Incomplete Manifesto for Growth by bruce mau design

1. Allow events to change you.
   You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
2. Forget about good.
   Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.
3. Process is more important than outcome.
   When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.
4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).
   Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
5. Go deep.
   The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.
6. Capture accidents.
   The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.
7. Study.
   A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.
8. Drift.
   Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.
9. Begin anywhere.
   John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.
10. Everyone is a leader.
    Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.
11. Harvest ideas.
    Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.
12. Keep moving.
    The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.
13. Slow down.
    Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.
14. Don’t be cool.
    Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.
15. Ask stupid questions.
    Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.
16. Collaborate.
    The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.
17. ____________________.
    Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.
18. Stay up late.
    Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you’re separated from the rest of the world.
19. Work the metaphor.
    Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.
20. Be careful to take risks.
    Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.
21. Repeat yourself.
    If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.
22. Make your own tools.
    Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.
23. Stand on someone’s shoulders.
    You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.
24. Avoid software.
    The problem with software is that everyone has it.
25. Don’t clean your desk.
    You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.
26. Don’t enter awards competitions.
    Just don’t. It’s not good for you.
27. Read only left-hand pages.
    Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our “noodle.”
28. Make new words.
    Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.
29. Think with your mind.
    Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.
30. Organization = Liberty.
    Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between “creatives” and “suits” is what Leonard Cohen calls a ‘charming artifact of the past.’
31. Don’t borrow money.
    Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed.
32. Listen carefully.
    Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.
33. Take field trips.
    The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.
34. Make mistakes faster.
    This isn’t my idea — I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.
35. Imitate.
    Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You’ll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.
36. Scat.
    When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else … but not words.
37. Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.
38. Explore the other edge.
    Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.
39. Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms.
    Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces — what Dr. Seuss calls “the waiting place.” Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference — the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.
40. Avoid fields.
    Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.
41. Laugh.
    People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I’ve become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.
42. Remember.
    Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.
43. Power to the people.
    Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can’t be free agents if we’re not free.

I wrote a post few weeks ago about the new album by The Screen

choking on satan’s jizz – click here to read the very short review.

this is the lovely email from mr Chester…the singer in person.

I’m a diabetic teenager I’m Satan
Sucking motherfucka looking foward
To meeting you I’m 55still alive
What’s with the jibe you ain’t listened
You just glisten, you got no tribe
Your so hard bitten. your entitled to yor
Opinion but hey dick, wots sic about you? absolutely nothing ..your playing at
OZORA we will see you play, hear your shit.
Astound uswith your genius, you puss.xxxchester

Sent from my iPhone

here is my public answer :

dear Sir…Thank you for entitling me to have an opinion…
and thank you for showing me that my opinion written on my forgotten blog matters so much and it is biting you so hard to take the time to write such a poem with such a passion…
you sound like a a real young brixton rudeboy :D …what…55 ??….and still playing the game ?…like Iggy Pop ?

We met before…maybe you forgot.
I got a tribe…a different tribe of yours for sure.
You are very welcome to come and check my shit in Ozora…off course…
please
I am not a genius ..and I don’t ejaculate in public…so you might be disappointed…
You don’t need to be a genius to think that The Screen is rubbish.
maybe you need to be a hard bitten puss to say it loud.
maybe you need to be Satan’s mate to say that you suck it hard…but do not blow and swallow so nicely.
this is why now you choke

sent from my blog

oplà !

ps. I am sorry you didn’t show any gratitude to my promotional effort for you…I did post links and players of your music…so anyone can check you out.

read my lips

Wiggly Bytes is a mini album collecting left overs and alternative versions of tracks from the album “Viceversa”…it was originally released by Bakshish Music in 2010.

all the tracks are in WAV and for free download from the Soundcloud player
please share it on your networks ;)

made using Mandelbulb3D
you can copy paste the parameters that you will find on the deviant art pages.
I post all the fractals that I navigate on athanor (a Tumbr blog)

people with an haircut
people without an haircut

this dude has one
this video could make me throw in the rubbish bin my computer, any Native Instrument software (yes…even Reaktor !)…and any button or slider I have.

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controllerist…just another way of saying : wanker

uploaded a new/old podcast

electric hoodoo
download mp3@320

an old mix dedicated to the electronic music of the 90ies

mixed in marina.it in 2k7

tracklist
1. dreamfish : fishology – 993
2. the irresistible force : playing around with sound – 998
3. f.s.o.l. : cascade – 994
4. biosphere : decryption – 994
5. lfo : ultra schall – 996
6. speedy j : extruma – 995
7. orbital : attached – 994
8. higher intelligence agency : skank – 995
9. autechre : kalpol introl – 993
10. orb : spanish castle in the sand – 991
11. klf : madrugada eterna – 990
12. drome : kassler kessel – 993

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“A truly wonderful book.
Concise, clear, and easy to read.
Gilad utilises a very readable style when articulating his ideas.
The book joins the dots and exposes, among other things, the many and various strands of zionist thought for what they are. A con and a fraud.” Colin Bell

“Gilad’s escape from spiritual claustrophobia towards a free and open humanitarianism is fearless” Robert Wyatt

“Gilad Atzmon decided to open Pandora’s Box, and ignite a debate that has been frustratingly dormant for too long. His experiences are most authentic, views are hard-hitting, and, at times, provocative. It must be read and discussed.”

“Jews are often proud to define themselves as Jews. However, they will also be gravely offended if they are called a ‘Jew’ by others”

“The so-called ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ is also the one that has locked Palestine’s vast populations behind walls and barbed wire for decades.”

“Robbery and hatred is imbued in Jewish modern political ideology on both the left and the right.”

“The more hopeless and defenceless the Palestinians are, the more vicious the Israeli becomes. And yet, the more vicious the Israeli is, the more he or she is horrified by ‘terror’. In reality, the Israelis are actually horrified by their own cruelty.”

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http://www.eclipse2012.com/first_round_ticket_announcment

250 $ for an early bird ticket…without even a name in the lineup yet

500 $ on the door

and they are asking to all the artists to play for free…or nearly for free…since it is THE ECLIPSE.

welcome to the rip off of the century…organized by a bunch of psychedelic vampires.

the australian 2012 eclipse party

the end of the world is closer and closer
(you might as well give all your money to them… :D )

they are the screen…they ejaculate !

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uploaded a new podcast : desperado a long and simple mix of classic songs

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tracklist

captain beefheart . the dust blows forward ‘n the dust blows back
neville brothers . sons and daughters
audio active . kick the bong around
talking heads . listening to the wind
luis pataque . nn
mark hollis . the gift
nick drake . black eyed dog
mc 900ft jesus . stare and stare
tom waits . diamonds on my windshield
jimi hendrix . up from the skies
gomes . 78 stone wobble
morphine . let’s take a trip togheter
sparklehorse . hey joe
canned heat . on the road again
daniel lanois . fisherman’s daughter
can . she brings the rain
brian eno . by this river
arto linsday . ultraprivilege
robert wyatt . alifb
laurie anderson . broken
laika . bad times
massive attack . protection – brian eno remix
rokia traorè . the man I love
ursula rucker . 1 milion ways of burn
lamb . god bless
kana nal . in it for life
king crimson . cat food
the young gods . everywhere – knock on wood version
blind faith . lost my way home
burnt friedman . tongs of love