ericafraaije

When Nothing Needs Us Anymore Canva turns the absence of a template into a notification. On outsourcing, authorship and the work that makes life meaningful A video has been online for more than a day. It plays, and people can see it. Nevertheless, Instagram keeps reporting that it is only 90 per cent uploaded. Canva recently sent another useful notification: no template had been used for the design—the video above. The bureaucracy of machines is strict. No template? Noted! Published but only...

On short films, plants and what a form tells us The model lying on the worktable It has been quite some time since I wrote my last blog post. Suddenly, the inspiration was gone. Not only to write, but also to make. I wanted to clear everything out. It could all go, really, and sometimes I even thought I wanted to give up my creative work altogether. When I said out loud that perhaps everything could go, I realised that I had secretly hoped someone would immediately contradict me. That didn’t...

First I try to hold it together. But gradually it becomes a question of how it remains standing.