Pole Position

As I strolled through the streets of San Francisco, I was drawn to a young man who was making use of one of the city's erected poles, purely for artistic purposes. And if you saw the whole photoset I think you'd agree with me that this guy is an artiste indeed. He had style and flair, a certain "je ne sais quoi" - but whatever it was, he really knew how to work it.

It's the first working Monday of 2010 and here was a sign for me that people on the whole have become a whole lot more resourceful over the past few months. Could it be that more of us are going to free ourselves from following processes and filling out spreadsheets and once again play with the quirky ingenuities that our brains are capable of coming up with? Are we ready to accept that our computers are our tools and not our masters?

Artistic creativity has to some extent been relegated to the locker room to make space for aggressive, rapid, dollar-farming. The exit strategies for many companies has become the focal point. Businesses come and then are gone tomorrow without a trace - except for the misery of some of the masses that bought into a longer term dream which turned out to be glass beads to distract the natives.

Many people through necessity have found that it is actually ok to walk anti-clockwise. Imagine life is a circular path, you'll still get to where you're going. Not too long ago, Justin Timberlake announced to us all that he was bringing sexy back. Could this be the year the world's populations decide it's time to be bringing fun back...

Contrary to popular convention, you can never have too much fun!