Watching

I like to watch people talk when my headphones are on. I start to wonder what they are saying. I also have a tendency to just fill in the dialog in my head. Opposite of that I like to look at people with their headphones on and try and figure out what they are listening to. I also do this with people on computers. Are people in coffee shops really productive or do they just want to look like it. i just generally like to observe people. It makes being bored a little less boring. 

Dada, a 1916 art movement not so concerned with art.

The Dada movement was an art movement which began with a German refugee in Switzerland named Hugo Ball in 1916. This movement was a response to World War I. Dada was not as much about the art as it was about the message in which the participants conveyed their feelings about the war. For so long art was for the bourgeois and had no concern with the feelings of the time. The Dada movement was mostly comprised of writers and philosophers. Hugo Ball viewed Dada as,

"...a requiem for this society, and also the primitive beginning of a new one."

The Dadaist took action with public performance art, which became their form of protests. Although 1916 was 92 years ago the idea of speaking up and being heard is a timeless want. in our world today there are issues and problem that face us as a society. If as a generation we sit by in silence we give up our voice for a temporary comfortable life, that may not last forever. I may not have solutions or answers to the problems of my generation, but i do know that we need to realize we have them.

Pluto!!!!!!

This Morning in the car with my father we had a discussion about Pluto, the now ex-planet. In the summer of 2006 i was gone for 8 weeks and when i cam back Pluto was no longer a planet. I was left in awe when all of a sudden Pluto was no longer a planet. Who has the power to change something that is. Even if someone does have that power to change Plutos status isn't it like a slap in the face to Clydde Tombaugh, the man who discoverred Pluto in 1930? I know technology has improved a lot since 1930 but maybe technology is just no good. When i had told my father that maybe tecchnology is bad he looked at me and kinda laughed. He said "before technology people looked at the horizen and thought that that was the end of the worldand it droped off the siide of the world. with out technology there would have been no exploration." This is very true but without the technological advancements for exploration colonization would neever have been a probblem. if the Europeans could not get to other cultures than possiblie they would not have stomped on the other cultures and then force their culture onto the people. My father was again laughed and then asked me the oh so very serious question, "well would you give up your Ipod?" i laughed and said come on dad this is just a hypothetical conversation.