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2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering by Ryan Gelpke
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“But as long as we all practice kindness wherever we go and don’t stop to wonder at this a so marvellous and stunning world our very existence won’t have been wasted. Not in the slightest! So let’s have a lovely drink, hug each other and cry at the sight of the beautiful sunset that we are about to witness! And then go home, get some sleep and do it all over again!”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“We are insane prophets in an ever changing world, a world that cries out in pain yet still carries on with an incredible will to survive through its own pain. Soon, however it might all come crashing down one way or another.”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“That is the story of life after all, isn't it? Killing time until time kills you. Pretty desolate if one thinks about it. Well, let's collect memories, lots and lots of them, all before we might realise that our lives were just a shimmer!”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“Let’s savour the downfall of paradise shall we? Nothing better than see paradise collapse and finally give way to the ugly mess that is this truly tragic world of ours! Cast our illusions away and look the devil straight into the eye, congratulating him on the work he created on planet earth!”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“We watch on as a young woman passes us by, her eyes glued to the screen of her phone. She almost walks into a cyclist, looks up for a split-second and then eyes back onto the screen and walks on, unbothered, like nothing has happened. It is clear to us, the world’s center of attention had shifted in the last few years, its center was now in our hands, its currency was measured in likes and shares. Information these days swirls in an endless, never-ending tornado of tweets, news feeds and viral sensations, each single word, no every single letter actually, fighting for our attention, fighting for a moment in the spotlight before fading into the depths of digital oblivion, to be forgotten forever.”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“I am scared of snapping. That something, some random day, it will simply make ‘click’ in my mind and all of the sudden I will absolutely lose my mind. In other words having gazed into the abyss for too long. Go completely and totally insane! How does one decent into madness? What makes one click so all of the sudden life is upside down and people don’t know themselves anymore?”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“After all, being a part of the Shimmering Generation means that we have to endure the potential and endless shimmering of these flickering screens that follow us on every step and drag us closer and closer to an endless addiction cycle! To fight against the urge of staring at these shimmering screens, to lose oneself in the masses of endless information that just causes paralysis.”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“Is Zürich actually a city or a town?
What is a city? What is a town? I ask back.
A type of human settlement? Of a certain size.
What is a human settlement?
Seriously?
Yeah… seriously… maybe it’s easiest to define things first before talking about them.”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“You know we are doomed anyway, right?
Beg your pardon?
No matter what we do, what we archive, what status we have, how much material wealth we acquire, we all die. Some of us in terrible pain whilst we do so… Life is inherently cruel, there is no other way of putting it.”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“Love for the lovers! Food for the foodies! Drink for the drinkers! Travel for the travellers! Life for the living! Let’s rejoice in what we got! Live life to the fullest, you never know what tomorrow brings!”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“Here in Zürich, at Paradeplatz, the heartbeat of global capital hums in these buildings, where the relentless pursuit of profit seems never-ending.”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“In this town numbers become the currency of conversation, while conversation becomes negotiation and negotiation becomes transaction.”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“Everyone is talking about self improvement these days. It’s so fashionable. Quitting smoking, stop drinking or working out. But what these people forget is that in order to self improve one has to self destruct first. No Ying without Yang. One can only rise to immense heights after one has reached the bottom of the pit.
And that’s what you want to do? Self destruct? Asks Benny.
Sure why not? Always a good reason to. And who knows... maybe it even motivates me to actually self improve one day! So, let’s self destruct!”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“Our future is ahead of us, it will come steamrolling at us, it is totally out of our control. However, it is yet up to us to define and shape it after our own vision. Or at least try dying!”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering