About a month ago Craig set-up a SPECIAL PROJECTS members only ephemeral message board called The Good Place (TGP), ephemeral in that messages disappear after 7 days, and it’s been an interesting experiment. It’s permissive, light, intimate.

I think I often resist the ephemeral by always trying to record, in writing or in photographs, the world as I see it. Bearing witness to the ephemera and not trying to preserve it forces a kind of presence, and given that I’ve been struggling to feel present of late, this feels substantial somehow, or at least useful.

But I also wonder if TGP can maintain this? Already it is accruing features and, in people’s novelty-spurred-excitement, many more feature requests. I worry that, as the dagger of steel-and-glass that is Western-architecture has all but demolished our collective imagination of what a city can be, the convergence of online spaces toward twitter-likes is similarly inevitable.

Like, is the issue a loss of the ephemeral or a saturation of it? All our heroes are dead to us, nothing is true, nothing is solid, nothing grows anymore, it is simply replaced.