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In our first Study Group, Mycelium as Mode, we set out to inquire about the vast world of mushrooms, exploring the terrain from multiple vantage points — from wellness and investment in psychedelics — to materiality and even, mycelium as a metaphor for building.
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Michael J Sclafani
Arrow Sculpture
Michael J. Sclafani$96+
Our take Arrow Sculpture is a series of unique sculptures by the NYC-based artist Michael J Sclafani that pair striking colors with a distinctive shape to sculpt objects that resemble both flowers and arrows — a line the piece willingly blurs, as thorns dot the arrow/flower’s shaft. Are they a gift from the soil or a threat from afar that just missed? Depends on who you gift them to.
𝔐𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔐𝔢𝔡𝔦𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰
⋆ ˜҈ Breathing in, Breathing out ⋆⁎⁺ Guided Meditation ✧
Aamina Simone$7
Our take Super yes to cataloguing and dropping a meditation as a release. This inspired piece by Mind Meditations, a project by sound artist Aamina Simone, opens up the listener to the vast expanses and universes all around and within us. Why limit ourselves when we’re actually limitless?
Traceloops
Faceloops Flipbook Blind Boxes
Traceloops$15+
Our take As active members of the fanclub for Traceloops we cannot begin to describe the euphoria this latest release has wrought on us. This release offers a single, group, or whole set of miniature flipbooks whose pages show dancing, melting, and conjoining faces rendered in beautiful black-and-white ink drawings. Like all Traceloops work, the experience is very physical, as collectors rip open the small envelope containing the pieces. Can you tell we're collectors too?
Paige K. B.
Drive It All Over Me
Joshua Citarella and 1 other$25
Our take An investigation of works Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Vanessa Place, and Jack Goldstein, Drive It All Over Me's perfect longform essay style explores how artists hide deeper meanings under narrative and sculptural material through text-based visual work
13101401 Inc.
A Few Essays on Taste
Ruby Thelot$40
Our take One of our fave cultural thinkers collects a series of exceptional essays on the nature of taste, aesthetics, and truth in a beautiful print package Sharp, smart, and on point
Autonomous Worlds Network
Autonomous Worlds N1
Caroline M. Ballegaard and 16 others$20
Our take Forget everything you know about blockchain. Autonomous Worlds N1 gathers engineers, game designers, artists, and digital dreamers to explore onchain possibilities below the surface. Originally a rare zine passed around hackathons, this wild collection maps the future of digital realms birthed from building universes that run themselves.
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Anonymous Creative Futures Report
Rayna and 5 othersFree+
Our take 75 artists and creators anonymously share their thoughts and fears about the year ahead, available digitally and worldwide.
The Dark Forest Collective
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
Yancey Strickler and 10 others$10+
Our take From a private newsletter to the perfectly seeded idea, "The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet" captures the creeping reality that the internet has become increasingly hostile, and eleven of our favorite online voices' perspectives on how to live, create, and conspire within it.
Hard Art
Hard Imagination
Sophie Cowen and 2 othersFree+
Our take Three troublemakers - a systems thinker, design rebel, and art activist - get together in an abandoned London club to figure it out. The result is this Dark White Paper that calls on Venture Capitalists to envision a world not based on extraction but "Togetherness." Available in extremely limited physical form, and digitally for free.
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[Dis]enchantment: A zine about Esoteric AI by AIxDESIGN & internet teapot (Slow AI Series)
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The Egg - a time capsule
$130I Have Pop
One Bad Orange - Print
$30+Aksioma
Girl Intelligence
$5EMPOWA
the Artists Way exercises - Notion templates
$5Ariamis
Beckoning Bell No. 09348522 Saint Valentine 2025
$57.77Baukunst
Mycelium As Mode Report - Baukunst Study Group 001
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$4Actors Tank
Actors Tank | JACKPOT (PDF)
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the Artists Way exercises - Notion templates
$5Aksioma
Girl Intelligence
$5Ariamis
Beckoning Bell No. 09348522 Saint Valentine 2025
$57.77Niccolò Moronato
Cronaca Rotta — Ultimo Contatto
$340Niccolò Moronato
Cronaca Rotta — Unione delle Miniragazze
$340
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