Fresh Paint
“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.”
― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Fresh Paint is fresh paint.
It’s the Blue Spoon testing ground for exploring new ideas, or thinking through concepts that are interesting or annoying or simply bullshit from the bubble factory, press releases from the public relations departments that distract and disguise and do little more than sustain a dysfunctional status quo.
These essays are written in a narrative, journalistic approach. The aim is to quickly synthesize and connect things so a different cognitive pattern comes to life, a unique perspective, an original insight. In some cases, the content here will be developed into articles that will appear in more formal publications.
The capacity to ‘see, say, sell and sustain’ with system vision is a rich vein to mine for originality. No magic wands, hyperspace missions, moonshots to save humanity from itself, generative AI capabilities from technology vendors promoting access to galaxies far, far away. Just a different brand of imagination, the kind with the power to punch through and persuade.
The era of linear solutioning is over.
And while avoiding ambiguity and shying away from complexity is understandable, pretending it doesn’t exist is foolish at best and fantasy at worst. It’s time to break the Standard Model of thought and inaction.
It all starts with a brick through the window of convention and cliché 🤘
