about
My name is Zep Hopper. I live near to Munich, Bavaria, Germany in old Europe. I was born 1964, have a family and I’ve worked as a media designer for over twenty years now. I saw the rise and fall of DOS, Basic, the Newton, multimedia CD-ROMs and of Web 1.0
The Internet is a place full of wonders and surprises. You can meet Hindus, Christians, Jews, Muslims or Plain-Crazies there. There are people eating no meat, no plants or nothing at all. People who love their guns or love nothing. You can learn any language or how to build a bomb or – if both partners agree – the Kamasutra. It is as huge and multifaceted as humankind itself. It is as unpredictable and chaotic as life itself. It is the greatest picture that humans ever painted about being alive as homo sapiens. Its maincolor is pop culture: The language and symbols we all learned as children. This diversity, these colors, these emotions are exhibited day by day at the In-Sect’s site. Seeing is believing.
This video was made to celebrate the In-Sect’s first two years. It describes much better what this is all about than any elaborate text.
What is a “Wunderkammer”?
Cabinet of curiosities, the forerunner of the modern museum, albeit with an emphasis on typology rather than chronology, its German name of “Wunderkammer” described it well, for it housed wonders ranging from rare shells and coins to narwhal horns, coral carvings and what we today would call ethnographic materials. Gentlemen and princes (probably from Roman times if not earlier) have collected the strange and the curious, from mummified mermaids to (stuffed) two-headed calves. ... Antiquities and works of art might also be included, as well as fossils and other elements of natural history, but the first emphasis was on the strange and unnatural, and fakes were rife.
(from: “Essential Art History” by Paul Duro & Michael Greenhalgh)
Note
In most cases I find my links out of pure curiosity but sometimes I find them on other blogs. I do my very best to show my sources, but sometimes I simply forget them. My humble apologies to all the high quality bloggers and authors – I adore you! If you think I found something on your blog, just let me know – I’d be happy to mention you, if I found a link through your work!