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Our societies are changing in immense ways. Time spins sideways, fast-forwards, and crashes back with each news whiplash. Every jarring moment leaves us a little more desensitized, a little more unmoored. In the middle of all this chaos, it’s fair to wonder: how much does creative work even matter
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When we started working on Metalabel, a neighboring project was frequently at the forefront of our minds: Other Internet. A digital culture-obsessed crew of writers, researchers, and technologists, Other Internet’s ideas helped define the past and current half-decade of the web. Classic essays like "Headless Brands," "
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The world around us feels increasingly turbulent. It's hard not to wonder how to keep going and whether where we're headed is worth it. But standing in the unknown has always been part of the creative process. What's changed is the noise surrounding it.
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At the tail end of last year, something magical happened—a young writer named Pierce Day from New Zealand published his first-ever work: a hefty novel exploring one man's complete and utter obsession with his phone and curating his outward perception. There's nothing quite like witnessing
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When we control how we want our work to circulate, it also means we get to control how we assign value to it. Personal impact, reach and scale, audience, and price are all different tools to assign and measure multi-dimensional value. Price is a particularly sticky area because how it
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COLLECTORS WHO GET IT Collector: Justice Hager Metalabel Collection Size: 15 and counting Latest Collect: Alta – A Human Atlas of a City of Angels THE STORY A multifaceted creator in their own right, Justice Hagar’s journey encompasses both artistic production and curation. Although recent professional focus has been on
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The right comment from the right person in the right venue can completely change a conversation. That’s what’s happened this week when pop star Chappell Roan did something unexpected during her Grammy’s speech on Sunday: she told an uncomfortable truth. I told myself if I ever won