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Hi, I'm Matthias • I love music, a good laugh and a new pair of sneakers • I hate people who take life seriously • I craft interfaces and experiences with passion • You're looking at a backup of my thoughts. This tank is full of random things I witness and enjoy • Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Never settle.
11. January 2009 • 13h
FORA.tv - Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Gen
Interesting talk by a great thinker of our times. Are genres still in modern culture? Interesting thoughts on romance and violencene and their role in the hollywood industry.
19. January 2009 • 0h
“We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality.”
–Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
A lovely article. Finally we have a name for all the kids with tight jeans and keffiyeh.
26. January 2009 • 21h
“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own.”
– Mitch Albom - (from “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson”)15. February 2009 • 18h
Telephone + Horse
On my sunday morning running track through the forest I met a girl riding a horse and using her mobile. After an hour I met her again and she was still using the phone while sitting on the back if this huge animal. Sad but true, horses are not what they used to be.
17. February 2009 • 20h
“Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.”
– Taken from THX 1138 - A great and dark science fiction movie by Georgoe Lucas from 1971.14. July 2009 • 15h
Eat local - Nice infographics. Nice animations. (via infosthetics.com)
3. August 2009 • 22h
ThruYou - Kutiman mixes YouTube
Holy shit this is amazing!
7. August 2009 • 0h
Mourning the Death of Handwriting
“People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says that’s not the case. The simple fact is that kids haven’t learned to write neatly because no one has forced them to. ‘Writing is just not part of the national agenda anymore,’ he says.”
Finally, I’ve got an excuse for my horrible style of handwriting…
