Bruce Mau on Wealth
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I've always enjoyed reading this:
www.brucemaudesign.com...
majman
(mar 24 04, 22:07)Yeah, Il like things like #17:
"17. ——————————. Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others."Or, better yet, #5:
"5. Go deep. The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value."You see, the things that Mr Mau espouses are right, and true, and well worth pursuing.
Unfortunately, they lack soul.
I find that the majority of intelligent people fall back on this reactionist rhetoric. It's hard for me to read the manifesto of a man who built wealth and a career on the things on which he's now pooh-pooing. Look at the stuff at the previous portfolio link. Look at the bourgeois monograph he put out a few months ago. Takes a little cash to make that, maybe his friend printed and bound it. I reckon he and his friend had to put some time in the trenches to get to this point; making designs that ran perpendicular to the .. MMMmm yum, boubon .. perpendicular to his little manifesto aforementioned.
Despite the "mainfesto" quoted here, the "manifesto" quoted to start the thread makes a little more sense. It matches my dreams rather well. But, as Mr S'Nigga may remember, my first client of '04 effing hung himself. Hung himself! I've since freelanced for a "scientific instrument company" and produced a brochure for a woman and her new company for shitty pay. I'd love to work with "friends and colleagues" but friends and colleagues are twenty-somethings that make paintings and kidnap people for a living and edit videos. Thay don't have lawyer husbands or two generations of wealth behind them.
Common sense prevails, but ideology keeps us talking.
Oi.
WAAAAAAAYYY too long.
ps. I'm heading towards NYC kinda soon, is that weekly Friday thizzing still hizzappening?