Maybe It's All OK







A blog by Daniel Patrick Helmstetter
Dec 02
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We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able to access almost anything from almost anywhere, and they don’t have the same localised stylistic sense that my generation grew up with. It’s all alive, all “now,” in an ever-expanding present, be it Hildegard of Bingen or a Bollywood soundtrack. The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness. I think this is good news. As people become increasingly comfortable with drawing their culture from a rich range of sources—cherry-picking whatever makes sense to them—it becomes more natural to do the same thing with their social, political and other cultural ideas. The sharing of art is a precursor to the sharing of other human experiences, for what is pleasurable in art becomes thinkable in life.
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CSN&Y - Teach Your Children

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Nov 30
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Buchstaben Museum - The Letter Museum in Berlin
quoted from yatzer.com
“The Letter Museum’s mission is the preservation and documentation of letters, regardless of culture, language and font systems. Letters stand at the interface between written and visual culture. They are the basic building blocks of all semiotic textual traditions and written communication. Letters are ciphers with characteristic shapes and a variety of materials. They carry images, they flow together as tattoos, or they can be savored as pasta and pastries. As a result of the increasing homogenization of the urban landscape quality crafted letters and signs are vanishing from the public space. Due to the disappearance of traditional companies, and also the rise of the Corporate Logo, regional and historic characters are being lost. The Letters Museum - established in 2005 by Barbara Dechant (39) and Anja Schulze (33) - works as a recycling company as well as an archive. The collected objects, having semiotic functions as signifiers in A, B, C, carry meaning independent of their material embodiment, fulfilling their functions across all aesthetic bandwidths. So far there is no comparable museum dealing exclusively with the letter as the content-free sign. The plan is a museum in the traditional sense with unconventional exhibits. The goal of the Letter’s Museum is to awaken the public’s interest and awareness in typography, and the collection itself. The magic of the museum is the release of objects from their actual context, and will delight future visitors, from first grader to academic theorists and street artists to design enthusiasts.”

Buchstaben Museum - The Letter Museum in Berlin

quoted from yatzer.com

“The Letter Museum’s mission is the preservation and documentation of letters, regardless of culture, language and font systems. Letters stand at the interface between written and visual culture. They are the basic building blocks of all semiotic textual traditions and written communication. Letters are ciphers with characteristic shapes and a variety of materials. They carry images, they flow together as tattoos, or they can be savored as pasta and pastries.
As a result of the increasing homogenization of the urban landscape quality crafted letters and signs are vanishing from the public space. Due to the disappearance of traditional companies, and also the rise of the Corporate Logo, regional and historic characters are being lost. The Letters Museum - established in 2005 by Barbara Dechant (39) and Anja Schulze (33) - works as a recycling company as well as an archive. The collected objects, having semiotic functions as signifiers in A, B, C, carry meaning independent of their material embodiment, fulfilling their functions across all aesthetic bandwidths.
So far there is no comparable museum dealing exclusively with the letter as the content-free sign. The plan is a museum in the traditional sense with unconventional exhibits. The goal of the Letter’s Museum is to awaken the public’s interest and awareness in typography, and the collection itself.
The magic of the museum is the release of objects from their actual context, and will delight future visitors, from first grader to academic theorists and street artists to design enthusiasts.”

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Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain, everybody. Everybody has their story to tell…

V for Vendetta

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Ad agency Wieden + Kennedy’s motto done in clear thumb tacks.
Wieden + Kennedy 12, an experimental advertising school run by Portland ad agency W+K, is responsible for buying out all available clear push pins on the west coast of the US. Over 100,000 thumbtacks were used over 351 hours to create a wall mural that spells out Fail Harder, a message that underlines the importance of failure during the creative process.
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(the process on youtube)

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Ad agency Wieden + Kennedy’s motto done in clear thumb tacks.

Wieden + Kennedy 12, an experimental advertising school run by Portland ad agency W+K, is responsible for buying out all available clear push pins on the west coast of the US. Over 100,000 thumbtacks were used over 351 hours to create a wall mural that spells out Fail Harder, a message that underlines the importance of failure during the creative process.

(via flickr)

(the process on youtube)

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I think people who can truly live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give.

George Harrison

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Nov 29
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Bob Dylan singing ‘The Boxer’

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Don’t like reading? Read on… - Beautiful collection of altered books
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Don’t like reading? Read on… - Beautiful collection of altered books

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