Heard constantly records the audio around you into an ephemeral, self-destructing buffer, saving only those fleeting moments that you deem worthy.
Ephemeral self-destructing messaging, which requires you to memorise the missives you are sent, has powered its way into mainstream consciousness thanks to the rise of Snapchat.
Art worlders might read it as an affront in the tradition of Lynda Benglis's double dildo Artforum ad, but Wawrzyniak describes this as more of an ephemeral self-portrait; in 2012, she described smell to VICE as a "spiritual essence".
But isn't the act of creation itself an act of self-hatred, a fundamental hunger to replace the imperfect and ephemeral (the self) with the perfect and eternal (the created art -- the abstraction of the self and its expression)?
Ephemeral, or self-destructive messaging apps give users the opportunity to be goofy — to be controversial — in privacy, without sharing it with their entire social network.
— the app has succeeded in bringing ephemeral (or self-destructive, if you're into the whole Mission Impossible thing) messaging to the mainstream.
Quickie is the name, and it's an app for iOS and Android that lets you send ephemeral — aka self-destructing — photos, video, drawings or text.
A new study from Cornell University looks at which types of regrets stick out in people's minds more regrets that involve our more lofty and ephemeral "ideal selves," or those having to do with our obligations and the person we think we "ought" to be.
The photo essays Bill Cunningham contributed to The Times -- since 1989 in a column called "On the Street" and for years before under other titles -- have played a compelling part in recording the ephemeral nature of self-invention.
Writers may decide that Twitter is too narrow a space — too ephemeral, too rude or self-serving, too muddied by advertising and promotion — to both inspire and host meaningful fiction.
Site-specific and ephemeral, it brings together self-selected strangers -- 24 million a year in live music and cabaret-licensed clubs alone, according to 1997 research by the New York Nightlife Association, a club owners' group -- in, as the old-school rap line goes, "the place to be".
