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Hi, I'm Matthias • I enjoy life, music and a good laugh. I craft interfaces. • I hate people who take life seriously • 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.
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2. November 2008 • 10h
“Don’t worry, be happy.”
– Bobby McFerrin14. November 2008 • 1h
wow. this is great.
25. November 2008 • 1h
“The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television and you’re going to have very, very fine, natural children.”
– Jerry Lewis23. December 2008 • 9h
Twyla Tharp on the Subject of Motivation and Creativity
(Via 43folders)
28. December 2008 • 10h
I miss Picasso
30. December 2008 • 8h
I am approximately 859,708,135 seconds old.
Still tickin’. (http://dayofbirth.co.uk/)
(via polyacr)
11. January 2009 • 14h
Yeahh! (via remindyourself)
12. January 2009 • 11h
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller17. January 2009 • 16h
Bad times it seems …
17. January 2009 • 17h
Rule #1: There are no rules.
Rule#2: Don’t let the fuckers get ya.
Rule #3: The production is there to serve the film.
Rule #4: Filmmaking is a collaborative process.
Rule #5: Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”
(via „Nothing is original“ by Jim Jarmusch | Nerdcore)
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”)5. February 2009 • 19h
(via icanread)
7. February 2009 • 12h
“I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - Nuff’ said!9. February 2009 • 23h
“Consensus == stupid” by Kathy Sierra
(via Creating Passionate Users)
