I am pleased to have found Diana’s blog. Some fine digital art.
She talks of going from Digital to analog. A process that has me stopped in my tracks right now!
Quotes & Image follow
Mechanical keyboards will die!
I do not like the look of the new Android G1. I find the slide out keyboard ugly! Maybe it is the anachronism. The keyboard caters to the fear of the new.
I never wanted those keys on my Treo. I could use graffiti on the Palm. If only Palm had followed through with the Lifedrive, made a phone.
iPhone transforms everything with a virtual keyboard, and yet the newer Android reverts to the older way. I think that is why the gadget looks so clumsy ro me.
Yes there is something to learn with a virtual keyboard. It is worth it, it is easy, here is the secret.
The iPhone screen based way is the way of the future I have no doubt! I can imagine the track pad expanding on the Macs to include a virtual keyboard. I know there is no tactile feedback, but maybe even that can be created virtualy, perhaps a tiny vibration. Certainly audio feedback can developed.
Having used the iPhone keyboard I see the great potential of simply improving the software that drives it to the point where it learns more. The software can interpret my intentions hard keys can’t do that. I am faster on my big keyboard no doubt, but I miss some of the functionality of the auto correct on the phone.
Alienation & Dignity
Finished up on this page after exploring the “end of history” – which led
to Allan Bloom and the NeoCons. Somewhere I caught a glimpse of this link & followed it because I associated (in my mind) alienation with lack of dignity, and dignity with being part of the group accepted, and contributing (from Robert Fuller)
This succinct summary in Wikipedia has enough to show how there is a connection. ties in with the discussion about rank and dignity (earlier post).
In the concept’s most important use, it refers to the social alienation of people from aspects of their “human nature” (Gattungswesen, usually translated as ‘species-essence’ or ‘species-being’). He believed that alienation is a systematic result of capitalism.
I get the idea that in the big picture alienation has Capitalism at its roots. From Robert Fuller I got the idea that there is something more primitive at play as well. I presume marx thought it was evident in earlier societies as well?
Inclusion / exclusion
I can see it as a tool for the group’s survival.
What ever the roots – dignity is a way forward, radical in it’s departure from domination. We do not need have abolished capitalism to be dignitarian. In fact it is part of the way forward.
Glass Houses
There are also some others I group, partly because of their stone tones, also because of the shapes. Distinctive iPhone finger painting. I came up with the name glass houses, linking the stones and the finger pointing.
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Net Works
I have been working on the iPhone making images for a while now. There is a swag of them on Flickr. It is fascinating how different apps (and I think I have them all!) lead me to create different styles. Here are two that I spotted today that I can imagine in a larger series, I am not sue how I made them now, I don’t think the “series” would be dependant on the methods used anyway.
Functional difference not Rank
Reflecting on Rankism, I am getting wonderful insights and I see a problem. Robert Fuller makes it clear that there are illegitimate situations of rank, and legitimate ones.
I follow up with a few thoughts and some quotes from Robert Fuller.
Posting from iPhone by WordPress App
Ok!
Next morning:
I have not been able to get the Postie thing to work with images. But now I don’t care. I can post from the iPhone easily with the WordPress App.
That image was done on the iphone. I have more on flickr: Waltzzz I have an art blog – where I ususally post this sort of thing: Walter Logeman: Art
Blog on iPhone
For some reason the iphone friendly plugin did not work on this blog
so I disabeled it.
Then I discovered that if I went to the blog via the Google reader the
whole thing was formatted for the phone.
Google everything. Scary how so many cloud computing works best
through Google. Email, RSS reader, all hard to beat. An American
advertising corporation. I can feel resistance coming on.
Later:
Not so good though, links don’t work as expected.
Rankism
Rankism Knol article Robert Fuller
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
Reading & listening to Robert Fuller got me thinking how he connects to the Marshall Rosenberg NVC, and all the dialogue material. I want to integrate!
Fear of banishment, need to be included, primal, we need to belong to the trib or we die.
Fuller is an expert on this major human need. Understanding needs is vital, and he seems to get this one. Needs are the missing link in psychotherapy – Maslows contribution is major – but it seemed the last word, and was not integrated into any modality that I know of.
This time from the phone
If it worked it means the bit of code to publish of worked as well.
I have also implemented the iPhone friendly theme, still need to see
if that works.
This must be a hobby!