What to do with the churches.

Here, on 16th of October, 2009 my feet touched the pedals as my fingers let go of the brakes. It seemed like the coldest day of the year. That day the temperatures dropped to minus and I felt like I always feel in winter, overdressed, while the rest of the world go around their days [...]

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Semicolons and colours around them.

Some things flow amiss as you step out of yourself to regain consciousness. You turn around to see a palette of 60 human beings typing away what it is to be code that runs like clockwork or text that will turn those zeroes into meaning. Through a thought-o-scope, you would stare through and see a [...]

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Fin de siècle.

What more must there be acknowledged? It’s there in our bags when we walk out of your stores. We find it in the banalities of daytime politics and the unreasonable profits based on slave labour. It is being debated in the streets and ignored in schools. There is plenty of it between our lovers toes [...]

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Into a flux, a travel, a poem.

I now found myself drifting, whether it was through streets or situations, there was a substantial increase in the numbers of nodes in my network. A new street meant a new branch and every occurrence provided an input for the map I was tactically developing, steadfastly scheming. The nodes all meshed wonderfully, with a feeling [...]

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If you happen to feel free.

In Berlin every wall is tagged by defiant youngsters and their fancy pseudonyms, gracefully avoiding any kind of dynamism. Lost within its borders, graffiti has lost its potency at the time when it became l’art pour l’art, when it became predictable and decipherable only within the elitist scene of hipsters who are talented with drawing [...]

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Increasing stasis; a noisy epicenter of noisy colours: 003

Exactly six minutes have passed while I was heading out from my street, into another and then onto Dunajska street. When you enter this monster, everything devours you in a sense that the billboards cover more of your visual sensory channels and the noise becomes overwhelming to the point of migrating out of yourself as [...]

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Shifting streets; a hovering omni-presence: 002

You are probably heading out from Metelkova, as you push your bike softly and slowly towards the crowded areas of town. The horizon closes further in, tighter up. The sun-drenched areas get smaller with every pedal. In-between these walls the historical passage can be read like the layers of ice of a glacier; graffiti has [...]

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Shifting streets; a looming presence: 001

Everything opens up. The looming weight of the surrounding buildings disappears. I am now in a place of a million colours and ten thousand scents. It feels more like a gathering ground for normal people doing normal things as the food market is Ljubljana’s most warm place. The poignancy escapes me as I fall into [...]

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This makes sense.

SadRooftops got it’s printed version today. It is laid out on four pages on A4, containing six of the stories you could find on this website. It’s printed in beautifully kerned Helvetica Bold and Palatino on recycled thin paper. It is absolutely free upon requests. I also enclose the PDF version, but encourage you to [...]

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Task #1

Scan the weather report for a rainy day.
Get up early, choose a path with a lot of low trees.
Ride along the path feeling happy as if it was your first day alive.
Find a roof over your head.
Wait until it stops raining.
Ride the same path back home.

Notice the branches are just a little bit lower.

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Prove your point and destroy it.

Velikokrat danes slišimo, da so v recesiji izgubili največ prav tisti, ki so v zadnjem času največ pridobili. Kvečjem lahko v tej izjavi zaznamo sam srž gnilobe kapitalistične ideologije. Le ta vse oblike življenja posploši na ekonomske faktorje. Tako so prestrašeni bogi debeluhi, ki morajo dandanes v tem nekrivičnem svetu premisliti o nakupu jahte, katero [...]

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Search for another.

It would seem, at times our lives are nothing but a very distinctive search we start in our adult childhoods, bored with our own minds we ghastly touch the edges and reside to thinking there is nothing more. Our imagination went all grayish. Learning became slower or obsolete. Our bodies produced weird amounts of hormones [...]

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Outsourcing in the year 0 wasn’t a smart idea.

There seems in every person is a threshold, a line where the page breaks and we go “fuck this” in our heads and reside to pulling triggers, kicking chairs or taking big leaps from buildings. Or simply resort to change. Somehow change becomes an ugly word equated to weakness and a foolish path to better [...]

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I’ll sleep underground.

Sometimes you’ll go and think about how fucked up you are, and how bad you are at with coping with life, or relationships, or feelings. Or you’re the one on your own, wondering how everyone around you got to where they are with their fuckedupness. And in both cases you’ll either realize you are just [...]

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In loops.

I will wake up at 6:50, splash scolding cold water at my face and slowly grasp what feeling alive feels like. Left leg goes in, right leg goes in, buckle up. Remove glasses, right hand, left hand, head, shirt on. Back to sharpness and focus. Focus. Take gentle steps not to wake the neighbors , [...]

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Alive in the present.

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Things seem fine.

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Where are you going?

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Always feel safe.

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New memory.

My iPod hit 4:34 and the desert we were walking seemed never ending. It was the fourth day in the wild without shopping malls or shower heads and the sky just didn’t want to go dry. By the time we adjusted to the colours in our surroundings, adapted to something we thought was normal, a [...]

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Iceland.

There is another world most of us don’t know. It is hidden in the endless panoramas of Iceland, the endless gazes into what seems like another planet. This world, however, is different. It is a parallel universe with nurturing wilderness, the kind of grasp that it provides is a different kind of being alone. The [...]

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Observations: II

In the midst of the economic meltdown, the following became apparent: Those that feared and worked throughout their lives to eliminate any sense of socialism came to grab it’s very essence; the free-market’s safety-net, it’s biggest rival for a help in hand.

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Observations: I

What we have learned:
From our observations we have found that life has not progressed over the succumbing weight and presence of the spectacle that is today more important than ever. The economic crisis now shows the layers of artificially accumulated capital entangled between the prevailing orders. We, the wretched, will welcome any red numbers with [...]

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I hear music.

All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.

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The future.

A part of the polar icecap that stretches out for 2 kilometers falls into the ocean and a skinny model in Santa Barbara gets splashed by a deviant wave, roughly one foot higher than the average that day. She shakes off the water and an activist sets a Hummer on fire somewhere in San Francisco.
The [...]

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Purchased experiences don’t count. Nr.1

I open my eyes and dive in this pool of substance I warmly name reality. My reality. My dear reality! I wipe my glasses with a cloth I located on the blurry floor. Putting them on, the flow of the world jumps into focus. The leaves out the window go brittle sharp, the surface of [...]

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Newness.

Somewhere, sometime, in the desert of Arizona, a few scientists drink their morning cup of tea and delay work until they can. Their collegue drops to the floor laughing, crazed with ecstasy starts crying. “We did it! I did it!! It smells, it smells like New!”
And since then, this refined fabricated scent fills our shopping [...]

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3, 2, 1

I love you and I love to touch you, to run my fingers through you, smell and admire you. Your type is correctly kerned and appealing, as are the textures all over your beautifully aligned and cut pages. Opposed to humans, your spine is strong and it never lets go. You spark my imagination and [...]

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Feel.

I can’t help but think if something went wrong some one hundred thousands millions of years ago, when the earth’s crust was just getting colder and there was an awakening of new souls and we chose our paths differently. I can only hope we would today be trees. Trees growing some 10 meters apart, yearning [...]

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Your secret society.

One evening, shaving off a dreadful old beard, smiling at myself and how I look with just a moustache. I decided to keep it, thinking how much it enlightens my mood every time I see myself in the mirror. It was a fun quest every time I sat up from the toilet to discover a [...]

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Developing habits; a chronoclasm.

Have you ever experienced a morning where you walked a straight road enveloped in thick mist, so the rising sun at the end of it made it look like you were walking into some kind of heaven-like place, an after-world where everything looks far away with it’s opacity lowered to 15% and the only possible [...]

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Seeing god.

I stumbled down and I could not stop laughing. Even when I stopped my insides were laughing. Everything got dark and I became paralyzed. My body froze. My mind shifted between 7 different dimensions. My senses changed and I could feel everything in the room. I could hear the flowers grow, the tea dissolving, [...]

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Interfering wavelenghts.

“I was thinking about something the other day. I think that western civilization is one big massive failure. The silent failure we all embody. But with time I analyzed and of course found positive things that came from it’s upbringing. Let’s say, medicine. It cures a big portion of the diseases we know, it lenghtens [...]

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No tears.

I was riding the train. The air smelled old, like seats of a previous era, an era that reflects so much upon today, a polaroid-like contrast stuck somewhere in time. The trees raced by while I thought about how many times the window next to me passed the same tree, never touching each other. We [...]

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A Googolplex of colours.

The blueness of the sky changed rapidly, a decrease of Cyan and a twenty point increase of black, just enough so the colour looks like on one of those IR images. The cracks got wider, just enough so the knowledge could flow out of them for everyone to adopt. Hanging in the air and we, [...]

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Zero-gravity mode.

Lungs have mass. Weight. I have no idea what they stand on or hang from, but we all feel it. On dark, boring sundays or wickedly ordinary meetings. In times of stress and times of lightness. The weight is steady but grows with age. Like a back struggles with the weight of the head growing [...]

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Your life in html tags.

Imagine. It’s 2020. You wake up for your 18th birthday. You are not someone who enjoys birthdays. You never enjoyed birthdays, especially not your own birthdays. Grumpy and sullen you drag your feet to the kitchen where your mother greets you with a weird excitement in her eyes. It’s nice to see that, but sadly [...]

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A Douglas Coupland moment.

I rotate and walk back into my hotel room, closing the smoked-glass sliding doors behind me, and then fall back-ward into my cool Fortrel-sheeted bed, when suddenly a new feeling washes over me – a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand – like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo. I have [...]

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