I have always liked old stuff. One of my favourite subjects to paint was always old people’s faces. They are so rich and alive and full of life experience. Young people are more confused and carefree. Middle aged people are often anxious and responsible. Babies are really cute. They are like pure curiosity but they have no fear and really need to be looked after carefully. The older I get the more I like old stuff. It’s often from older people that I learn the most. This is why I love visiting places where quite a few old people hang out. They often have this carefree feeling where they’ve seen and done it all or at least enough to realise that time is limited and it’s important to relax and have fun and do some good stuff with people who want to share.
I like this pic. It reminds me that in the midst of all the confusion of a lot of modern technology that will soon be redundant anyway, precious little has really changed. And the stuff that changes the fastest and is made the fastest has the lowest value. Slow is always better. Like whenever I get a new phone or computer my productivity hits the floor. I get confused and overwhelmed with all the features. 99% of them I never use and don’t need. The stuff that has improved I simply can’t find.
Apple, Google and John Maeda have been driving this direction for a while. But aside from Google it’s still pretty exclusive stuff. Unless of course you go back. Way back…
I love my battered old phone from the early 90’s. It’s perfect for phone calls and text messages and the interface is so simple. It’s super cheap to replace so I don’t have to worry about it getting stolen. But somehow I doubt that many people would want to steal a phone that is scratched and sandy with a misty salty screen that is held together with masking tape because it has been dropped so many times.
Thank You.
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