The Studio Slowcore team is happy to announce our new Substack publication: Return On Attention (RoA). RoA is a community roundtable for deep inquiry into artists’ livelihoods and gift culture. Our aims include: - Hosting spaces for artists to say the quiet parts out loud more often. - Mapping lesser-known structural factors + problem spaces artists must navigate if they hope to build a livelihood through their work. - Building toward real economic reciprocity for artists, and away from extractive patterns of value capture. - Our long-term aim is to build structures of mutualization and network value that can be shared with all contributors whose behind-the-scenes efforts make it possible for us to publish. We've also just released the first issue of the Public Domain Art Portal (PDAP) newsletter, after receiving multiple requests for a newsletter/blog version of my public domain art of the day casts. In addition to RoA and PDAP, our Slowcore HQ section contains "reprints" of early works from the slow-culture movement as it was originally seeded on Farcaster, including two canonical pieces from @tombeck.eth (and a third one on the way!) We quietly beta-launched our Substack via our Farcaster group chat for early testing a couple of months ago. Since then we've shifted our main control room and much of our deep-dive conversation over to Substack. Studio Slowcore is a bootstrapped, minority-owned, hybrid gift economics lab + small business. Our Substack is reader-supported and editorially independent. If you'd like to support our early work, you can do so with fiat or crypto (see the comments for details). We also have sponsorship packages available (contact us for more info). We've published a series of curated highlights from the studio's private-to-public discussion pipeline. You can also see some of these discussions in their original contexts via our /slowcore-hq and /gift-economics channels. We've got many more writings in the works for the coming months and years, and we're excited to continue the experiments toward form-context fit. Special thanks to all the members of our RoA group chat. We greatly value their time, trust, and attention. ~ Danica, Co-Steward + Word-Slinger-in-Chief + Senior Editor ~ @trigs.eth, Co-Steward + Community Call Host ~ Lenara (@y0b), Co-Steward + Moderator

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Just subscribed and will be following closely.

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Finally learning the difference between patience and procrastination

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a helpful reminder https://youtu.be/ihoW0D7MKaY?si=0XICWd8V-d1HAsYf

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It's been quieter than usual in the /slowcore-hq and /gift-economics channels lately, but Studio Slowcore is alive and well! We're just keeping a low profile as we revamp our processes to align with our recent course-correction toward "form-context fit." That said, we're happy about the shift and we're so excited to share what we've been working on behind the scenes. Soon!

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Slowcore Quote of the Day "It is time for a sustained, higher-profile, delineated Slow Business movement. One that supports and encourages efforts to pull those good things highlighted by Slow movements to the forefront of our operations." ~ Sharon Woodhouse From "There's No Business Like Slow Business" (2022)

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Studio Slowcore has reserved a space in the Dark Forest, i.e., the Dark Forest Operating System -- a private social media app. We're looking forward to giving the beta a spin. Slowly, of course. 🐌 Slowcore + groupcore = ?!? 🤓 👀

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In response to Chris's question, here are some thoughts on creating slowcore-friendly spaces for long-form online discussions. Call me a boomer, but for my purposes I still haven't found anything that measures up to the design of old-school phpBB forums. For ongoing, slow-paced, text-centric, long-form convos, and community-building centered around shared interests, I think they're excellent. I don't have the tech chops to handle setup + maintenance alone, but I've been a co-founder of a well-loved and active phpBB forum before, with me handling the community migration/moderation duties and my colleague handling the back end. Unfortunately that forum came to an unceremonious end for reasons beyond my control. But if some cypherpunks I trust were to say: "We'll build you any kind of space you'd like for Studio Slowcore to migrate your group chat to a new home. We'll handle hosting and tech support, and we'll work closely with you for business continuity planning and minimizing the risks of single points of failure." Assuming we had sufficient revenues to sustain it, then I'd say "Great. Let's go with a phpBB forum." See the first link for an example I found on the phpBB showcase page. https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ That being said, @adam- recently shared a GitHub page with some screenshots from Campfire (see the second link), and the design looks promising enough that @trigs.eth and I seriously considered it for our studio. https://github.com/antiwork/smallbets/blob/master/campfire-mods.md

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I prefer doing quiet things at the weekends now Less noise if possible More reflecting It’s not always possible But at least I can aim for this…

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I still think about this article a lot - and the idea that the soul moves at walking speed, therefore modernity eats away at them by sheer demand for constant speed. https://www.noemamag.com/traveling-at-the-speed-of-the-soul/

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The trend points to a renaissance of slow media 🦥 "the next $100M+ companies will engineer density, trust, and time well spent. they’ll build containers for meaning, then use AI to keep them organized, not optimized."

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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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