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"Die Bedeutung der klassischen Ressortaufteilung wird sich ändern. Zukünftig werden sich..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:18:48 +0200

“Die Bedeutung der klassischen Ressortaufteilung wird sich ändern. Zukünftig werden sich Arbeitsabläufe viel mehr um eine Geschichte drehen. Das heißt, es wird einen Geschichten-‘Owner’ oder ‘-Besitzer’ geben, der sich dann sein Team zusammenstellt und die Geschichte die nächsten zwei bis drei Tage betreut. Und der dafür sorgt, dass wir in der Sache vorne dranbleiben, dass die Leute die Geschichte bei uns lesen wollen.”

- kai diekmann im “handelsblatt”-interview (auch in der “handelsblatt live”-app)

play me, i’m yours.

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:29:06 +0200

play me, i’m yours.

"And I didn't have any idea what to do but I knew I needed a click so we put a click on the 24 track which then was synched to the moog modular."

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:42:00 +0200

this snippet starting at 1:28 minutes sticks with me the most after a couple of go throughs with the new daft punk album.

artdawdlings: Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth....

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:28:00 +0200

artdawdlings:

Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. Currently at 43. Very cool - I mean interesting.
Allow events to change you.
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

Forget about good.
Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.

Process is more important than outcome.
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).
Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

Go deep.
The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.

Capture accidents.
The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.

Study.
A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.

Drift.
Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.

Begin anywhere.
John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.

Everyone is a leader.
Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.

Harvest ideas.
Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.

Keep moving.
The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.

Slow down.
Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.

Don’t be cool.
Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.

Ask stupid questions.
Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.

Collaborate.
The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.

____________________.
Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.

Stay up late.
Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you’re separated from the rest of the world.

Work the metaphor.
Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.

Be careful to take risks.
Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

Repeat yourself.
If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.

Make your own tools.
Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.

Stand on someone’s shoulders.
You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.

Avoid software.
The problem with software is that everyone has it.

Don’t clean your desk.
You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.

Don’t enter awards competitions.
Just don’t. It’s not good for you.

Read only left-hand pages.
Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our “noodle.”

Make new words.
Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.

Think with your mind.
Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.

Organization = Liberty.
Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between “creatives” and “suits” is what Leonard Cohen calls a ‘charming artifact of the past.’

Don’t borrow money.
Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed.

Listen carefully.
Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.

Take field trips.
The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.

Make mistakes faster.
This isn’t my idea — I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.

Imitate.
Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You’ll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.

Scat.
When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else … but not words.

Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.

Explore the other edge.
Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.

Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms.
Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces — what Dr. Seuss calls “the waiting place.” Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference — the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.

Avoid fields.
Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.

Laugh.
People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I’ve become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.

Remember.
Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.

Power to the people.
Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can’t be free agents if we’re not free.

ich habe ja den muttertag dazu genutzt, zu hause über...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:48:48 +0200

ich habe ja den muttertag dazu genutzt, zu hause über #drosselkom zu berichten und das kündigungsschreiben für den dsl-anschluss aufzusetzen.

Die De:Bug gibt’s ja auch noch.

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:11:02 +0200

Die De:Bug gibt’s ja auch noch.

"Doch es geht ja noch mehr. Behandeln wir Verlage doch so, wie sie das Internet behandeln. Geht es..."

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:05:59 +0100

“Doch es geht ja noch mehr. Behandeln wir Verlage doch so, wie sie das Internet behandeln. Geht es darum, einen Verlag zu kritisieren, ist das Nennen von Ross und Reiter unumgänglich. Doch warum sollte man sie loben oder zitieren? Sie wollen doch gar nicht, dass ihre Inhalte verwendet werden. Also schreiben wir uns doch künftig Meldungen aus Quellen zusammen, so wie es hunderte von Online-Redaktionen in der Republik tun. Gibt es einen klaren Urheber, so reicht als Quellenangabe doch “Zeitungsbericht”, “Medienszene” oder “Totholzgemeinde”. Machen Verlage doch auch so.”

- thomas knüwers reaktion auf den lsr-irrsinn heute im bundestag. ich kann den impuls nachvollziehen. Stoppt Verlinkung auf Verlagsinhalte

"On Monday night I ended up drinking and eating Del Taco in a room full of dudes who seemed like they..."

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:33:08 +0100

“On Monday night I ended up drinking and eating Del Taco in a room full of dudes who seemed like they went to TED conferences the way people follow around Phish. It’s not much of a theoretical leap for me to envision these guys adopting TED-hopping as a vaguely-righteous way of life. It currently holds all the potential of a new religion; right now it appears to be fully on the right track, but it doesn’t seem like it would take much for the whole empire to turn towards the dark side if it were to be handled by less-benevolent souls.”

- the verge: “inside TEDs new gospel”

"Of course there’s a lot more to the story of Gowalla. I hope to unpack other parts of the..."

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:17:22 +0100

“

Of course there’s a lot more to the story of Gowalla. I hope to unpack other parts of the journey in time — growing a team, raising (and spending) money, what it was like to sell, etc. But of all the lessons I’ve learned through this journey, this one sticks out like a splinter.

Play by your own rules.

Listen to your users more than the press. Don’t get sucked into the gravity hole between you and your competition. Ruthlessly run your own path, not someone else’s.

Today I’m at Facebook. It’s a special time to be at the company right now. We’re able to build unique products that few others can dream of. But those same challenges still present themselves: How do we choose our own path? Build to our own strengths? Avoid the gravity holes?

These are the questions I chew on every morning.

”

- gowalla co-founder josh williams on how gowalla could have become instagram before instagram.

keeping the desktop clean since february 15th, 2013. i don’t like clutter on my desktop. but...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:16:53 +0100

keeping the desktop clean since february 15th, 2013. i don’t like clutter on my desktop. but i *do* like saving everything on my desktop, because, you know, it’s so convenient.

in comes unclutter app. the $2.99 mac os x app offers a “drawer”-like place to put all the stuff you (or I) would normally store on the desktop. the drawer opens with a two finger swipe down from the taskbar.

works like a charm so far for me.

Lunch with a view. (Wurde mit Instagram in City of Seattle...

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:36:44 +0200

Lunch with a view. (Wurde mit Instagram in City of Seattle aufgenommen.)

Photo

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:36:54 +0200

"Ich würde es umdrehen und sagen: Die (durchaus zahlreichen und sensationellen) Kämpfe und..."

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:55:23 +0200

“Ich würde es umdrehen und sagen: Die (durchaus zahlreichen und sensationellen) Kämpfe und Verfolgungsjagden sind der Subtext. „The Dark Knight Rises“ setzt diesen Ansatz, wenn auch auf ganz andere Weise, direkt fort. Auch hinter der Maske von Bane steckt einer dieser subversiven Charaktere, die alles auf den Kopf stellen. Und die in der Tradition von Nietzsche, De Sade und der bösen Schwiegermutter von Schneewittchen, sämtliche unserer moralischen und ethischen Regeln und Normen als Fassade entlarven.”

- FM4s Christian Fuchs verteidigt Christoper Nolans Batman.

"First of all, geeks are a very large and influential market. As one big example, if not for geeks,..."

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:55:47 +0200

“First of all, geeks are a very large and influential market. As one big example, if not for geeks, Firefox would never have started to catch on in 2004 and broken Internet Explorer’s reign. We installed Firefox on every non-geek’s computer we could find. And while we were there, we set everyone’s search engine to Google instead of Yahoo or MSN, and we made fun of their AOL email addresses until they switched to Gmail. Our preferences matter.”

- Marco.org.

aged to perfection

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 11:25:48 +0200

aged to perfection

Yeah, uhm, and what is your favorite literary genre? (Wurde mit...

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:16:33 +0200

Yeah, uhm, and what is your favorite literary genre? (Wurde mit instagram aufgenommen)

Space Needle. (Wurde mit Instagram in City of Seattle...

Wed, 23 May 2012 19:57:11 +0200

Space Needle. (Wurde mit Instagram in City of Seattle aufgenommen.)

german angst

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:58:10 +0200

german angst

derobe (Wurde mit instagram aufgenommen)

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:19:10 +0200

derobe (Wurde mit instagram aufgenommen)

Wurde mit instagram aufgenommen

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:28:40 +0200

Wurde mit instagram aufgenommen