Diana Arce
visualosmosis

Filler Post: Fuck writing about anything, tomorrow I'm going to look at dogs

I’m going to the Tierheim tomorrow to possible adopt a dog. Honestly, I can’t really think of anything else at the moment, because if the website is right, this guy



is hopefully available and has a great demeanor that goes well with my own. Wish me luck!

I don't believe Mr.Snackman would ever happen in Berlin

Subway altercation interventionist Snackman managed to end a Subway fight by placing himself between the two people fighting, casually snacking away.



Maybe it’s not fair to say, but I often feel that if something strange or bad would happen to me, no bystanders in Berlin would really come to my rescue. But then again, it’s probably the same in most every city.

Yesterday was a Full Moon and this weekend I will make a Strawberry Pie

I’m not one that really subscribes to astrology or mysticism, yet every full moon, I feel like I’m in for a load of trouble, especially if I go out to a bar or a party. Maybe I’m too superstitious, but I really don’t feel like tempting fate.

I’ve had a series of wins for the last few weeks and the last thing I need to happen, is something stupid or ridiculous of which I feel the effects of over the course of the coming weeks. Instead I chose to stay in.

I'm going to take this to a whole new level of nerd. The unboxing of the Kenwood KMix

Last week, while most nerds/tech/apple enthusiasts were busy unboxing their iPad3s, I got this in the mail.

Get 'er Done or Doing it the German Way

1. Never talk about an idea before it’s realized.
2. The longer you take to make something, the more likely someone will come out with it before you do.
3. Action is far more important than planning
4. Put something in motion and then go over every detail
5. Unless you are engineering a car, don’t work like a prototypical German.

There’s a great saying in German that goes something like , “Don’t talk about an unlaid egg.” I just recently heard it and begin to understand the effect of it not too long ago. A few friends of mine and I have been working on something for a while and I was just told that someone may be intergrating our idea into something they are doing because one of my partner’s spent too much time talking about it.

Writing about the CeBit 4 Days after it ended, is about as Relevant as the CeBit itself

I am a user.

I want a fancy smartphone that I can get as much done on, as a computer or a tablet. I spent hours reading books on my best friend’s Kindle. I never bought one, though I contemplated it for a very long time. Hell, I was even a sucker and jumped on board with Web OS and their shitty Palm Pre hardware.

Unfortunately, the CeBit had very little to do with users of my scale. It had a lot to do with press kits on USB Sticks, men in business suits talking about SEOs and CRMs, Intel girls in retro white outfits and blue bob wigs, Bugatti cell phone covers and cheap Chinese knock offs of everything.

Forget Super Tuesday, Today belongs to the memory of Lester Mazor

Appropriately I’ve been planning my next post in which I hope give some guidance to German basketball fans. That’s what’s coming. And today is Super Tuesday, the grand day of election primaries to hopefully end all other primaries and I should really be over at Politaoke tweeting my heart out, trying to come up with antidotes as clever as the guys over at Indecision. But today…today needs to be remembered for something far more important.

One year ago today, Professor Lester J. Mazor, my mentor, my biggest supporter and adoptive Berliner Dad, passed away early in the afternoon. I first experienced Lester when I was 15 years old visiting college campuses since deciding to graduate early. He was teaching the first seminar I visited at Hampshire College. So inspired by him, he became one of the main reasons why I decided to go there and why I ended up transferring in, against my parent’s wishes, two years later. He brought me to Berlin, he convinced me to study art and he taught me how to cook. He encouraged me to do my Master’s and is a major inspiration for all my future plans. And I was only one of the many people he continued to guide and encourage as students and in their lives post academics.

Social Pariahism or How I made 50 Bucks by Joining Facebook

I was a social pariah. Don’t get me wrong, I’m outgoing, sometimes really funny. I’m a bit self deprecating and usually quick witted. I’m great to hang out with, have a beer with and I love to dance so clubbing with me is always fun. But I was not on Facebook.

I didn’t know this in 2010 when I deleted my first Facebook account for good, but leaving basically turned me into the girl being stood up for a date and sometimes made me the one doing the standing up. It was like I couldn’t win. I’d run into friends angry that I missed whatever birthday/moving/divorce/new dog celebration they were having. “How could you miss it, I invited you on Facebook.” I’d have to remind them they invited their 500 “friends” but not me.

No Day Better than the Present or Challenge Accepted

Earlier this week I was checking out Jay Cousin’s blog and saw that he was joining up Iron Blogger Berlin. It sounded like a great idea to me, considering how much I’ve been neglecting my blog and how much writer’s block I’ve been having. To essentially submit to self imposed peer pressure to posting on the regular and hopefully, as a result, improve my writing (or vlogging or photoblogging) along the way.

I’ve also started Seinfeld’s method of productivity and since writing is one of my tasks to accomplish everyday, pumping out a blog post would allow me to draw a lovely little “x” on my calendar.

Total Redesign!

I decided over the weekend that I was going to gift myself a redesign of my website. so I hopped along over to my favorite designer and good friend’s site and decided to pilfer a few of his elements and upgrade to HTML5 and CSS3.

I am by no means a designer or a programmer, but the bit of knowledge that I’ve gathered from the wonderful Tobias K. and the internet has allowed me to really implement the kind of layout and elements that I’ve wanted for a while. Plus with 960.gs, I’ve pretty much can layout a webpage much like I do print media in Indesign and Quark.

Most artist websites tend to be replicas of the white box IRL gallery and nightmarish to navigate, with bogus name plate or single image introductory pages, taking many clicks to get to actual information and no place to search and find what you a looking for. Sometimes it’s nice to just see what’s there and not have to dig around too much.

I think that is what Tobias was able to create for me in the original design from 2006; but the blog shape for my projects has been something I’ve not been a fan of. I’ve always wanted a page where you could see most of my work at a glance and sort through them according to media/artform type.

So get ready, because some new things are on the horizon!