Samstag, 26. September 2009
Music hello saferide
She has a very nice smile, though she doesn't show it all the time and often keeps a very serious look, once she lifts up the corners of her mouth you wonder how you could be afraid of that relatively tiny woman with this voice quite similar to Alanis Morrisette and the hands in her huge trousers pockets mostly all of the time.
She stands in front of the audience and actually appears more like an actress than a musician, her right hand on the microphone, her left and free hand making big gestics to every word she sings. Actually, I can't stand looking at her all the time, after some 30 minutes I start looking to the floor sometimes as I just want to concentrate on the music, because otherwise, by looking at the stage and what is going on there, I feel like being part of the audience is, compared to what the band does on stage, like being part of a group of very tired people, as we (the audience) would have to move at least 5 times faster and 10 times more intensive to at least proximate the energy the band members generate on stage.
Nevertheless, the music is very very nice, a lot of sad songs, a lot of very happy songs, all very intensive, all musicians' eyes show they feel what they sing or play about and after all, movement, even if sometimes a big exaggerated, is still way better than behaving like asleep - maybe political advisors (or even better politicians themselves) should attend such concerts to learn about body language.
hello saferide --> Lund (live)
hello saferide --> i don't sleep well
hello saferide --> The Quiz
She stands in front of the audience and actually appears more like an actress than a musician, her right hand on the microphone, her left and free hand making big gestics to every word she sings. Actually, I can't stand looking at her all the time, after some 30 minutes I start looking to the floor sometimes as I just want to concentrate on the music, because otherwise, by looking at the stage and what is going on there, I feel like being part of the audience is, compared to what the band does on stage, like being part of a group of very tired people, as we (the audience) would have to move at least 5 times faster and 10 times more intensive to at least proximate the energy the band members generate on stage.
Nevertheless, the music is very very nice, a lot of sad songs, a lot of very happy songs, all very intensive, all musicians' eyes show they feel what they sing or play about and after all, movement, even if sometimes a big exaggerated, is still way better than behaving like asleep - maybe political advisors (or even better politicians themselves) should attend such concerts to learn about body language.
hello saferide --> Lund (live)
hello saferide --> i don't sleep well
hello saferide --> The Quiz
Freitag, 18. September 2009
Musik und Mehr
"na, für sein alter kommt er doch wirklich gut da rauf, ich meine, sieht ja noch recht sportlich aus."
die beiden anderen lachen, der mann klettert grade eine leiter empor und installiert einen dunkleren filter vor einem scheinwerfer.
er sagt: "ja, schon noch klackig oder?"
sie versteht es nicht gleich, fragt "was?"
er sagt nochmal: "ich meine, er sieht noch recht knackig aus?"
"ja, schon, ich meine, sieht man ihm gar nicht unbedingt an"
sie lacht noch immer. dann kommt wieder ein signal, ruhe bitte.
badly drawn boy - once around the block
die beiden anderen lachen, der mann klettert grade eine leiter empor und installiert einen dunkleren filter vor einem scheinwerfer.
er sagt: "ja, schon noch klackig oder?"
sie versteht es nicht gleich, fragt "was?"
er sagt nochmal: "ich meine, er sieht noch recht knackig aus?"
"ja, schon, ich meine, sieht man ihm gar nicht unbedingt an"
sie lacht noch immer. dann kommt wieder ein signal, ruhe bitte.
badly drawn boy - once around the block
Mittwoch, 9. September 2009
Mittwoch, 2. September 2009
Series: The Internet - An Interim (part I)
What has internet turned out to be for us until today?
I can speak only for me and that's probably a major distinguishment that has to be made first and furthermore one of the most important influences in order to answer this question.
The internet is like every big aglomeration of knowledge only as usefull as a person is aware of it's potentials and is able to access them. For me, as having no guess about how a web page is build up nor about how to generate and use a data bank, ´the´ internet would be limited on consuming content others provide. This would degenerate it for most people to a better television system, with supply, i.e. content, being limited as only a small percentage of people would know how to `drive` this `information-machine´. But, blogs, social networks of whatever kind and most important easy to use software for building web pages have opened up this - until then for the masses - closed door to share what you want to say and or what you know with more than those people you could directly reach by phone, letter or at speakers corner.
The latest and until then probably most powerful example has been observed during the election in Iran and the following protests against the results, and the violence against protesters. Thousands of Iranians `shared` their `knowledge`, respectively their experiences, with the world. I think this was one of the first and yet the most powerful presentation of what the internet is able to mean in the future. The distinguishment between reality and cyberspace is, as was shown, actually not existing. It's only that mankind had not yet discovered this connection. Maybe the easiest comparison can be drawn to natural sciences like physics, were mankind is very aware of it's restricted knowledge and thus has set up a system based on theory and falsification, i.e. a theory is accepted as the most suitable explanation for a phenomenon only as long as it is falsificated or replaced by another theory which provides a better, e.g. more precise explanation. This might be a good way to deal with the internet and it's possibilities as well. Maybe we should not limit our understanding of the internet on a theoretical-technical construct built upon a client- and netstructure, i.e. different clients like computers (thus users), being connected via cable, wifi or satelite, as this view is limited on the exisiting thought that sharing information is the main duty of the internet.
It is actually way more. It takes a direct influence on the way people see the world, as it changes our understanding of borders within this world. As it was the case for the invention of the steam engine, people broadened their horizont above the borders of their towns and countries and spinning the story on, people will one day broaden their horizont over the border of this planet. But this was and is a process. It both takes several decades to be able to make distinctions between single steps of this progress and until people realize the whole range of possibilities that come alonge with such a fundamental new technology. The invention of electric light may be pulled up as another, recent (as conventional lamps are baned in the EU since September 1st 2009) exapmle to picture this progessive and interchanging character, which technology and civilization contract. The initial step was an idea transformed into a technology, but the further and fundamental steps were and are made in connection with people.
In this sense, the internet has acutally just begun to change our lifes, as we are about the first generation to use it in daily practise in nearly every situation, starting with the exchange of information via an email instead of making a call, using online databases instead of libraries and ending with myspace and youtube-parties where everybody can present his latest discoveries of music. The next possible steps are already there but have not yet leaked through to the mass. Companies focusing on the expansion of route guidance systems out of cars and upon everybodies' mobile phone are looking for intensively for staff despite the crisis, and first applications are already in use: the Berlin-based company `aka-aki`(www.aka-aki.com)offers an application for mobile phones which detects and shows everybody you know (or might know as a friend of a friend), whenever this person is in your closer environment (see e.g. the aricle on www.timesonline.co.uk)
Despite the scarry possibilities of misuse (e.g. in situations like the one described in Iran), this technology might be another approval for the mentioned statement that reality and web are in fact not two distinguishable worlds but undergo constant exchange and were merged since the moment of the first pictures of the coffee machine at Cambridge University.
I can speak only for me and that's probably a major distinguishment that has to be made first and furthermore one of the most important influences in order to answer this question.
The internet is like every big aglomeration of knowledge only as usefull as a person is aware of it's potentials and is able to access them. For me, as having no guess about how a web page is build up nor about how to generate and use a data bank, ´the´ internet would be limited on consuming content others provide. This would degenerate it for most people to a better television system, with supply, i.e. content, being limited as only a small percentage of people would know how to `drive` this `information-machine´. But, blogs, social networks of whatever kind and most important easy to use software for building web pages have opened up this - until then for the masses - closed door to share what you want to say and or what you know with more than those people you could directly reach by phone, letter or at speakers corner.
The latest and until then probably most powerful example has been observed during the election in Iran and the following protests against the results, and the violence against protesters. Thousands of Iranians `shared` their `knowledge`, respectively their experiences, with the world. I think this was one of the first and yet the most powerful presentation of what the internet is able to mean in the future. The distinguishment between reality and cyberspace is, as was shown, actually not existing. It's only that mankind had not yet discovered this connection. Maybe the easiest comparison can be drawn to natural sciences like physics, were mankind is very aware of it's restricted knowledge and thus has set up a system based on theory and falsification, i.e. a theory is accepted as the most suitable explanation for a phenomenon only as long as it is falsificated or replaced by another theory which provides a better, e.g. more precise explanation. This might be a good way to deal with the internet and it's possibilities as well. Maybe we should not limit our understanding of the internet on a theoretical-technical construct built upon a client- and netstructure, i.e. different clients like computers (thus users), being connected via cable, wifi or satelite, as this view is limited on the exisiting thought that sharing information is the main duty of the internet.
It is actually way more. It takes a direct influence on the way people see the world, as it changes our understanding of borders within this world. As it was the case for the invention of the steam engine, people broadened their horizont above the borders of their towns and countries and spinning the story on, people will one day broaden their horizont over the border of this planet. But this was and is a process. It both takes several decades to be able to make distinctions between single steps of this progress and until people realize the whole range of possibilities that come alonge with such a fundamental new technology. The invention of electric light may be pulled up as another, recent (as conventional lamps are baned in the EU since September 1st 2009) exapmle to picture this progessive and interchanging character, which technology and civilization contract. The initial step was an idea transformed into a technology, but the further and fundamental steps were and are made in connection with people.
In this sense, the internet has acutally just begun to change our lifes, as we are about the first generation to use it in daily practise in nearly every situation, starting with the exchange of information via an email instead of making a call, using online databases instead of libraries and ending with myspace and youtube-parties where everybody can present his latest discoveries of music. The next possible steps are already there but have not yet leaked through to the mass. Companies focusing on the expansion of route guidance systems out of cars and upon everybodies' mobile phone are looking for intensively for staff despite the crisis, and first applications are already in use: the Berlin-based company `aka-aki`(www.aka-aki.com)offers an application for mobile phones which detects and shows everybody you know (or might know as a friend of a friend), whenever this person is in your closer environment (see e.g. the aricle on www.timesonline.co.uk)
Despite the scarry possibilities of misuse (e.g. in situations like the one described in Iran), this technology might be another approval for the mentioned statement that reality and web are in fact not two distinguishable worlds but undergo constant exchange and were merged since the moment of the first pictures of the coffee machine at Cambridge University.
Dienstag, 1. September 2009
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