I have installed the iPhone app for wordpress. This enables me to publish on free days when I’m out of office. On working days it has gotten impossible for me to take the time to publish content.
First thing to expect is my Paris fashionweek review.
Write you soon,
Simon
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.” -JD Salinger
I’m an emotional rationalist. I like everything rational even if it doesn’t give me a straight idea of a subject. At the same time I like doing what my emotions tell me to do. Up to the point that it get’s irrational. But than I can rationalize the irrational and everything works out fine.
Unless I start thinking about love; love is rational nor irrational. Writing, thinking, talking or discussing love is impossible to me, and perhaps to anybody.
I need to write this post, so never again I have to write about love on my blog. I acknowledge love is important. You can’t do without. Love doesn’t mean you have to be with someone, solitude can easily be combined with love, and in most cases love is the reason for this solitude.
I like hormones. They are a clear explanation for why we ‘feel’ we need to do things. They are a clear explanation for love. Procreation. Nature is a firm and stable system that kept our species alive for more than 200.000 years. It works fine. Culture is the only thing capable of somewhat interfering with what nature makes us do. Thinking is not really synonym to culture, although they both exist because of language.
“Gott würfelt nicht!”
Language is our first interference with nature. It was a result of our species trying to stand up to the physical threats there where at the time. Communication was our strength. Thus the build up of our language had a purely causal ground. If we do this, that will happen. If I say ‘danger’, you will run. Our language system is build up, like we experience natures events. Language gave birth to thought and culture, both making them very causal systems. Language is a great mechanism to lead a thinking life. But we all know there’s something wrong when we start to feel. We get confused, all of us, the most confused are those that rationally are the most intelligent.
Up until the beginning of the 20th century we had a good understanding of physics. Nature is physics and chemistry. To put things in an easy light, chemistry is physics at its smallest. And even Einstein wouldn’t believe that physics at its smallest may have no causality. ‘Gott Würfelt nicht,’ said Einstein – God doesn’t play dice. Einstein couldn’t or wouldn’t believe that at the ground of things, in the purest of ways, everything is chaos.
Our body is physical and chemical. Our hormones are chemical. In the pure rationalization of our lives, from even when we are born, causal systems are put up by our language. This language does not support chaos. We understand our body and mind in the way that most of the time it does what we want it to do. Free will has a base of rationality. Free will implies that we are in control of our body and mind. Where is free will when love is injected into our brains? One might think we are still in control. But in retrospect we all know we didn’t think as clearly as we hoped.
Love is not a bug, it’s not a code interfering with the code that is our language. If it where, some of us would be able to crack and reverse it. Love doesn’t act within a causal system, such as our language. Thus we can’t access love as if it where a feeling or an idea. Take ‘pain’ for example: we can overcome pain with thought. It will still be there, but we can function up to a certain level – when it get’s too horrifying adrenaline kicks is and we’ll function on that. Love won’t let us do that. Emotions are basically very simple reactions to outside input. I can make you laugh. I can make you feel pain. I can make you sad. But I can’t make you feel love. Somehow love exists within us and shows itself when it wants to.
If the base of nature, the smallest of particles, in essence is chaotic and without structure. Maybe that is where love lives.
Did I choose a bad company name? I personally like my company name, because it’s clear to me what it stands for. But when I pass my businesscard to potential clients, I always – without any exception – get the question what the name wolk-creative stands for.
‘Wolk’ is the dutch word for ‘cloud’. And ‘the cloud’ is the main metaphor for the internet. This has many reasons, one of which I like to use for my company as well.
A cloud has the characteristic of being vague, of having no clear boundaries. This is the way most people would think about the internet. Some people are afraid of the internet, because of this characteristic. To me it’s one of the reasons why it’s so beautiful.
When thinking about my company, I saw myself as somewhat a vague artist. Where lie my boundaries? Do I need boundaries?
There’s also the metaphorical idea that the internet is like a rainmaker. Rain sometimes being a bad thing ruining your holiday. But when it comes to agriculture, rain means money. To lots companies all over the globe, the internet brings growth.
I see my company in a parallel manner. Companies that take on a business venture with me, can expect from my qualities as a ‘image-enhancer’ to bring growth to their company.
A third thing about clouds, has nothing to do with it being a metaphor for the internet. Clouds are very spectacular forms surrounding us almost every day. Who hasn’t taken a moment to lie back and watch the sky filled with clouds and tried to determine a clear image out of them. This is a pure act of creativity ,which all of us have encountered on a certain point in our lives. I might call this event the main reason why I named my company after the clouds.
If other companies want to reach for the sky, they might as well get a hand from someone who already lives there. This is where I insert a smiley, because it’s clear my company in terms of power isn’t in between the clouds.
So after writing this, it is more clear to me that I like my company name. And what’s more important, I like explaining its etymology. It gives me a reason to talk about the qualities of my company.
“riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.” (James Joyce, Finnigans Wake)
Is the beginning of a blog as difficult as the beginning of a novel? What post should be marked as your first post? The post you will always be remembered by. Well, that might be a little too much credit to the importance of these phrases.
I moved my blog from my company website to this url. My company’s core business is photography and design. Writing about anything other than these two subjects does not relate to my company, and wouldn’t be beneficiary to my quest for projects. This blog gives me the ability to write about anything I want. And if people read something they like, they might get interested in my work and click on the links leading to my photography and design portfolio. Still, the main purpose of this blog is not commercial. The following post will give you a hint on how uncommercial I tend to get. Keeping this blog under my company url would be disastrous.
Should I write about myself as a person? You can find some info on me at my profile or become a friend of mine on Facebook and a follower on Twitter. Both links are shown in the sidebar.
This first post turned out not to great of a deal. I certainly won’t be remembered by it. My next post will be a repost from my old blog, it’s some kind of explanation for my company name.
Oh, I don’t know how you feel about my blog design, but I kind of like it. It’s simple, yet colorful. If you are using a webkit browser (Safari or Chrome, please do), the navigation has some nice transitions.
Well, that’s it. No more blank canvas.
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