Sunday, February 2, 2014

Elastic mind

WEEK14 - DAY 6

1. Soundtrack of the day

Röyksopp "The Alcoholic" A Puppet's Tale 

2. People to meet


3. Places to go


4. Question of the day


5. Inspiration

“Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?” Yoko Ono

Adaptability is an ancestral distinction of human 
intelligence, but today’s instant variations in rhythm, call for something stronger: elasticity,” Paola Antonelli.

“Designers give life and voice to objects, and along the way 
they manifest our visions and aspirations for the future, even those we do not yet know we have.” (Paola Antonelli)

Elastic Mind”. The MoMA 
exhibition’s website. 

 TED Talk - Paola Antonelli speaks of the exhibition.

“And I don’t know what to do, now that pink has turned to 
blue,” -  Hüsker Dü.
The most important thing today, for all of us is to develop strong skills of elasticity, “a by-product of adaptability and acceleration... It means being able to embrace progress, understanding how to make it our own,“ -  Paola Antonelli.

“Bucky”or Buckminster Fuller  - “the best way to predict the future 
is to design it”!

Ryoji Ikeda and his test patterns
Here he Goes Big, Really Big.

Flowers have been used since as far back as 50,000 years in 
funeral rituals. Many cultures do draw a connection between flowers and life and death, and because of their seasonal return flowers also suggest rebirth, which is the why many people place flowers upon graves...” (this was written here)

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