Wednesday 23 February 2011

I hate facebook

I have been meaning to write a post on why I hate facebook for a long time, but I always postponed it. And then today i read this and i can postpone it no more.

Although I see the point of it all, I still regard facebook as a giant gossip machine, complete with narcissism and need for procrastination and all. Don't get me wrong, I, too, am a narcissist. I, too, am a procrastinator (and a huge one at that). Also, most of my friends are on facebook. But for some reason, and without trying to be holier than thou, I just cannot bring myself to join a thing where you state your relationship status for the world to see, I cannot join a thing which will send email alerts to my 'friends' if I break up and I cannot ultimately join a place where friends come in inverted commas. You can opt out of all these hideous little details, some of my friends tell me, you can only use facebook as a way to keep touch with old friends. To which I defiantly reply: I don't care, I really really don't. If I like these old friends, I am going to call them, email them, make some time for them. I don't need 150 virtual friends seeing my pictures from my last holiday- or my idiotic narcissistic self-portraits, with an angle, from above, to look thinner.

I will just continue my lonely self-imposed facebook exile and will miss out on all of these things. I have no idea if some people from primary school would like to find me and giggle hysterically at my pictures. I am sure I can live without all this.

Tuesday 22 February 2011

Be Creative

For a good cause:

http://movingfaces.emptyfilm.com/

For art:



Just for yourself.

Be creative.

Do something. Beautiful.

Don't just sit there and think.

Thinking is not doing.

Sing.

Draw.

Cook.

Do something. Be creative. Just for yourself.

Thursday 17 February 2011

Cold War



Can it really be that there are mainstream people that do a good job?
Mark her name: Janelle Monaé

Tuesday 15 February 2011

How is this called?

This is called the domino effect.

Defined as: The domino effect is a chain reaction that occurs when a small change causes a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence. The term is best known as a mechanical effect, and is used as an analogy to a falling row of dominoes. It typically refers to a linked sequence of events where the time between successive events is relatively small. It can be used literally (an observed series of actual collisions) or metaphorically (causal linkages within systems such as global finance or politics) (from wikipedia)

And the question is: is this odd? Should we have not been expecting all this?

Repression, depression and extreme power in the hands of few, it doesn't take a genius to predict where all this is going...

Don't know where all this will end, the good case scenario says in a different world, the bad case scenario says in loads of death and no real change. One thing is however certain: the domino continues...

Friday 4 February 2011

Scattered thoughts

Perhaps there is nothing more to be said about what is happening in Egypt and what just happened in Tunisia before that, apart from us watching again the amazing movie Persepolis. It's all been said there.

But perhaps things are not exactly the same: fascism, oligarchy and suppression takes many forms and Egypt and Tunisia were not extremely religious countries, the way Satrapi's Iran is in Persepolis.

I am following the news, listening to Chomsky's comments, Obama's empty words and can't help thinking that it all started with a boy who set himself on fire.

Is that what it takes?