"All experts agreee that earlier diagnosis and treatment are the only effective ways to combat this [AIDS] epidemic. A key to this is how do you deliver information - which is what a diagnosis is - at the lowest possible cost." - George Whitesides, Founder Diagnostics for All
ABOVE: The spread of supplies for some recent abstract paintings--paints, Expo pens, oil pastels.
Each time I descend the basement stairs of The Mermaid House, built in the early 1900s, the tangy smell of dry wood and dirt reminds me of my grandmother's garage; the thrill that struck me when I ventured out to inspect the odd boxes full of brick-a-brak and toys from China. Anticipation of the unknown!
Idealistic, loyal to their values and to people who are important to them. Want an external life that is congruent with their values. Curious, quick to see possibilities, can be catalysts for implementing ideas. Seek to understand people and to help them fulfill their potential. Adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened [in which case they act like a complete jackass].Life
I have sort of gone overboard on the Twittering. (And I don't even own an iPhone!)
Like futuretech guru Tim O'Reilly said it: I have simply found Twitter the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to.
(Incidentally, follow what O'Reilly is paying attention to at http://twitter.com/timoreilly.)
I have Twitter accounts established for me (@peterdurand); my business (@alphachimp); to follow practitioners of graphic facilitation (@graphicfacilit8); and, to push our research at Vanderbilt (@vcbh).
It serves as a shadow for my brain and keeps up with the way I work: swinging from virtual branch to branch without stopping. Fortunately, I am finding third party apps in the Twitter ecosystem to help me "lean into" productivity.
To hornswaggle all these accounts, I've discovered Twitterfeed and Tarpipes as ways to autotrigger Tweets--whether a blog post, a bookmark on del.icio.us, or a new piece of art submitted Durand Gallery--it is all streamed together in one cybergawking mash-up to my Facebook account (which I rarely visit these days). I use TweetDeck as a desktop app created in Adobe Air, that begins to serve as a hybrid email app and Tweet aggregator.
"Perhaps," it occured to me today, "I am over doing it."
For those who want to hear status updates from our less animated co-habitants, there is the Botanicalls kit, which offers a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates to your mobile phone.
“Art has been saying with more and more intensity: the nature of the painting has become less interesting than the nature of the relation of painting to society.” - Norman Mailer, The Faith of Graffiti
"[G]raffiti is a-hegemonic in that it is a non-commodity. A commodity is something that can be bought or sold. Commodification is dependent upon ownership. Graffiti's form, stylistic goals, and violation of property prevent its commodification. Graffiti is the wall it decorates. This quality suggests three interrelated conditions. First, to remove or claim graffiti is to destroy it. Secondly, by seizing the walls in one's environment regardless of legal ownership, graffiti disrupts dominant notions of private property. One cannot buy or sell something that one has never been owned. Thirdly, as a self-referent, graffiti has no commodifiable value. In advertising nothing other than itself, graffiti "establishes itself as a negative entity." By taking desirable space, as ownership suggests, while giving back an unalterable something that does not have value, graffiti fails to conform to codes that dictate commodification. In not being able to be integrated into a commodity system, graffiti is a-hegemonic."
