I own two mobile phones, I have two different phone numbers and a spare sim card for my most used one. I have an Apple iPod that I use for music and entertainment on the go, a tablet laptop for most of my work and another computer at home. Wherever I go, I can reach every single bit of information I might need. GPS coordinates? No problem. Last weeks meeting reports? Yep. Updated calendar info for the whole company? I can do that to.
Wherever I go, I’m connected. Facebook. Twitter. Several blogs. Hotmail. Gmail. Google maps and WIKIPEDIA. I can connect and access them with the flick of my thumb, a status update on one is reflected on all the others without me doing anything, everything is linked to everything else and information floats freely between services and platforms. A true child of the age of information revolution, I think differently about what I share and tell others than my parents, I lie open my life to a potential of users that is ever growing. If I’m not careful I will risk others stealing my very identity with the intent to misuse the information obtained.
I’m willing to take the risk. I move borders. I change people. I can alter the course of a small group. I can interest the local media. I am part of the whole. We are. We change the world. We alter the course of billions. We attract interest of all the media. We are the people of the world, and we are working, communicating and living… together. As one single world, one single mechanism, we have begun the shift that will forever change the borders, the dividers and the mental state of nations. We have begun the change that will change democracy forever.
I’m willing to risk it. The benefit is too good to miss.
We’re better. Connected.
I just saw James Cameron’s new masterpiece. AVATAR is a perfect blend of science fiction, adventure, a love story and how we shape our own path. It’s almost like Pocahontas in space. Although I prefer the nickname “dances with smurfs” better… There is no reason whatsoever to not go and see this film. Now. And in 3D please. And for once, I hope they don’t make a sequel. There is nothing else that needs saying. In 20 years, we will look back and think of AVATAR the same way as we look at Star Wars today; it changed cinema forever. And that is the true art of it, not just the subtle nuances in really really photorealistic CGI, not the well developed world and mythologies, not the near perfect storyline and certainly not the cheesy ballad at the end. No, the true art of AVATAR is what it does to you. Me. Us. The moviegoer. It hits you right in the face and sticks to your brain like Corellian snugsnails. This is a film you will remember, and keep watching.
This changes everything.
Who knows what the future will be like? I dont’t. And neither do you. In fact, no one does, because the future isn’t yet. No one can know what doesn’t exist.
…Yet, do you ever have this feeling, this feeling that we’re meant for something else? Destined for something bigger? Do you ever lay in bed, wishing you could reach for the stars and actually touch them? Do you ever walk the street, watching other people go about their daily lifes, pondering what your mission in all of this is? Do you ever wake up early in the morning, before the sun has risen, and think to yourself – today I can take on the world? Do you ever have the feeling that our purpose is to change the world?
If you do – you are like us. We call ourselves the BrookfieldLodge society. Would you like to join us?
You are not here tonight. We are separated by the physical world, by chance and by the real life. We are together still though. In thoughts and in feelings. And in feelings, there are actions. And in actions, there is destiny. Dangerous word destiny is, the brother of death eventually. I however, fear not the future anymore, because I have you.
I have flown. I have felt and I have seen. The world is mine to hold tonight. I know how it ends. Perfect moments in the sun. The golden rays over you hair, a light breeze that rustles it. The clear stary sky at night, thousands of millions of stars looking down on us, as we two, lovers, hold hands and walk into whatever awaits us. I know how it ends. Because I have you. My one, my last, my love.
Yours.
So, we spent the latter part of last week in Liverpool with some friends. Was nice to see everyone again, catch up on the latest and just to have a few days off, enjoying good food, nice weather and a pleasant company! It always makes me think… how things just move on, your home for 3 years can still perfectly go on without you. It seems to be the way of things… perhaps we get connected to plases more than they connect to us?
Back in Oslo now. Which means back to work. Trying to gather some more ideas, but my head seem to have run out. Bought a magazine, and hopefully that will get me some inspiration or the mental boost I need to complete some important parts… finished www.multitechnic.no today, up and running with a shiny new wordpress installation with custom theme! Take a look if you’re interested, pretty happy about it myself. Bult ocmpletely around XHTML, PHP, JavaScripts and CSS. Obviously it’s standards compliant down to the last letter.
The actual design of IRL will take some time though, but I like it somehow, the default setting of K2 isn’t bad at all. And it seems to fit my random head quite well I think. Maybe some adjustments here and there, but overall… a really nice theme. Mental work is also going on for www.brookfieldlodge.org, but as we are still debating content, it’s difficult to come up with something incredibly usefull. I’m thinking it might be easiest just to move the blog, extend it to a full-size website and redesign it a bit, so that it becomes an integral part of the site. Time will tell. And keep your eyes on masterfade.com, things are happening!
signing off.
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