An encyclopedia of once-common things passing us by.

(You can buy the lovely book version too.)

 

 

We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able to access almost anything from almost anywhere, and they don’t have the same localised stylistic sense that my generation grew up with. It’s all alive, all ‘now,’ in an ever-expanding present, be it Hildegard of Bingen or a Bollywood soundtrack. The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Brian Eno, from “The Death of Cool” in Prospect Magazine

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