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@ahhfred
Last couple months I've been luring my creative practice back into gear through a shadow Instagram. I've never really drawn before and probably it shows. These are the first slides of a zine I'll print. https://www.instagram.com/p/BucQrVmASbE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4iuijlg4jy51
See-through
Dressed in all white, the future gave you back. You and David Byrne clutching the grain of the bar, making feelings from plastic figurines.
You want to train your mind. Write a list of secrets to share with the world.
How many versions of happiness involve cutting it up like a turkey?
Do you see her freckles tattooed on your forearm when you toss at night?
Do you wish you were in the snow with the absence of sound?
You're naked, and that's not new, with word after word of consciousness more and more completely on your skin.
The letters that you can't get rid of sculpted larger than anyone you've ever met and set on fire.
Your face spread open like a salt flat so we can see through what comes.
Morning textures (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnmNPXtnGTw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wtwke81iv60r
One of my favorite cities (at Black Rock City) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnXQaI4HIW7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10r8liil50r0i
Blending in (at Brooklyn, New York)
In our latest Becoming Wise podcast, wanderer and writer Pico Iyer tells of a lifetime of discovering outer stillness as an essential catalyst to a rich inner life.
We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost….
https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/29-The-Final-Speech-from-The-Great-Dictator-
Happy spring. Happy #rebirth #randomactsofcreativity
A grainy look at Rio during carnaval from the disposable camera that I didn't lose.
A #kaleidoscopic #limbscape experiment
http://alfredmegally.com/dance-your-way-through/
One of my favorite Texas surprises is that fruit trees grow in front yards. On a particularly glorious November afternoon, I passed a family harvesting their orange tree, filling several baskets with plump fruit. I waved, complimented the tree, and without hesitation the mother grabbed two oranges and brought them down to me at the fence. A man, who seemed to be the caretaker of the household, gave her a comment about not giving me so many. She rushed backed and stuffed my arms until I couldn't carry another fruit. I politely accepted two and walked home laughing. The women was so determinedly giving! Even with the miserly man trying to close her off to the world, albiet with a type of protective love. I went home and ate the oranges in a row, because they were easily the best in my life, being careful to save all the seeds. Here are the most promising future trees. Destiny's darlings. I'm dreaming 20 years from now of giving away oranges, oranges and oranges. A century from now one of them outliving me and the women. Love makes more love. It doesn't run out. Give as much as you can. Happy New Years everyone
Mirror World Map
My latest side project on display at a popup art show in Medellin, Colombia. It’s a world map mosaic made with 1,500 mirror pieces. So refreshing to fit in something non-commercial and expressive.
I’m thinking of it as a symbolic way to mark a new chapter after extensive world travels the past few years. Read more here if it calls to you:http://alfredmegally.com/mirror-world-map/
Secondly, it's a good reminder to keep making my own course as I get busier. I already have the next act of creativity ready to go…
Transported back home to Colombia after 3 full months in Europe. I'll be making a mural here dealing with ideas of global connectedness and having multiple communities in the world. To be displayed at the #senseIIIpopupsensorial curated by @humanese. Excited to collaborate with this inspiring group of creatives from Medellin! Photo: Biking around Amsterdam's De Pijp neighborhood on my short visit this summer. #foodartjoy
What a gift to witness this catalonian tradition on my last week in Barça. In person, you can feel the intensity of their trust and camaraderie all around you. Humans are amazing (at Plaza de la Vila de Gracia)
Gezelligheid
“Gezellig” is a gem in the dutch language with no english equivalent. It can loosely mean “cozy” but in a more robust way describes a range of feelings of connectedness paired with a sense of individual well being.
It even has its own Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gezelligheid
On my last day in Amsterdam, I tucked into the coziest cafe I could find, with atmospheric music, light hearted banter, and a welcoming girl on the other side of the bar who was pulling banana bread out of the oven while describing to me where to watch outdoor art house films. I stayed for several hours sipping tea until the sun stopped reaching through the corner window. Gezellig!
Measuring hipstery on the HiBoCo Triangle
I admit to liking hipster things.
People often give me recommendations of hipstery places to go and see, however I ran into the issue where some of the recs were way off. In this one particular instance I checked into a hostel called the “Generator” in Amsterdam, which was undoubtedly hipster, but was not for me.
I thought about it, and decided what I actually like is bohemian with different size scoops of hipstery. Creating a continuum between hipster and bohemian makes sense to me to describe that. Immediately I can say, okay, but how bohemian is it on a scale from 1-10. (In the case of the generator hostel, I’d say 1/10 bohemian 10/10 hipster)
To add to the descriptiveness in my mental model, I added another point of the spectrum “Corporate”. Aka, how organized/business-oriented/luxurious is this it. I could use a less loaded adjective than corporate, but this scale if for me and people interested in the creative scene rather than in luxury.
Here is my word splash defining the three corners.
Three points of the HiBoCo Triangle
Hipster: modern, pretentious, elite, expensive, self-conscious, design-y, museum-esque, purposeful, consistent, trendy, elite
Bohemian: nick nacks, accidental, open for all, dirty, cheap, lawless, inconsistent, authentic, candid, unique
Corporate: luxurious, organized, business-oriented, rigid, new, clean, on-time
Coffee shop wifi example
HIpster: No wifi. Talk to to each other. (or equally sassy line)
Corporate: 30 minute wifi code per purchase on receipt
Bohemian: Wifi... but it doesn’t work. Maybe charm the owner to reset the home router.
To have even more fun with this I decided to draw out San Francisco Cafes (mostly mission district) on my new HiBoCo Scale.
San Francisco Mission’s coffeeshops
In general, I don’t mind the inconsistency, and lower quality, and will trade it in for something more sincere towards the bohemian corner. All the cafes on this list I consider “on-spectrum” and I would visit them depending on what I wanted.
...this is probably excessive