shamiana film festival
Posted by: Aditya Athalye on: August 27, 2007
saturday evening last… “shamiana film festival” … in koregaon park…
short films, documentaries, independent cinema…
next time you hear of this one happening in your city…
do yourself a favour …
go watch.
what i attended (sat, aug 25, 2007)
http://www.openspaceindia.org/August07_events_act.html
more about the festival
http://subalterncinema.com/blog/2007/04/23/shamiana-open-air-short-film-festival-27-28-29-april/
Suspended animation
Posted by: Aditya Athalye on: June 9, 2007
the university of pune is a favorite hangout for many punekars… from early morning joggers to evening conversations over tea and snacks… naturally… such a lovely green campus and vibrant community…
i discovered these wonderful creatures in one of my walks through the univ’s little lanes… i have no clue what this species of spiders is named… this one i captured on camera was easily 5 inches across…
i think these spiders show up and grow up once the rains subside… it’s very easy to miss them… they are brilliantly camouflaged… suspended about 5 – 8 feet from the ground in a strong web that spans 20 – 30 feet easily and touches the ground here, a dead stump there, and yet again another branch… pioneers of structural design.
and one has to stand and stare… and wonder… how much new life is spawned by the once-parched earth…
the still life
Posted by: Aditya Athalye on: June 5, 2007
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pune city, maharashtra, india
culture, art, education, beautiful women, great weather, un-hurriedness were it’s first, second, and third natures… some of the charm still remains, but a relaxed town with great weather, it is not anymore…
a bustling metropolis is birthing… a rabidly growing clutterscape and noisescape of neon and glass towers, steel and concrete, people and automobiles.
looking into the future seems hard… hard to see through the smog of development(?)… harder to wait for the dust to settle… how can it? perpetual footfalls, relentless wheels…
and sometimes as i turn my back to the unsettling dust… she reappears unexpectedly, flirtingly… and romances me on the street… and i feel still, life…
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To Web or Not to Web
Posted by: Aditya Athalye on: January 17, 2007
Hand the world to the web service.
Urge they; BUT just the reverse is,
True too, I say.
‘Cuz IMHO today,
The web is also going where the desktop is.
"Web services will take over the world!" aka… "The desktop is dead!"
It’s all too easy to take a polar view of the whole space, particularly when prosperity is plenty.
But wait… take a deep breath (and about ten paces back).
The highly advanced web-browser of today is a desktop app right? (And it runs on top of a highly advanced operating system… which is also a desktop app.) Our first point of contact with the web is our desktop (or handheld.)
Further, the notion that some stuff is best done on the web and some is best done outside it… is also blurring…
Consumer level document editing is possible off a web service, but at the same time, consumer level web hosting is possible off your regular desktop… even your sandisk cruzer!
Huge computing power, vast inexpensive storage, and faster bandwidth are the three catalysts. They tempt us to do what we love most… create more and publish and distribute more.
Sure, per KBps bandwidth may not be inexpensive enough yet, but IMHO, a few dozen million broadband connections is not a bad number to run with. It will become a few hundred million soon enough… and much faster than it took us to get to 1bn Internet users today.
The web is getting more and more distributed… It looks like a dancing, fluid interplay of what’s stored/run on third party servers and what’s stored/run off your own machine… The desktop is fast becoming a more critical piece of the web…
In fact, the desktop is itself becoming the web… by becoming a web server.
Humans, Cyclical Systems, and Nature
Posted by: Aditya Athalye on: August 31, 2006
In nature, there is no top or bottom of any food chain. There is no food chain. Nature is a highly cyclic system in the long run and in the short run also. Everything is an input to everything else. The lion ends up as food for bacteria, fungi, and scavengers other than lions. There is no waste. Except for the fact that all natural activity depends on a single largest energy input to earth, which is the sun.
A deeper appreciation of this fundamental cyclical behavior of natural systems is the key to creating sustainable business models.
Humans do operate some cyclical systems. BUT this happens only on a small scale. Here’s a simple example. The lady of a typical Indian household washes vegetables, steps out and throws the wash-water to the tree near by. The wash-water is hence immediately re-cycled. (Do not forget we in India are still an agrarian society. It follows that the typical Indian household resides in a village.)
I think the challenge for us is to open the mind towards creating business that is truly cyclical in behavior… particularly, especially, in large-scale operations.
(My statements are based on my individual observations and conversations with friends. I can supply no empirical evidence whatsoever in defense.)
the chameleon’s karma
Posted by: Aditya Athalye on: August 1, 2006
the chameleon’s the strangest i’ve seen,
moves slow, thumbs oppose, leaf green.
clay red or bark black or branch brown,
and at once can look up and down.
his last karma: what might it have been?
political scotch-isms
Posted by: Aditya Athalye on: July 30, 2006
i prefer scotch straight or on the rocks,
the spirit that makes and breaks deadlocks.
for nations are by political men,
gathered over scotch in the den.
talking israel, iraq, east bloc or indo-pak.
open media and collaboration…
Posted by: Aditya Athalye on: June 28, 2006
i.believe…
open source media (open media) is the near future of the network…
exchanging thoughts, ideas, experiences, memories, and information is not the same any more as it was even five years ago… the internet has evolved into a platform that spontaneously catalyses convergence… i see formerly separate paths of blogging, social networking, and information media marrying in various combinations… public and private efforts such as Wikipedia, Socialtext, Always On… now GoingOn are babies of these marriages…
it is clear to me that user-generated content … and now transactions … are key results of the proliferation of the network that gives power to the edge/fringe… the rise of the individual voice… but individual voices shouting out together drown each other out… and this is where i believe open media can step up in its various forms to build context and help make sense out of the noise…
in my opinion, an open media platform is a peer-reviewed collaborative knowledge powerhouse that builds context for sharing and discussion of thoughts, ideas, experiences, memories, and information…
in my opinion, the open media revolution is here to stay… and evolve… let’s walk together on this fascinating journey.
KaosPilots
Posted by: Aditya Athalye on: June 28, 2006
hi all… an interesting model of an education program…
http://www.kaospilot.dk/ … (text snippets inlined below…)
"………. The criteria for success are not only that the students get
good jobs after they graduate, but that they create new
and exciting jobs.
As an entrepreneurial educational program the KaosPilots
is therefore a progressive and positive answer to the
fascinating challenges presently facing our part of the
world. Namely, that more and more industry and service
jobs are moving away to places such as China and India.
This change in the global "productivity food-chain" leaves
all of us in the western part of the world with the same
question: who in the future will create the new jobs that
will replace those now disappearing? Which lines of
business and which industries will in the future be the
growth-engines in our part of the world?
And not least:how do we best unlock the creative and innovative forces
in each individual and in society as a whole? "
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