Well, my dear pixel passengers… I’m so sorry for such a long hiatus with no texts here… I was kinda out of service for writing, but everyday here… ok, I should be straight and honest now… no more fooling around the theme…
I’ve become obsessed with this code playin’ at Wordpress…
It’s a real addiction…
Please, someone help me!!! Gimme some advice how to stop surfing through the whole blogosphere seeking for more and more blog tools… This whole thing has started so innocent… and in the next moment I was dreaming about tones and tones of rss feeds totally filled my apartment…
And I’m at the probation now… This week no more widgets and boxes here, just wordz… wordz… wordz…
What this whole thing has to do with Stefan Sagmeister?! Well, nothing… It’s just that I’m using some of his short_but_smarties advices how to improve life…
Stefan Sagmeister, Things I Have Learned… (c)
You know, I don’t have a problem with short_but_smarties thingz in art and life…
Simplicity and banality should not be mixed up with stupidity what most of people actually do or simply don’t understand… About that how banality can be taken serious one smart woman from our history, Hannah Arendt wrote a long time ago in a remarkable book…
Let’s get back to Stefan Sagmeister…
Sagmeister is really a well known designer therefore I’m not planning to write now about his life, projects and very_cool_design-ish_but_nice_guy_attitude… Several weeks ago I vent to lecture that most of you know about, entitled the same as his embellish_my_visual_comprehension monograph and exhibition ‘Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far‘…
Stefan Sagmeister, Things I Have Learned… (c)
This was probably his hundred, or so, lecture about almost the same theme but I’ve listened him with such a sympathy because he is also a very good performer… I don’t have a problem with good performers as far as the result or the idea is ok… But those who think that you have to buy their story a priori without letting you even to stop for a while to reconsider the whole stuff concern me a bit…
What was nice to see then is that Sagmeister is fully enjoying in a position of giving advices to unknown people… For instance, I liked the moments when he became very relaxed and in a sort of private mood, but then in a split second he has realized that he is at a_lecture_for_future_successful_designers and he was again very_cool_design-ish_but_nice_guy…
Book cover: Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far
The reason why I’m also writing about him is the web project he has founded after he realized that the project with sharing life_taught_me_this_my_friend can be very challenging not just for him as designer but to other folkz messin’ with typography and also to photographers, video makers… dunno for you, but to me the idea is gorgeous!
For instance, submission made by skater Tylor Tate is something when I am realizing how community can be beautiful when there is a space out there for giving them the opportunity and a frame to talk about themselves:
Tylor Tate (c)
‘I’ve been skating for 10+ years and that sentence is always something that pushes me to try new things (unfortunately it made me try that hill). I’ve been able to apply it to many other things than skateboarding. You can’t be afraid to fall. If you are crashing it’s a sign you are pushing your limits and expanding your capabilities in whatever you are doing.’
Tylor Tate (c)
Check here for more…
And here are Stefan Sagmeister’s thoughts about that how you can embellish your comprehension:
1. Helping other people helps me.
2. Having guts always works out for me.
3. Thinking that life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
4. Organising a charity group is surprisingly easy.
5. Being not truthful always works against me.
6. Everything I do always comes back to me.
7. Assuming is stifling.
8. Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
9. Over time I get used to everything and start taking for granted.
10. Money does not make me happy.
11. My dreams have no meaning.
12. Keeping a diary supports personal development.
13. Trying to look good limits my life.
14. Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.
15. Worrying solves nothing.
16. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
17. Everybody thinks they are right.
18. If I want to explore a new direction professionally, it is helpful to try it out for myself first.
19. Low expectations are a good strategy.
20. Everybody who is honest is interesting.
p.s. … and where are your flip flops while you’re reading this post, my pixel companion?!
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10:45 am
July 15th, 2008
Playing with code, but also with life philosophy, don’t you think? These are my favorite:
Helping other people helps me.
Money does not make me happy.
Trying to look good limits my life.
You would expect a homeless guy with dirty paper tag around his neck with similar signs:)!
But, Sagmeister is great designer, and this reply is not provoked only by your great text, but also by his 20th commandment:
Everybody who is honest is interesting.
10:50 am
July 15th, 2008
ok, I admit, I’m a well paid replier!
p.s. see the 20th commandment
10:57 am
July 15th, 2008
it’s ok, i can afford it…
because i’m makin’ at the moment some plans for future involving terms such as dance - company - clerks
… and what makes me hapier is that we have the future, follow the brave rabbit: http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/07/vegas_oldest_st.shtml
it could be a spin off for our artisans…
oh, yeah… actually i liked Sagmeister a lot… i now that people like Mirko Ilic are very sharp when pointing out the idea…
but Sagmeister brought me back the believe in process making… i like process makingz…
11:15 am
July 15th, 2008
It’s all about the process, or stopping it (follow the brave rabitt). Which process results are you actually referring to as a spin off?
It’s hard to choose between the two; I mean, art is great, but the lady rocks!
11:23 am
July 15th, 2008
i usually follow the white rabbit… urgh…
agree totally, the lady rockz!!! (zorry, stefan…)