July 31, 2026 · 11 min read
Even the Rebellion Has Opening Hours
Music festivals sell a temporary world where identity loosens, strangers feel intimate, and freedom arrives with a closing time.
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Culture
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July 29, 2026 · 8 min read
AI Slop Is the Factory. Brainrot Is the Product.
Brainrot is an attention format. AI slop is a production system. Generative AI did not invent our appetite for repetitive nonsense, but it industrialized the supply and gave recommendation algorithms an infinite field of cultural experiments.
July 3, 2026 · 4 min read
Culture Is a Design Material
Notes from Tainan on why products, interfaces, places, and campaigns need cultural roots before they can carry meaning.
June 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Stories Inside Paintings
A proposal for using film, interaction, and local voices to reveal the living worlds contained inside works of art.