I have a theme and not a resolution for 2012:
Out with the old and in with the new.
“The 21th century will be the age of the ordinary people”. I’m not sure who said this, but I view this as the area where the opportunities lie in developing activities that can provide for your needs. Much lies ahead to operate on your talents in a self-sufficient manner. The current state of digital technologies enable us to produce and bring our products to the public for substantially lower operational costs than ever before. Nowadays, it could be said that the ingredients are available to run an office or media production studio almost autonomously, meaning that they don’t necessarily require power from an energy company, or big loans or savings to acquire them. However the caveat that I see is that the means are rather prototypical. read more…
This is a “critical talk” that I gave for the exam days for the Mediatechnology studies at Leiden University. I gave this talk in response to the research results of Nisaar Jagroep’s work on the applicability of thinking styles in the design of digital media.
It’s not exactly a presentation that gives a “low profile” introduction to the subject, but it might be useful for people who are designing Educational Media or do research in the field.
Take 12 months, clean them from envy,
bitterness, costiveness, pedantry
and divide them into 30 or 31 parts,
so that the supply is enough for one year.
Each day individually arranged from:
1 part of work and
2 parts of exhilaration and humor.
Add 3 heaped tablespoons optimism,
1 tablespoon tolerance, 1 pellet irony
and 1 pinch of time.
Then dowse the mass with
very much love all over.
The finished dish can be decorated
with posies of small attentions,
serve it daily with amusement!
Katharina Elisabeth Goethe , Goethe’s mother (1731-1808)
