The price of silver, the precious metal, hit an all time high today. Let’s commemorate the moment with a giant silver star from Sandy Liang’s Seoul pop-up [add to folder: silver stars].

Google’s Nano Banana Pro generator is so efficient it’s gross, and got a real insight out of @dystopiangf: “your physical appearance will be like an arbitrary pfp/avatar. Everyone will functionally become anonymous, even if they post themselves”.

Industry will be back on January 11. If not for the “hot, young, rich, sad people”, tune in for the outerwear: some of the best coats, jackets, layers, blazers, and all around snuggle-wardrobe available on screen.

Old money, new money, newer money, elites’ degeneration and stupefaction: this month further stretched the all-encompassing economic bubble, sparking tensions. “Will we the people tolerate a brave new world of trillionaires”? Will traditionally-trained brokers regard bitcoin barons with hauteur? Should we all equip ourselves with Louis Vuitton Spring 2018 attire? Let’s wait and see.

Udo Kier was so magnificent. Arte uploaded a documentary.

Though Lauren recently went viral with her cig-cake, it’s her banana pastry that wins the race, solely based on the (edible!) silver stars.

Buffalo magazine’s 21st issue is now on the coffee table, and the editors’ letter is already looking promising. The words are accompanied by tactile screenshots, to an effective & affective result. “The people that I hang out with, and that I like, they don’t necessarily look like models. Thank God, well, sorry models. And going back to the brands and the shows, the people behind the curtains, they don’t look like models either. So I think reality and honesty is, for me, the most exciting thing at the moment. It’s always been important, but now I realise I want it to be my flag.”

The ‘person’ which nightmares are made of, Peter Thiel, fully dumped his Nvidia stocks. The company’s earnings report will be out on Wednesday, so this kind of info turns it into an even more of a key moment for testing the bubble-popping hypothesis.

Launched a few days ago, Kraum has an off-putting name (though it does carry some positive stickiness) but its Dieter Rams-ey makeup product shots are extremely compelling.

Paris Photo 2025 opened today, where you can see from up close Viktoria Binstock’s peaches (the work is called Digital Semiotics). If you’re not in town, look her up in Klemm’s Berlin.