... and I always wanted to start my own thing and so I thought why not use my old labyrinth sketch for the 'branding' and see if
we can find a way to make that work, at least for these pages.
Why a labyrinth?
Well it has a personal as well as a philosophical meaning for/to me.
The personal angle is that my father and I wanted to create
a little magazin called 'Layrinthe Komplex' which we would than just put in those
flyer/card collections we have in berliner bars (probably a thing in most places).
He would (and has) write some texts and I would provide photos to accompany them.
We got fairly far with a first volume but than life came in the way.
![komplex, etmyologie: komplex 'zusammenhängend, umfassend'
-> aus lat. complexus : Partizipialadjektiv zu lat. complecti: 'umschlingen, umfassen, zusammenfassen'|
|KOMPLEX -> gehört zu lat. plectre: 'flechten, ineinanderfügen (siehe auch: kompliziert)'-> FÜGUNG|
|dazu das Substantiv lat. complexus: 'das Umfassen, die Verknüpfung, Gesamtheit, Gebiet, Berreich, Gruppe, (Gebäude)block'|
[auch als psychologischer Terminus zur Bezeichnung einer gefühlsgebundenen
und affektbehafteten Verknüpfung verschiedener in sich zusammenhängeder Vorstellungs- oder Erlebnisinhalte]](../media/lab_etmyologie+-.png "translation: sorry but it's a bit much and I think nobody wants it anyways
orig. german:
komplex 'zusammenhängend, umfassend'
-> aus lat. complexus : Partizipialadjektiv zu lat. complecti: 'umschlingen, umfassen, zusammenfassen'|
|KOMPLEX -> gehört zu lat. plectre: 'flechten, ineinanderfügen (siehe auch: kompliziert)'-> FÜGUNG|
|dazu das Substantiv lat. complexus: 'das Umfassen, die Verknüpfung, Gesamtheit, Gebiet, Berreich, Gruppe, (Gebäude)block'|
[auch als psychologischer Terminus zur Bezeichnung einer gefühlsgebundenen
und affektbehafteten Verknüpfung verschiedener in sich zusammenhängeder Vorstellungs- oder Erlebnisinhalte]")
[etmyologie for the 'komplex' part of the labyrinth komplex in german, written by my dad]
Anyway since
then I wanted to do something with a labyrinth theming, so here we go. "."
The other angle is that I feel that the labyrinth is a pretty perfect metaphor for life itself.
Life is quite straight forward as is the path through a classical minoan labyrinth and in the end you will face a final
monster. The minotaur or in life your own death, a fate all living things have to face eventualy.
(some sponges can get really old, e.g. Anoxycalyx joubini
with a lifespan up to 15000 yeasrs but that's a finite time as well and they are sponges afterall, so theres that.
[some bacteria can even get older I believe])
I quite like to look at life this way, it's easy/as simple as you choose/straight forward you just have to do it but at the same time
it is complex and frankly quite frightining.
One should probably not concern oneself to mutch with the end but at the same time that can be quite hard as well.
[countless artworks, religions and believe systems are proof enough I guess]
There could be a lot more being said but I just end on the point that if I get something off the ground it will proabably
be under a labyrinth branding, there are worse ideas and why not afterall?
P.S. Sinatra's "That's life" as well as
"Life is Simple" from Maesic&Marshall Jefferson came to mind while writing this, another point for the duality of (human)life.
P.P.S. Wiki's take on Labyrinths
and P.P.P.S Ariadnes Thread
is kinda linked to the above and has actualy something to do with information technologie, full circle I guess.