This is the beginning of a new world
Credit to our amazing squad members Tianna Lee for the video and Koji for his narration
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 comment. These two comments feel reflective of where each group stands:
Both are true. The world is so big and chaotic it's all true. Which is why what we choose to see, believe in, and put our energy towards is so important. Whitney's comment above is on point.
As for us, we're not just choosing bloom. We're cultivating it. We're compounding it. We're depositing a lump sum of bloom into the energy accounts of every person in the world. We're sending daily brochures reminding them how good we have it to be sharing life and ideas and beauty in this miracle of a universe.
Even when we're surrounded by doom, it's bloom by a mile.
NEW RELEASES
A Thousand Forests, Legal Structures for Creative Practices
This free digital release might be the single-most valuable bundle of information shared on Metalabel to date. This digital publication's pages contain a masterclass for artists and creative people to better understand legal structures, and which ones are the best fit for them. The guide helpfully walks through all the available structures, their plusses and minuses, and offers practical next steps you can take. Relevant to both solo artists and people working together.
Collect it here:
Note that we're working on an exciting, related project that we'll have more to say about next month.
Folk Art at Scale: Cate Mandigo Interview
We adore this release that releases an interview with folk artist Cate Mandigo, by another artist, A M Fisher, who comes from the same area and whose own work is in the same space. The conversation is honest and alive, and provides a wonderful pairing to a collection of artwork that Fisher released themselves on Metalabel this week (look at these exquisite drawings releases here, here, and here). Honest and thoughtful.
Do Not Research, 2024
Looking at the name of the publisher and the title of this book together feels as much like a set of instructions (Do not research 2024) as an actual creative work. But that's also kind of the point of Do Not Research, the Josh Citarella-founded collective publishing project that's constantly diving into the deepest worlds of the internet. This is their latest annual publication (the third now!) collecting their best reporting from the past year. Always excellent.
Ruby Bailey, Type of Paste Your Content Here
Digital and multimedia artist Ruby Bailey enchants us again with his unusual piece that combines a laser-cut metal surface with modular magnetic talismans for you to place and rearrange. How often do you and your wall works get to dialogue like this?
MORE RELEASES WE LIKE
- VHS release of a digital miniseries by the one and only Molly Soda
- Mix of new dance and electronic tracks from a Brooklyn artist collective
- A dispatch from a future where there's one human left in a world of AI
LINKS WE LOVE
- A 1976 short essay by Brian Eno on how to generate variety and identity through creative organization. So Metalabel-core it hurts.
- James Baldwin on the creative process
- Friction is a commodity
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