Ever wondered why we’re so obsessed with our physical health—swallowing AG1 by the scoop, tracking every Zone 2 run on our Garmins, and sipping Nootropics for 'peak performance'—only to unlock our screens and invite an avalanche of digital landfill into our brains? We’re scrolling through scripted street arguments, uncanny AI-hacks, and the beige, soul-crushing routines of influencers without a second thought. It’s the mental equivalent of junk food: low-grade, high-volume, and completely hollow. Map your daily screen time against what you’ve actually retained, and the truth is brutal: we’re burning our most valuable asset—time—at total random.
So far for the bad news.
Look around you. Next time you’re in your favourite coffee bar, ask yourself: do you really want to be drowning in that infinite scroll, tapping out four-and-a-half emails, or poring over the toxic comment section of a celebrity you don’t even like? Ending the scroll isn't about going offline; it’s about a conscious valuation of your time. A refusal to settle for the slop. Yes, of course we should all be devouring literature—ideally in perfectly smudged vintage paperbacks, smelling of memories and handwritten notes—and elegantly drifting through art magazines while sipping natural wine or waiting for a flight. But in the real world, that usually translates to endless and, let's be honest, half-conscious, half-compulsive scrolling. It’s closer to scratching an itch than seeking anything in particular on your ‘smart’ phone. So far for the bad news. Dedicated to curating top-notch content plucked from the best online media and galleries, Rorschach is making its debut in Belgium; the online mosaic platform is the antidote to the mindless scroll—a positive choice for knowledge, wit, and optimism. Picture a 1964 Miles Davis concert in Milan, the (very hard to find) short 1929 Surrealist film ‘Un Chien Andalou’ by Salvador Dalí, or Tim Blanks chat with Dior’s Jonathan Anderson playing on your phone while you sip your latte. Or reading a great interview with Climax Books founder Isabella Burley in Apartamento, taking a Substack deep-dive into Japanese archival fashion or enjoying an 1980s kitsch science fiction series on your trainride to work. And if you just need a soundtrack to add suspense to watching people pass by on that summer terrace, the 1973 ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ movie score is one click away. Travelling the world. And time. On your phone, but served up as a closed, finite, hand-curated selection of little media snacks.
“Wearing our little ‘Fuck the Algorithm’ t-shirt or going completely offline is not the answer,”notes Rorschach publisher Emm.So Rorschach serves up a monthly smorgasboard of inspiration. A gentle rundown on documentaries, articles and insight that might just make you smile and/or think. Enjoy.
