Feature 01 • BY SAMUEL P.
What Does Advertising Owe Us?
What did the person watching get?
A feature about advertising, attention, payment, time and what the viewer is actually owed.
READ FEATURE →SINCE 2026ITERUM ASPICE COTIDIANA.PEOPLE / SYSTEMS / ATTENTION / CULTURE / THE ORDINARYThe December Reader. Iterum aspice cotidiana. People / Systems / Attention / Culture / The ordinary. Since 2026.
Longer investigations into the systems, behaviours and cultural shifts shaping ordinary life. We begin with a question and follow it further than a feed usually allows.
Short personal notes from places, moments and situations that usually become background. Nothing necessarily needs to be solved. Sometimes noticing it is enough.
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5 published pieces / Features & Observations
Observation 01 • BY SAMUEL P.
The Middle Seat
An unnamed Udupi-style hotel · Thursday · 8:28 p.m. · 43 minutes · No phone
A crowded hotel, an unwanted middle seat and 43 minutes without turning the room into background.
READ OBSERVATION →Observation 02 • BY SAMUEL P.
I Watched The Odyssey Three Times
The film stayed the same. The people around it kept changing what I was watching.
The film stayed the same. The people around it kept changing what I was watching.
READ OBSERVATION →Observation 03 • BY SAMUEL P.
Where Pigeons Go When It Rains
A failed laptop trip, six parking levels and one question finally answered.
A failed laptop trip, six parking levels and one question finally answered.
READ OBSERVATION →Feature 02 • BY SAMUEL P.
A Photograph Remembers
The image stays. The paper carries the evidence.
A file can preserve the image. Only the object had to survive everything that happened to it.
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Only when there’s something to send.
New writing, projects and objects from TDC.
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