“I currently conduct research for Nokia Design developing new applications, services and products that, if I do my job right, you’ll using 3 to 15 years from now. Pushing technologies on society without thinking through their consequences is at least naive, at worst dangerous, though typically it, and IMHO the people that do it are just boring.”.

“Future Perfect is a pause for reflection in our planet’s seemingly headlong rush to churn out more, faster, smaller and cheaper.”.
(Jan Chipchase)

Above: This Is A Petrol Station, Ho Chi Minh City, detail.

Paperplain. Helen Page, a 19 years old from Maidenhead, near London. Listen: 11:30. Acoustic, alternative, indie.

Above: Helen, detail. Photo by Amie Haines, courtesy of Helen Page.

“A winter’s day I was going to wear a heavy wool jacket, and there was a cat that was watching me and I thought: this cat doesn’t understand what I am doing, it knows nothing, it knows neither what is a jacket, nor that there is the winter, nor what is the cold, it doesn’t know anything, and it will never know anything because its brain is structured in a manner such that it doesn’t go beyond certain boundaries, it is useless to want to go further.
We are in the same situation, we are under one roof and we fail to never go beyond.”.

(Ettore Sottsass: Conversation under a roof, translated from Wikiquote)

“My name is Scott Hansen and I am a San Francisco, California based musician (Tycho) and artist (ISO50). My music can be found at tychomusic.com or you can listen to it while browsing the ISO50 Portfolio.”.

Above: Amsterdam, detail, © Scott Hansen.

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Bender: “I tried helping them. I tried not helping them but in the end I couldn’t do them any good. Do you think what I did was wrong?”

God: “Right and wrong are just words. What matters is what you do.
Being God isn’t easy, if you do too much, people get dependent.
And if you do nothing, they lose hope.
You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket.
When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

Godfellas: the transcript at the Internet Movie Script Database.
From Futurama, episode 52: Godfellas, written by Ken Keeler (2002).

“Great film. Perfect length. False people.”.

High Maintenance. A short film about our future. Directed byPhillip Van.
Above: Nicolette Krebitz, screenshot, detail.
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“If you have a People Pleaser Pattern, you often try to be who others want you to be, to agree with them, to fit in.
You may not be consciously aware that you are doing this, but there is a part of your psyche that wants to please others in order to avoid reactions that you are afraid of.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that you always act compliant.
Even when your pleasing part is activated, there may be other parts of you that feel other things.
While you are being pleasing, another part of you may be feeling ashamed of this, and eventually this part may speak up.”.

(Jay Earley)

The Pattern System. By Jay Earley.

“This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others.”. Indexed, by Jessica Hagy.

Above: Always. Everyone. Everywhere.

Jozin z Bazin (Jozin from the bog, by Ivan Mládek for Czech Television, 1978).
The ultimate ringtone for your cell phone. From YouTube.

Tata Nano. Length 3,1 m ; width 1,5 m ; height 1,6 m. Metal body, four doors, four seats. Rear engine, 2 cylinder petrol fuel injection, 623 cc, 24 kW (33Hp) Four speed manual transmission. Maximum speed: 105 km/h Fuel economy (combined): 20 km/l Price (in India): from $2500 (Eur 1700).

Above: Tata Nano (Luxury version), at the Auto Expo 2008, New Delhi (from Reuters India).

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