Building a new thing involves meditating on creation and seeing it as an organic machine with a mystical element. It requires a delicate balance of control and allowing the new thing to reveal itself.
Starting a new project should stem from emotions towards an idea and allowing it to unfold naturally without pushing or completely ignoring it.
Maintaining the authenticity and purpose of a new thing is crucial to its survival. Recognizing that all new things will eventually change or die helps in staying true to its essence.
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet is a book capturing a critical moment in internet history, exploring the concept of retreating to 'dark forests' online as a response to mainstream internet behaviors.
The book is a limited first-edition run of 1,000 copies available for purchase through Metalabel, offering a beautifully designed narrative of life on the web.
Metalabel is a new platform supporting the selling, releasing, and exhibiting of various creative works, providing a space for creative groups to collaborate and share their work and audiences.
The internet allows us to build new societies on top of the existing one, with potential to evolve and surpass the physical world.
Creative individuals can form small, flexible groups to align around common visions and goals for economic, spiritual, and creative growth.
Platforms like Metalabel offer spaces for artists to organize and support each other, reclaiming agency and creating their own systems based on shared values.
Worldbuilding is the act of designing a self-contained universe, creating a safe creative space separate from the earthly realm.
Creating from your world means work inspired and strengthened by an intentional inner world, allowing you to immerse yourself and lose touch with the shared world.
Worldbuilding prioritizes the symbolic and inspirational over the practical and rational, creating a source of inner confidence and resilience.
Traditional ways of releasing music and creative work are becoming obsolete due to digitization.
Different paths are being considered in response to the changing landscape, such as relying on AI, embracing the metaverse, or forming separate 'network states'.
Metalabel offers a collaborative platform for creatives to release work together in response to the evolving creative environment.