{"id":13,"date":"2016-05-18T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T09:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/?p=13"},"modified":"2016-06-02T09:45:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T09:45:25","slug":"dance-and-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/dance-and-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing again, but too soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">the thing that seems somehow now so distant, has been dancing for awhile now. And I am happy about that. I won&#8217;t lie, I was sick of it. I did the dance so many times. Every time I had to test a small moving of the margin of a text, I had to dance. Every time, I did anything, I had to repeat. I also needed to do the choreography to see the pages. I was subject to my own constraints (for better or worse, just like you). And the Friday before the launch, I just. couldn&#8217;t. look. at. it. anymore. No more. I&#8217;m not even so sure I am ready yet. The rest is still a blur.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/3xz2BJOujtdYfJGDlK\" width=\"480\" height=\"266\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">But the battle of content ensues (and my urge to write)<br \/>\n= confusion<\/p>\n<p>At the launch in Berlin, I was asked if I had any new reflections or conclusions about dancing and technology. Maybe like some of you, I am (still) confused. I am still in a bit of a come down. I still need time to process.<\/p>\n<p>But confusion is a big part of it. I start to think dance is perhaps about confusion. You put yourself in a system of rules (the rhythm, the space, the type of dance, the floor, the social&#8230;), but your body does its own thing, maybe doesn&#8217;t do it right, you don&#8217;t always have control, it&#8217;s not supposed to be strict&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-things just keep moving forward&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And I think that&#8217;s why I did it. That&#8217;s why I used dance as a therapy after my dad died. It&#8217;s a way for me to explore something without knowing what exactly it is because it still has a system. It has a system that allows me to get lost in the in-between. I can read the system and then I know enough to move, to jump right in and to dance. I don&#8217;t need to know all the answers or the processes. My body somehow knows what to do anyway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s the same with design. It&#8217;s the same with technology. We use technology everyday with only understanding a small part of the system. We get it. But do we really dance? Do we really have the power to lose control?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I hope throughout Flee Immediately!, I also give you some sort of way in and some sort of system for you to dance and to understand. I hope that you can also learn to lose control. And I don&#8217;t just mean to give up your power to the mighty google (ahem wordpress) gods, but to have the power to lose control in order to gain control. It&#8217;s complicated and I&#8217;m still processing this concept&#8230;something about the balancing of control&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And in the end, I hope I at least achieved enough confusion here that you feel free and not frustrated. It really is in your dance floor now and out of my control. It&#8217;s a new code\u00a0for you to use?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Speaking of dancing and coding<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is one thing about dancing that I haven&#8217;t yet talked about: my dancing with the code itself. In the launch it was also mentioned that issue 02 emerged purely as an interface. It is perhaps more conceptual than life\/form changing this time. And the code is still somewhat hidden behind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But\u00a0there there is another story, and another type of dance. A whole system I created from frustrations, experiments, playfulness, fun, needing to just get things to work, problem solving&#8211; and most importantly writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ll save that story for another time. I&#8217;ll dissect the code for you\u00a0alongside my emotions.\u00a0But for now, I&#8217;m not yet ready. I constantly need to think of the next steps. There is so much to do. I am behind. I must work on other things ($).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But one step at a time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See you in the next one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still confused, but here are my initial thoughts on dancing, confusion, systems and processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,9,5,8,7],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dance","tag-confusion","tag-control","tag-dance","tag-process","tag-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fleeimmediately.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}