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Little Creatures
01.26.10 21:20Section: Maps
Filed Under: Copyright - CC, Essays
Imagine that all throughout your life there are tiny, invisible creatures that hover about you. Well, they’re not entirely invisible; you can see them if you want to.
Self-imposed distraction.
06.30.08 19:01Section: Maps
Filed Under: Copyright - CC, Essays
I understand that I’ve put you up on this pedestal. I asked you to be here, so that I could see you, to admire you, every day. But if you would please, get your sweet ass off the top of my desk so that I could get some work done!
Honestly, it’s distracting me!
Interface with anything.
06.23.08 19:58Section: Maps
Filed Under: Copyright - Sak, Essays
Several years ago I was hired to work for a small company that was just starting out in the Internet software business. The title I was assigned for this position was that of Web Interface Designer. At the time I didn’t think too much of it, partly because I was busy being swept away by the river of money and play that the big dot-com boom was creating, yet the idea of this title left an impression on me, and, as I’m apt to do with much of what I experience in life, gave way to consideration of its meaning. I knew what the “Web” was, and I knew what I was supposed to be doing as a “Designer” for the company, but the whole title, altogether, made me curious. My daily routine involved creating graphic elements, placing those elements in a useful and meaningful manner in a coded language that could be interpreted and displayed by a web browser to a visitor to the company’s website and the software that it was offering to the public. All of that can seem fairly complex to someone who doesn’t know anything about it. Yet what I wanted to understand more fully, was what it meant to interface with something, anything at all.
A Dark Object's Apology.
04.06.08 20:47Section: Maps
Filed Under: Copyright - CC, Essays
If it would be easier, I’d blame the maker; because whatever it is that you and I do, and are, is always easier to accept if it were willed upon us by the hand of some omnipresent being. I’d have someone else to blame then, too. Alternatively, I could point at science, what with all of its truths and facts about gravity, the orbiting of objects, and the mysteries of attraction. But even science hasn’t answered the enigma of the universe; like why I’m using this language to describe our interaction. After all, why would a comet be penitent?
Rewards
06.16.07 08:57Section: Maps
Filed Under: Copyright - CC, Essays
I spend a good deal of my time concerned about the future of humanity. I find this particularly odd since I’m typically, sometimes quite severely, disappointed with the idiocy that people exhibit. It seems to me that there is something wrong with the current trends of the majority, that our sense of self-worth has become somewhat skewed. The epidemic of uncertainty that surrounds so many people seems so incurable. As we’re constantly seduced by commercial culture it’s easy to get confused about what will cool the searing sensation. Giving in and buying more crap isn’t a sensible or lasting solution, and counting colored pieces of paper doesn’t alleviate the weight. What came over me while I was pondering all of this was that people need better, lasting rewards.
The Bowl
01.04.07 13:37Section: Maps
Filed Under: Copyright - CC, Essays
When it comes to possessions, I’m something of a minimalist – relatively speaking of course. I don’t own much, and I don’t have a desire to acquire a great many things. Those things that I do have I try to make last. Many of the things that I own are simple in nature, typically a solid color – usually earth tones – and I strive to avoid any commercial markings if at all possible or cover up those that do exist. Any distinguishing marks are usually put there by me, and often because of some accident that has left the item slightly disfigured but usable. Unfortunately, it’s accidents such as these that can shorten the life of an item, and there are times when the item has lived a long and fruitful life in service to me, and it’s necessary to replace it. My poor, unfortunate bowl has finally reached this sad state of affair, and so I set out to find a new one.
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