JK Keller

I found this questionnaire on a design website which used it as a part of an interview with John Maeda (of MIT fame).

at the age of fourteen proust was given an english album “confessions : an album to record thoughts, feelings”. seven years later marcel proust published this questionaire. in the literary salons in nineteenth century paris, this parlour game was a popular amusement. I invite you to answer these ‘old fashioned’ questions.

Questions

Answers

the main lineaments [properties defining the apparent individual nature] of my character.

Conflicted, Passive, Aggressive, Ambivalent, There.

a quality I desire in a man.

Fight (read as six-pack)

a quality I desire in a woman.

Intensity

what I appreciate most among my friends.

The ability to appreciate self-deprecation.

my principal defect.

An overwhelming amount of self.

my favourite occupation.

Director/videographer for Karaoke videos

my dream of felicity.

I think I’ve had a couple dreams about Kerri Russell. I’d have to go back in the archives to see what they were really about… I do remember seeing her at De La Guarda when I went some years ago.

Oh, you mean the state of well-being… Decisive Productivity.

what would for me be the biggest misfortune.

The loss of control over my thoughts

whom I would like to be.

I’d like to be Michelle today, just for a minute.

were I would like to live.

Presently, Pittsburgh.

the colour I prefer.

Smoke

the flower I love.

Lady Slipper

the bird I prefer.

Dinosaurs

my favourite authors.

Children, Paul Auster, Bill Watterson, Joseph Heller, Charlie Kaufman, Tina Fey

my favourite poets.

Is it bad if I admit I don’t really read poetry? Uncultured Swine!

my heroes in fiction.

Max Fischer, Howard Roarke, Calvin

my heroines in fiction.

Franny, Eugenie Rose Chaney, The Metroid Lady

my favourite composers.

Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet, Steve Reich, Timberland, Dirty Three, Sigur Ros

my favourite artists.

From Saturday’s visit to the galleries: Jesper Just (!!!), Nelson Leirner, Raymond Pettibon, Lars Arrhenius. Sorry Guerilla Girls, there were no ladies…

my heroes in real life.

Buckminster Fuller, Da Vinci, P, Henry Darger, my friends.

my heroines in history.

Florence Nightingale, Amelia Earhart, Ray Eames, The Shaker girls, Sister Gertrude Morgan

my favourite names.

Nola, Cick, Boris, Fey

what I hate most.

Inability

the historic characters I dislike most.

Pontius Pilot (though I always felt sorry for him), Shakespeare (I don’t think he was the sole author of all his works), Mickey Mouse

the military enterprise I like the most.

Diplomatic prevention

the reformation I appreciate the most.

Round-Earth Theory

nature’s gift I would like to have.

Nature’s gift I would most like to understand: Dreams

how I would like to die.

Exhaustion

my soul’s present condition.

According to my biorhythmic cycle, 9%. “Today is not your day”. Ouch.

the faults I can bear.

Exaggeration. Obsession.

my motto.

Just keep working.