"now that we can do anything, what will we do?"

Noted as a world-leading innovator is pretty damn cool. Bruce Mau has studios in Chicago and Toronto (good man). He has written several books and created a studio-based postgrad program. Mau's Incomplete Manifesto is his world view, written in 1998, and surprisingly not outdated.

FOR THE WEEK:

"Stay up late. Strange things happen when you've gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world."

Well Mau, now that you put it that way, all-nighters don't seem so bad... It's true, though. There's something fun about being up until at least 3 every morning while my roommates sit around all day and do nothing and go to bed before 11, and then complain about 'needing the weekend' and 'being so tired'. Suck it up.

"Don't enter awards competitions. Just don't. It's not good for you."

Ok, CYA Dallas.

"Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms. Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the institial spaces - what Dr. Seuss calls "the waiting place." Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference - the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals - but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.

My places this weekend...? Yacht club with my best friends, dairy queen, Noodles & Co., the Cave, and Fatso's.

- J.