About

As horseshoe theory would postulate, the distance between a faux-pas and a faux-yeah! is vanishingly slim.

—№ 6 For Those About To Dress...

When fashion designers get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When consumers get together they talk about where you can buy cheap basics.

—№ 6 For Those About To Dress...

It's hard to communicate what being marveled at feels like. Marveled at for how one's atoms are arranged rather than how one has arranged atoms. You distrust it because you played no part in it. No cue-do-reward, no feedback loop. Spooky action, sans resistance.

—№ 6 For Those About To Dress...

Yes, technically, you reflect photons in a manner that finagle some other's evolutionary circuits into firing in some way that choreographs the marveling. So does fire, so does food. So does money, in meat. You refuse to believe you played dice with the universe and rolled perfect perfection.

—№ 6 For Those About To Dress...

Because to fully grasp the magnitude of your winnings is to understand just as viscerally the variance in what life doles out is that high. And from your extreme vantage, it's all a tough, all the way down. You simply refuse to read the altimeter in order to live.

—№ 6 For Those About To Dress...

Works

Favorites

  • № 2 Determinative Nominism
  • № 5 Limitless Trim
  • (i) TAO Downtown
  • (v) The Fleur Room

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#kasina#metabolism#12-TET#vasocomputation#psychedelics#HSPVA#YSL

AFFALE Dispatches

  • № 1 Brave New Brand
  • № 2 Determinative Nominism
  • № 3 March For Your Modus Operandi
  • № 4 "But, the Q.R. Code... Where Does It Lead?"
  • № 5 Limitless Trim
  • № 6 For Those About To Dress...
  • № 7 Hello, World
  • № 8 Site of Departure, Part One
  • № 9 Site of Departure, Part Two
  • № 10 Site of Departure, Part Three
  • № 11 AFFALE's First Fashion Show
  • № 12 We Are All Emperors Now

On The Spectrum, On The Guest List

  • (-) prologue
  • (i) TAO Downtown
  • (ii) LAVO
  • (iii) Ritiquette
  • (iv) Silencio
  • (v) The Fleur Room
  • (vi) Harbor
  • (vii) The Marquee
  • (viii) Copacabana
  • (ix) TAO Downtown
  • (-) epilogue
  • (s2) prologue
  • (i) Nebula

Negative Facility

  • March Literal Madness
  • Seeing Like A Self-Actualization
  • Four Perspectives On Kasina Practice

Shitty Music Stand

  • A Theory Of Polytemperamental Music
  • Confessions Of A Megachurch Guitarist

My Quotes

"For Saint Laurent, accessories had a value far removed from their accepted use and connotations quite different from those we normally associate with them. For him, these little nothings (a phrase that, of course, etymologically presupposes 'something') - pieces of jewelry, belts, shoes, hats - played a vital part. They punctuated an outfit or ensemble in all senses of the word, articulating, accentuating and fixing it as a pastel artist fixes his work. As Saint Laurent put it: 'The accessory is the part; to my mind, that pulls the whole look together and gives it a unique quality.'"

The distance between being marveled at and being understood often measures the loneliness of the exceptional.

Fashion is the only art form where the canvas walks away, carrying your vision into a world you cannot control.

Other Quotes

"The medium is the message."
Marshall McLuhan
"We shape our tools, and thereafter they shape us."
John Culkin
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."
William Gibson