Like an adolescent I have been playing with my signature. Unlike an adolescent I am conscious of identity, how being a therapist and an art blogger in the social media can be complex.
I like this one!
La Bella Principessa
From World News
A portrait of a young woman thought to be created by a 19th century German artist and sold two years ago for about $19,000 is now being attributed by art experts to Leonardo da Vinci and valued at more than $150 million.
The unsigned chalk, ink and pencil drawing, known as “La Bella Principessa,” was matched to Leonardo via a technique more suited to a crime lab than an art studio – a fingerprint and palm print found on the 13 1/2-inch-by-10-inch work.
Future Culture – Cybermind
Two mailing lists I used to belong to, right back in the early ’90s Thinking about them today as ancient history, yet for all the changes in technology, the major qualitative shift had happened then.
Wikipedia intros follow:
Definition of TV
A television is a screen with a couch in front of it.
I have been watching Ted Talks on my iPhone.
(Go to iTunes app, search TED talks, tap More Podcasts, & there they are, tap one to play live, no need to download)
I have found this OK, but prefer to download the audio, as I can then listen as I walk around. I have little use for the video… until I got the connector to watch it on TV.
Now I can watch them when I need to recline.
AND with company, no longer in solitude.
The iPhone opens the door to TV, something I have not watched for years because I NEED to time-shift & I CAN’T watch ads.
You Tube, Ted Talks, the ABC (Australian) Talking Heads… I can go to the couch & bob out… just like the old days.
What is worth watching?
Weekly Digest of Tweets 2009-10-11
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Sex & soul on the internet
Is this a valid proposition (see item below). That virtual worlds promote sexuality. Perhaps. The trouble is that almost all the discussion about psychology on the net is focussed on sexuality, crime and addition. It is as if psychologists and media can’t see beyond sex drugs and rock’n’roll (“piracy”).
In my own work as a psychotherapist online the work is more about relationships, and deep work in the psyche with a focus dreams and uncovering layers of unconscious. I am not alone! The media encourages reflection and writing. Seeing ones words mirrored is one way of relating to the self.
That type of work on the net is just not news! Not sexy. It is soulful, never a headline grabber. (What do you make of my headline for this post!)
British Psychologists Analyze Sex and Morality in Second Life – Pixels and Policy:
Anyone spending any amount of time in Second Life takes notice of its fantasy elements. Perfectly staid and buttoned-down people turn into sexual deviants in oversized animal outfits in the relative freedom and anonymity of the Metaverse. Now Garry Young of Nottingham University asks why we act how we do in the virtual world.
Computing as a liberal art
I would love to teach the psychology of cyberspace in such a course tomorrow!
Great essay!
Ian Bogost – Computing as a Liberal Art:
But what we really need is a new strategy. A wholesale shift in the way we think about computing (among other disciplines) that would underwrite a new way to do it let alone teach it. I think the frame shift we want is one that considers computing a liberal art rather than a science. Indeed, James Duderstadt has already suggested [PDF] that engineering be newly construed as a liberal art (I’ve written about this before). And Lockhart’s gripes about mathematics should remind us that his discipline was long considered to form half of the medieval quadrivium, a fact that some institutions have not yet forgotten (consider, for example, the contextual and historical mathematics program at St. John’s College).