As a nerdy guy w/ autism, this aesthetic feels like home to me. It feels… like I’m being gently mentored and made into the genius that kid me thought I’d become.
This is my favorite childhood aesthetic. It's so pure and comforting. Like you said, it takes you back to when learning about the world felt like an exciting adventure. There's always new things to learn, even as an adult, but it's just different when you're an impressionable starry-eyed kid.
This is my favourite aesthetic of all time, I had been searching for examples of it online for years until I found the CARI website and it felt like coming home. I want to live in that feeling of hopeful optimism of my childhood, when I would read animal encyclopaedias for fun and beg my parents for educational toys from the museum/science centre gift shop. I’m so happy there are people putting playlists together of music that evokes this aesthetic since that’s a really good way to get into the headspace again
i remember going to the san francisco tech museum on a field trip in the mid 90s and this brings that memory to life in a big way. the scholastic pop up stores and stuff like that. awesome.
Yes! I had a very similar experience as a kid, but it was at the Liberty Science Center in New York. All my memories from that place are magical. The sights, the smells, everything! Those places always sold freeze-dried astronaut ice cream bars 🥰
Frasurbane(sorry, just heard of the term while living through it) reminds me of liminal spaces. But maybe that's because it reminds me of foggy memories. Great breakdown
Ill be honest I like the Utopian Scholastic mainly for the background art of the stars and planets in a bright room. Maybe because of the idea that I am in a pocket dimension and I am forced to learn something or otherwise die in the vacuum of space. Yet I feel ok with it. Weird huh?
As a nerdy guy w/ autism, this aesthetic feels like home to me. It feels… like I’m being gently mentored and made into the genius that kid me thought I’d become.
This is my favorite childhood aesthetic. It's so pure and comforting. Like you said, it takes you back to when learning about the world felt like an exciting adventure. There's always new things to learn, even as an adult, but it's just different when you're an impressionable starry-eyed kid.
This is my favourite aesthetic of all time, I had been searching for examples of it online for years until I found the CARI website and it felt like coming home. I want to live in that feeling of hopeful optimism of my childhood, when I would read animal encyclopaedias for fun and beg my parents for educational toys from the museum/science centre gift shop. I’m so happy there are people putting playlists together of music that evokes this aesthetic since that’s a really good way to get into the headspace again
i remember going to the san francisco tech museum on a field trip in the mid 90s and this brings that memory to life in a big way. the scholastic pop up stores and stuff like that. awesome.
Oh yes, very much so. Especially the sholastic book fairs, too
Yes! I had a very similar experience as a kid, but it was at the Liberty Science Center in New York. All my memories from that place are magical. The sights, the smells, everything! Those places always sold freeze-dried astronaut ice cream bars 🥰
Frasurbane(sorry, just heard of the term while living through it) reminds me of liminal spaces. But maybe that's because it reminds me of foggy memories. Great breakdown
Thanks! I did a video on Frasurbane too, but I want to do a longer breakdown of it. It is very liminal, I agree.
Ill be honest I like the Utopian Scholastic mainly for the background art of the stars and planets in a bright room. Maybe because of the idea that I am in a pocket dimension and I am forced to learn something or otherwise die in the vacuum of space. Yet I feel ok with it. Weird huh?
I love this so much!