenge would be an otherwise harmless trend if the internet had not become such an awful, prying panopticon where all the fun and frivolity is siphoned out of things and we pressure each other to participate in a training module that teaches algorithms to account for and better predict age progression, criminal tendencies and uncorrected personality traits, so we enjoyed seeing it re-appropriated by environmental activists. Stark and depressing—though with at least a few signs of positive rehabilitation—side-by-side images that compare and contrast (previously) the myriad ways humans are destroying ecosystems are becoming a powerful call to action. Learn more and help stop the clock at the links above.

you said it would last but i guess we enrolled

Our faithful chronicler informs that on this day, among many other momentous occasions, during a US Super Bowl commercial break—a showcase and vehicle for maximising the exposure of new releases—Apple aired its “1984” advertisement (previously) directed by Ridley Scott. Thought police pursue a rogue runner through a monochrome, dystopian landscape but fail to prevent her from hurling a sledge hammer at the main telescreen where Big Brother—portrayed by David Graham (voice actor who played the Darleks and several characters on Thunderbirds Are Go!—is addressing the gathered throngs of labourers:

Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!

The screen shatters into smithereens at the Big Brother proclaims victory and the grey scenery is replaced with the company’s rainbow logo.

be kind, rewind

The Verge directs our attention to videographer and animator 4096 whose collection of projects celebrate the bookended beauty of obsolete media storage formats (previously), vintage video game consoles, etc. It’s not only vinyl album covers that are canvases that deserves attention but also the sleeves meant to archive one’s film library for the ages.

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We very much enjoyed being introduced courtesy of BOOOOOOOM’s illustrator spotlight to the rather extensive and featured portfolio of Berlin-based illustrator Max Guther, whose collages are limned by architectural elements and explore how the human body is framed and engages with constructed spaces. Though his figures and environments are far more bespoke, Guther’s work reminds us a little bit of the Sims life simulation worlds. Much more to discover at the links above.