Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Ambiguity

Products. These are what I am supposed to design. Things that will be used by a target set of consumers. So I will be designing cars, mixers, grinders, phones and all that for a target group, giving them form that pleases my audience, complies to their body measurements, reflecting their personalities. But who am I designing for? A bunch of people who believe that the purpose of life is to just mechanically work and enjoy the remuneration for whom products are something they can live without but think they cant? Or for people who need design but are not able to pay as they cant remunerate designers who are already addicted to the bourgeoise? I'd rather go for the latter since I am nobody and nobody according to the puppeteer is allowed to rebel against him. So 3 years down the lane, will I be still thinking the same? I dont think so. Because by then I will be somebody and somebody or the other is always there to cater to the flamboyancy of the so-called "elite design world". This thought continues to linger in my mind and I wish i was this crazy visual communication person who made films that made sense to me(nobody)and not everybody.

Monday, October 8, 2007

Nobody
c/o No one
Nowhere street

October 8th, 2007

Puppeteer
Head of the Department,
Society

Respected Son-of-a-bitch,
Sub: Response to your response to my behaviour in the society


This is in response to your response to my behaviour in the domain that fortunately or unfortunately falls under your control. Myself, Nobody, has been accused of unruly behaviour in the above mentioned domain. It is true that I had recieved a letter from an authority whom you have appointed, accusing me of having disrupted the peace of his domain and also threatening a fellow community member(Name not mentioned as I cannot pronounce motherfucker properly). With regards to this I had written an explanation, conveying my ignorance, innocence and untidiness, complying to all international and national standards of formal letter writing. The matter was dissolved sometime back when I agreed to allow intruders in an area which I thought to be my domain( which unfortunately happens to belong just to you).

The one who must not be named had a tough time after, with the intruder refusing to intrude the above mentioned space and also to vacate the earlier space. This action of the intruder(or the extruder if you have a different point of view) is totally his decision and has in no way been influenced by my ideologies and idiosyncrasies.

This brings me to my character in the web domain( which I assume you have disowned). This character did disturb the peace of the community at one point of time when he protested against a family member of his, Anonymous(gender not yet unravelled), being ousted from a certain community, which happens to be owned by a very respectable person. This was just an excuse to use words that appealed to your own society like fuck off, unclefucker, motherfucker, bastard etc. I had apologised to this "savage" act of mine later. I take this opportunity to apologise for this attitude of mine once again.

There has been only one more incident in the recent past, in which I disrupted "peace", although this time I happened to have hurt the sentiments of just one person. I happened to chat through that person's gmail account to a person who had the same name as mine(nobody). I must agree that both of us seemed to have a very enjoyable(read pissing off) time. Then after a couple of hours I happened to have a conversation with the original owner of the gmail account, during which the person happened to say,"Its me. Now the other person" even though the person intended to say"Its me. Not the other person". I do remember I had politely asked him/her to either go screw his/herself or to go and give a blowjob to the mess guy's gaslighter. I again did apologise to my alias as well as the owner of the account. But there was no reply. I request your highness to order the owner to send a reply.

These three incidents had occured due to three independent momentary lapses of reason and I strongly state that this was the result of intuition and in no way that of analysis. I do agree, that as a designer, I should have given equal weightage to both. I believe that the mere fact that I have analysed all the three incidents in detail, even though late,is as good as any other excuse to be pardoned for the nth time. If you refuse to do so, I proclaim myself an outcaste from this domain of yours, called the society, because I find myself thinking, speaking, writing and doing things that in no way comply to the society's standards very often. Hence, the power to decide whether this letter should be regarded as an apology, or an explanation or a resignation letter remains entirely in your hands.

PS: Sarcasm and puns intended in certain parts of the letter.
The feasibility of being a self-proclaiming oneself has been experimented with and proved to be effective during the test run which began at 19:25 hrs, October 8th to 21:00 hrs, October 8th and hence any attempts to test my willpower will be strongly condemned.

Yours faithfully

Nobody
Outcaste Trainee

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Enslaved

Am free
No chains tying me
No blood holding me back
Nothing hammering me down
Nothing cutting off my flight
No one can enslave me
Cos Am free

Am I free?
Dont know the past's face
Dont know why am writing now
Cant recognise my future
Am controlled
Am no more what I am
Or what I want to be
I am what someone wants me to be
Just another puppet
In this mockery of some higher life
Id rather not have thought about this.