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lovecanbesostrange · 4 years

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Rules: answer 17 questions and tag 17 some people you’d like to know better!

Tagged by: @flusendieb

Nickname: in school I had friends who called me Romius and I kinda forgot all about that, but found an ancient note in my desk recently... weird stuff...

Zodiac: Capricorn ♑︎

Height: 1,72m

House: Slytherin (forever laughing, because ambition? never heard of her)

Last thing I googled: that funky capricorn sign to copy it (before that I was too lazy to open up YT to search for a song, put that in google and clicked from there...)

Song in my head: Run by P!nk (guess what song I googled...)

Followers and following: following - 135 | followers - 714 (hallo, dear p*rnb*ts, but also thanks to that maybe two dozens real people :3 )

Amount of sleep: I’m usually trying for that 6-8 hours

Lucky number: 6

Dream job: fuck if I know

Wearing: sweatpants and an Invader Zim/Star Wars shirt (also underwear)

Fave songs: the ungodly reaction I had to hearing Only Happy When It Rains by Garbage in Captain Marvel definitely shows it’s a fave. XD, but okay let me throw out some with YT links || Dancing in my Dreams - Tina Turner || Love me in Black - Doro || Anywhere - Evanescence || All I need - Within Temptation || Sleeping Sun - Nightwish || Nightfall - Blind Guardian (I’m not even that big a fan of Tolkien, but this song... damn) || For you I’ll bring the devil down - Krypteria || Dancing on my own - Robyn || The Truth - Headstrong feat. Tiff Lacey (but well it has to be the Reuben Halsey Chillout Mix) || The Sacrament - HIM || Illusion - VNV Nation || Anyplace Anywhere Anytime - Nena & Kim Wilde || Wie weit ist vorbei - Rosenstolz || Seemann - Apocalyptica feat Nina Hagen (sometimes covers are better) || (*Fin) - Anberlin || Independent Love Song - Scarlet (love the The Bates cover just as much) || Hello - Shakespears Sister || I can’t be with you - The Cranberries || I’d do anything for Love - Meat Loaf (12mins or bust) || Eden - Sarah Brightman || Dante’s Prayer - Loreena McKennitt || Unstoppable - Sia (I want every female character I’ve ever loved to have a fanvideo set to this) || Poison Heart - Ramones || Maybe Someday - The Cure || You - VAST || One more night - Stars (I still dream of that music video that never was where I cast Ewan McGregor and Shirley Manson as the couple acting out the lyrics) || oh and let’s not forget about Run, Baby, Run - Garbage what a great first line..... sorry, got carried away

Instruments: I played tenor sax for a while around 10th grade, was fun, terrible teacher (It’s weird liking an instrument but not the genre of music it’s most associated with)

Random fact: I like driving, I lately can’t drink as much milk as I used to, I often prefer store over name brand, I’m a super picky eater which is 80% about texture and less about taste, I hate ranked lists and assigning random x out of y stars for things, I love necklaces but just never wear one

Favorite Authors: gonna go with comic writers for once: Kelly Thompson, Brian K. Vaughan, Terry Moore, Marjorie Liu, Gail Simone; special shout out to Chris Claremont, because without him and his legendary X-Men run my life definitely wouldn’t be the same

Fave animal sounds: whatever cats can come up with

Aesthetic: idk... a clear night sky with all the stars out, messy stacks of books, walls covered in posters and drawings, a shelf with mismatched plates and mugs, rainstorms

tagging: @isagrimorie @konako @professorspork @nuthintasee @alessandramortt @purrpickle @foxchaos @taliaarcher (also whoever wants to, tag me back, I want to see your song list)

#in the memetime #if anybody clicks through all those songs and finds just one they didn't know before and like I'm very happy

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lalalaugenbrot · 7 years

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entirely unasked for, read books 2017, first half.

Unter der Sonne (Daniel Kehlmann, 1998/2008): Daniel Kehlmann is, for now, my favourite germanspeaking writer (style-wise, no worries Fritz) and I started the year with reading some of his early works I hadn’t read yet. Unter der Sonne is a collection of short stories and as almost all of Kehlmanns narrations they are always very real but shifting into a dream, or it feels like it at least, always on the verge of a nightmare. one could call it surreal realism? or very real surrealism? it’s very hard to put into words but oh boy, I just love it so much. so I have already read Ruhm (Fame), a later collection of short stories and I liked the overall compilation of those more, especially because the stories were slightly linked to each other. But still Unter der Sonne was brilliant as ever! / English title: this has not been translated I think?

Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre (Friedrich Schiller, 1786): this was… quite wild to say the least. / English title: The Criminal of Lost Honour

Du hättest gehen sollen (Daniel Kehlmann, 2016): I love this little novel. It’s definitely one of my favourites by Daniel Kehlmann. And i really need to reread it! The mathematics mysticism is strong in this one. Das Geodreieck! / English title: You should have left

Maria Stuart (Friedrich Schiller, 1800): i feel terrible but the best thing about this book, which i bought at the flea market, is still that it came with a self made book mark -a ladie’s leg in a pantyhose and a very fancy high heeled shoe, probably cut out from a magazine and strengthend with adhesive tape- which must be, judging by the look of it, at least 60 years old, if not older (the book is from 1939). but apart from that, I also liked the play itself! but it has already been several months and to say anything specific about it now I would have to ask Evelyn Hamann to give a short recap of the bisher gesendeten Folgen. “Auf dem Landsitz Fortheringhay…”

Die Wahlverwandschaften (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1809): i was meaning forever to read this and it was so beautiful, and sad! :( not even to speak of the quite obvious Schiller parallels. :(( and also, if you ever decide to read Die Wahlverwandschaften, please do so while listening to Die Ballade von Wolfgang und Brigitte by Wir sind Helden! / English title: Elective Affinities

Beerholms Vorstellung (Daniel Kehlmann, 1997): this was Daniel Kehlmann’s first novel and ironically the last left that I hadn’t read. Compared to later works it maybe wasn’t as strong and the style not as developped but still very, very good. It’s about a magician, that is illusionist, who isn’t satisfied with his own skills because he himself still is aware that it’s all just tricks and illusion and thus tries to master his tricks so perfectly and blindly that he can become oblivious to the procedure in order to become a Real Magician and in the progress partially loses grip of reality. I mean… that idea alone is fascinating.

Cornelia Goethe (Sigrid Damm, 1992): Sigrid Damm deserves a medal for writing honest, inspiring and heartwrenching biographies about people (esp. women) we know so very little about!

Heinrich von Kleist (Dora Wentscher, 1956): this was a true lucky find at the flea market, I am still amazed. Oh Berndi!

Wallensteins Lager (Friedrich Schiller, 1798): this is merely a prologue to the other two parts of the Wallenstein triology so i really need to go on reading the other two (main) parts. / English title: Wallenstein’s Camp

Sprachwandel (Rudi Keller, 1990): How and that language changes is something that amazes me to no ends and I have been musing about that subject for years now but I have never actually read anything about it by someone who actually knows what they’re talking about. So it was amazing and interesting and I am (still) so thrilled by this. Language is like the most amazing yet inapprehensible thing ever?! / English title: On Language Change

Maurice (E. M. Forster, 1914/1971): this book stole my heart all over again after having seen the film already some years ago. like seriously, I am internally crying tears of joy ever since. please read this! it will not diasappoint, and Christopher Isherwood himself was a fanboy okay?

Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood, 1939): talking of the devil-this book is amazing! it’s like a mosaicy glimpse into pre-nazi Berlin, or rather Berlin right before turning and already turning into nazi Berlin. despite all, this book made me want to be there myself with all these people.

Die Physiker (Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1962): that was a weird and funny one. and not at all what I expected. I had always heard that even people who had to read it in school had liked it but apart from that knew nothing about it. / English title: The Physicists

Christopher and his kind (Christopher Isherwood, 1976): this is the non-fiction version of Christopher Isherwoods time in Berlin with its gay community. mainly, he is on the run from the nazis with his boyfriend Heinz. very sad and also a bit wild.

Winnie-the-Pooh (A. A. Milne, 1926): I might be identifying with Eeyore A Little Too Much. But really what a cute and clever book! (It made me think in Capitalised Expressions for days.)

The Importance of being Earnest (Oscar Wilde, 1895): i don’t know why i waited so long to read Oscar Wilde but omg, that was hilarious and amazing!!

Mr Norris Changes Trains (Christopher Isherwood, 1935): i didn’t enjoy this as much as Goodbye to Berlin and Christopher and his Kind, the entire story is somewhat sinister and the characters not really likeable somehow? but then I also read that Isherwood himself didn’t like it before i even started reading so I think I was also a bit biased. but it’s also very interesting to see how his style developped in contrast to the masterpiece I think Goodbye to Berlin is

Relato de un náufrago (Gabriel García Márquez, 1970): earlier this year I started reading Cien Años de Soledad (100 Years of Solitude) by García Márquez but stopped half way through because it confused the hell out of me and I somehow didn’t connect to the characters at all. I don’t know if it was for the Spanish or simply for the sheer amount of characters -of which half have the same name?!- and the large time span the novel is narrated on? anyway I wanted to give García Márquez another chance and picked something lighter, shorter and with less people - only one to be precise! And I enjoyed it very much! / English title: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Schillers Schwester Christophine (Annette Seemann, 2009): Christophine (Fene) was two years older than her little brother Fritz and since they both were much older than their younger siblings they were an inseparable duo in their childhood days. It is also said that Christophine’s character was a model for a lot, if not most, of Schiller’s female heroines. But as biographies about women in history go they can be a tough thing and this one makes no exception - to the point where it becomes almost unbearable! I got teary eyed reading this in the subway; but then I also might be caring about the Schillers A Little Too Much. / I highly doubt this has been transated.

Progress in Sign Language Research (Schulmeister/Reinitzer, 2002): blame (that is thank) Fargo and Russel Harvard that I suddenly became aware of how there’s an entire different set of languages to learn and learn about! The craziest thing was that while I was reading this very book (at work, sometimes there’s just not that much to do) an actual Deaf Person came to the cinema and asked if we were showing movies with english subtitles (which we don’t). That is he came up to me and said “deaf” and gestured writing in his hand and I then handed him a notepad on which we had our conversation. But everything happened so fast and there was another costumer waiting, and I was so taken aback, (I misspelled english as englisch how awkward!) but I had that book literally laying there next to me on the counter. I still wish I could have showed him. :/ I also regret not having been able to look up some cinemas for him that show movies with english subtitles. I hope he found one anyway!

A Room with a View (E. M. Forster, 1908): so after Maurice I wanted to read more by Forster and he did not disappoint! i had a lot of other stuff on my mind while reading this so it lost me a bit in the middle but totally got my attention back towards the end and i’m definitely going to reread this some day. and I simply cannot believe how wonderfully fantastical the Emersons are! although i’m yet to read Walden I am already contemplating putting “mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes” on my wardrobe as well-what a thing to do lmao! naturally I immediately watched the film after finishing the book and it was also nice seeing the entire Maurice cast again, only in different roles, haha!

books on my reading list for the second half of 2017:

Hundraårigen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (Jonas Jonasson, 2009)

A Single Man (Christopher Isherwood, 1964)

Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,1774)

The House at Pooh Corner (A. A. Milne, 1928)

Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck 1937)

A Manual for Cleaning Women (Lucia Berlin, 1977/1999)

Die Piccolomini (Friedrich Schiller, 1799)

Wallensteins Tod (Friedrich Schiller, 1799)

Walden (Henry David Thoreau, 1854)

Christiane und Goethe (Sigrid Damm, 1998)

La Casa de los Espiritus (Isabel Allende, 1982)

Penthesilea (Heinrich von Kleist, 1808)

Die Geschichte der Bienen (Maja (!) Lunde, 2015)

Glimpses of World History (Jawaharlal Nehru, 1930/1962)

Howards End (E. M. Forster, 1910)

A Passage to India (E. M. Forster, 1924)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde, 1890)

Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit (Sten Nadolny, 1983)

Frühlings Erwachen (Frank Wedekind, 1891)

#long post #i have never read this many book in only half a year?#lalaliest #lalalabert

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jettkindlerau · 4 years

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New Furniture Designs for Working from Home

Shift Divider Screen by Kelsey Leppek and Norman Rockwell 2020

Nobody expected a global virus quarantine, but here we are, trying to adapt our living spaces for homeschooling, class sessions, office meetings, and focused work in addition to everything else that we do at home. We quickly realized that our home spaces and furniture were not designed for these new functions. This spring, the industrial design students of Western Washington University worked on designing new furniture solutions for working at home. And they did it while working from home themselves.

The Problems They first investigated the problems that we are experiencing during lock-down:

Sharing small spaces. Multiple people sharing the kitchen table to do work.

Lack of privacy.

Lack of square footage.

Bad acoustics for video calls and meetings. Echos, noise, distractions. Online video conferences are notorious for poor audio.

Bad lighting for video calls and meetings. Most people look horrible in meetings due to poor lighting.

Distracting backgrounds, messy rooms, back lighting.

Bad ergonomics of sitting for long periods.

Lack of good ergonomic chairs, limited standing options.

The design challenge given to these creative students was: “How can the design of furniture solve or alleviate the problems of working from home?”

User research While working from home themselves, students conducted user interviews, and asked them to photograph their makeshift workspaces. They probed to find the problems that design could address. They also investigated the ergonomic challenges with sitting at a desk, on the bed, kitchen table, or couch. Furniture design trends were studied to understand the state of the art.

Sketches by students Wylie Jacoy and Keaton LoCicero

Brainstorming Armed with that research, students then went to work brainstorming different solutions. From wild concepts to variations of old standards. Working in a team of two, during lockdown quarantine, was especially challenging. But after 5 weeks of work, here were the results:

Shift - Room Divider By Kelsy Leppek and Norman Rockwell

Shift is an adjustable room divider screen for separating areas of your life. It provides a visual and audible barrier for your little home office. Organizational containers help with supplies at easy reach. It also makes for a professional background during those Zoom meetings. See more at their website: http://kelseyleppek.com/ http://rockwellmade.com/

Dwell dual purpose table by Lili Heim and Adele Houston

Dwell Coffee Table/Desk hybrid By Lili Heim and Adele Houston

Lili and Adele learned that finding a cue to physically end the workday can result in better work/life balance, increased health and productivity. They felt that office products should bring a sense of calm and comfort to the user, while still creating a dependable focused workspace. They also saw a trend toward a more flexible future that values portable, adjustable and multi-functional furniture. Stylish and sneaky. See more at their websites: https://liliheim.com/ https://adelehouston.myportfolio.com/work

Loft Desk by Keaton LoCicero and Wylie Jacoy

Loft Desk By Wylie Jacoy and Keaton LoCicero

Keaton and Wylie discovered that long periods of time sitting in one position was bad for ones body, back pain, shoulders and mental exhaustion. They sought to give the user some control of their environment and encourage change in position. The desk has two distinct heights, one for sitting and one for standing. See more at their website: https://keatonlocicero.myportfolio.com/work https://wyliejacoy.wixsite.com/portfolio

Billet roll top desk open by Bri Brown and Rose Kirby

Billet Roll Top desk

by Bri Brown and Rose Kirby One of the biggest struggles that many have working remotely is unplugging after work. Bri and Rose found that “changing your physical context can be a powerful signal to yourself that work is over, and you can amplify its impact by creating a ‘shutdown ritual.’” Their desk is a modern evolution of the classic rolltop writing desk that one can close up at the end of the day. See more at their website: http://briannamaebrown.com/

Porta compact foldable desk by Bo Baird and Asaki Nelson

Porta Portable work desk by Asaki Nelson and Bo Baird Asaki and Bo did an extensive survey of people working from home and discovered that many don’t have a consistent place to work and most use a laptop. So they decided to design a portable laptop desk that can keep work organized and flexible. See more at their websites: https://bobaird.myportfolio.com/ https://asakinelson.myportfolio.com/

Osom desk by Rafer Stromme and Matthew Seemann

OSOM desk By Rafer Stromme and Matthew Seemann

Through interviews, Rafer and Matthew found that separation from work and home life is a challenge for many when not leaving a physical space at the end of the work day. The clutter from work and home gets mixed up, especially with families with children. Their design has a lift top surface for storing away all those work things, and provides a fresh table top for home projects or school work. See more at their website: https://matthewseemann.myportfolio.com/work https://raferstromme.myportfolio.com/

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shesaidwithirony · 8 years

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La Repubblica interview on Social Media in the Trump Era

Questions from Luciana Grosso (La Repubblica)

Luciana Grosso: What’s next? What is coming after the social network era? What will arrive after this social-mania, if it will ever end?

Geert Lovink: I do not mind to act like a futurologist but I have to disappoint you: we’ll be stuck in this social media age for some time to come. We Europeans failed to develop alternatives. There is no ‘market’ and we all let it happen: crippling monopolies are a fact, we’ve locked ourselves in and now we complain. Unless there’s going to be a global crisis or war, we will not able to free ourselves from the ‘tremendous’ addiction to these real-time apps. I have given up that individuals who make the courageous exodus will make a difference. Boredom or dispear won’t make a difference either; the physical, social and emotional dependency is already too big. We were naive to think that users would move on, as they did from Geocities to Blogger to Friendster to MySpace. Then it stopped at Facebook. Youngsters migrated to Whatsapp and Instagram, but these are owned by the same old Facebook Corp. and are currently being integrated into the same data empire. What’s left is the proposal of a public takeover of platforms (including the datacentre infrastructure). This a political proposal we need to further discuss and put on the table in this year of crucial elections.

For decades European elites deliberately looked away, convinced that the internet was a fad, a fashion that would fade away, and now they have been pushed to the sides. Brussels thought telcos such as Orange and Telefonica, and traditional technology players such as Philips and Siemens would develop alternatives. Nothing happened. Instead, we’re using hardware produced in China with services controlled in the United States. Lately Europeans have woken up and have installed austerity-driven neo-liberal ‘creative industries’ policies that try to foster start-up cultures. Ever since Evgene Morozov we know that techno-solutionism is not the answer. Developing an app is not a solution to overcome platform capitalism. For the social media drama it might already be too late, unless drastic measures are taken that implements anti-trust measures overnight.

LG: In the beginning, Internet was seen as a utopian place where the only rule was ‘no rules’: everyone was free to say and write and read whatever they wanted. Was this in fact the case at the time?

GL: There is no doubt that 1990s internet culture was more wild. But I am not nostalgic. There were far less users. The user base was homogeneous and the interfaces and operating systems didn’t work very well. These days we’re not often confronted anymore with crashing devices. Instead, dysfunctionality has moved to the level of society. The smoothness of today comes with a price. Jaron Lanier often points at the anarchic nature of individual homepages—a far cry from the standardized communication environments of Facebook and Twitter. Why learn Linux or XML anymore as an ordinary user? This overall loss of technical knowledge amongst users has lead to crisis in media literacy. The idea is that we do not need anymore instruction. All platforms are self-evident for a child—and this is what we actually see happening around us. This is also the case of moderation. That’s an art form: how to run a community, to overcome differences and structures debates (without policing them). One of the sources of the problem here is the lack of tools to develop communities. Social media are not built for that, on purpose. They are outward-looking with the aim to connect as much data with other data with the aim to sell the profiles to third parties for advertisement purposes. Everyone knows that social media is an alienating echo chamber and fosters narcissism as a necessary act in the struggle for self promotion. In the end, empowerment is not satisfying. We need a cold restart, from scratch, and build peer-to-peer networks that focus on collaboration and discussion, not just on ‘news’ that ‘shared’ and commented by ‘friends’. This has already been said time and again, but nothing happens. That’s how we got stuck. Many feel that way. That’s the disillusion of the internet, which is no longer a progressive tool nor a parallel reality but an abyss that takes us down further into a state of inequality, fear and hatred.

LG: How did that happen, a place celebrated for freedom becoming so dark, filled with lies, violence and fascism? Is this jungle what freedom looks like?

GL: I have not lost my belief in freedom and subversion. Let’s go back to Erich Fromm’s Fear of Freedom. There is so much fascinating literature that we can read together. Take Hannah Ahrendt, or Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty. Promote such thinkers and contrast them with the libertarian dogma’s of Ayn Rand that is being promoted so much these days. Which freedom do we want? Many of us have second thoughts when it comes to radical openness. We can’t deal with the ‘open society’ and intuitively search for a ‘New Order’ as Michael Seemann, the Berlin ‘Kontrollverlust’ blogger and author of Digital Tailspin, calls it. What comes after radical transparency? Will we find a new equilibrium after the dust has settled? Do we withdrawal in a new cult of secrecy, as Byung Chul-Han in his Transparency Society proposes? Will we ever get used to the bright light of over-exposure, to put in terms of Jean Baudrillard? I would love to answer your question in an orthodox psycho-analytical way. Why do we want to punish ourselves after a period of excessive communication and radical freedom? How can we escape this vicious circle of orgy and remorse? Where is the psycho-historian Lloyd deMause, now that we need him? Who updates his epic book on Reagan’s America?

LG: Should we be afraid of fake news? Lies and the manipulation of the truth have always been around, ever since the times of Moses. Why is this suddenly a problem?

GL: As you say, fake news has always been core business, it’s was once called ‘manufacturing consent’ or ‘public relations’. As Morozov tweets: “Messing with the media, celebrities, facts, etc does not really get in the way of getting the job done – for Trump, it’s *the* job.” Our problem is the ‘authenticity bonus’ of direct communication. We do not see the social media managers that operate behind their dashboards (as Douglas Rushkoff teaches us). Why the fake news question did not come earlier has got to do with moment in which social media became mainstream. Until recent, the Net was still looked upon as something unknown and new, at best an additional toy. Experts talked about multi-media as if it was some sort of symphony, a media concert in search for harmony between all the different channels. But the liberal ‘multimodality’ view of ‘remediation’ has been blasted away by the directness and real-time of social media.

Now that the introductory period of ‘digitization’ has come to an end, we are exposed to an unprecedented form of acceleration. In the original idea of networked democracy it was assumed that the multiplicity of channels would lead to a greater diversity of voices. This did not materialize and it would be useful to reconstruct where precisely the process derailed. In classic internet fashion, things move fast, and that will also be the case with the fake news meme itself, which will be overruled by even more spectacular propaganda acts, pseudo-events–and historical tragedies.

LG: Is preventive censorship a solution?

GL: In past weeks we see that the ‘perception management’ industry is busy figuring out which ‘anti-missile missiles’ they should invent to calm down the media frenzy. A Minority Report technique to isolate evil behaviour might work on the individual level but is no longer effective once the political upheaval has already started. Facebook is entirely naive as they still believe in filtering of ‘fake news’ by temporary consultancy firms such as Correctiv or Snopes, as if this problem can be solved and will disappear in a few months. There are also fact-checking firms on specific topics such as Ukraine or climate change. The next step is the ‘democratization’ of the meme design workshops, ‘meme sprints’ where multi-disciplinary ‘agile’ teams of designers, coders and ’trolls’ gather to unleash ‘meme wars’–and then disappear: organized networks that take the ideas of Adbusters one step further but shy away from the long-term commitment of the work that is done out of The Agency, a presumed ’troll farm’ office building in St. Petersburg (see also this Guardian article). Not far from here is the NATO observatory in Riga that looks in Russian social media manipulations.

LG: Will our grandchildren read Facebook or The New York Times?

GL: The New York Times, which by then will be owned by Facebook. That would be the Dutch pragmatist answer. The correct one is of course neither of them. The kids will navigate through Uber Entertainment. You must have heard from Alfabet, the mother company of Google, an umbrella structure for mega corporations, which is also likely to happen to Facebook as well. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, now owns The Washington Post. The new rubber barons are running the largest non-profits in the world (think of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation). Others enter different industries such as space travel. What we need is a new iteration of cyberpunk literature that takes us on a tour through corporate cities owned by Snapchat, Tesla factories that mass manufacture killer robots and the Huawei hacking bunker, a smart internet observatory, masterminded by Chinese hipsters.

http://networkcultures.org/geert/2017/01/25/la-repubblica-interview-on-social-media-in-the-trump-era/

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