“Parkour gives them a way to use their energy in a positive way.”
When you look at an obstacle or something big, you prepare yourself. It’s the same with life. When you come up against something, you look at it from all angles, see what is the best way ti overcome it – up, down, around or over. You slowly build yourself up until you can accomplish it or work around it to find a solution. It’s about having the courage to overcome fear.
Inspiring stuff…
How to find out what they want
Todd, Ploy and myself created this eBook yesterday based on the brain bubbling topic, “How to find out what they want.” Rather than being a polemical piece or an essay-style study of the topic and techniques used “to find out what they want”, this is a near verbatim transcript of a conversation between ourselves about our immediate and long term goals.
My personal favorite aspects of this work are how casual and quick it reads, so hopefully people are more receptive to reading it than something instructive or formal. It might come across as lightweight at moments (which possibly puts it in danger of being dismissed) but our awareness of the conversation’s recording comes across in the eBook, especially at the beginning when we were finding a way to get the conversation going and at the end when we tried to wrap it all up.
The opportunity for discerning readers to identify when we’re being more genuine or self-conscious of what we’re saying is a commentary on the (in)effectiveness of “finding out what people want” when information is gathered -
- directly from participants/samples;
- in an informal and casual environment;
- with the participants’ knowledge of the recording; and
- with the participant’s knowledge of the information’s application and public distribution.
(cf. census info, statistical data, vox pox, phone surveys, door-to-door, random sampling, anonymous commentary, etc.)
Download the eBook today, it’s a modern classic!
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Ben Hoh is a designer, writer, media artist and community cultural development worker, with a particular interest in how people engage creatively with memory and place. Ben’s writing has been performed at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, and has appeared in the journals Public and Borderlands, and in the anthology Waiting In Space (Pluto Press 199); his short plays have been performed at Belvoir St Theatre and Stables Theatre. Ben’s community cultural development projects include Storybox and Suburban Crossings, which both deal with electronically exploring the everyday life spaces of migration. Ben has created websites for SBS, Lee Jeans, Disney and Information and Cultural Exchange, and his work has won two Australian Interactive Media Industry Awards. He created motion graphics for the Sydney Writers’ Festival’s “Hip Hop Projections” event in 2007. Ben is currently writing a Masters thesis about online, first-person accounts of war, and is a founding member of the interdisciplinary art/research group Tracer.
There’s a new issue of the Trans/forming Cultures eJournal called Landscapes of Meaning: South Asia-Australia Connections: environment & people, which touches on a few of the issues explored in our project.
