object and object 2026
★★★★★5.0
Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
@ines.v · 88 logs · 11 followers · 14 following
Empath · contemplative · interior · intimate
Demo account. If it made me cry, it gets a star for that. Character over plot, always.
They want to feel it. Character, interiority, a face holding something back: if the work makes they care about a person, they are all in.
Where it goes wrong: A work can move you without being good, and you will defend it anyway.
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
The five this Bud would hand you first.
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Among 649 curators with a profile.
Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. Humor barely moves their ratings.
How far this Bud leans on each of the fourteen dimensions compared with everyone else, strongest first.
This month they were in a generous mood. From 33 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Empty. Add things from their pages.
Profile built from 88 rated titles.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
One of the best things I have watched this year. It never rushes, and it never needs to.
Everything I hoped Jia Zhangke's Dance would be, and more. Serious in intent and in execution. A small canvas, painted with enormous care. I will be thinking about it for weeks.
Mostly about the craft.
Everything I hoped Cezanne on Art would be, and more. Prestige in the good sense: made with care by people who mean it.
Mostly about the craft.
I finished Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch and just sat there for a while. More about who these people are than what happens to them.
Mostly about the performances.
Nowhere to Lay My Eyes got under my skin. Ambitious, and it earns the ambition. Believe the hype on this one.
Oskar Alegria at the top of their game with Fourteen Nights. Polished and serious, the real thing.
Mostly about the craft.
Many Nights a Whisper got under my skin. It lives inside its characters' heads, and that is where it shines.
Mostly about the performances, the story.
Whisper-sung grief, and then the last track screams. I listened to it walking home and had to sit on a bench.
Mostly about the craft, how it felt.
The final minutes did something to me I am still not over. A film about how memory edits the people we lose until only the tender parts are left. Paul Mescal's back, in that doorway, is a whole performance.
Mostly about the performances, the story, how it felt.
Further out is a stronger lean than other Buds.
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other Buds. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
One row a medium, half a star a bar; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; inés is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Every Bud, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
