I am still at it, not a project, no numbers, not a sketch blog thing, just a mood I was in and wanting to see this contrast, this line of light.
Google, owner of the means of promotion
I have had a major re-install and have moved from FeedDemon to Google Reader. Seems fine. It takes a while to set it all up, though I did import my old OPML file. I am also keeping a backup of my Google reader installation, I am sick of re-doing everything as I reinstall the OS.
Here is a link to my Starred & Shared items. Anything I particularly like or just may want to return to or share. So far there are just a couple of concluding posts from Thousand Sketches.
The challenge is to narrow it down so I get less but more relevant posts.
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What goes into my brain is as important as what goes into my mouth. In both cases people are spending money to get their stuff in. It cost millions to market a movie, we can make them, and distribute them but to promote them you need millions. They use their power influence my prefrences. Filtering my reading myself seems very important, but I doubt I am getting what I really want, which is more socially filtered versions of the world.
Ironically to fine tune my view of the world I am using a Google product, and thedy are the ultimate owner of the means of promotion.
Depth
That last post is something I have been thinking about for ten years. Here is the proof, a proposal I made for a cybernetic conference in 1997, on the theme of Neccessity & Metaphor
Here is the relevant bit:
Possible theme of a paper could be the — Necessity and Metaphor. Contrary to popular belief ‘we can not think what we like’, words and metaphors have a power of their own. I would draw on the ideas of Jung and Hillman and relate it to metaphors of cyberspace. An example I am pondering at the moment is the word ‘depth’ — is the medium conducive to depth, or only breadth, and height?
So when I listen to Collings (see previous post) these old ideas are stirred. Perhaps proving that cyberspace doeas have depth, especially when old ideas can surface.
Matthew Collings, deep and shallow
I listened to a podcast today for the second time – Kim Hill interviewing Matthew Collings. I realised I had blogged it before in Thousand Sketches, and there is a link there too – I recommend it.
If this is an age of shallowness then it is sort of deep to be shallow. Kim: “Shallow is the new deep”.
I don’t buy that though. It is an age where we are more conscious than ever and we flee. There are oceans of depth and we flee to the shallow. But not everyone. The “long tail” comes into play. At the top of the zeitgeist it may be shallow, ironical & tabloid, but down the tail it gets more interesting, there are activists, thinkers, and people having real relationships.
Anyway, it was a good listen even for the second time, happened cause I was cleaning up after re-installing a backup.
1000 sketches completed!
I have just posted up the last sketch in my project:
It is satisfying to complete something so big, it has been big in my life and it is part of this larger journey of exploring psyberspace.
With my habit of regular blogging established, I think there will be more posts here. There is a lot that the theme here can cover, everything to do with the psyche as well as everything with Cyberspace.
Art, digital, the physical & their relationship is something that I have explored experientially for a year. It is a good foundation to build on.
I will be setting up creativity coaching in addition to my online psychotherapy. Psychotherapy and Creativity Coaching Online. I will be writing about the role so f the artist and creativity, this blog will be the base!
And I am wondering it I will keep the more personal stuff here including “sketchblog” stuff? Who knows.
Layout back to normal.
But what it looked like was something like the Socio site. My image, also on Thousand Sketches is used as the masthead.
The encounter symbol. Nice. It does draw my attention to the difference between up and down as opposed to left & right. Horizontal implies equality, or perhaps more neutrally, it implies similarity. The up/down in this encounter symbol seems like different entities interacting.
Up /down has some power implications, or is that just cultural? Maybe it is OK! Maybe it is always good to know, who is earthy, who is airy. Maybe every encounter is a meeting of earth & sky. The “masculine” aspect is the top one it would seem, but the overvaluing of that is probably cultural.
Temporary New theme
Just while I help with another website I am trying a new theme here.
Playing with some images to go with Kubrick. This is the Psychodrama “encounter” symbol, not sure of its exact origins.
Here is the one that is 215 x 150 the rubrick requirement:
More interesting would be a wider banner something like this:
I am putting some of these explorations up as sketches: Thousand Sketches
William Gibson & everting
One of the most psyberspacy posts I have made for a while, it is in Thousand Sketches – as it relates to my art as well.
Becoming a Creativity Coach
I am enjoying Eric Maisel’s books, and have just downloaded his “Becoming a Creativity Coach” an online PDF. I’ll add more to this post once I have read it, but it is bound to be useful.
Step one: becoming my own coach!
You can buy and download it here from Eric’s page.
Thousand Sketches – Interview with Eric Maisel
I have been busy on my other blog, Thousand Sketches. Sketching of course, have a look at the thumbnails for last month for example: April 2007 Sketches
But I am dropping into this blog to mention my interview with creativity coach and author Eric Maisel. We had a good discussion about positive thinking & embracing the shadow in the context of his Ten Zen Seconds blog tour.