March 2010
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The Pressure of Online Existence
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It is common knowledge that work environments changed drastically when we connected the user to the internet. Not only that, but we were able to create a mobile office and connect our leisurely existence to the same always pulsating never ending source of information. Another drastic step happened when we started migrating our social networks to the world of avatars, creating...
December 2009
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Another Lesson in Cultural Differences, and This...
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There are some things I always put on my must-do lists and there are things that disappoint me just because I feel the need to put them on the must-do list. However there is always a bright side to a bad experience and most likely in my case that bright side will reflect some newly acquired insight into the culture I’m currently exploring. Sometimes it will just confirm...
November 2009
3 posts
home #2
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It strikes me as odd how nothing really surprises me anymore in New York. It feels like the city is gettin’ under my skin.
Crowds rushing to the subway with their tight schedules, endless workhours and way too litle sleep. The taste of the lightly yellowish liquid comming from the taps, one should call water, that makes your hair shreek and your...
20th century / sign / system / model
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DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
Up until the end of the 20th century, metaphysical tasks in art were performed by allegories, metaphors and symbols.
Allegories represent the abstract through parables. Metaphors name a certain phenomenon with an expression which usually denotes some other similar phenomenon. Meanwhile, symbols illustrate a specific abstract...
In Case of Emergency You Might be Forced to Break...
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A strike of (ab)normality I was able to experience this morning, left me restless and I feel I need to write a public warning instead of the regular minding-my-own-silly-business tumblog. The nightmare of shopping centers I’m already blessed with having, just turned into a real life hazard. We were only going there to get a new household appliance, since the old one...
October 2009
2 posts
La biennale
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Every two years I meet someone who has visited the Venice art biennial for the first time just a couple of days prior to our meeting. These meetings tend to take place in the casual atmosphere of central European coffeehouses and are escorted almost surely by an aromatic cup of coffee for my fellow conversationalist and a cup of dark black tea with a drop of milk...
How to make that perfect cup of Tea?
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There are times in life when nothing will do the trick more efficiently than a simple cup of tea. They tend to last from October to March.
Sure coffee gets some people going for hours in a blink, but when the day is cold and rainy, you think of tea. Or in the morning, after a good night’s sleep (however rare that may be), when you step out to the terrace and breathe in...
June 2009
2 posts
A Taste of Home
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When deciding to live in a foreign country you always expect some adaptation will be in place and the parts you can preempt are easy to tangle. The sensory impact your new residence has on you however is more subtle and takes time before it comes into effect. It usually takes about 6 weeks for the body to realize it is not traveling, it moved. And that is when the crave for a...
Nothing is Impossible
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A cast of 55, brought to you in an idea crafted by a super team of 12 creators and supported by a technical and logistic army of unconceivable proportions. 175 different costumes. 160 hats. About one thousand piece wardrobe. Approximately hundred props.
And kilowatt months of energy.
And there it was. Kooza. A simple story of fitting in, growing up, fighting your fears and...
May 2009
4 posts
Orthogonal Polynomials and their Zeros as part of...
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About a year ago Tina Košir had the honour of interviewing an amazing man from Cambridge , Neil Turok, and I as her friend had the onsequtive honor of watching the full 3 hrs interview filmed on that day by another amazing member of the Cambridge faculty, Alan Macfarlane (yes I have a signed and dedicatd copy of the Slovene translation of his Letters for Lilly due to the same...
Creative multitasking = the contemporary survival...
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It does not strike me as odd at all that the most creative people I know tednd to praise multitasking and engage in activities as different as the activities spectrum allows. I do however still get amazed by the fact that hopping from science to art (which I thought will be so hard to explain even to the people closest to me when my interest field suddenly switched from...
Venice for the First Time Visitor
Your wife thought it would be extremely romantic to spend a couple of days in Venice while in Europe and you just can’t get over that sticky feeling
Image by Lynn (Gracie’s mom) - I’m here & there via Flickr
all the advertising for the Vegas version is giving you, can’t you?
Well let yourself be led on a not-love-at-first-sight tour through a city that well deserves...
March 2009
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so how do I use this visa thing?
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I belong to the new Europe generation of ‘82 and I remember my first passport.
I was little enough to be piggy backed on my mom’s documents and I always thought it funny that a child up to a certain age could travel with an extra photo sticked into a parent’s passport. When I turned around 5 years old I was old enough to be brought to a photo...
February 2009
2 posts
remorses
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There are situations in life, when it is rather difficult to separatate the objective circumstances from the experienced emotional affection. It is in our nature to judge best when looking at the situaction from a distance, but I am not sure this is the best way to approach problems anymore.
Yesterday my mind struggled with itself tands on an issue of basic hr management....
It's been a while..
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Just before big leaps in my life I ussualy get to notice the little things that I’ve managed to push aside all this time. I see the heap of library books, that are eons overdue, I stumble upon painting tools that need to be rturned to their rightful owner, who still maintains a cloaked friendship with me and I can clearly start sketching a to-do list for all the...
September 2008
1 post
glue in the eyes
8:20am. The shopping mall opens at 9am. The parking lot is half full aready, every employer driving their own car. Me, I dare to take the bicycle. It proved once again to be a far more effitient means of transport in the morning rush hour traffic…although today it almost felt like people didn’t want to get up before 9am due to the CERN connected supposed end of the world. Funnily...
August 2008
9 posts
Acting, Directing
Commercials need to be filmes somewhere.
Usually you do not notice the set a plot for the newest bank add takes place in, unless it’s speciffically remarkable as a setting, but nevertheless the filming takes place in real world sorroundings most of the time.
And this is happening 20m away from my desk right now. The film crew has been here for the past 4-5 hours along with an aprox. 100...
Using the red velvet seats in the cinema hall for my office and loving it!
city park circles
One of my favourite past times while traveling is always to visit the central city park of the town I’m in.
I especially like to catch the evening/afterwork timeslot when the joggers come alive. It’s a nice way to observe the city’s population, the demographic structure, the fashion, the female-male principles … It proves that jogging has just enough of commonground...
random swimming pool chaos
I never really dedicated myself to winning over different swimming techniques propperly untill this summer.
I guess being a relatively good swimmer by default I never saw it necessary, untill I wanted more speed and definetly more class. Being well adapted to water it only came to me naturally that I first took on the challenge of scubba diving and only upon compleating my first level PADI ...
Webster & Larousse
I love the smell of old books.
A book with a history always developes the same type of fragrance. Sure sometimes you can scent the edgy moldnes that came from damp storaging, and yes not so rarely you get the full bodied tobacco flavours, but most of the time, the books with calm memories of nonturbulent aging, and especially papebacks, develop a soft pensive sweet smell. It allways reminds me of...
