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2 July 2010

#183 Make a real photo album

This photo from the past is already in a real photo album. But it is time to put it into my own.

This photo from the past is already in a real photo album. But it is time to put it into my own.

The other day I thought of something that made me quite dizzy. I had to keep one hand on a door frame and the other was wiping sweat from my forehead. The room spun around and the floor was beginning to give way.

I realized that I barely have a single physical photograph from the last five years of my life. Everything I have is digital. What if the Internet crashes! What if all the CDs with images disappear! If the hard disks are stolen, if they break, or stop working! Five years of my life that’ll be gone. No photos. Nothing.

Now, I have embarked on a campaign. I've split up the task into three stages:

1. To seek out all the photos from my hard drive, friends' hard drives, Facebook, and the Internet.

2. Sort out the best pictures and order photo copies of them.

3. Buy a photo album and insert the photos. Write captions or just the date. Save them. Just for me.

Required time: 
1 week or less
Cost: 
Under 500
Cons: 
Printed photos can also disappear, burn up or get misplaced.
Pros: 
There is a certain charm to sitting and browse among physical analog images. Especially when the whole world is digital. Especially now, like a counter-revolution against the digital one.
Taggar: revolt, photo album, analog
21 February 2010

#52 Kill dusty sayings

 

"Good things come to those who wait" Those who wait too long are idiots. 15 minutes tops if the person doesn’t call and say they are delayed, 30 minutes tops if it’s a good friend who has a good excuse, no more than two months for a boyfriend or girlfriend who is considering what they "really" feel, three months tops after talks with your crappy boss if she doesn’t sort out her vicious temper.

Anyone waiting for good things deserves them so much that there should be clear rules on how long he should wait for them.

"It’s about the journey, not getting there."

Why would you go on a journey if there wasn’t a destination? It’d be completely pointless. You could just as well lie down and wave your legs around causing you to spin, get dizzy and not know where you are. Make up a new saying. My suggestion is: Get where you want to go and enjoy the trip.

"Everything in moderation"

Moderation is a cowardly and convenient excuse for people that don’t strive for more. Moderation is fake solidarity, and an afterthought for people that don’t dare to close their eyes and take the giant leap. Less is more? More is more! Or to quote my friend Andy Duggan: What do you mean, "in moderation? Why do you want to be in fucking moderation? "

One way is to begin to embroider pillow case with new sayings. Print tees with them. Write them on your blog. Make stickers and stick them up. Here are some suggestions.

FUCK EVERYTHING

MORE IS MORE

KILL YOUR TEACHERS

EAT THE DUMB

BONUS: www.fuldesign.se - Check Fuldesign, they do just that and much more, such as stuffed toy monsters and beautiful graffiti stencils.

 

Required time: 
Two hours to find some updated and better saying which does not advocate moderation and mediocrity. Then it may take several generations to erase the old sayings, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try. It has to start somewhere.
Cost: 
Free.
Cons: 
Reactionaries could start torchlight processions standing outside your door waving pitchforks and old proverb books with tears in their eyes.
Pros: 
You’ll help the world move forward away from old software that has outlived its function.
Taggar: revolt, renew, kill your teachers