help me be stupid

you want to be there when inspiration strikes
this morning, crossing johnston st i looked up to see a huge billboard,

at the bottom right was an addendum, be stupid
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as it turns out this is actually a diesel campaign (ho hum)

but my initial feeling, and it's the one i'm going to run with, is art, life, creativity involves taking risks, and risking looking stupid
if you're hung up on pride and looking clever, and wanting people to think you're clever, you'll end up being static and sterile.
Yuck! who wants that?

Here's another idea, an abandoned property that's become a poster-house for a list of things to do before you, we (or possibly the house) dies

before i die house

rattling the cages

funny what you find when you don't look for it
osama bin laden pronounced dead today
i was looking at a retweet from the justinian, barak obama claiming 'justice has been done', justian's comment, 'without the bother of a justice system'.
and saw that i follow alain de botton (who knew?)
on the 18th april, alain thought this:

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

picture of alain de botton

justinian like,
i would say, things only get really interesting when rattling your cage makes things fall out of your tree
made me think of mum's ole favourite alain delon

who in turn reminded me of david sylvian - looking these days like a cross between david beckham and gary oldman ...
(alain delon also reminds me, via nationality

(alain delon also reminds me, via nationality

alain delon also reminds me, via nationality and era, of jean-paul belmondo.

here he is with jean seberg, slightly breathless.
my love shares the nose and lips of jpb, ahhh!