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Archives for 8 June 2019
Bookmark: Crafting {:} a Life Unconference Day 1
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Today was day 1 of the Crafting {:} a Life unconference that our friend Peter is organising on Prince Edward Island. It was a fun and wonderful day.
It was a novel experience, doing an unconference party like this as a participant. Elmine and I have always been on the other side, the…
De unconference blijft voor mij een van de leukste vormen om een bijeenkomst vorm te geven. Ton beschrijft zijn ervaringen op de Unconference van Peter. Ik was graag op Peter’s uitnodiging ingegaan maar helaas dwingen andere prioriteiten me hier in Nederland te blijven. Ik ben heel benieuwd naar de sessies over Phone Nerding en over Activism and Art.
Maker Faire houdt op te bestaan
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Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire, to lay off its entire staff of 22 and pause all operations. TechCrunch was tipped off to Maker Media’s unfortunate situation which was then c…
Wat een verdrietig bericht. De fabuleuze Maker Faires en het blad Make houden op te bestaan. Volgens oprichter Dale Dougherty: “The company wasn’t that interesting to its investors anymore. It was failing as a business but not as a mission.”
Ik ben benieuwd of de licenties voor het gebruik van het Make merk en de online content nog wel in bezit blijven. Zodat het mogelijk op een andere wijze een doorstart kan vinden.
I’m in hiding
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Ineens kwam dit nummer voorbij vanmiddag. Het album Yield vind ik nog altijd één van hun beste albums en ik herinner me dat ik dit nummer bij de eerste luisterbeurt 10 – 11 x herhaalde. Zo krachtig, zo mooi. In Hiding. Live in The Gorge Amphitheatre in Georgia, 23 juli 2006.
The song was about taking a fast from life, doing anything to get yourself back in touch with something real. Abstinence from anything is cool, because the normalcy of life is deceptive: It’s enjoyable for a while, and there are good moments, but sometimes that’s not enough. You start questioning what’s the point. By not opening my mouth I was able to get into that state. Jack called me at the end of it; he couldn’t understand what I was saying. It took a minute to get my speech back.
Eddie Vedder, in a 1998 interview to Philadelphia Enquirer
In Hiding” is actually written about Bukowski. Sean Penn gave me a quote that Bukowski had said to him once, and it was written directly from that. He told Sean that sometimes he just has to check out for a few days—no people, no nothing. So he goes in hiding, then he gets back and has the will to live once again. Maybe because society takes you down. For all the good things we offer each other, sometimes we beat each other down.
Eddie Vedder in a 2009 interview to Seattle Sound Magazine
