On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs – STRIKE!
“more and more employees find themselves, not unlike Soviet workers actually, working 40 or even 50 hour weeks on paper, but effectively working 15 hours just as Keynes predicted, since the rest of their time is spent organising or attending motivational seminars, updating their facebook profiles or downloading TV box-sets.”
Quilting that would make great tapestries too
When you run out of photographic mushrooms
I could totally see this as my driveway. Yes, I’d be isolated in winter. So?
I don’t seem to get around as much these days (or maybe I don’t save as much), so today’s list is somewhat shorter than usual. So I was thinking, how about each viewer leave a link in the comments that you find inspiring?
I still have problems loading WordPress sites, so I may not reply to each – but I always read and appreciate! 🙂 (ETA: this means I also have problems commenting on YOUR blogs – I try but it’s tough going)
Some of these links I’ve stolen from various blog friends, so you may recognize them. The rest of you, I hope you enjoy! The third one had me in stitches…
Inspiration from natural materials
Very textured tapestry – something I had been contemplating myself, very cool
Some more weaving with blended materials
Normally I aim at having 7 links in each of these posts (don’t ask me why), but I’ve either been surfing less (good for me) or my bookmarking skills have declined. I could put in a link to my Amazon wishlist and keep you entertained for hours, but somehow I think that would be a fruitless effort. Reminding me of this quote, which will count as today’s 7th item:
“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body; the wishbone” – Robert Frost
Well, actually I’m back already. Went to see an exhibition Friday, of one of my favourite Danish painters, Otto Frello. He’s 90 this year and doesn’t really paint much anymore, so most of the paintings were a repeat from the ones I saw 20 years ago. It was still a joy.
Each painting is a story, sometimes 5 different ones happening at the same time. Such as the two girls in strange clothes, chatting away in an old street. When you begin to study the image you see all sorts of weird creatures under rocks, in the windows of old buildings, Winnie the Pooh and Piglet are having a chat in the background and a hole in the street reveals a gang of prisoners(?) trying to escape. Or the painting “The funny man” where a fat jolly man dances for two disapproving ladies, while underground is a strange computer lab, in the far background is some sort of revolution going on, people are dancing in the nearby hall and through all of it a gigantic crack is threatening to tear both ground and building apart. Fun, strange, whimsical, surreal and so rich in detail you can keep finding new ones forever. Clothing is crazy and detailed, buildings remind me of Gaudi.
There was no ban on photography in there, the paintings are reproduced all over the web, so I hope it’s ok to add a couple here as well:
