The Revolution is Calling...

11.28.07

Ever heard of Venture Communism?

Now you have. Telekommunisten: The Revolution is Calling.
(the peoples' phone service is the cheapest)

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The major ongoing drama at the M-B apartment is still the lack of internet, followed in a close second by the lack of sleep. All of the equipment is here for us to be set up with DSL but we cannot seems to get the correct passwords working. It is a long drawn out story and I'll spare you the details. We have been frequenting an internet cafe nearby daily, just an hour at a time cause we have to pay for it.

It is no secret how digitally dependent we have all become. I cannot even work on my computer with out the internet. Any drawing, research, or writing inevitably involves a visit to Google. It is not so much dependency as it is connectivity. Having access to people people, news and information from across the world. It is not even a simple connection to another culture but access to a constant record of how millions of other people all interact with this medium. All occurring in an electronic 'real time'. If I did not find this type of input so curious and inspiring I doubt that I would be here, in Berlin (and I probably would not be writing this). Although, access to the internet may save me a little money in internet cafes and shopping, I might not have unplugged to go and see a movie last night. We saw Persepolis, it is out in Europe but doesn't come out in the states until x-mas. It is definitely worth seeing, it has the feel of a political comic strip that has been turned into a feature length animation. The key is that it is an auto-biography of sorts that gives you a personal insight into the politics and history of Iran over the last 30 years from the perspective of a child and young adult. I even took a lot away from the film even though we watched it all in German (without subtitles).