We’re excited to announce our 2024 Dirt Subscriptions featuring our mascot, Dirty, by David Alderman! 🍄
Just as dirt becomes mud, digital weather events create new states of culture and being. DIRT will continue to be a source to keep up with that evolution. 🧵
A near-death experience, whether public or private, leads to the question: “What does it feel like?”
Drawing on music, literature, and Buffy,
@alxndra1998
explains what happened after an attempt on her life made international news.
Welcome to the flat era of fashion 👗
“Today it doesn’t matter where an influencer lives, because she dresses like she’s from the internet, and that’s all that counts.”
@anakinsella
"In this sense, the visual artifact of a Fragrantica layout has begun to function in place of the irreplaceable and immaterial nature of smell." ––
@foldyrhands
Today's
@dirtxyz
is a long, thoughtful interview with
@noahkalina
: "the vast majority of people who enjoy my work have only ever experienced it on the internet."
“Is it possible to report on a story as violent and appalling as the Weinstein imbroglio… without hurting or re-traumatizing anyone? Almost certainly not, but it is possible not to make bad movies about it.”
Read
@EmmaSpecter
on the film She Said:
Today we are transforming Sitting Pretty… Meet: Prune.
Prune is a weekly newsletter about interiors, design and other things. It has its own subscriber list and will live on under the new “Design” category.
Hi! Dirt is looking for a few more paid editorial illustrators for upcoming articles — if your vibe is tech+culture and you're available for ~week or less turnarounds please reply with your portfolio here or email newsletterdirt
@gmail
.com
Why is Spotify sneaking in fake lo-fi tracks into our playlists?
Tune in with
@terrygtnguyen
on the rise of AI-generated "elevator" music and its potential effects on the music industry:
Today
@KatyKelleher
writes about monk-made perfumes, medieval monastery gardens, and sacred scents throughout history.
“They’re god-made, a reminder of what fragrance once was: a form of science, a form of magic, a form of worship.”
Welcome to The Future of Writing! A collaboration between
@dirtyverse
and
@_triangle_house
. This 4-part series will look at the future of Fiction, Essay, Criticism and Poetry through the eyes of some of the most exciting writers working today.
Art by
@totalclownbaby
. 🔮
.
@TamingofdeSchuh
on the thankless grind of waitressing, buying orthopedic shoes at 28 years old, surviving service industry culture while writing, and becoming a true pro:
"Inside every good writer is a bad waitress."
Alex also takes aim at true crime and the culture of social media rubberneckers: “Maybe if the art that people made about this event was good I wouldn’t care.”
We're opening submissions for ✨Fiction Week✨ this summer. Looking for stories under 800 words. Rate is $200.
Email submissions to fiction[at]dirt[dot]fyi 🤎
Anna Dorn's new book follows Astrid Dahl as she navigates her indulgent lifestyle in L.A., grappling with addictions and obsessions.
@becky_mills8
in conversation with
@___adorn
on Perfume and Pain.
GIVEAWAY: We’re giving away ONE 2024 Dirt Subscription! 🍄
A subscription gives you full access to the stories we publish this year and to our private channels in our community. To qualify, you must create an account on and like or RT this post.
.
@terrygtnguyen
on writers making curated meme pages:
"These kinds of novel-related content and media... produce an intertextual effect, linking a standalone piece of fiction to other artworks and even contextualizing it in popular culture."
Right now the Dirt DAO is debating between 14 feature pitches to vote on via the DIRT-S1 token. Top two via ranked-choice vote will get confirmed, and writers will be paid $1000 for 1000 words. Then the stories will go out in the newsletter!
Today we’re introducing our 🆃🆁🅰🆂🅷 collaboration with digital fashion platform
@pronounceddrop
, including newsletter dispatches, a print zine and a custom digital fashion garment. 🚮
If you tap a heart reaction but say nothing afterwards, is it still ghosting?
Read
@mariahkreutter
on what it means to “reply” on the internet in 2023:
Today
@terrygtnguyen
chats with the trio behind Nymphet Alumni on the demand for culture commentary, trend cycles as illusions, and the process behind selecting topics for their fashion and culture podcast 👇
“A cake can look beautiful online, but you can only tell how good it is in person.”
Today we interview the editors of Cake Zine on baking up a print literary magazine where pastry chefs and poets celebrate blending food and literature. 🎂
We’re excited to debut 1,000 founder passes for the
@dirtyverse
. These fantastical mushrooms are connected through their mycelium. All NFTs become the rarest, from time to time, in a continuous cycle of transformation. 👉
"Immersion exists on a mental and physical spectrum. And since so much of modern life is polluted with distractions, it’s no wonder that we’re motivated to seek out its complete opposite."
@terrygtnguyen
GIVEAWAY! We're giving away ONE Founder Pass (.504 ETH) to the first person that can correctly guess the number of spores in the mushroom pictured.
To enter:
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What is the canon now and what will it become?
Today
@VALENTI
does a deep dive on the loss of monoculture and why we should be thinking about canon at all 👇
Kick back with 6 perfect book and perfume pairings by
@alanamayjohnson
1/ L: Happy Hour by
@marlowetatiana
, 2021. R: Hilde Soliani Fraaagola Saalaaata.
today’s Dirt is
@BerlantBro
interviewing
@pet_wife
, the “T4T portishead”, about ABBA, being in love with each other as creatives, and also just being in love 👼 💙
“We generate a ton of material…So my challenge is that Noelle is too brilliant.”
Geneva is giving Discord, but for the girls?
@terrygtnguyen
explores the social app Geneva, chaotic chat rooms, and group chats that feel like home base.
just thinking... Dirt hasn't been profiled by any prestige media companies yet... photo shoot of Daisy and Kyle... party with a giant animatronic Dirty... instant backlash...
RAFFLE! We're airdropping one random winner a piece from
@amber_vittoria
's Memories of a Masterpiece collection. Everyone who mints a Dirt Subscription during a one hour window starting now will be eligible to win.
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