Fighting Tiger

Studying at the Academy of DIY

Over the last couple of years I’ve become increasingly interested in a few Masters programs that offer technology and interaction theory and design along with research and arts practice. I’ve also thought idly about studying sociology, sustainability and urban design too, you know, just because I’m interested in way too much different stuff.

Then lately, as you might have noticed, I’ve become rather interested in friendship and how society and community forms.  There’s a little bit of sociology in there and some psychology too.  Considering that friendships form in physical space and online, I can then tie in the urban design and digital / media interests too.  Representation and recording of relationships? Well that connects the art and design threads too.

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At this point, it seems like a big ask to find a graduate program that allows me to explore all the above (and more) without paying vast sums of money and moving location yet again.  So, I’m going to try and create my own part-time, unofficial ‘Masters’ program right here in Berlin.

To start with, I know a rather handsome guy who can teach me electronics. This teacher also has an extensive library incorporating philosophy and reference materials such as my current textbook.

I’m starting on a intensive course in the German language come January, so I’ll actually get some formal learning too.

After those two immediately available topics, I’m in need of some direction, so if you have answers to any of the following questions, please comment away:

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These are the things you hear from far away.

Derek’s 12 Meter Power Chord at Styx Project Space

Played and taken at Styx on a cold and snowy day.

Something I need to remind myself of.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

~ Carl Jung

(communicate)

n-1 (Friendship, Rhizomes).

My incredibly learned and lovely friend Dr Aliese once tried to explain Deleuze to me and I’m pretty sure her description involved “he talks about teacups but I’m not really sure he was talking about teacups at all”.  Then again often…

BarCampSheff: Practical Uses For Jedi Mind-Tricks

Or “These are not the droids you are looking for”.*

The theme for my first ever Bar Camp this past weekend in Sheffield was “community and conversation.”  Conveniently, most of the people in Sheffield I wanted to catch up with or get…

BarCampSheffield 2.1 - TED talks.

As part of BarCampSheff I quickly curated an hour’s worth of videos from the brilliant TED.com. If you know me personally you’ve probably already heard me rave on about TED. If you’re coming to battlecat.net as a result of meeting…

transition transfer

Phew. All this uprootedness is also going to head to battlecat.net for a wee while. I’m going to do a bunch of domain, webhosting and design changes which may cause outages for a while. If you’re curious about what’s going…

it’s not you, it’s me

i love a town by Fighting Tiger.

Dear Adelaide,

as you might have guessed, I’m leaving you. Surely you’ve noticed the signs?

For the last couple of years, things just haven’t been amazing, not the way I want it to be in the long…

Light enough to travel

Collar by Fighting Tiger.

21°05′N

Bought gongs.
Went to a percussion festival.
Banging my head against a brick wall about stuff I can’t change right now.