Selbstverständlich kommt man ab und zu nicht darum herum, eine alte Meinung (seine eigene Meinung) zu korrigieren. Man hat nicht weit genug gedacht, oder übers Ziel hinaus geschossen, oder nicht mit allen Eventualitäten gerechnet. Bei 60 Pages besteht dank der 60 Tage genügend Zeit, so eine Korrektur [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World I called on Giver, but it seemed to me Giver was saying by this silence—a bit like Chickie the bear—it was time I inhabited the grace inside [more]
Immer wenn einem langweilig ist, muss man einfach nur „Sarah Palin“ googeln. Da kommt immer was Gutes bei raus. Jetzt kommt gerade was zu Weihnachten. Oder vielleicht eher gegen Weihnachten. Wobei Sarah Palin nicht gegen Weihnachten ist, sie ist im Gegenteil sogar sehr dafür, sonst hätte sie ja [more]
“What’s life like in Shanghai?” I am often asked by friends in Europe. It’s everything at the same time: fast-forward and backwards, exciting and depressing. It’s hard to nail it. And much easier to tell with pictures. I really like “Shanghai Blink”, a new coffee table book by [more]
20 years and some odd days ago two albums were released: „Midnight Marauders“ by A Tribe Called Quest and „Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)“ by the Wu-Tang Clan. If memories of the Golden Age – be they first-hand or passed down – make you giddy or sweetly nostalgic: [more]
I’m sweating lightly, taking a breather after a fierce game of ping pong. Having lost the last two matches, I’m reminded of how competitive I am; moans and curses always escape when a shot goes wild. Somehow, I care. That attitude is arguably good for ping pong and [more]
My adult immigrant students of English as a second language recently told me about their first impressions of New York. Trees, clean air, canned food, shopping carts, fall leaves, low buildings, tall buildings, a lot of activity, and much, much more. Why are all of the trees without [more]
Hello everyone, This is my first post on 60pages. I met David Iselin, who invited me to participate to the 60pages project, about a year ago, in a place some people tend to call “Holy Land(s)”. To be honest, we did not really meet in any holy place. [more]
During our first and as yet only conversation Maxime was pouring champagne into his vodka drink at Elise’s party in a “no pain no gain” effort which clearly backfired but seems to be constitutive of this guy’s eclectic ideology. While happily ruining the drink he was telling me [more]
carving, laughing, skating now! carving, laughing, skating now!
Devolution is a weird, idiosyncratic notion, an ambivalent byproduct of evolutionary theory. It also sounds funny. Its scientific value in biology is questioned, because it supports a biased anthropocentric notion of regress in evolution. The theory of devolution asserts that sometimes a species “de‑evolves” and therefore “degenerates” into [more]
Following the latest style, the phenomena of Method Acting Buildings, I lost the track yesterday. And ended up with the method of an Epic Theatre. Edouard Francois entered the stage as the master of Epic Theatre Architecture. But what about the Epic Theatre itself, the Berliner Ensemble. Will [more]
I pretended to be Jack Nicholson’s son. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQOHUEwJjfE
Der Weg zum Glück ist es, die Freude und Lust zu maximieren, dem Schmerz aber auszuweichen. Das bewusste Genießen ist der eigentliche Sinn des Lebens: „Als höchstes Ziel steht die sanfte (glatte), zur Empfindung sich steigende Bewegung.“ Dennoch ist ein Mensch nur glücklich, wenn Vernunft, Wille und Begehren [more]
Probably you all knew the following verdict for a long time: Life is full of bullshit. Well, not me (although I had a feeling). I wasn’t aware of the magnitude of bullshitness in my life until, a few months ago, I finally read Harry G. Frankfurt‘s essay «On [more]
The other night when I was walking around I passed by several Stolpersteine. These are brass cobblestones carrying the imprint of the stigmatized people, mostly Jewish, who were torn out of their homes, deported and killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Why is this important to [more]
Kaffee gehört zu jenen Produkten, die mit jedem Schritt in ihrer Verarbeitungskette an Wert gewinnen, und zwar in einer Höhe, angesichts der man sich am Ende dieser Kette fragt, warum man so blöd ist, 3,20 Euro für einen Kaffee auszugeben. Zumal der Anteil, den die Erzeuger des Grundproduktes [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World The very next morning I said goodbye to Belinda outside the Lady House. Then before her startled eyes—for by this point I rarely used my physical superpowers—I [more]
In his essay, Hidden Name, Complex Fate, Ralph Ellison recounted his process of discovery as a child in a Negro neighborhood with the name of Ralph Waldo. Those in the ‘hood who possessed the spark of recognition at the string of names, Ralph + Waldo, and then measured [more]
Louis Kahn behauptete, den Backstein zu fragen; was willst du sein, was kannst du. Trotz solcher Poesiekrücken hat er wunderbare Gebäude geschaffen; schwer und doch leicht. Die Single a Whiter Shade of Pale von Procul Harum lag einen heissen Sommertag lang auf dem Beifahrersitz des alten Rovers [more]
At Antje Majewski’s studio, with works currently on display at the Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle. Fucking corporate joint, good show, his assessment. Performative piece by Jonathan Monk at Phylogenesis of Generosity in the Prinzessinnengarten. Mural piece by Bettina Krieg. He also appreciates arts and crafts: vogueing in a perl [more]
Jet lagged and full of expectations, you get up early and visit a place you have visited many many times before. It’s a place full of memories, good and bad ones, painful and cheerful. There is hope you thought. And there still is…always will be…always has to be. [more]
Okay Mister White, sorry…okay Mister Diez, let’s cut the bullshit, let’s drop this weird broken German English, let‘s switch to our mother-tongue, unsere geheiligte Muttersprache, edler Diez. Deutsch, Hannoveraner Deutsch, jene Mundart, die sich im Laufe des letzten halben Jahrtausends zum sogenannten Hochdeutsch mauserte, in diesem unserem, sich [more]
So “Gravity” – which I saw last night – is perfectly fine. It is a film that seems to be centered around small moments: a great visual interpretation of the song “Space Cowboy”, a dog and a baby, or a joke so fine that I almost believe that [more]