Perhaps because the holiday season is approaching (and, from the corporate perspective, 3rd quarter), there's always a lot of change in November.
From the perspective of someone who has been publishing indie magazines/comic books since 2001...it's now 2011, and we are suddenly swimming in the digital age, often longing for a simpler life.
This evening, I had dinner with one of my best friends, who is moving to L.A. next week, and I noticed at the restaurant that there were a lot of "stereotypically downtown" actor-types who were fashionably dressed (P.S. There is such a marked difference between someone actually being cool versus someone 'trying to be cool' - in Canada, we call them 'Try-Hards').
The worst is when someone pulls out their latest version of the iPhone and tries to surreptitiously take a photo of whomever is at the table beside them, and it's all because this new Google+ thing is trying to recognize faces and synch it to the mobile device.
Personally, I think this is a little creepy.
But the key is to adapt. As the Taoists say, the only constant is change.
And, as one who actually studied Bruce Lee's martial art form for a couple of years (Jeet Kune Do), I advocate everything he says in his video clip, below. Jeet Kune Do was initially looked at with considerable disdain by masters of traditional martial arts forms. As Bruce Lee began training others in his forms, he stressed individuality in movement, practice through matches rather than memorization of solo forms, and above all, simplicity of movement. In essence, the purpose of the form is to win a fight, not to prove you’re a well-trained fighter.
From the perspective of someone who has been publishing indie magazines/comic books since 2001...it's now 2011, and we are suddenly swimming in the digital age, often longing for a simpler life.
This evening, I had dinner with one of my best friends, who is moving to L.A. next week, and I noticed at the restaurant that there were a lot of "stereotypically downtown" actor-types who were fashionably dressed (P.S. There is such a marked difference between someone actually being cool versus someone 'trying to be cool' - in Canada, we call them 'Try-Hards').
The worst is when someone pulls out their latest version of the iPhone and tries to surreptitiously take a photo of whomever is at the table beside them, and it's all because this new Google+ thing is trying to recognize faces and synch it to the mobile device.
Personally, I think this is a little creepy.
But the key is to adapt. As the Taoists say, the only constant is change.
And, as one who actually studied Bruce Lee's martial art form for a couple of years (Jeet Kune Do), I advocate everything he says in his video clip, below. Jeet Kune Do was initially looked at with considerable disdain by masters of traditional martial arts forms. As Bruce Lee began training others in his forms, he stressed individuality in movement, practice through matches rather than memorization of solo forms, and above all, simplicity of movement. In essence, the purpose of the form is to win a fight, not to prove you’re a well-trained fighter.
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