Blogs are dead. Nobody reads anymore. It’s all about imagery.
Opinions are dead. Nobody thinks anymore. It’s all about likes.

But still, almost everything I am interested in today, I discovered on some blog. I really liked reading the blogs of people whose opinions I valued. Joerg Haas’ Beinghunted., Gary Warnett’s writing, Bobby Kim’s The Hundreds blog, or sabukaru - a more recent example. Streetwear media juggernauts Highsnobiety and Hypebeast basically were blogs in their infant stages. What I liked about these blogs was, that every time I read them, I walked away feeling like I had learned something or my interest was sparked on a new topic. They kicked open cultural doors and broadened my horizon. In a way, they gave me really inspiring homework of having to dig deeper.

So why not write about what fuels my curiosity now? A curiosity for things that in my opinion inherit cultural or intellectual substance. May that be a sneaker, a t-shirt, a painting, or whatever. Having an outlet to act on this curiosity and condense the resulting findings seemed like a useful idea. That brings us to some studies. With it, I hope to further educate myself and maybe some readers about things that are already interesting to me - the latter being just a faint imagination, not a defined goal.

I read somewhere, that in the times of hyper-speed online news cycles and “content” abundance, “if you can’t be the fastest, you have to be the best.” Honestly, I don’t like this binary view and I am not trying to reach either of those polar opposites. There will be a lot of typos, a lot of hyperlinks, a lot of opinions, and hopefully some interesting topics. Basically, I am just trying to learn more about the things I like.

Thank you.

RIP Gwarizm