About Culture.Sale

A crow on top of a traffic light. A partial road sign says "King". Photo is black and white.
Curious king by Shawn Parkinson
“I consider one of my few virtues—I don't have a lot of them—but one of them would be a deep sense of curiosity. It's inconceivable why anyone would want to not experience as many colors in the spectrum as possible with our limited time on Earth.”
– Anthony Bourdain

Culture.Sale started because we miss discovery. Finding an excellent book in a store picked because the cover looked intriguing. Hearing a great song in a record shop and buying the CD. Wandering into a new art gallery and discovering a new favourite artist. Smelling something delicious and following your nose to a delicious meal. Finding an excellent clothing brand in a different city before reading reviews online. We love the feeling of finding something new and different and then sharing that discovery with friends.

We are looking for the new and novel in a time of algorithms and optimization. Maybe you are too?

We are going to share music / art / things / places we are enjoying, no link baiting to get those clicks. Just discoveries we can't stop thinking about.

We will post when we find something awesome, not to fill a quota or schedule. We might post 3 times in a week and then be radio silent for a month six months. Sometimes we will could write something long and heady. Sometimes we will drop a few links. Maybe we will make a video or playlist?! Who knows what’s going to happen... no rules.

And we hope you will share awesome things with us to make this website, whatever it is, better! We don’t know where this is going but we promise it will not be boring.

Shawn Parkinson
Editor, Culture.Sale