Slowcore HQ

Slowcore HQ

A Farcaster-native slow culture movement. Home of Studio Slowcore, purveyors of fine wordsmith arts and connoisseurs of slow culture. Our motto: "Move slow and preserve things."

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The Studio Slowcore team is pleased to announce the official revival of the /slowcore-hq channel after a long hibernation. In keeping with the announcement in our other channel, /gift-economics, the studio (stewarded by myself, @trigs.eth, and @y0b) will be experimenting to build a hybrid gift economy + business endeavor to sustain both channels. More details in our studio's launch announcement linked below. A few initiatives we're considering for /slowcore-hq: - Recognize contributors with Slothy Awards - Continue weekly rituals of "not-doing" and Slowcore Quotes of the Day - Expand our Slowcore Manifesto (aka "What Is Slowcore?") - Host themed discussions based on writings by our fellow slowcasters, e.g. "In Praise of Going Slow" by @tombeck.eth - Build a slowcore lexicon and knowledge base for collective concept stewardship (e.g., a slowcore lexicon, slowcore-friendly patterns in place-making, etc.) - Maintain digital gardens catering to the snailblazers and the slowpilled - Facilitate slowcore-friendly URL-to-IRL meetups Other ideas are welcome! Note: All pending memberships from many moons ago have now been approved. Our apologies for the ridiculously long wait while the owner dealt with a death in the family and the future of channels was uncertain enough that we put the channel into hibernation for many months. We were delighted to see that many casters just kept right on casting here to keep the channel alive during the time the mods were unable to tend to it. Your efforts are appreciated. 💜 🐢 If you appreciate our work and wish to contribute financially, gifts of crypto are accepted at the studio's multisig: slowcore.eth. We will route them toward retro-rewards for the gift labor done to bootstrap our channels. Gifts can also help free up more time for us to steward the channels responsibly in the future. Please do not gift any funds that are needed for your own support. https://farcaster.xyz/danicaswanson/0xa76d9edf (https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x24453ebe8d78de52f6d253cf26fec18ab34b041f/2?referrer=tombeck.eth)

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the slow web movement is (slowly) gaining steam.

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Feel like this too with Farcaster I always come here in the evenings a bit tired But by the end of it I’m inspired and happy to have connected with people here “>we have real ownership + shared upside >when i’m on fc i find myself inspired, laughing, curious, sometimes even in awe >i have met farcasters irl and consider many to be friends, as a whole this place does care about one another” - @eriks

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my second week at kb 11, and these are the strings i'm pulling at (or perhaps they're pulling at me): https://plume-sole-79b.notion.site/week-2-update-kb11-284962004287803980dac85a98778367?source=copy_link "I will never, ever, return to that state of time poverty ever again. I do not care how much precarity defaulting on the payments to the world of capitalism brings; I want time. I like to be with my family. I want time to spend in my homeplaces. I want time to eat ripe fruit with such slow reverence it looks downright sexual. Time. I want time." Time is the only true scarcity. We can only spend it. We can bill for it, but we're so much happier when we give it away. Time. I want time. 💚

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Slowcore Quote of the Day: Henrik Karlsson on sustained attention "...good art... is about crafting patterns of information that, if you feed them sustained attention, will begin to structure your consciousness in interesting ways. Art is guided meditation. The point isn’t the words, but what happens to your mind when you attend to those words (or images, or sounds)." https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/attention

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Fellow sloth people of /slowcore-hq, do you have any recommendations for @downshift.eth? Studio Slowcore has been (slowly) pulling together a list of favorite slow-web readings and other resources for the slowcore-inclined. In the meantime, we'd love to hear other suggestions for those interested in finding their way to the slow web and slow social.

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My first (or zero-th) week of Kernal Block #11 is officially wrapped! I joined this block in order to try and develop some ideas about gift economies (and possible token experiment). So far, the whole curriculum has been so exciting. I've decided to pump the breaks, and immerse myself as fully as possible into as many new things as I can, and then come back to my original idea with a new and different perspective. This week was about listening and learning. Here's are the questions that stayed open, and the area's I was most excited about: https://plume-sole-79b.notion.site/week-1-update-kb11-27a96200428780e9a373e6ae46e066e1?source=copy_link

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For anyone who may be wondering what's up with the Slowcore HQ weekly rituals in this channel: We (the mods) are going to set aside the weekly ritual questions for awhile, and experiment with other directions of "slow interest" each Friday. You may see more quotes, art, memes, rhapsodies about afternoon siestas, slowcore lexicon ideas, or whatever strikes our fancy. We'll make it clear how these things relate to the broader slow-culture movements: slow architecture, slow art, slow food, sustained attention, etc. What would you like to see in /slowcore-hq that you haven't seen in the channel so far?

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Slowcore Quote of the Day "To celebrate slowness is not to invite retreat to some Arcadian setting of languorous times past. Slowness is no unqualified good, nor is speed necessarily bad: I want a responsive Internet connection as much as you do. Nor do I propose that beholders simply hunker down and "focus." That, ironically, proves to be a recipe for fidgeting. Had you assigned me to look at Manet's Young Lady, even for an hour, I wouldn't have lasted. Rather than coercion, slow art must be about finding pleasure. Nor will any slowness do. On the contrary, slowness must be earned, must repay the time it asks of us. Can the work solicit our attention without resorting to bells and whistles that undermine the effect?" ~ Arden Reed From "Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell" (2017), p. 14

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Slowcore HQ weekly ritual What did you "not-do" this week? As is our custom in this channel, feel free to interpret the question creatively.

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it’s a cozy-voice-memo kind of day wen voice casts? we are chatting about how we are preparing to siesta rn

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just really loved the first page in this book i found on are.na

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there's a LOT of ideas incubating in my mind these days and special shout out to "Subliminal" by Leonard Mlodinow for being one of my all time favorite books AND book cover designs

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Slowcore Quote of the Day "If you’ve ever entered a building and you catch yourself and realize you have slowed down just to be in that building; you’re in wonder, awe, you’re pulled through the space, usually by light, and you’re changed," Robles says. "This happens to people when they go into cathedrals. Amazing places where people just, ‘Whoa.’ It happens when you go into a museum, or Union Station downtown in L.A., or Grand Central Station in New York. That’s the essence of slow architecture. What it does to the world. That’s what great architecture does. It causes you to pause and be present." ~ ml Robles From "Slow Architecture" https://www.dwell.com/article/slow-architecture-1c82a421

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/slowcore-hq coded. We love seeing casts like this. 🐌 🐢

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