How could one not love this.
The Skateistan-movement. Wow.
Get in there, do what makes you smile and the rest will follow.
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the need for tactility / Little Printer
Little Printer!
In a paperless digital world.
Wonderful.
A sweet little device most of us dont want or need, but still.
It says something about the digital time.
Everyone is a photographer, writer and information user. Everything split second delivered in our hands, in phones, tablets or laptops. Emails en masse sent, various feeds and streams of updates filling our mind space.
So to remember, we print them.
We send files online and get photos on paper to our door, we print calendars and workflows and news and whatnot.
Is it simply because we have to touch it to believe it?
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Images in public space
There is an obvious need to speak in public.
An urge to mark territory.
What part does advertising play in the creation of the imagery of the city?
Is it not real beacause it was paid for?
Does it speak to and for the public, or is it just pollution?
Who does have the right to post images in public, only the one that can pay?
Or maybe its more simple. The one that can pay for the removal can post.
I think it becomes interesting when the layers start to overlap. The ad gets busted, and then removed, leaving a different color tone, a tag gets written over and over and painted over, then someone posts information, or questions…
The imagery of the city reveals time.
<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/368367″>the subconscious art of graffiti removal (excerpt)</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/mattmccormick”>matt mccormick</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Just filter it
Any situation, any given moment, add filtered lens and your life will look at its best.
Boring breakfast, a dull trip or an ordinary cup of coffee at any average café becomes arty lifestyle-ish memory in best magazine style. (Hipstamatic even did just that, launch an iPad-mag, Snap)
What is left of the ordinary day?
What about the unfiltered life, is it good enough?
Taking photos of passing life has always been there, saving the best and most beautyful for the private history of family and friends.
Now there is no saving for later or giving time for sorting out, its instant publishing.
On-the-fly sharing with friends and followers.
La vie extraordinaire and all things deluxe is splashed on various sites creating the ideal image of ourself.
An enchanted hyperimage of all the good we can be, and when it is not that great we just filter it and voilá, goodbye boring hello greatness.
And ofcourse since life is mostly ordinary moments following eachother, we have to filter them if we want to keep up with the stream of updates necessary to continue to exist.
There is not much space for the ordinary.
Be Zidane
It seems easier to look like work, than to do work.
One can quickly make something and then Instagram it, post it in a couple of blogtwitterpinterest places, go have a meeting with a friend @ a cafe, spot someone important for something and Facebook it…and come home with a sense of having gotten something done.
Or, which can be harder to notice, work like hell writing long texts or working with complex images and graphs, staying up all night for the perfect fit of something that might come into play if this or that person says this or that. The hours are put in, no doubt, it feels like work even, but the focus is all off.
From various team sports we all know the player who runs like a mad man, really trying, but never hitting the zones where there is real play, bolting across the field looking like play, looking like work. Not thinking play, or not wanting it, in fear of loosing maybe, or fear of the responsebility that comes with making it.
The art-project / documentary Zidane – a 21st century portrait gives a strong example of a man who really is play / work. The way he is aware of the field, how he is in motion without exhausting unnecessary energy, and really wanting the responsbility of play is breath taking. It is a film about soccer, or a soccer player, but it is as much about being well positioned for execution and the responsebility of success.
In the every day work flow, any task: dont be the thoughtless runner, be Zidane.
From the childhood of the internets / All your base
I remember laughing then.
And I laugh now.
So lo-tek, so creative, so just get it done and out there.
I love it!
Jar on shelves
The jars of jam on the shelves. A friend of mine uses the metaphore of jars on shelves when speaking about relations. Jam is nice and sweet, and takes a while to make, but is easy consumed. So if someone eats the jam faster than it is put back in, that relation will eventaully be empty. And the empy shelf is a relation with very little (read none) trust and patience. We can of course add jars, even more than we started with.
But it takes time.
Because things take time, especially relations.
Trust is condensed time of relational health.
Trust is maybe also sticking to what is agreed.
And the notion that what is said, even when blunt, is said with respect and the idea of mutual groth.
So when marketing guru Seth Godin says thrash early (because its ten times more expensive to thash late), remember to thash within the field of trust.
<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/5895898″>Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/the99percent”>99%</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
This sounds like something a bird would understand, but believe me a quick thrash over e-mail can really flip shit over.
World photo day May 15th
Dont miss it. A DAY
Being part of things bigger than oneself is a good thing.
Aspire to do it daily.
Urbanized / Gary Hustwit
Urbanized, a documentary about cities and the process of urbanisation told with the same slow clear view like Gary Hustwit´s first two films: Helvetica and Objectified.
Its not deep digging, nor is it all news, but the way Hustwit tells his story in a slow pace with great photo and lots of different people interviewed is very intriguing.
Malcolm Gladwell on TED
Writer Malcolm Gladwell (The tipping point, Blink etc) on the development of spaghetti sauce.
Its something about this story, the way things were tested and how results of the thousands of people asked (about how they want their sauce) were treated…that triggers me.
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