Miss Mostly Explored

The Nomad and the mirror

2008-08-25T21:47:00.010+02:00

Every three months in new locations.
Circular movements.
And no permanent home.

How does the Nomad find rest, clear focal points? What does she build?
A way of living I don't quite understand how to make the best of.
What is left behind at every move? And what does she bring with her?

I have a feeling we all need to save up our experiences and life expertise into more than just memories - that weakens in time.
A shelter. A frame. A home? Something that helps us remember what we know, what we have learned, what we have lived. So that we do more than move into countless iterations, sometimes uncertain if we have already lived it - repeating ourselves, or even adding mistakes where we once solved that single life equation with brilliance.

Maybe the Nomad solves it by storing herself in the collective conscious of the group that travels with her?
And how permanent must that group be to keep a picture of you? To be able to communicate this reflection of yourself back to you?

The Nomad asks the Nomad.

//M/E

The Spaceship or The Transporter?

2008-02-26T17:16:00.010+01:00

You may choose between the following 2 objects:

1. A fully functional personal Transporter. It will instantly beam/transport/delocate-relocate you to any desirable location on the Planet Earth.
Limitations:
* Only functions on Earth
* Only you may use it (and smaller objects you have on you)

2. A fully operational Spaceship. It can carry 200 people, of your choice.
It travels 400 x Speed of Light (as an estimate you will need 20 years to reach the closest planet where current astronomers don't rule out the possibility of some kind of life). The Spaceship is completely self-sustainable with a fantastic renewable energy solution.
Limitations:
* Does not have a Transporter

So, which is you?

I am an advocate for the Spaceship. To boldly go where no man has gone before. To leave something established behind. To be an explorer. And risk all you have had, uprooting, for the possibility of something extraordinary.
I just quoted Star Trek.
And yesterday I found the musical theme. For choosing the Spaceship.

Thanks to Manuel playing every Monday @ King Kong Bar (Berlin) for bringing this wonderful track to my mind.
Jan Turkenburg and his pupils of the Catholic Geert Grote School delivers beauty with the track In My Spaceship.
(For those who wants to sing along.)

IN MY SPACESHIP (Lyrics)

(Ashes to ashes, funk to funky,
we know Major Tom's a junky...)

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one, lift off!

Watch out cause I'm taking off, in my spaceship
Well farewell and lot's of love, in my spaceship
Yes, I've had it up to here
It's best to simply disappear

I will meet T'poll and Dax, in my spaceship
Take a holo to relax, in my spaceship
I'll shake hands with Miles O'Brien
Says my engine's doing fine

And to boldly go where no-one's ever gone before
I'll just won't be back no more

Have a drink with doctor Who, in my spaceship
To the Interstellar Zoo, in my spaceship
Singing Klingon having fun
Start a fight and then be gone

No more lessons, no more work, in his spaceship
Gone is Mister Turkenburg, in his spaceship
Yes, I've had it up to here (Beam me up, Scotty!)
It's best to simply disappear

And to bouldly go where no-one's ever gone before
I'll just won't be back no more

(Wooooow! Houston, we got a problem!)

Bye bye school and bye bye world in my spaceship
Jesse Klundert taking off in my spaceship
No more moaning say good-bye
See my brother no more cry in my spaceship
No more busy, always quiet in my spaceship
I will travel through the night in my spaceship
No more home work, no more home work!
No more tidying up my room, in my spaceship
We will travel on the moon, in my spaceship
Gone is Missis Hoogerman, in her spaceship
No more science, no more maths
Gone is whole the f***** mess!
No more home work, no more school, in my spaceship
Go to space are very cool, no more home work
In his spaceship, in his spaceship, in his ...

Yes, I've had it up to here (Get off my bridge!)
It's best to simply disappear (Energize)

And to boldly go where no-one's ever gone before
I'll just won't be back no more

Tien, negen, acht, zeven, zes,
vijf, vier, drie, twee, een!
Dag Meneer Jan!

(You like, eh? This track come from the compilation Interplanetary Materials. Weird, new, exciting, about space, old electronic organs and voices. Both audio and cover art is available, gratis, CC-licensed)

//M/E

Mostly relocated allocated

2008-01-31T12:25:00.002+01:00

6m3 transit wagon
700 km
6 straight hours in front of the wheel.
My first time driving the Autobahn.
Arriving 3 am last night. Now here. In Berlin.
After 4 hours sleep the van was unpacked, and is being returned to Denmark, courtesy of my friend, Mr. Symon. I get to stay at his place until I find my own. Perfect.
Nothing much has happened here yet. But the atmosphere I merge with tells me I am doing the right thing.
I started the day hooking up my Technics 1210, finally getting to listen to my newly acquired 12": Dean Cole's impressive Discipline from 2001. Pure Beauty.
Continuing to sort all my vinyl according to style, and got rid of some too.

And now on to the final project! Getting closer. Day by day.

//M/E

Mostly Kaospiloting towards the real world

2008-01-26T14:23:00.000+01:00

I have a basic motivational drive run by the belief that:

Sharing of resources and ideas
leads to
a greater public domain
leads to
creativity/co-creation/participative creation
leads to
social innovation
leads to
greater living conditions for humanity as a fellowship/global community.

(Yes, she is in love with the future.)

I believe in the OS-principles as a starting point for designing sustainable and social innovative solutions for the future.
Not only does it supports my general belief that sharing intellectual resources and products will lead to a grander ideation pool, that will benefit the whole of humanity as well as individuals. I also believe that is happening no matter whether we like it or not, as a result of digitalization and socio-digital networks, so we might just as well be pro-active about it.

Let shortly look at those trends:

1. Socio-digital networks
Communities come into being/arise from shared motivations and passions.
We are no longer restricted to and bound by a geographical area.
We gather because we share similar ideas, interests, values and hopes. Not because we have to, out of duty. Internet as young global framework opens these borders. And by that, challenges traditional institutions of government.
So we see a shift from a mechanical world view to a more systemic view on human interaction and organization.
However, the net is being regulated by the producers of code. Who controls the programmers?

2. Digitalization
The notion of intellectual property is being challenged in a digital culture.
One might argue that ideas never can become anyone's property as they are the result of human interaction throughout history and an artist's life experience, and hence never something that appear separately and distinctly in an artist's mind.
Anne Nimus - a two-person team pseudonym - describes this shift in history - from viewing the artist as a craftsman and a messenger that could appropriate/communicate the common knowledge - to ideas being the property of an artist's unique personality. A shift that marks the beginning of and now, I would argue, outdated concept of copyright

The idea of a copy no longer holds the same impact as it did before digitalization.
E.g.
Resources used in producing a copy of a book.
1 book
- 500 g of paper
- 10 ml ink
- unknown amount of Erg (energy)

2 books
- 1000 g of paper
- 20 ml ink
- 2x (unknown amount)of Erg

Now the duplication of 1 piece of intellectual property can be done by a mouse-click, and the only cost is the hard-drive storage and the energy used when accessing the HD. That is if you don't want to go physical and have a real-life copy.

3. Paradigm of Openness
Looking into the history of the Free Open Source Software movement, we see the value of sharing the recipe. I argue that a product/service only is improved by the motivated input of many, instead of restricting it to the work of a single development team.
What does Open mean?
- The recipe/method for production/creation is available
- Transparency
What does Free mean?
It is more a question about availability than about something being given away at no cost. Or as Lawrence Lessig (founder of Creative Commons) puts it, what resources should be available and accessible to anyone, and not controlled by either state or marked?

I am curious of how we can utilize open source/copyleft/open copyright as the basic principle in designing a future business model? How do we capitalize on freedom (focusing on no-cost or on availability) and openness (transparency)?

As I wrote in a previous blog:

With the GPL (General Public License - stating that you have the right to use a given product, and the code for the product as you please - you may alter it, redefine, extend it - as long as you provide the people you distribute it to with the same set of freedom as you were given) the general copyright paradigm is challenged. That is powerful. And it can be capitalized. Open source as a concept isn’t necessarily about something being given away for free. Your customization of a product/service is key, if there is a community out there with that specific need. At the same time you empower you customers as they have the possibility to remix the product further.
People are driven by their engagement to create and to share – and what limits creation is interest/motivation, not copyright.

So, what are we afraid of losing when opening up?
Main reason must be reduction in profits. And this is where my journey begins.
Final project underway. Now in the search of a company that is willing to try out new ideas with me.

//M/E

Water mirrored

2008-01-24T19:28:00.000+01:00

I went swimming today.
1125m.
Head over water, inhaling through the mouth
Head under water, exhaling through the nose
Up and down, body fully emerged in bluish colored fluid.
I looked down, and I felt you.
I felt you swimming underneath me, on your back, facing me.
We are dolphins, whales mirroring each other.
So close, but never touching.
The moment lasts and lasts.
I step out of the water,
knowing that I left you there.
Knowing that I want to go back.

Is this healing?

//M/E

Play January

2008-01-24T14:52:00.000+01:00

In the search of a final project, DIVERSION comes visiting.
Mine is named Mininmal Techno aka Fraüleintechno and can be downloaded from Beatport or bought at Hardwax or via Discogs.

Some (only?) as MP3, most physically present as sweet sweet vinyl:

Ben Klock - Warzawa/Czeslawa - Warzawa (Ostgut)
Gurtz vs Dilo - Glasnost EP - Moscovitas (Dapayk Rmx) (Einmaleins Musik)
Gurtz vs Dilo - Thundra Remixed (Adjunct)
Sweet N Candy & Rufus Dunkel - Hit The Points
John Tejada - Mono on Mono (Palette Recordings)
Jamie Jones - I Like You
Dean Cole - Discipline (Corrosion Records)
Dolly La Parton (aka Alex Under) - Whenever (Enrico Palazzo Remix) (Be My Sheep)
Chris Carrier - Tumble Blur (Adult Only)
Ben Klock & Marcel Dettmann - Dead Man Watches The Clock (Ostgut)
Koljah - Loops for Work - Morgen (Damian Schwartz Remix)(Sushitech)

Mostly from Norway, or?

2008-01-23T20:10:00.000+01:00

Miss Mostly is a Norwegian.
And as we all know, Norwegians are born with skis attached to their feet.
That is also the case with Miss Mostly.
However, urban life and continental travels has challenged the once excellent skiing performance of yours truly. And I got footage to prove it.
Darn! I need to spend more time in my home country...

Mostly skiing, take one

For those who don't understand Norwegian here is what she said!

- Then we're ready!

Mostly skiing, take two

Translation:

- Round two
(comment by Mostly's brother and movie director, Mr. Twinspeaker)

- Yeah, then vi are heading down (this slope) as Ola Nordmann
(
Ola: generic male Norwegian name
Nordmann: directly translating into Male from the North meaning a Norwegian
)
would have done it.

- Åsa Nordkvinne
(
Åsa: generic women Norwegian name
Nordkvinne: directly translating into Woman from the North, not used in the Norwegian language
)

- (some garbled talk)

- Freyja!
(A goddess of love, beauty, and fertility in Norse mythology)

- Freyja on skis!

- Here she comes thundering/hammering down the slope!

- Lalalala!

//M/E

Mostly Proudly presents Tilt: 2 Tracks & A Mixture

2007-11-21T16:00:00.000+01:00

Yes.
2 cool tracks and 1 sweet mixture by the Norwegian techno artist Tilt.
Description: Atmospheric, rocking beats combined with synth chords that activates your spine, makes you alert while in a dream state. I want to move. Raise my arms. Enter the dance floor?

Ohh yeah!

Tilt: The Magic Woman

Tilt: The 3 O'clock Girl (entering the dance floor)

Tilt : Untitled Mix
(Name suggestion: The 3 O'clock Magic makes the Woman enter the Dance floor?)

Cover by Miss Mostly herself:

Enjoy, good people. I know I do.

//M/E

Bauhaus Information Sign Design Captured

2007-11-18T20:31:00.001+01:00

Bauhaus typography - clean, sharp, designed geometry, often dominated by the triplets in color of red, white and black. I concur...To the extent that I will link some samples from a design epoch that has so much to offer information architects today.

(The work of the Bauhaus artist: Herbert Bayer)

So I am drawn to Bauhaus design. It is inspirational. It is Beauty.
And a couple of days ago I saw this.

Information design in our current infrastructure. The beauty of the design is captured in the angle and the composition, transforming the content/the information into something more. I see angled squares and circles playing around with font-types and colors. Sharp, erect and force-full.
Like Bauhaus?
Like Bauhaus

//M/E

Creative Commons Swag Competition 2007

2007-11-18T20:06:00.000+01:00

So, I have entered my first photo-competition.
Make love to your CC Swag via the camera.

Check!

Here are my candidates:

Like to support the promotion of CC, by joining the competition?
Check out the details at CC. The contest is open until Dec 17th.
Yay!

Edit: A idea sketch for a Pac Man spoof, CC style. Hehehe.

//M/E

You are where you work?

2007-11-16T16:34:00.000+01:00

I have recently been digging into, and adding meat to one of the buzz words of the Now, namely Enterprise 2.0.

And now the time has come to analyze my current working environment. The social media features (or even buzzier: Web 2.0 features) are throughly present where I work. We have company wiki's, company blogs, IM (Jabber) routines, feeds are partly shared among employees, and connections via social network sites are well-established.
With all the focus on the virtual presence in my working environment, I have somewhat forgotten my physical surroundings.

This is where I work, more specifically my work bench (Friday 18pm, Berlin):

This is my work bench again, set in the context of the room:

The slogan from a Swedish crispbread commercial comes to mind: "You are what you eat"
You are where you work?

What impact does an Enterprise 2.0 business have on the physical working environment?
With all people connected digitally, have the physical sphere been down-graded?
Holm Friebe writes in his book 'We call it work' (Wir nennen es Arbeit) about the Digital Boheme. The current reality of loose organizations of people connected to a shared goal, however, they are working towards it at uneven hours, spatially dis-connected.
That makes me think of B-Productive. An organization that certifies companies which allows for dynamic working hours, to accommodate B-persons, as well as A-persons, believing we are productive at different times during the 24 h cycle.
And with the emergence of web 2.0 technology there is no longer a direct need to be present at a desk between 9 and 5. The importance lies in defining concrete goals, delivering on time & sticking to dead lines. The definite connection between space/place and an organization, be it a business, an agency or association, has weakened to the point of being non-existing.

Back to my work bench.
And its features: Rather minimalistic, non-organic, open, quiet.
How does it inspire me?

What associations do you get?
What do you need to be present around you, to do the best possible work?

//M/E

World Chessboxing Championship 2007

2007-11-05T17:21:00.000+01:00

Yes.
Great combo.
Chess and boxing.
Competing strategies of the mental and physical sphere.
11 rounds in total. Decision by K.O or check mate.
Alternate rounds of chess and boxing, all demonstrated within the ring.
The World Chessboxing Organization are onto something here :)

Here you see American David 'Double D' Depto versus German Frank 'Anti Terror' Stoldt in action - Frank 'Anti Terror' winning by check-mate in the end of the 7th round.

And some live feed...

Sehr kool, eh?

//M/E

Lights are Us

2007-10-29T12:02:00.000+01:00

The Chill Out room at Ritter Butzke
I enter - and step into a huge living room. Not mine...ours. For the duration.
Set by a simple principle of "Do as you please, this is your space. And offer the people around you the same freedom".
The club community. No strings attached, and yet connected by a shared idea. Or even vision. I wonder how many of us manage to take the same principles with us home and further into our work.

The dj re-mixes, breaks down, breaks up, Steve Wonder when he just called to say I Love You - unevenly pitched with some strong digital noize, before hitting me with Autechre. I smile.

7-8 projectors, all from different time periods is streaming beautifully patterned visuals. The walls are covered in white sheets, the lighting is in-direct making the pictures projected seems like old 19th century photos, even though their content is of our age.
I stand up, bring out my mechanical eye while immersed in slow, deep electronic beats, and start shooting.

Many of visuals fade in and out, like a slow heart beat. A couple moves into my view - caressing each other, maneuvering the deep electronic beats. I see beauty - my mechanical eye needs upgrading.

//M/E

Miss Mostly & Mr Symon

2007-09-28T16:08:00.000+02:00

(The Journey Begins)

(And for that we need style...Look! No hands!)

(We are kool in the pool of Symon's shades)

(Zoom out...and we have a passenger)

("I know of a place you should visit - follow me")

(And what a place - filled with old vinyl! - yet inviting us into the digital world)

(And look what treasures lies about!)

(Time for Timeout - Lønstrup snaps)

(And shades off)

(Then we head to the beach of Mårup)

(And on the cliff there is an old church)

(Inside there is an alter next to a window)

(I look at the window)

(And move out - admiring the view, the ocean)

(And the eroding beach)

(Symon admires his surroundings too)

(Then we head off to the next location - where Denmark meets Persia)

(Symon enters the world of Alladin)

(What a strange Tower?)

(Standing erect!)

(Let's go inside!)

(And this is where we crawled out...to get in)

(So many stairs)

(Sand everywhere!)

(And small windows reminding us of the Beauty outside)

(We have climbed all the way to the top - the view is just breathtaking...)

(Like a excerpt from the World of Myst.../sigh)

//M/E

Mostly bicycling

2007-09-24T11:04:00.001+02:00

Saturday afternoon
On a bike
Towards the forest
- and into the forest

Assisted by Mostly Mix #4, to be added shortly.

//M/E

3 moments

2007-09-20T17:58:00.000+02:00

three cities
three points in time
three sound patterns

HAMBURG, outside the main train station, 04.00 pm

BERLIN, Mauerpark, 11.00 am

OSLO, Sjokoladefabrikken, 08.00 am

NB: Can be played simultaneously :)

//Mostly

Moving blog

2007-09-20T17:55:00.001+02:00

Then it is time.
The blog must move on.
After a year on MySpace (blog.myspace.com/mistressmostly), which is basically OurSpace, I decided to move to this space - and make a virtual home here.