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Exit to fear.
I am immediately directed to mathematical equations, = Dist x time but i suppose that has more to do with mental conditioning than a personalised view on what Speed is.
When taken out of theoretical/scientific context, I think speed to me is doing a kickflip on a skateboard when bombing a long and steep San Fran hill
or
taking a 170mph ‘masta kink’, a corner of the Spa Francorchamps on a formula 1 car. I guess i am attracted to the level of danger that speed proposes.I think these thoughts have a lot to do with my background – a former motorsport buff and a skateboarder.
Speed is all what everybody wants !
Nobody can stop de time for solve your problems or realize your dreams. So the Speed can help us to play with the time, the life…
By the way…
SPEED is a blur
SPEED is a movement
SPEED is ahead
SPEED is a means
…and sometimes…
SPEED is just an end
speed is an ecstasy in life, an illusion in fashion
I am on a train and I jump in the air. For a split second I am flying fast, yet I don’t feel it. I am not moving.
I take a photo in the dark and leave the lens open. I stroll through the frame, yet I am not recorded on the film. I am too fast to be seen.
Speed is the air i feel on my cheeks when i drive my covertable car above the undeground world.
I close my eyes and enter a world of, runnng through tunnels that slope down deep into the underground world.
These tunnels have a coating of moss that speeds up my glide, in this underground world. The water coated moss luanches me off the tunnels floor. i twist, i turn. The sounds of hum resonate off me, as I fly fast, like light, like wind, i whistle, I am speed.
In terms of history we think of…
“Women’s fashion has always been more or less Futurist. Fashion: the female equivalent of Futurism. Speed, novelty, courage of creation.” F. T. Marinetti, Francesco Monarchi, Enrico Prampolini and Mino Somenzi, Futurismo, 1933.
Giacomo Balla, Fortunato Depero, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti were ancestors of futurist garment design, which could be described with the terms “change, functionality and influence upon spirit”. From this point of view they understood garment design not as decoration or art rather as a legitimate politics of the body (clothes as tools). While writing about clothes they maintained dynamic patterns and colors “triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles that inspire the love of danger, speed, and assault, and loathing of peace and immobility”.
In terms of theory we think of…
Jacques Derrida, linking speed to the acceleration of speed and proposing that it has to do with rhythm and changes of rhythm: acceleration does not simply affect speed which is continuous and gets progressively faster, but it rather consists in differences of rhythm. Acceleration is heterogeneous and makes us actually feel the daily speed.
In many places at the same time!
NUCOOLEXPERIENCE
Nothing can travel faster than light (or we haven’t find out how to do it). That is one of the reason we can’t make time machine.
In some condition, we can’t describe speed and place at the same time. When we observe the speed of the particular object,we can’t depict the place at the same time and vis versa.
YOU MISS ‘SOMETHING’ OUT…!
stark beeindruckt von ihren arbeiten,
frage ich mich,
wie schaffen Sie es so viele fasziniernde projekte zu gestalten,
nehmen sie einfluß auf die zeit, die geschwindigkeit,
ich bin eher der genießer und sauge schöne dinge in mich auf, ein schwamm, kein tsunami,
auf das ihnen die ideen nicht ausgehen
My idea of speed is to concentrate on things which are important to me while the rest is handled by people I can trust in.
Speed is usually associated with fast. Actually, in one thought, it is the whole range from the slowest to the fastest. And yet what amazes me most is “the slow”.
Take the London eye. It is constantly in motion, yet slow. slow enough not to make you unconfortable while getting in, yet fast enough to enjoy the full London circle in a convinient time. Maybe in the near future, most of the public transport will adapt this behaviour who knows.. So you will get on/off say the bus without actually the bus is stopping…
Slowness is such a medium, that has the potetial to be formed, to be controlled.. That is the most interesting, yet not usually realized concept for speed I guess… Especially in today’s society who are blindly worshiping fast faster, the fastest..
When everything around you become slow, then you’ll be speed enough even though you are actually not that fast.
Speed, is the blur, on warm bright day, travelling by train to wales by train and then the speed of passing through Carmarthen Bay, to home.
I have dreams, where the things I do are incredibly, mind numbillingly, painstakingly slow to me. Yet I can’t work out wether they are slow, or if they are incredibly fast, as I have no sense of scale, or setting or perspective… All is black.
It comes back to the point – what is fast? Something slow to one person or creature may be fast to another. Yet, still… time never slows or speeds up. Or does it? I think if I could touch time, I would now the answer. I’d like to grab it.
Btw – I admire your work, if only we had more fashion with thought in the world. I hope the above helps.
a form of measurement. unreliable. subjective.
arriving, but feeling like i should be only half way there.
speed is moving faster than what you think is slow.
speed in fashion is being quicker and more inventive than what was before, innovation is the essence of speed.
Speed is clarity…everything in one thing at once
When I think of speed, I guess my mind immediately wanders to physics. I think of how speed correlates with objects, and the desire to keep moving (inertia), and the forces that will enhance a given speed, or bring it to a halt. So in a bigger sense, when I think about speed and physics in general, it makes me think of the Universe, and the forces that are continuously moving, changing, and keeping everything moving in its place.
Speed can impress yet it can also infuriate.
It does not nessecarily mean diligence.
It can only be appreciated when the individual exercising fast thinking and fast action compliments their progress with cautious undertaking and careful planning. Speed is part of a double edged sword.
What is my idea of speed?
speed is the title of the rate that an animate object/being is measured to get from point a, to point b.
speed is a phenomenon of the modern experience, and is often associated with energy or gravity.
Speed is…
… a life in motion.
… a heartbeat in full excitement.
… the courage to rebel.
… a way to escape from the real world.
… a power make you feel confident.
… the focus puts you in tranquility.
i was watching a lonely planet show about India once a few years ago. there was a road side sign that read “speed has the same number of letters as death, slow has the same number of letters as life”
speed is an instant that is lost, a glimmer, an intangible power
yet it is an illusion, as time moves forward constantly, so there is no faster or slower, there is only now
Speed is the distance between the eye and a feeling.
speed is a condition of something which is always located between the start and finish
u stand here and
u saw yourself there.
speed is the pitfall of the modern condition. the rush to acquire faster than everybody else. the element of the modern world that will bring about its own demise.
remember what ferris beuller said… life moves pretty fast. if you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it
speed to me is stress. Most days it feels as if my body can’t catch up with wat i want to achieve. I dream up projects and idea’s faster than i could ever actually produce them.
Speed is a concept that drives the myth of forward progress.
This myth takes place because people assume that speed is a way to create more time, when in reality it is just one way to fill our time.
There is a certain amount of time in a day. In the modern age, our days are used up by things that are fast, such as the internet, microwaves, airplane flights, digital cameras. These “speedy” things don’t give us more time in a day. They just increase the amount of things we can do in 24 hour period.
Contrast a modern “day” with the day of a person from a primitive culture which has none of the “speed” of our modern age. This primitive person’s whole day is maybe taken up hunting antelope. Is it better to get in an airplane and take a 10 hour flight on a “speedy” airplane to Brazil on business, or take 10 hours out of our day hunting antelope.
I’m not sure which is better, but i would suggest that “speed” has neither worsened nor improved anything.
If we are to make the best out of our modern age, we must synthesize the value of “slowness” with the utility of “speed.”
speed is to reach what you want on the exact time. if you achieve, nominal time values (day, hour, km/h, etc) are not important. you did it, so you got the right speed.
i did not stop, still waiting for the right time while contributing to myself. when it is the time, i will be completely ready…
The velocity of our body’s reactions never fails to enthrall me.
The lightest touch and the skin prickles up.
A sudden motion, a thrust in our direction and the breath gets caught in the throat – the edge of fear, the quickening of the blood, the drop in the pit of the stomach.
The involuntary flicker of the eye lids, the speed of the instinctive reaction obliterating any attempt at a studied behaviour.
speed is mirror
when you are driving, in the corner of your eye, you catch a girl with great body, but you cant stop
first idea:
- fly.
Other ideas:
- Sensation of movement.
- Robotic, not human.
- Light
- war not peaceful
- Internet.
- In Spain, is a name used for a drug.
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Speed.
velocidad.
(From latin velocĭtas, -ātis).
(Del lat velocĭtas, -ātis).
1. F. Lightness or readiness in the movement.
1. f. Ligereza o prontitud en el movimiento.
relative
speed is the abnegation of oneself
when life carries you too fast
Fastitude
“SPEED IS THE DECISION OF KEEP MOVING FORWARD WHEN EVERYONE ELSE SEEMS TO BE GOING BACK”
you stand there,
you saw yourself here.
Speed is the Desappear…
tiredness…
darkness…
finally again…
LIGHTNESS!
I don’t remember whom, but someone once observed that the faster you go, the slower time passes around you.
So by that logic, speed is moving slowly, to the point where one is standing still.
My understanding of speed is that it is the sensation of movement. The feeling that has both a physical and mental space, but has a striking effect on the perception of time.
As it appears the image of the temporal dimension gives the sense of ‘blurred’ space; as the icon of the moving ’snapshot’…as if the object is shifting through.
The static observer gives a relative perception of the movement it also appears to be static; and yet it is moving to the subtle Zen parable paraphrasing which combines the mobile and the static in relation to the cognitive in parallel to the physiological_psychophysical shifting of scalar space the layering of such dimensions…a thought of travelling in the imagination of such an ‘event’ relative to the actual event when I am ’still’ (in both senses of the word) in a room, and events are in progress around me…my perception of ‘non-movement’ and that which becomes mental and imaginative…space in which I am dealing with.
Something like the time lapse between seeing myself walking across the Earth and coming in to land on a far distant planet, this is my understanding of speed the transmission of mental space…to arrive through the space of the abstract…the sense that speed reaches ‘ultimate’ velocity and thus it ’slows’ in the mind so that everything else is moving around the static perceiver…Colin…and to the Romantics Velocity is Lovecity…
speed is going without moving.
Speed is what I fear to dream.
speed is math..when a motion in distance is measured..stagnant distance has no speed..it’s the in between that counts
speed is emphasized by the illusion of the mind ..from the rush that takes over your body when u feel the urge of speed, as for time is an unstoppable force so therefore how is speed perspected ?
it is the
Falling deep into the earth,
Lost In Time,
Being only the being
Focus at one point….
A dark view of speed:
“Paul Virilio developed what he calls the ‘war model’ of the modern city and of human society in general and is the inventor of the term ‘dromology’, meaning the logic of speed that is the foundation of technological society. His major works include War and Cinema, Speed and Politics and The Information Bomb.”
A spiritual view:
‘Now, discarnate intelligences have probably informed you that the secret of death is to be found in the rate of speed at which the outer shell vibrates. For instance, a human being is primarily aware of the visible world about him because his body is travelling at its particular rate of speed. Alter the timing of your physical form, and the earth, men, women and all material objects, will vanish for you as you vanish for them. Death, therefore, means merely a change of speed. For the purpose of this change a temporary dislocation is necessary, for the soul must pass from one body travelling at a certain vibration to another travelling at a different rate or time.”
from THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY, Being a description of the after-life purporting to be communicated by the late F. W. H. Myers [Frederic William Henry Myers, 1843-1901]through GERALDINE CUMMINS
Speed is the rate of motion. Most of the time it’s used the same way as “fast”. Though, we often forget that speed can also be “slow”. Speed can be rated from point 0 up to the infinite.It’s a point of reference in a motion. Change speed is going from a certain slow to a certain fast, or the opposit = accelerate/decelerate. An acceleration can be controled by a speed limit not to exceed. Someone above wrote about speed that it was an exit to fear. But when things are going so fast that they get out of control, then comes the state of panic. Isn’t it…
Lost frames of an image that is absolutely recorded in one’s head.
The abstraction of light due to abnormal rythm of movement.
A parameter of time translated to fit the sloth of human comprehension.
The space where you fear to lose your balance.It
feels fatal.
The lost frames between one moment and another.
The image that you’ll never know you saw.
The way to express a change of rythm.
The quilty party for never feeling the present.
Speed a frame of reference: one sees the world fading away, dissipating at one’s back, one’s front looking more and more like a tunnel of light and color.
Speed is incompatible with children and nurturing generally – they require time and quality that speed generally takes away.