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Hudson Common Sense takes inspiration (read mission-driven earnestness, occasional satire and parody, brand guideline emulation, and often direct media art) from The Economist Magazine, The Free Press, and rarely others. We intentionally "remix" content and ideas from these and other publications that we admire to uplift local dialogue in Hudson, NY.
Steve Jobs said “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something." (1996, Wired)
Picasso said “Good artists copy, great artists steal”.
In some ways, Hudson Common Sense is a love letter to The Economist, to London, and greater Commonwealth and democratic culture. Published since September 1843 to take part “in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress".
We see a cultural and historical connection between The Economist’s defense of classical liberalism, free markets, and liberty, and Hudson’s pioneering early settlers from New England. We’d like to imagine that in the 1894 there was a young Hudsonian sitting on Warren Street in a cafe, sipping tea and reading The Economist’s take on the United States Constitutional Convention.
We also reference facts, historical documents, and other historiography from The Gossips of Rivertown, and for some contemporaneous photos and live event transcription we occasionally reference the Registrar Star (Daily Gazette). We are in debt to the citizen journalism of The Gossips of Rivertown and Carole Osterink’s tireless 15 years of service.