Dezember 2022 – moulinsartcanteen

And there I was galivanting and proudly prompting how much time I’ve got on my hands and then I’m not even giving you the No 2 of my TOP THREE DIGITAL FRAGMENTS OF THE YEAR 2022. So without further ado and because I have to give you a No 1 as well here’s

No 2

This is a double entry (see? it is possible to sqeeze at least 4 items in a top three list)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB3PJwPMHzQ

Bubblebaths are an important ingredient of life in general

A music video you say? Well it was nonetheless an algorithm who alerted me to this wonderful little fivesome. To put that into perspective, my mother, who I love dearly and much more than any algorithm, is quite useless when it comes to music recommendations. She once tried to hinge me up with the words „She likes music too!“ An algorithm is vastly superior in that regard.

Sometimes it does feel as if music can be bought by the pound or for you metric lovers out there – kilograms. „I would like 2 kilos of music please. Make it a big slice, I like it a bit raw in the middle.“

And here is a band from the Isle of Wight which not only consists of five friends from school, uni and simply growing up together, a band that not only has grown organically over the past years, but a band that kept all of this masterfully compressed into a debut album.

It is refrehing to see music and indeed people are not dead and can be successful and childish at the same time. (love emojy for real)

Next is No 2b

A video game were you can throw things off the edge with your paw you say?

We’ll make it short, it’s a video game where you play a cat in a simply beautiful crafted Kowloonesque environment. And you can be a cat. And you can do cat things. It’s real, well it’s obviously not, but as real as it gets when it comes to digitally recreated life.

Finally! A blog post. Well, the end of the year is approaching fast and in this twilight world that is jammed between Christmas and New Year’s celebrations – as usual – I’ve got too much time for things that I thoroughly enjoy.

Things like waking up and having a fresh ground coffee (yes, I poured water over it) and surfing through recorded fragments of reality of a very digital fashion. And as I looked and as I travelled through the digital realm, I thought – why not waddle through them, pick and choose and show the people what I’ve found.

So sit back and enjoy, grab a coffee or a Pinot Grigio, if you must, because due to a surprising and unforeseen shortage of days that are left this year, this leads only to a TOP THREE DIGITAL FRAGMENTS OF THE YEAR 2022. This of course includes my very own analogue kerfuffle, reformatted to digital as well.

No. 3

a late entry, that I was only made aware of yesterday.

The beauty of this, at times lengthy monologue, is the essence, of what it stands for.

I was once known as somebody who likes „experts“ or „professionals“ ( no, not that kind). This video shows brilliantly why I still regard the opinion, knowledge and wisdom of experts in a high regard. In this video, a classical music instrumentalist is analysing music she’s not familiar with. She is not only patient enough to listen to it in depth, but she even does additional research after she admitted to not fully understanding the meaning of the lyrics or how they fit into the overall composition. I could go on about the references between classical music and heavy metal, but that’s beside the point.

What’s fascinating is, that this woman did not dismiss something she was not familiar with, but instead she was intrigued and thus tried to learn more about something BECAUSE she was not familiar with it.

That’s what you get with people who know their shit. Because there is a reason, that they know their shit. Call it curiosity, call it childlike and innocent joy to learn something new. It is a trait that I enjoy most and regard as one of the most important ones when it comes to human behaviours. Please never let your inner child die! Not deep, but beautiful.

Monat: Dezember 2022

The end is nigh

As deep as it gets