Welcome back to Cool Person Update time! Today you’ll meet my favorite digital rolodex: @ feb.20.1995
This has been one of my favorite Instagram accounts for a very long time. I remember being down in the dumps, and then opening Instagram to find that they had posted something sweetly encouraging, or strikingly soft.
I have been rediscovering social media as a place to step outside my perspective and celebrate life with people sharing similar comforts. This is an account that I go to for inspiration and joy. I’m so happy to have shared some thoughts with this gem of a being :)
Describe your favorite kind of image. What catches your eye most often when you look at something?
I really like clear simple photos like a cat’s eye or bees on honeycomb, but when it comes to art I like busy things that I can look at for ages, I like when something makes me remember too. I never think about why things stand out to me and I want to post them, some things just do and when I know I know, I find that a bit cool and magic
Underrated color combo?
Purple and green I reckon
I see a lot of things that I remember from Tumblr on your page, like the fuckign flubber GIF. It’s nice to know that we experienced the same Tumblr. if you could describe Tumblr as a room, or even a little town, what would you say?
Tumblr is like an old town with lots of antique shops and billboards and many town criers.
Any music blow your mind lately?
I love the artist Lemon Demon and have been listening to his discography which goes back to 2003. I think ‘spiral of ants’ is an impressive song of his that blew my mind at first listen.
Tell us something encouraging that you wish you could have heard at an earlier time in your life.
You will find friendship and community and real brothers in arms who’ll do anything for you and make your life worthwhile.
Would you eat tapioca for a week if you were promised a free annual pass to your local public swimming pool?
I haven’t tasted it, probably but I don’t live near any outdoor pools and I only like outdoor ones
Do you have any cool memories that are yet to be rediscovered? aka something you remember fondly, yet vaguely.
I vaguely remember being in a cyclone when I was little, the power was out and I was drawing by candlelight, the palm trees were blowing around. I’d like to remember more, like what my parents were saying to me
Do you have any favorite pockets of the web or on your computer? How do they make you feel? (this could be social media or website). Mine is my computer desktop, I like to move the icons around in weird shapes when I’m bored.
I look at my tumblr archive and feel sort of happy that I’ve been blogging all these years and that I’m a person here in the world. I’d like to see your desktop! I only just got a computer so I don’t have many icons, just like Utorrent and Yume Nikki.
Favorite late-night snack? Mine is peanut butter granola cereal.
That sounds v good, mine is I think Rice Bubbles or Kimchi
If you could build the ideal social media experience what would it be like?
No ads for sure, and just people building each other up in the comments all the time, being supportive
Are there any memes that you would rock on a shirt?
Is there a question you wish I asked?
I liked these questions but ask the next person what their favourite animal is! Mine is tapir
Signing out,
T.H.