Metalabel Director
Hi friends. This week we're coming to you once again with both written and video versions of this piece. Scroll down to read, or press play below. ❤️ The idea of an audience is a funny thing. Once upon a time an audience was a formal concept. One entered
About Metalabel
To prove we're not AI and to say hi, we're presenting this week's post in both written and video essay forms. Watch or read below. Scenius is a term Brian Eno coined in the 1970s to describe the collaborative energy behind artistic breakthroughs. He
Releases we love
Looking around the Metalabel universe, we’re struck by the many fascinating individual artworks and collections building up in this space. The Metalabel universe is forever expanding, with new works, connections, and collectors arriving each day. Together we're making a tapestry, a brain, a circular system, a living
About Metalabel
We normally send an email out every Tuesday sharing what’s on our mind. But lately we’ve found ourselves talking so much, we’re more interested in hearing what someone else has to say. So we’re choosing to leave this space intentionally blank. Instead, we’d love to
New Creative Era
A new release from Metalabel Press on the creative life
We’re now 25 years into the 21st century. A quarter of the way through. What will define it? The internet? Cell phones? AI? Sure. But there’s another one: creativity. Few ideas have reshaped our world more this century than creativity. We think of it as an eternal ideal
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0:00 /0:36 1× As part of our continued Spring/Summer celebration, we invited Metalabel visitors to tell us what they think: are we more DOOM or BLOOM? In the first week, the people of the internet have spoken: When people vote, they're invited to leave a
New Creative Era
Last week on New Creative Era, Josh and Yancey discussed what we’d like to see in a different creative status quo. Tune in for a list of seven ideas from each of us. More people are making creative work — and being seen for it — than at any other point
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This week we've been happy/nervous/relieved/excited to introduce Spring/Summer 2025 and the next iteration of Metalabel. Which, most importantly, opens up this universe for all of us together to release and express our creative output how we best see fit. All week we’ve been
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New Creative Era episode 11
New Creative Era
New season, new creative era
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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