It feels nice coming back to Rhizome.org. I had completely forgotten about this community until a friend reminded me yesterday. Oh, yes, there was this place. The logo designed by Markus Weisbeck, or Dr. Weisbeck as I used to call him, because of his incredibly intellectual approach to design. (Markus and I both went to Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach... he was kind enough to include one or two of my covers in his TechnoStyle book)
I had stumbled across Rhizome years and years ago. I replied to an article written by Markus. I basically flamed him. And Rachel Greene turned this flame war into an article on typography. I was then asked to contribute more. But I really was no Rick Poynor so there was not very much I could say about typography at that time. Rhizome, were very kind; they promised me to get me tickets to the multimediale in Cannes. (A show only to those with very special tickets) I had many frequent flyer miles and went to Cannes on my own, but there was no ticket waiting for me...a misunderstanding. I was in Cannes, which I did not really enjoy... Except maybe for that church on the hill. I spent hours and hours there. Cannes itself, not my thing. I took a few pictures of chairs, thrown away into the ocean.
Tangents. Michael Samyn was pretending to be Jeff Koons on the rhizome list, I think, back in the day... Valery Grancher was pretty active on the list. It felt warm today, to see Valery¹s name as a sender on one of the emails. Hmm... I am a very different person now. I am looking forward to our new interaction with rhizome.... Took a look at the ³board of directors²... Hmm... Hmm, hmm...