It looks like our friend’s gripe goes beyond myspace. Well found, Iain.
Whoever it is, I think I like them.
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Dave Brubeck with young Russian violinist
“During a visit to Moscow in the 80’s, Dave Brubeck met the faculty and students in Moscow Conservatory. While he was improvising on a “Ei, uhnem”, a Russian folk song, a young man downstage stood up to play Stéphane Grappelli-style violin jazz with him.”
(by afahsu)
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“I have only my talent for drawing, so I drew.”
Ronald Searle, Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs Mole
47 jewel-like drawings by Ronald Searle made for his wife, Monica, each time she underwent chemotherapy. On New Year’s Eve 1969, Monica Searle was diagnosed with a rare and virulent form of breast cancer. Each time she underwent treatment, Ronald produced a Mrs Mole drawing ‘to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead’. Filled with light and illuminated in glowing colours, the drawings speak of love, optimism and hope. Like the mediaeval illuminated manuscripts such as the 15th-century Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, to which the title of this book refers, the 47 drawings are on an intimate scale and were never intended for publication.
When asked about the drawings, Searle said, “I have only my talent for drawing, so I drew.” Here’s a little more about them:
Prior to the cancer shock the couple had bought a decrepit house in the south of France and, despite her illness, Monica continued to devote her time making this house a home.
Devastated with his wife’s diagnosis Ronald did the only thing he knew how to do to cheer her up. .. draw.
Before every chemotherapy session he gave his wife a painting. Monica was depicted as a mole, a very happy mole celebrating life in their new home. (The Mole idea came after their discovery of a large celler that they made into a cosy room)
‘Everything about them had to be romantic and perfect,’ says Ronald. ‘I drew them originally for no one’s eyes except Mo’s, so she would look at them propped up against her bedside lamp and think: “When I’m better, everything will be beautiful.”
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RFID Beat Box (by Danne Woo)
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Horrendously funny. Hysterically awful. Take your pick.
ALTERNATE REALITY - “THE KING THAT NEVER WAS” (OFFICIAL VIDEO) (by attorneyguy)
via @mattmuir
Just lovely.
Lisa Hannigan - I Don’t Know (by lisahannigan) via @glinner
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Many people have hated social networking for a long time. Writing it on a wall does not turn it into genius.
Genius, no. But I think that to hate it to the extent that you’d want to write it on walls all over Shoreditch certainly merits interest.
I mainly like the fact that by writing stuff on walls the person in question is taking social networking back to real world physical basics in a way that completely mirrors the virtual. I’m just waiting for someone else to write ‘I agree’ and then our person has their first WallSpace friend.
people have been writing their thoughts on walls for a long time. having used some of those sites quite some time, i can see where the motivation to do this could come from. i am not sure the person who did this intends to take social networking back to the analog.
also, i feel it might just be one of those “trendier than thou” pseudo-backlashes which can happen when things get too populist.
this ( http://www.trendcatching.com/2006/06/myspace_experim_1.html ) is in a similar vein, but with the oppersite motivation. he seems to have been quite sucessful.(also in shoreditch.)
I don’t think they necessarily meant to reclaim social networking as a real world process, I just thought that seemed to be the effect. But I do think you’re probably right about the ‘trendier than thou’ business.
And thanks for the link. Looking at that honeytrap, as well as the hand-writing (especially the Ys), I reckon it’s the same person. What do you think?
Gashness – im in South Africa at the moment so I cant bear witness to this… people moaning about social networking is like people moaning about mobile phones… eventually everyone gets with the program…
having said that as myspace gets more and more mainstream (the My Mum’s on Myspace syndrome) there’s opportunities for people who can do ASmallWorld style exclusive community
James, Splinter groups like asmallworld are interesting. But I wonder if the ‘my mum’ syndrome is as influential in moving people away from communities as is their commercialisation?
I like your experiment, btw. I guess it shows how quickly myspace has gone from pure social network to starmaker.