Creative Director - Part-time pirate and mystic.
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
- The Internet took capitalism an turbocharged it
- The dot com crashed because we stopped leaning into the millennium and speculatin and started looking at what things were worth now
- Technology gives more choice
- The five syndromes of present shock
- One, narrative collapse, can’t tell stories without time
- Linear time is replaced by gaming, real time rewards
- Two, digiphrenia, unmanageable multiple instances of self
- Three, overwinding, compress huge timespans into one little moment
- Black Friday
-Industrial age money is money with time in it
- Trying to find more time in our stock market we invented algorithms
- Four, fractalnoia, can’t make sense of things so we draw arbitrary lines between things
- The real skill to have in the digital age is pattern recognition
- We can no longer parse cause and effect
- Five, appocalypto, fear of the immediate future
Every day billions of pictures are uploaded to the internet, more articles are published than you can read in a lifetime; we’re moving towards greater complexity, every day. That’s why our most important resources become time and focus - what do we chose to pay attention to and why? That’s the question we need to ask ourselves on a daily basis. By directing our focus, we shape our thinking which shapes our lives which collectively shape society and culture.
In this astute and powerful talk media theorist Douglas Rushkoff talks about the shift from industrial to a post-industrial society, and why we need to rethink the old imperialist models of expansion and growth to reclaim our time and ultimately our destiny.
This is essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand the times we live in.
“Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.”
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Douglas Rushkoff
Glad to see Sting bringing us back another collection of new rock songs. #NowPlaying I Can’t Stop Thinking About You by Sting
#NowPlaying Horizon by Tauk
Here’s a fun project I completed last week.
Footage from a recent shoot in Bristol, Virginia at Studio Brew
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Is she too much?
Does her light shine too bright?
Does she make you uncomfortable?
A young girl’s heart - open, expansive.
Her rhythm attuned to the mood of your room.
The tears that fall because your heart is broken.
Do her tears shine with an invitation to sit in hard places?
Is that why you admonish her?
Does her fiery anger undo you?
Her willingness…no insistence, to fight for those who…
