The Portal
I’m honored to announce that Altamira Studio will be publishing The Portal by Rob Hardy.
The Portal will be part memoir, part manifesto—a memoir-festo—that invites us to examine our relationship with the Internet, both as individuals and as a species.
A year ago, thanks to the Internet, Rob and I became friends. We bonded over our shared belief that the Internet is still in its infancy—that everyone’s only just starting to learn how to be online in a way that promotes human flourishing.
One day Rob shared some of his worst & best online experiences with me, describing the Internet as a portal that can lead to the darkest parts of life, yet also to the best ones.
So now the book is happening. 🙂 Rob describes the vision on the pre-order page.
We’re trying an experimental approach to producing it: Rob plans to write the book in public on his site over the coming months, while consistently linking back to the Altamira pre-order page.
We hope that this will (1) pay for the printing costs, and (2) involve readers beautifully in the early phases of the publishing process.
If you pre-order the book or follow along on Substack, you’ll be helping bring The Portal into existence.
Excited for you to see more!
Ellen
Ellen Fishbein ~ ALTAMIRA.STUDIO
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