Mostly relocated allocated

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

Bauhaus Information Sign Design Captured

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

You are where you work?

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

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

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

3 moments

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