the time is NOW:
wring the rot from your brains and reinstate the joie in your vivre.
it’s yearbook season.
i am once again soliciting your creativity, ingenue, and taste.
hi friends ♥︎
if you’re new here, see here. if you’ve been here before, thank you and good job. ♥︎ the 2025 yearbook was a beautiful thing, and i’m so excited to do it again in 2026. as is (now) tradition, i’m asking for one or more original creations from you that i will bind up into a 8.5”x11” book that will be shared amongst us friends and anyone who frequents our coffee tables.
just like charli*, i have been thinking a lot about the lasting impact of ART, and the concept of art as home and haven.
*(nothing lasts forever except for the yearbook)
when we are transient, in body, mind, or spirit, by choice or circumstance, we can maintain a sense of Home through art we’ve always loved — music, fashion, film, reels — or maybe find resonance with art that we never paid much mind to before.
as such, think of the elements of the art (music, fashion, film, reels, subway AI ads**, etc) that inspire you right now...
humor irony ennui romance violence beauty sincerity wit introspection gagginess etc etc
MIX THEM UP
STORE IT IN THE FRIDGE
AND INJECT THAT ELIXIR PEPTIDE-STYLE INTO YOUR YEARBOOK SUBMISSION
if you yearn for more direction, here is an in / out list to provide more abstract guidance.
i know it’s october, and anders conroy specifically asked me to launch in september, but i would still be tickled if you sent your submission to lauren@4safekeeping.com by november 29, 2026 (the sunday after thanksgiving). if you fear you will not make this deadline, please let me know as soon as possible, and i can make sure to carve out the perfect holding spot for you in the book.
once you send me your submission, i’ll send you a short list of questions for your profile page. please send photos, too.
I LOVE YOU!
you didn’t fuck it up last year, and you won’t this year either.
friendship is joy, creation is power, and all we have is each other. ♥︎
p.s. if you have ideas that could make the yearbook even better, send them my way along with generous cash bribes.
OTHER IMPORTANT POST SCRIPTS
**AI POLICY: if you use AI please make it so potent that it essentially becomes the art form itself. maybe it at first appears innocuous but reveals itself to be beautifully nauseating.
PHOTOS: i’d love to add color to the pages with more photos this year! please send copies of photo booth photos, polaroids, camp snap uploads, iphone photos of yourself and other friends and general scene reports of your year.
$$$$$$$: advertisement has counted as art since, at latest, andy warhol, so if you’d like to bankroll the yearbook by purchasing an advertisement, please inquire about pricing. you can co-design with our advertising editor or submit your own design. *conceptual products, services, musings, congratulatory messages, and Most Wanted posters only please; don’t be a self-promoting capitalistic freak. i’m selling you the priceless opportunity of self-expression, akin to mark zuckerberg.