My blogging activities have now been resumed after a one-year hiatus. This time I’ll try doing it in English, with the hope of a much broader readership.
“Heute denken, morgen fertig” is a quote by the german artist Martin Kippenberger. A quote that very well describes my attitude towards practice vs. theory. Don’t get me wrong; I love theory, I am just too god damn impatient to talk about changing the world. Let’s go ahead and change it instead, then let’s sit down and chat about it afterwards.
For the non-german-speaking readers of this blog, a fitting translation of the quote would be “Think today, finish tomorrow”.
It is beyond doubt that this blog will become quite a challenge for me. First, English is not my mother-tongue and it has been a while since I last frequently did English writings. Secondly, I have a bad track-record for maintaining blogs. If my updates become too infrequent, please tell me!
Now, let’s go explore.
Welcome back!
09.07.07 (d.m.y) at 8:21 am (CET) | pollasWelcome back –
It’s an excellent quote – but you’re actually under selling Kippenberger’s point a little, I think.
What he’s on about is that everything he does must be
*immediate*. It’s not just “do” over “think” – I don’t even think Kippenberger wanted to *do* things that would take a month to yield results.
(And in this, surface makers like Kippenberger are the envy of us info-plumbers, by the way)
09.07.07 (d.m.y) at 9:30 am (CET) | Claus(just to harp on) This article – http://www.the-voyage.com/e/infopoint/culture/visualarts.html – indicates that Kippenberger himself might actually have conceived of the motto as an ironic comment on the pressure of the art market…
09.07.07 (d.m.y) at 9:41 am (CET) | ClausClaus: I think you’re right, thanks for clearing that up. I must admit I have not done much research on the quote, I got it from Thomas Angermann about six months ago and it’s just stuck with me. I am just happy I wasn’t overselling the quote.
I registered this domain around noon today, and just two hours later it looked more or less what it looks like now.
pollas: Thanks!
09.07.07 (d.m.y) at 9:41 am (CET) | Jacob BøtterYay! Welcome back. I’m tuning in.
09.07.07 (d.m.y) at 2:46 pm (CET) | Andreas JohannsenWelcome back :) I’m looking forward to following here. Never got around to listen to that many of your podcasts even tho you talked to a lot of interesting people. Podcasts just doesn’t seem to fit my daily media consumption/participation. Maybe someday when I get an ipod…
09.07.07 (d.m.y) at 3:56 pm (CET) | MichaelWelcome back!
10.07.07 (d.m.y) at 12:45 am (CET) | Mads PedersenWelcome back. Subscribed
10.07.07 (d.m.y) at 8:06 am (CET) | Esben FjordAdded to what is probably the world’s least well thaught feed collection. Hope I’ll be able to find your musings in my little crap yard.
Welcome back!
10.07.07 (d.m.y) at 9:02 am (CET) | RenéGot you in my feed reader and thanks for putting me on the blog roll – finally I will be truly famous!
10.07.07 (d.m.y) at 9:12 am (CET) | Jens Hofman HansenCongrats on the new blog. Its subscribed.
10.07.07 (d.m.y) at 9:26 am (CET) | Kristoffer Riis PedersenInteresting quote by Kippenberger, fits perfectly with a blog post I made today (in Danish) about FLOW, non-thinking etc.
Heute denken, morgen fertig – it rolls nice on the tongue :-)
Hi Jacob
10.07.07 (d.m.y) at 10:19 am (CET) | Ton ZijlstraFinally I can actually read your writings! Danish is not my forte, except for educated guesses towards the meaning (after my small language Dutch, resembles yours a lot).
Welcome back! We’ll see what it brings you.
No worries.
Welcome back indeed! :)
10.07.07 (d.m.y) at 12:09 pm (CET) | Rasmus“I registered this domain around noon today, and just two hours later it looked more or less what it looks like now.” – which is how I understand the blog title.
One might say “prototype, prototype, prototype” – or “shoot first, ask questions later” or “it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission”
10.07.07 (d.m.y) at 3:07 pm (CET) | Steve PortigalWelcome back Jacob and thanks for pointing me in this blog’s direction. Looking forward to follow your thoughts :-)
I really like the name of the blog and Steve’s translation (ask for forgiveness rather than permission) sounds like something Hans-Henrik would say!. Wise words indeed!
11.07.07 (d.m.y) at 9:53 am (CET) | Magnus ChristenssonAway from the office and what happens?
:-)
BIG congrats Jacob, nice that you’re back in the personal blogosphere :-)
15.07.07 (d.m.y) at 11:38 am (CET) | Hans Henrik H. Heming