And there are more, and more coming.
They are all in a set on flikr
Usability beats tech quality on Flickr
This proves a point that products not only need to be able to do what they are meant to do, but they should make it a pleasure, intuitive & fun.
Pink: iPhone
Yellow: Nokia 95
iReading
This blog is not called Psyberspace for nothing. I have all sorts of phases of enthusiasm, and they wax and wane, but “exploring the psyche in cyberspace” is always present. My sense if that the iPhone has enabled a shift in the “space”. The Palm initially untethered me from the PC, but the iPhone makes good where Palm lost the plot. I have had my phone for a few days but feel very liberated… esp in the reading dept. I am writing this on the PC, I can’t do it on a phone, but reading is another story, it is great, and I do it in bed, in cafes, waiting in lines.
The net is adapting to the phone in a way that is quite remarkeable, surfing on the palm was almost impossible, and very wew sites optimised for Palms. But with this new gadget it is different! Cyberspace is making a shift, perhaps not quite everting, but moving from the mud onto land.
I find myself reading the following all optimised for the iPhone in some way, I will post more specific reading reviews, partly to get more familiar with the various, sometimes complex processes to get stuff on the phone.
- Books
- Blogs in a feed reader
- iWPhoned WordPress blogs
- Wikipedia via an app
- Amazon, optimised automatically, good for reading reviews.
- Web Pages optimised through Instapaper
All in all it is pretty good! I could add Twitter & Facebook, though that is not really reading, but they work well!
PS Imagemaking is also liberated with a touch screen, I will write that up in an iSketch category on my Art Blog.
I have just made this blog iPhone friendly
This blog & Thousand Sketches are now really easy to see on the iphone. I used a plugin: iWPhone Here is how Thousand Sketches looks on the phone:
Here is one of this blog, with a bit of a time shift it shows this very post!
iPhone sketches
I am enjoying the touch screen to make sketches. Here are a few, already uploaded to flickr. One thing about these small screens they are touch enabled! They can do stuff the PC can\’t do so well unless you have a tablet PC. I have tried three apps so far & they are each delightful in their own way! Having used different apps (!) on my tablet it is amazing how different tools warm me up to different things.Free app: DoodleIt
![\"DoodleIt\"](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/2862045157_e6afcdc304.jpg\")
\n\n![\"DoodleIt\"](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/2862895774_01c680b9e9.jpg\")
\n\niGraffitti\n\nHas an interesting shadow feature. Also has a website they can go to\n\n![\"photo.jpg\"](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/2862897972_b90065e275.jpg\")
\n\n![\"I\'ve\"](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3006/2862090093_b278dca876.jpg\")
\n\n\nNetsketch \nThis one is vector based and so it is easy to scale! Have never mastered this on the PC. Also has a website gallery: my.netsketchapp.com\n\n\n![\"Netsketch\"](\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2862062903_b85c6e5fa0.jpg\")
\n\n\nThere is an art pool on flicker for iPhone sketches\n\n\n\n
Not a storm
No, I am not really back into full flight, but here is a wallpaper style go.
Florence2
Larger Image.
Open Heart
Open Heart
Larger Image.
Feel free to post this image anywhere you think it may belong. I’d like a link back of course.
Thanks Lisa Rivas!
I am going through the calmest time in my art binge since the seizure began more than two years ago. I did the Thousand Sketches in one year and continued to make digital sketches and do some real-media work in the last year. I have had three exhibitions of one sort and another this year – one is still going at OurCity Otautahi. But it is a month or so since I posted an image, and that is the longest time. I am not dreaming art every night. I have no more plans for workshops or shows this year, and am enjoying being focused in my psychotherapy work. Calm. Before a storm? I doubt it, not this year anyway, I am in recovery mode from having been invaded by enthusiasm!
So this is a very belated thank you post.
On my mind for a while is the delight in getting “I love your blog” award from Lisa Rivas, whose work I love! This is what an I love your blog award looks like. See image below.
Prompted by that viral award I decided to do some heart art as well. I’ll put it in the next post, and I will also send out a few I LOVE YOUR BLOG awards. I will post a list when I have seven & I get time to really suss out some great art blogs I know.
Hadron Experiment next week
This could be the most amazing probe into reality ever.
Pity if we were not there to see the results though.
In this interview with Kim Hill, Brian Cox assures me convincingly there is no need to worry & that the event next week is something important.
The Hungry Duck
“Please only fulfill this request
if you can do it with the joy
of a small child feeding a hungry duck.Please do not oblige me if you feel
coercion of any kind, such as by guilt,
shame, punishment, reward, duty,
or obligation”
This is a card to hand out after making a request. Based on NVC – Marshall Rosenberg.
Been finding many more great resources:
Raising Children Compassionately
by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Resisting the Urge to Throw a Pain Ball
By Serena Fennell
An excellent summary on Wikipedia
