Have you ever cried whilst experiencing art? Be it painting, song, performance or prose. I tried thinking back to the last time I cried to art and gave a null until I remembered art encompasses much more than traditional fine paintings. The last time I cried was to a song. Why? I already felt terrible, and the song carefully pinched and pulled those feelings out of me. That is the crux of why art makes you cry: a strong emotional reaction.
Building what a community should look like has been a question for all of human civilisation and has morphed into many forms, with different levels of success for the overall happiness of the people. It is a difficult question with many incomplete answers…
The development of mobile phones has been marked by a general trend of becoming more portable and offering more functionality. In the first wave of HCI (1980s) mobile phones were very new and were used exclusively for calling. Heavy bricks of hardware that you kept at home...
I wrote this as part of a creative writing workshop that I attended and every so often the facilitator interjected with an addition we had to add to the story. If my memory serves me well, a lot of it was adding "unexpted events" or "twists"...