I love cold haricot verts, especially when they are almost frozen. They are so refreshing!
I dislike when you order a new mobile phone and there is no USB cable provided in the box.
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I love Spring and the smell of blooming flowers. It smells of life.
I dislike when I get allergic reactions from those smells, though.
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I love the taste of arrack balls and black coffee, especially when it is enjoyed while watching a setting sun.
I (slightly) dislike having tons of song compositions playing in my head while there is no time to actually compose them.
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I love the outcome of my latest dream sketch. It is almost an exact replica of my dream.
I dislike however that I cannot remember the face of the person, whose missing face is the reason why the image isn’t complete.
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I love that I will be ordering a new laptop soon, very soon.
I dislike that I will be ordering a new laptop because my stationary computer is breaking down.
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All in all, the present state of my life is quite pleasant, seeing that all positive and negative things do not negate each other. Despite my missing USB cable and the lack of time for composing songs, I still have tasty, nearly frozen haricot verts, and I am just about to enjoy a good cup of black coffe and a delightful arrack ball while watching the setting sun.
There is a reason why I don’t like Disney movies, and there is a reason why I love the old Disney shorts. The reason why I don’t love the modern Disney is because there is simply too much normative characters, too predictable stories and too much moral, whereas the older Disney cartoons were short sketches that only served a purpose as pure entertainment, many of them completely without morals. Why? Because it is entertainment.
What I like about the older Disney Cartoons, like The Gallopin’ Gaucho, is the rawness of the humor, the odd characters, the fluent animations that gave soul to the sketches. Of course, the cartoons from around the 1940′s to the 50′s have great lightning and realistic animations, but contain too much message and are stained with morals. I don’t think moral is bad, but it seems the only reason Disney’s cartoons moved that way was to enable children to watch the show, as if Mickey’s original rowdy behaviour would be too demoralising for their innocent eyes. In my eyes, this only takes away a lot of charm. That is why I seldom watch the newer Disney cartoons with a smile on my face, and stick to Donald Duck instead. At least his violent nature wasn’t really tamed until around the 80′s (if he ever was). You can always rely on a lazy, exasperated duck.
“During the lunar eclipse obscure rites were held and performed in halls of greed and gluttony. There, in the candle-lit gloom, dark cults grew to serve unholy deities of the nether realms, which in turn enticed their mad followers to succumb to ever more gluttony, lies and denial of truth. They were to sacrifice their free will and fall under the enchanting spell of horrendous low carb-high fat diets, so that they would all unite in death through a massive collective heart attack, due to atherosclerosis. As if this sacrifice would not still the hunger of the eldritch horrors that led them, a few chosen cultists were incited to taint all human blood. During these dark ages, their plague would come to spread over the kingdom of mankind, and what reason lay behind this doom, only forgotten gods would know…“
I certainly hoped that this was nothing but fiction, although after revealing expeditions through random locations on The Internet (as usual) I fear it is but the truth, at least in the near future. My spine shivers with dread…
Post-related illustration will be posted soon! Brace yourselves meanwhile!
2012 seems to be a year of diminishing freedom. I wrote in my last post about SOPA and how it would allow for copyright abuse the same way current patent laws allow for patent abuse. Even though SOPA never got to see the light of day as an approved legislation (thanks to our vigilant resistance), it was far from the only threat against human rights.
For us Europeans (or at least those of us residing in Great Britain or any other country united with the European Union), another possibly upcoming threat may be the outcome of an “insane” verdict considering copyright infringement. It encourages monopoly on copyright, which may even open up for worse abuse of copyright than SOPA did, and can lead to lawsuits against artists portraying something fairly similar to copyrighted material. Read more about this here. This makes me utterly -let me cite the author of the linked article- “riddled with fear“. Now where to will creativity wander off??
Another threat is ACTA, which is something similar. What gives me the creeps about ACTA is that everything concerning the legislation is kept secret from the public, so that the people will have no idea of what lies in store for them.
I consider myself quite poorly educated about both of these upcoming legislations, but you may understand my concerns about this whole situation when a supposedly democratic society proposes laws in the discrete. Of course, as always, portions of information has leaked out. Information that makes people shiver. Read more about ACTA here,here and here.
If this year is to signify the regression of free will, democracy and common human rights, as well as the infringement of innovative and creative freedom, then I will surely pray for any 2012-doomsday-prophecy to become fulfilled and take this all away before the year has ended.
At this present moment, history is being written. But whatever is written in the books depend on the choices made by each and every one of us. This will change the future no matter what is the outcome; either we will look back at the day when our freedom of speech could have been severely infringed; or we will dream about the days when Google, Facebook and Wikipedia still existed (Am I being too dramatic now? Maybe. But how would you react when 90% of your Internet time is gone, if not dramatically?).
SOPA is gathering like a shadowy mass around The Internet, engulfing it and tearing the whole network down when the real bad guys are nowhere to find. But seriously, who are the real bad guys? Those downloading and spreading the work of true artists without taking pay for it, or those who abuse the talent of these artists by claiming copyright on their work. Intellectual Property… The work of a true artist is the mind of a true artist, and you cannot simply buy or claim property on an artists mind. And you do not own your feelings, you express them, and there is nothing more than that.
There is so much I have to say about copyright that I find questionable, but there are also other things that need to be said. And please understand me, as an artist myself I am offended by the bill’s authors and how they have been clumsily treating this question. I have a gnawing feeling in my gut telling me that this is more about money and information control rather than an act against piracy. But let me just replace any further rambling with ever heard of creative commons? Let us move on to the most important things. Today is about the silent digital war that has been going on for a while, about since the Stop Online Piracy Act was written, but also throughout time whenever the freedom of speech has been threatened this way. And please, do not underestimate the possibilities of law abuse if SOPA becomes reality. SOPA could be as much of an opening for law and copyright misuse as the one for patents.
Let me cite Wikipedia:
“For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia.“
Further citation:
“[...]Over coming days you’ll be hearing from the many businesses, advocacy organizations, and ordinary Americans who oppose this legislation because of the myriad ways in which it will stifle free speech and innovation. We hope you’ll take our concerns to heart and oppose this legislation by voting “no” on cloture.“ – sopastrike.com
“The issue here is that this law is very badly written, very broadly overreaching and, in at least the Senate version, would include the creation of a DNS (domain name system) blocking regime that’s technically identical to the one that’s used by China. I don’t think that’s the right way the U.S. needs to go in taking a leadership role on the Internet.“ – geeksaresexy.net
And lastly:
“Here’s worse news: SOPA could hurt the sites you count on now, but many of these sites will at least have the budgets to hire lawyers to fight back. But what about the small sites of today and innovators of tomorrow? Under SOPA, they may never get off the ground – and the Internet will be a less interesting place as a result. Act now so Internet innovation and expression doesn’t become collateral damage in Big Media’s losing battle against online infringement!“ – eff.org
This is how SOPA would affect you. This is how you sign a petition against SOPA:
Everything I write on my blog is obviously based upon my own personal observations; my blog posts are not scientific studies in the least way.
And remember that even scientific observations and studies are personal experiences to those who perform them, presented in the scientists' own subjective perspectives, yet described as "objective".
Everything is subjective; my interpretations; a scientists interpretations; the reader's interpretations, and ultimately your interpretations. As is the theories and conclusions, upon which all other knowledge is based.
Thus, everything becomes equally unreliable, and it ultimately comes down to your interpretation and judgement (to which everything else is relative) of what and who is correct. Whatever pops up here is my interpretations, judgement of - and reflections on the surrounding world.
