giovedì 30 ottobre 2008

domenica 26 ottobre 2008

no particular reason







the point where music links to real life... ;)

borderline

I wonder how it comes that deep emotions put into words so often come close to kitsch.. somehow it's nearly frustrating to notice how not suitable language is to communicate really important things. also wondering if humans will ever manage to dig out a more adapt tool.

sabato 25 ottobre 2008

Why life's like a puzzle

  • if two pieces do not fit, they were not meant to be united.
  • if two pieces nearly fit, they still do not really.
  • if you force two pieces together you will only distort the picture and they will be missing somewhere else.
  • each piece has it's own place, but the search for it can be long and difficult. at least it is bound to lead to success if one doesn't give up too early.
  • everybody feels the emptyness of a missing piece. when it is finally found things fall into place and are cleared up.
  • filling in gaps holds some surprises and might change your point of view.
  • sometimes you can fit together a lot of pieces because you simply see the connections.
  • sometimes you can not find any sense in all the chaos.
  • either way, you keep going until you are finished.

venerdì 24 ottobre 2008

As real as possible

When once upon a time people pushed the use of pc's in offices very often 'reducing paper' and therefore 'increasing tidyness' and 'better organization' were important selling points - as virtual desktops somehow tend to enforce these things.. but for the price of keeping people structured against their natural habits :)
As now it becomes fashionable to adapt machines more to human needs than vice versa, new interfaces start to make chaos possible again.

Check out the video:

mercoledì 22 ottobre 2008

lunedì 20 ottobre 2008

long forgotten habits

maybe it was due to my early start this morning, i couldnt really determine it. but the day somehow was strange, time passed very quickly and also i did a lot of things which i had not addressed for weeks or even months. and they all somehow fitted in.
but the most amusing and curious thing happened when i went to the state library to pick up some ordered books. you have to search them by yourself in huge shelves (and it was the first time i ever picked up something there) but somehow i found them immediately, they literally made themselves noticed. one of them was not so big so i decided to keep it out of the big bag for reading on the tube. however, i could not bear to go underground so soon again so i choose to walk to the next station where i had to change the lines anyway. but still, i was curious about that book and opened it up, already walking. and this is when it happened; i switched back into that habit i had as a kid: walking along the streets, navigating nearly without taking my eyes from the pages, my head in another world, reading a book until i got to my destination. the moment of arrival then seems like an awakening, returning from some kind of daydream to reality. and as every sudden awakening it has this strange but pleasant moment of feeling startled - about the place at which you happend to be now.

5:30

and not a bit of sleepiness remaining to drowse away to sleep again.. so i got up. but this left me in the confused state of what to do with so much time before any normal person would start any activities. it nearly felt like a mental block, like 'you are not going to do such a freakish thing' but actually, i did. and it did not feel bad at all, just slightly displaced - in an interesting way.

domenica 19 ottobre 2008

Happy moment

Everyday I recieve some advertisment on god knows what fancy things and recently this makes me happy for one reason: I rejoyce realizing that I DO NOT NEED all this stuff! :)

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