Thoughts & Insights

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth.

… was the heading of an article in the special edition of we_magazine which was showcased in the last blog post.

Can you imagine a special edition of we_magazine dedicated to WE and the Arts? One in which OUBEY’s art and thinking about art formed something like a linking element between the articles and contributions of a wide range of authors all dealing with art, the Internet and WE from their own perspectives?

For whatever reason, we human beings do not have a very difficult time conceiving of an earthly being that is so vastly superior to us physically that it could snatch up our tiny selves and swallow us whole in a heartbeat were we to encounter it unprotected anywhere in its element.

…. is the title of an interview with the architect Indy Johar, cofounder of 00:/ (zero zero), which was published in the latest special issue of the “we_magazine” on the topic of “we and the arts”.

“No doubt about it, the mind can change the universe. (…) The power of imagination within our mind, combined with the abilities of our hands to make that imagination reality, has given us a power that we are scarcely able to master.

A man stands barefoot in the white sand of the seabed. His body is submerged in water to the very tips of his hair.

It takes an effort to believe your eyes the first time you lay them on the sketches of Jacques Rougerie.

It would be no exaggeration to label Fritz Haller’s audacious concept for an “Integral Urban” of the 1960s and ’70s as utopian.

The modular USM Haller furniture system is famous around the world.

“Science begins with wonder”, said Aristotle.

“It´s a sort of an earth language that has been painted”