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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

I would like to write a book.....right, stay blogging instead

I guess the title says it all. I have been talking with so many people the last couple of weeks, all of them mentioning their big dream about writing a book, publish some poems, be a "writer" or a "designer" when they get old.... Okay, nice, who wouldnt want to earn money write some few words down on paper? I dont know if it is a very UWC'ish thing to do, but it seems like most of the UWC I know would like to publish something (song, book, poems etc).

If you want to get famous, then do like the danish artist Hornsleth (just the fact that I am mentioning them proves he is famous): http://www.hornsleth.com/, try to read about his village projects. He went to the poor part of Africa (hmm...the poor part..hmm...) and then he gave every person from the village a sheep or a pig if they changed their name to Hornsleth. Or to make a long story short:
What is The Hornsleth Village?
• The Hornsleth Village is an art project.
• 108 people from a small village in Uganda changes thier name to ‘Hornsleth’.
• Each person will go through the official legal name change process.
• Each person will have an national Uganda ID card issued to show their new ‘Hornsleth’ name.
• Each person will be photographed holding their new Hornsleth ID• The portraits will be defined as an original art work.
• International art critics and philosophers will be invited to contribute
.• The project is a business deal between Hornsleth and the appointed village opinon leaders.
• The participators will recieve farm animals for their involvement according to agreement.
• A locally well known animal re-distribution system will be implemented.
• 5.000 people will in five years have recieved an animal from this project if it runs as planned.
Don't worry, this is art!

The last sentence is a "typically" Hornsleth sentence.

So, to go back to what I started out with. Most people dreaming - believing? - that they will become writer or similar one day, I think that they should start out as blogger. It was just in the news some days ago, that more and more bloggers get their stories publish or at least get more than 10.000 of daily readers. So, start blogging...then one day you will most likely be famous...if you deserve it. The good thing about blogging is also that you dont have to be honest at all, if you write an "Political book" you have to prove where you have your points from, on the net you can say whatever you want to!

And as a last comment, I found this picture on another persons blog:

Here is the link for where you can buy the T-shirt: Link

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

i really liked that art project. you know there are some blog competitions, and you can get a hell of a lot of money.... most blogs are soooo stupid though...
anyway, hope you are happy
mica

9:20 AM  

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