Santa Maria, Places

An NYC locksmith has become a viral sensation for turning subway tokens into keys, Gothamist

• I used to cut my keys here just for the novelty of it

Tracing the fascist roots of the Nazi demonstration in the Short North, Matter News

The View From Tokyo: the fascinating origins, and triumphant resurgence, of Risograph in Japan, Its Nice That

• Elizabeth Goodspeed on the power and perils of the mockup, It’s Nice THat

• A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots, Washington Post

  • I really like ai - makes writing so very much easier - but I have been avoiding the data on how much water and electricity it takes. ugh.

• Low Morale and High Attrition Plague Wexner Center for the Arts, Hyperallergic

I swear I still read stuff, I’m just not archiving as avidly

• Language Barrier: Rethinking How We Talk About Architecture, Azure

I’ve been reading stuff, I promise! I’m just not recording it very well.

• Les Wexner’s Second Life: How The Epstein-Tarnished Billionaire Is Quietly Reshaping Ohio, Forbes

• Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city, BBC

• He Made a Magazine, 95 Issues, While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic, NY Times

1. Neglected middle class may be key to growing stagnant art market, The Art Newspaper

• Lost Columbus: Ohio Stadium’s Construction Forced a Partial Reroute of the Olentangy River, Columbus Monthly

• Mysterious woman tells school board that Scholastic book sparked porn addiction, Popular Information

• Routine vaccinations against polio and measles are falling, Wyoming Public Media

• Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition, Hechinger Report

• ORIGINALITY MAKES HEADLINES IN NYC AND LA THANKS TO ADIDAS ORIGINALS, High Snobiety
  Brands making newspapers are a THING. I feel ahead of the trend

• When Nest Was What’s Next Looking back at the fearlessly eccentric magazine that Condé Nast was too afraid to buy., Curbed

• A Champion Of the Quirky Writes Finis, NY Times

• Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible, Neiman Reports

• Doomsday Diaries, The Baffler

• How Women Can Develop — and Promote — Their Personal Brand, HBR
  Solid advice

• Teens Love LinkedIn To some high-schoolers burned out on FOMO and thirst traps, the networking platform is “the way social media should be.” The Cut

• If Every Brand Is Funny Online, Is Anything Funny?, NY Times

• How to Build a Content Calendar, Link in Bio

  • Don’t be afraid to tell the same story over and over again.

  • Identify your brand’s universal truth.

• Why this CEO is bullish on country clubs — and on the hunt to buy more, Business First
  This David Pillsbury has got two recent articles in biz first… intersting…

• This new tool fixes one of design’s most pain-in-the-ass tasks, Fast Co

• PEE-WEE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, For Scale

• Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books, Literary Hub

• Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this, Building Design + Construction

• The Whitney Museum's Winning Threads Strategy, Link in Bio

• Threads Isn’t About Twitter. It’s About Resetting Instagram’s Social Graph, Every

• How the National Park Service Gets Their Captions So Good, LinkedIn Bio

Rabbit hole

Resource from TikTok was a great overview on how to succeed on their platform as a brand! They outline the six “creative codes” to “help decode your brand’s creative potential on TikTok”.

• Country clubs are at a crossroads. Some are closing. Some see a big opportunity., Business First

• Columbus City Council considering 'pay to stay' homeownership fund and other housing initiatives tonight, Business First

• How Koning Eizenberg Is Revolutionizing Multifamily Design by Going Against the Grain, Metropolis

• "Architectural photography is dominated by empty, glossy, new buildings" says Jim Stephenson, Deezen

• Design, Interrupted explores how "everyday AI" is restricting creativity, Deezen