“In the West we throw things away when they break. In the East people take the time to fix things, it doesn’t matter what things look like, as long as they work.”.

“When you enter through the font door of someone’s house you see what they want you to see: the best version.
The back door on the other hand tells a culture’s true story.”.
(Michael Wolf)
See: 100 x 100 and The Architecture of Density.
Above: The bastard chairs, from “Sitting in China” (Steidl, 2002) ©Michael Wolf.

And now a cup of Alphabeat. Listen and see: Fascination.
Pop, from Denmark.
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“It’s like that little girl can see us here in the future, but nobody is going to believe her, and she’ll forget all about it when she grows up.”.

Shorpy “is a blog about old photos and what life a hundred years ago was like.
The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century.”.
Above : “December 1936. Untitled photograph taken in rural Iowa by Russell Lee.”.

“Sounds like: bumping into a chair while humming.
Influences: musique concrete, film, everyday life, randomness, the artists on Anticipate and Microcosm.”.
Ezekiel Honig. Listen: Concrete and Plastic.

“I currently conduct research for Nokia Design developing new applications, services and products that, if I do my job right, you’ll using 3 to 15 years from now. Pushing technologies on society without thinking through their consequences is at least naive, at worst dangerous, though typically it, and IMHO the people that do it are just boring.”.

“Future Perfect is a pause for reflection in our planet’s seemingly headlong rush to churn out more, faster, smaller and cheaper.”.
(Jan Chipchase)

Above: This Is A Petrol Station, Ho Chi Minh City, detail.

Paperplain. Helen Page, a 19 years old from Maidenhead, near London. Listen: 11:30. Acoustic, alternative, indie.

Above: Helen, detail. Photo by Amie Haines, courtesy of Helen Page.

“A winter’s day I was going to wear a heavy wool jacket, and there was a cat that was watching me and I thought: this cat doesn’t understand what I am doing, it knows nothing, it knows neither what is a jacket, nor that there is the winter, nor what is the cold, it doesn’t know anything, and it will never know anything because its brain is structured in a manner such that it doesn’t go beyond certain boundaries, it is useless to want to go further.
We are in the same situation, we are under one roof and we fail to never go beyond.”.

(Ettore Sottsass: Conversation under a roof, translated from Wikiquote)

“My name is Scott Hansen and I am a San Francisco, California based musician (Tycho) and artist (ISO50). My music can be found at tychomusic.com or you can listen to it while browsing the ISO50 Portfolio.”.

Above: Amsterdam, detail, © Scott Hansen.

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Bender: “I tried helping them. I tried not helping them but in the end I couldn’t do them any good. Do you think what I did was wrong?”

God: “Right and wrong are just words. What matters is what you do.
Being God isn’t easy, if you do too much, people get dependent.
And if you do nothing, they lose hope.
You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket.
When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

Godfellas: the transcript at the Internet Movie Script Database.
From Futurama, episode 52: Godfellas, written by Ken Keeler (2002).

“Great film. Perfect length. False people.”.

High Maintenance. A short film about our future. Directed byPhillip Van.
Above: Nicolette Krebitz, screenshot, detail.
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