Happy weekend y’all!
Zwischen Alien-Brutstätten und japanischer Wabi-Sabi-Unperfekt-Ästhetik würde ich die Objekte von Ernst Gamperl einordnen. Heute für mich ein zufälliger, sehr sehenswerter Beifang während des Besuchs des Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. Durch seine Art der Oberflächenbehandlung gewinnen die Objekte aus dieser einen Eiche eine vollkommen losgelöste eigenständige, fast metaphysische Aura.
Nur noch bis zum 26.4.
https://www.mkg-hamburg.de/ausstellungen/ernst-gamperl-das-lebensbaumprojekt
I’ve been experimenting with a simple algorithm: on certain days, let a random selection of people, ideas, and quotes resurface together.
And then, on some days, magic happens.
Check out this PIQ practice in the new post of the Link&Think #serendipity series.
I met someone amazing today.
I needed to buy something on Facebook Marketplace. Just an external SSD, something to do quick backups of a server.
Found a promising one, messaged and we decided to meetup at a bar so I could bring a laptop and make sure the SSD worked. Well, today in SF, as you all know, it rained! So I stayed for a beer as I didn't want to bike back in the rain.
The guy ended up being this absolutely fascinating former tech worker now photographer, from Jordan.
We ended up talking a lot about art, school, MFAs, home, belonging, the state of the world... He had sent an application to the CCA the day before they announced they were closing but now he's going back to the middle east to study.
The most fascinating part of the conversation was just me listening to how much he wanted to express through his art. How all of his art had some purpose, meaning, message. Listening to him explain his inspiration was so touching. I love San Francisco.
This girl is a literal hamburgler and she’s #sorryNotSorry.
She’s certain that plate of hamburgers on the counter was left there just for her. #serendipity
I was having some issues with the man who was doing Mom's taxes today because he wasn't really listening to my questions for clarity. He kept interrupting me, giving answers that I wasn't asking about. I was talking to Mom in Teochew & relaying some of her questions to him too. One Asian woman overheard everything. She came out to help us out & she put the man in his place 🙏
It was a senior tax preparer & she's the office manager too. I found out, serendipitously, that she's a #Gaginang - fellow #Teochew person! Meeting another Teochew person who speaks the language, in Victoria, is like finding a unicorn - it's very rare! The last time I found another Teochew in the public wilds was over 30 years ago!
Mom & I loved talking to her in our mutually shared language. It turns out that she's also a refugee from South Vietnam & her family has some roots near my Mom's village too. Amazing serendipity!
I'm so happy to meet & befriend Teochew person, today! I'm beaming with happy feelings 🥰
*She's a strong Teochew with tiger-like energy, when dealing with misogynists too. Most Teochew women take no shit from misogynists.
Mom was just as happy & talked to our new friend in Teochew too.
Not such a low quality fact then…
A experimentar o que é ao mesmo tempo um pesadelo para a privacidade e um auxiliar digital promissor - smartglasses da meta e da asus; ou como disse com imensa piada uma aluna minha, "os óculos perfeitos para tarados"...
Só a experimentar, que é brinquedo caro.
Here’s the Four Leaf Clover Beret I made for Serendipity!
I couldn't find a glossary of #serendipity terms, so I wrote one