Berlin Bear does the Moxiee
The 10 cent designer
I’ve never met the woman who shot this photograph, though I know her well enough to call her Lori the Dime and think of her as a friend. I’ve never been to Berlin, but I immediately recognized the Brandenburg Gate. I don’t know Moxiee, but I’ve seen her name mentioned so often with so much affection in so many Flickr photostreams that I feel like I should. So the moment I saw this photograph…a man wearing a bear costume striking a Moxiee-like pose in front of this imposing 18th century ornamental gate…it made immediate sense.
The true power of the internet, I think, rises from the strange beauty of social networking. At some ineffable moment all those disparate, decentralized, interdependent nodes cease to be mere data points and magically become people. Real people. Real people with real personalities and real lives lived in real places all over the real world.
A woman from Calgary in Canada convinces a man wearing a bear costume in Germany to pose in the manner of a woman in California while standing in front of a gate made from a Greek design. She takes a photograph using a toy camera made in China, uploads that photo to a server located in San Francisco, from which it can be seen almost anywhere in the world. The technology makes it possible. The people make it worthwhile.
Berlin Bear does the Moxiee. And so do we.
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