🐕✨The Nexialist #0034
Doggos | Cat Jams | Bunny is a Rider | Codex Seraphinianus | Glitched Nostalgia | Back to the Future: Identity | Public Service Broadcasting
Welcome to yet another weekly collection of brain-sparking serendipitous content, The Nexialist
That time has arrived again… when I’m quite busy and my head needs some rest. Nothing serious, but I decided that this week The Nexialist would be lighter than usual, so get ready for another brain-quickie.
🐕Doggos
What’s more serendipitous than dogs? What made this video even better was learning how dogs came to be humans’ best friends on a recent Explained episode on Netflix.
🐈Cat Jams
This video represents the good side of the internet so well… imagine a community of people turning a cat into a singer, and doing that in such a laidback way. I cannot thank The Kiffness enough for such a fun idea and creation. Here’s the whole EP with more hits.
🐇Bunny is a Rider
“‘Bunny Is a Rider” is a summer jam about being unavailable,” Polachek remarked in a statement. “Bunny is slippery, impossible to get ahold of. Maybe it’s a fantasy, maybe it’s a bad attitude. But anyone can be bunny, at least for three minutes and seventeen seconds. The song features a scorching bass performance from producer Danny L Harle, plus his baby daughter’s first vocal cameo.”
After cats and dogs, I thought I would bring Caroline’s new song. And I just realized there is a baby’s voice sampled in the song…
Read: Caroline Polachek Shares New Song “Bunny Is a Rider”: Listen - Pitchfork
🦄Codex Seraphinianus
This book is such a trip and I am seriously considering getting one (my birthday is in June, just FYI). I was watching it and thinking that The Adventure Time creators probably had one of these.
Originally published in 1981, Codex Seraphinianus is not an easy book to track down. Written by surreal artist Luigi Serafini, the book is designed to be completely alien to anyone who picks it up.
The world of impossibilities within at first don’t seem to follow any logic. Not only are the images utterly mind-bending, but it’s written in a made-up, and thoroughly untranslatable language. And yet, the more you read, the more you find a strange sense of continuity among the images.
📺Glitched Nostalgia
As soon as this thumbnail appeared on my feed, I could not not click. And I was not disappointed. Remi Wolf’s aesthetic somehow reminds me of Nickelodeon shows from when I was young.
Remi Wolf’s music throbs like a bulging brain. The 25-year-old Californian’s “chaotic, colour-free, funky, stinky explosion pop” (as she once put it) revamps Y2K references – Nelly, Missy, the Chili Peppers – into a zany yet supremely soulful sound that’s entirely her own. Amid a sea of tastefully understated singer-songwriters, Wolf is a freak flag-flying maximalist.
Read: Funk-pop rulebreaker Remi Wolf: ‘I thrive in the chaos’ - Guardian
👾Back to the Future: Identity
Rex Woodbury, as usual, makes outstanding readings about digital culture on Digital Native, this week with Back to the Future: Myspace and Gen Z Digital Identity. I’ll just leave a teaser below. It’s worth reading the whole thing.
The other key component in Gen Z digital identity is consistency. The Dolly Parton Challenge signals how older generations—Millennials, Gen Xers, Boomers—were taught to behave differently on different platforms. On LinkedIn, you’re professional; on Facebook, you’re family-friendly; on Instagram, you’re stylish; on Tinder, you’re sexy. For Gen Zs, online identity is consistent across platforms; authenticity and self-expression are paramount, and not platform-dependent.
🤖Public Service Broadcasting
Another joyful video to brighten up your day. Public Service Broadcasting is releasing an album next month and I can’t wait!
Public Service Broadcasting have been “teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future” for more than a decade now. 2013’s debut album Inform - Educate - Entertain used archival samples from the British Film Institute as audio-portals to the Battle Of Britain, the summit of Everest and beyond. Two years later, The Race For Space used similar methods to laud the superpowers’ rivalry and heroism in orbit and on the Moon. In 2017, joined by voices including Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield, Every Valley was a moving exploration of community and memory via the rise and fall of the British coal industry. Pointedly topical in its analyses, it reached number four on the UK charts.
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