Posts Tagged ‘provocation’

Jar-Tumblers

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Do you want to surprise your friend? Do you want to express a smart thought in an unusual manner? Do you like comfortable things? Do you care about the quality of life? Bring some creativity into your daily life! Create your own tumbler (t-shirt, lamp, placard, sensation or whatever else)!

Jar-Tumblers

When it was said in the class of psychology that the creativity is an original layout of known things, I was rather exasperated. “Come on! The real creativity comes from inspiration, but not from the experimental constructing of known things” – I thought. But now I agree that the inspiration comes from nowhere else than from your own impressions; it comes from the things that are or get known to you. However, sometimes the creativity is just a false interpretation of the reality, that is when you don’t understand something, you create an explanation for yourself, using the words, views, or sounds that you know. And sometimes the creativity might be pulled directly by laying the known facts out in an unusual manner. For example, today while making a short break in programming, I hand wrote a word “if” on a sheet of paper, and to make the things stranger, I put the bow of the “f” onto the “i” and the dot of the “i” into the loop of the “f”. That’s creativity!

And now let’s go to the business! I had been thinking about making unique tumblers for a few months. I was thinking about views, decorating, the way of implementation, and material. And finally I glued a result from different ideas seen in my life together. It is shown in the photo above. That was tumblers made of jars and having skulls and threatening notes on their sides.

„Psycho :D “ – that was the first impression of RQ about the creation when I told him.

If you want the creativity to be meaningful, it has to carry a message or to introduce some functionality. These tumblers carry two messages. They are „what you drink, might poison your health“ and the traditional „smoking kills“. Moreover, the tumbler introduces the portability function. If you are in a hurry for your last train, you can cover the drink and take it with you. For the decoration I have chosen the stylizing to the rounded rectangles, so that the image and the font matched the shape of the tumbler better. The additional shocking impression is made by the fact that the tumbler is really just the same jar although it is with an image (associations with movies about alcohol-addicts in Soviet Union); and also by carrying the anti-advertising message (associations with the words from a tale: “Don’t drink from the track of the sheep, otherwise you’ll turn into a lamb”). In this way the tumbler always reminds you to be moderate. You can check your guests’ level of openness/closeness and the sense of humor with the tumblers too.

Thanks to Viktorija from Münster, the lifestyle company “Propaganda”, the creators of the font Lucida Console, and all the people who supported me morally for the adding value to the idea of the final product. Applause. The curtain drops.

Adults Only: Everything is Justifiable for the Bad Ones: even the Good

Monday, January 29th, 2007

The evil and the good. Yin and Yang. Feminine and masculine forces. All of those are the part of the universe. They form harmony as well as chaos. What is evil? Evil is the selfish good. All of us have both – good and evil. We just show good or bad because of convenience or image.

Some Spanish writer has said that we are similar to those who we hate much more than we think. And that is an absolute truth. The phrase “I do not behave like that bitch” about your enemy came to your mind, didn’t it? Maybe you don’t do that now, but you have already treated like that, will treat, or would treat if you were in the skin of the hated… Or maybe you just behave like a bastard differently. The life changes us. We learn from what we are calling mistakes, that is, from what give us other results than we have expected. And who do we hate? We hate those who don’t behave, like we have hoped they should, that is, who don’t dance according our pipe play.

There is much politics under the sun. Generally we call moral principles and steady traditions as the good. Unfortunately if we thumbed through the collections of maxims and aphorisms, we would notice that for each life situation and for each sin (according to the ten testimonies), we could find some truth that defines the evil as the good. If you have time, you can search for them. The existence of the advocate profession itself already shows how miscellaneous and variable the truth can be. Everybody channels the river by the direction which is more comfortable to her-/himself. In essence, both – black and white – are closely related and can’t exist without each other.

evil in vogueTo be bad is in vogue. Skully clothes and accessories, breaking the moral principles, as well as rebellion and aggression in movies, music, books, and games are all around us. My hated pope Benedict XVI (that beggar will never equal to John Paul II who shined with the good) lost it (took his chance) and expressed “his opinion”, that computer games and all other multimedia should not propagate the evil and should not destroy the moral family image.

Are we talking about moral family image? Almost all girls who I have communicated with, are from broken home. Almost all known people who have been in couples, have already splitted up at least once. Almost everybody who is called a star or a famous person, has been married and divorced, then married again, but had many lovers, or lived “mean” life in another way. Does that mean that the hippie renaissance is upcoming (“everybody with each other”)?.. In this case the number of deaths because of STD should increase (every Yin has its Yang)

I have noticed a trend to go to parties and flirt with the amazement objects at the weekends while your couple has to work all the night at the job which was hard to find in such a large city as Berlin. The city is huge, so it’s almost unbelievable that you’ll get noticed by people who could tell something discreditable about you to your partner. And if the flirting ends not as we wanted in our subconscious, then we smother our sinfulness with a phrase “I feel the limits and don’t overstep them”.

As the walls of the world are open, plenty of people “temporarily” leave their “lovers” and go abroad swearing loyalty until they meet each other again. The leavers as well as the abandoned ones see the diversity of the world and meet onetime guys of the dreams with whom they “sin” against the pledges. “We are the good ones. That were only our mistakes!” – we make excuses.

Remembering how the third brother John used to leave for the World to find out his fortune in tales, many lambs of the Third World believe that the rich foreigners come to their mother country searching for love. Usually they search for cheap sex. They even have their websites to exchange useful information. And who doesn’t want sex?

Love. It’s a sonorous word and I believe in the existence of the feeling. I also believe in love from the first sight. But the evil exists even in the path to love. Coupling cannot get along without jealousy. Even the best friend becomes the worst enemy if (s)he becomes a rival to your admiration object. You start noticing each shortage of the competitor and report that to the person, whose heart (and other organs) you are pretending to. You pollute all the bad features of the rival as if you will look better in the eyes of the admired one. Let’s say, you were lucky. But then in the long-term relationship you’ll start feeling ownership, you’ll start looking at the partner as a property of the matter of course, and you’ll start requiring her/him to behave as you wish.

I’m bad. Tomorrow there will be a sunny day again and after that there will be a night full of stars.

A little survey. What do you think about

  1. open relationship?
  2. multiple partners at the same time?

(the married ones can cover under unusual nicks)