Howl 2.0

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I’m at the Design Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa, which is one of the biggest design/art/culture conferences in the world. Martha Stewart is even putting in an appearance.

At the conference, there’s a twitterfall, a small physical wall devoted to tweets about the Design Indaba. Every tweet tagged with either #desginindaba or #diexpo will appear on that wall for everyone to see.

We’re going to read poetry on it.

We’re going to be reading a poem I wrote based on the conference and the people here. It’s called Howl 2.0 and it’s based on the original Howl poem written by Allen Ginsberg.

The poem is modular. That means, it doesn’t matter in what order it is read.

You will decide the order in which it is read. You will remix it and create it live.

Participation in this guarantees twitter membership of the ESAN (Elite Secret Army Of Ninjas).

I will be filming of it what I can.


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Go through the poem below and find a verse you like. Copy and paste it (WITH THE HASHTAGS) and tweet it.

A minute later (or 5 minutes if you’re worried about spamming) find another one and tweet it again.

Continue to do this as long as this post on this blog remains visible or I signal on twitter (twitter.com/pleasefindthis) to stop.

Godspeed,

Me

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I saw the best minds of a generation speak for free to an audience that paid to hear them.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who paid another 40 bucks for parking.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who felt it was worth it.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who fell asleep.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who woke up.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who wanted to make silver clouds.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who went back to work to make brochures.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who waited for briefs to do something amazing.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who never knew they didn’t need permission to change the world.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who needed 50 bucks to get online for half-an-hour.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who got word out about what was happening.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who knew everything about wanting.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who knew nothing about having.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who wore violent clothing.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who made boring work.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who paid 2 bucks to ask a question.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who needed an answer.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who filled foreign templates

#designindaba #diexpo

Who used original content.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who spent their lives getting in.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who spend their lives getting out.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who found more substance in a child’s poetry.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who found nothing in their best headlines.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who scribbled frantically.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who used beer flavoured pens.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who forgot to tell the tourists not to walk down dark alleys.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who swore to never teach their children to draw.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who thought they’d be famous, just like everyone else.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who call people who comment on their articles “bloggers.”

#designindaba #diexpo

Who read magazines about trends that put the word “computer” in quotes.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who walked out of science lecturers because they thought there was no art in life.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who sponsored your colours and then became their client on Monday.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who ran screaming from art when they heard they might starve.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who sacrificed their sleep.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who wore sandals to work and used it as a license to harass the girls.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who smoked their cigarettes to the bone in the hope of finding an idea.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who mistook a photoshop filter for art.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who thought finding ideas in their inbox was work.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who were friends when they studied but hated each other when they worked.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who filmed every talk but has never shared them.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who knew that they people who should’ve been there, couldn’t afford it.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who were told they’d become rich and still worry about the rent.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who politely said hello and then “Where are you now?”

#designindaba #diexpo

Who only ate well when the boss was paying.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who draws just for fun.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who called talking to your friends “social media.”

#designindaba #diexpo

Who were lucky to wear suits by choice.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who knew what should’ve won, whenever they didn’t.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who spoke about being free from behind their firewalls.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who “once tweeted something.”

#designindaba #diexpo

Who turned a studio into a family.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who thought being nervous was chewing gum.

#designindaba #diexpo

Who shot themselves in the head with their own cameras.

#designindaba #diexpo