Must. Remember. I'm. A. Blogger!

photo uploaded from Flickr. By Liz Henry.

Yes, I've been home from Chicago for about 36 hours now, so you'd think I would have a post or two published by now. Afterall, I'm a blogger coming home from a conference on blogging. I shouldn't forget.

Truthfully, I've catching up on my sleep. And all the post-BlogHer buzz about travel delays, illnesses and how we all loved seeing each other and miss each other already. There is even a rumor of someone flying cross-country next weekend to reconnect with her new BFF.

I swear I started a post while we were delayed at OHare, rambling on about living in closed-environments and how it kills the senses. My sinuses and lungs are still dry from the air; thankfully I've kind of recovered from the noise sufficiently that I don't expect my ears to spontaneously start bleeding.

Yeah, we're talking a riveting positive read about four of the very best days ever! That is probably why my addle-pated brain failed to save it. Consider yourselves lucky.

So where did I leave you? Elizabeth Edwards.

I truly loved this woman. She spoke her own mind, making it clear that what she believes is what she believes, and not necessarily what the campaign wants her to believe. That kind of openness is refreshing! She gave complete (often too complete) answers to every question, so there weren't as many asked as might have been.

As an aside: I am damn impressed with my complex verb structures here! Part of my brain isn't still dead asleep.

After the keynote speech, we all wandered the 1/2 mile down to the other end of Navy Pier and took over the Children's Museum for Saturday's cocktail party.

With Chloe Dao!

Dove Ultimate Clear supplied a ton of cotton t-shirts in bright colors that we could cut up and turn into stylin' fashions. Halter tops, sashed tank tops, a great 2 strap tank. The theme was sleeveless because of the Sleeveless Ready theme to the Dove ads. I spent about 1/2 the night at the project stations making stuff for myself and others, though I was not nearly as kick-ass as Elizabeth Perry! She made a great 2-shirt cardigan and a bag!

I'd have done better, but the scissors were cheap and dull, and the shirts only came in a medium. Too many ladies there couldn't fit into them (that's why Elizabeth made the cardigan). Also, when I wasn't slitting shirts I was slurping Pina Coladas.

Which might explain why on a dare (roomie Maria Niles gave me $1), I took off my original t-shirt, stuffed my bra straps into the cups (how did I not know this tip??) and pulled on my fabulous pink and green halter. I know that several ladies took their photo with me, so I will be searching the BlogherFlickr photostream until somebody gets her photos uploaded there!

BTW, if you do click over to the photostream, you will notice a number of photos that look like really nice scrapbook pages. That's because one of our sponsors (and really nice people) was ScrapBlog. I haven't had time to play with thier site yet, but one fabulous artist there took time to explain all about scrapbooking to me. What to look for to judge a great page from a so-so one. He even said I could email him for help!

A good thing. I've been called out for not writing about scrapbooking over at BlogHer. But if I don't know what I'm looking at, and they write in a way that doesn't makes me love them, what am I supposed to do? I could write about crafters and knitters and spinners even if I don't do it, because I've found great photographs and writing.

Anyway...

This is enough about the rest of day two. Let me save Sunday (day three) for Wednesday. Maybe by then I'll even have photos!

I also blog at: Deb's Daily Distractions and BlogHer on Mondays and Saturdays.

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BlogHer, Day Two...

It's 4 pm in ChicagoLand, and I'm almost to the point of total overload.

Got into Chicago Thursday morning about 6 am. after taking a red-eye from LAX. I woke about 1/2 hour before we landed and got to watch thunderstorms rolling across the land below us. Rain. Oh, shoot. But the weather cleared as the day went on, so I wasn't too unhappy.

I had flown in a day early to go to a ball game. White Sox/Tigers were playing at 1 pm. and I got to scratch one more stadium off my lifelist. (Big Yahoo!!). I sat right behind home plate, but up in the topmost row of the stadium. It took me about 5 innings to adjust to view before I really got into the game. Still completely well worth it! I left in the 9th inning for my cocktail party obligations with the score tied. (still don't know who won or when).

Here, I get to brag a little. I was at the game alone. I walked to the Red Line, asked for guidance, got to the right stop, and walked from the Chicago Loop to the City Center. Only had to ask a couple people if I was walking in the correct direction! And got to the parties on time. (three in a row).

Friday was the first day of BlogHer. I was a volunteer at registration, and a microphone wrangler at 2 of the sessions, so I worked most of the day. The sessions were great! If you want to read what went on, most sessions were liveblogged. Just check through the articles that were tagged BlogHer07

The cocktail party was held on the roof of center. We are at the very end of Navy Pier, so we got a great view of the city. Our entertainment was singer/blogger named Christine Kane... and she was fabulous! Then a bunch of us went out dinner at a pizza place. Back to our room, it felt like early evening. It WAS 11:30 pm. I didn't think I tired, but my head hit the pillow and I was gone.

Today I have been a social slug. I've spent 8 hours so far, talking to people in small discussions, trading business cards and (unfortunately) missing every session that was held today. Only problem with that? I was supposed to be live-blogging one of the sessions and completely missed it!

Thank goodness this conference is only 2 days long.

I'm now sitting in the ballroom where Elizabeth Edwards (yes, the wife of Presidential candidate John Edwards)... where she's talking about the support and experiences of her life. How online communities are unifying experiencings. Which is why she agreed to come to Blogher.

Who knows what will happen tonight. Eventually it will wind down. Tomorrow is much more relaxed, an unconference experience, before I fly home. I'll admit it, I've left my computer closed most of the time and my camera, too. This is a very face-to-face experience to me.

Today a bit of irony: our afternoon snacks were hotdogs, cotton candy and those big pretzels. Sponsored by Curves.

It's been a fabulous experience! I'm so glad I'm came and I'm sure that within 3 months I'll be eagerly awaiting next years. (oh, yeah.. we don't know where yet.) If you get a chance to come next year (wherever we are), please consider coming.

I also blog at: Deb's Daily Distractions and BlogHer on Mondays and Saturdays.
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Leaving on a Jet Plane...

San Francisco from Cesar Chavez Park. 7/20/07. See the beautiful, cooling fog in the back.


This evening I take off to Chicago for BlogHer '07. Four days packed full of networking, meetings and parties. I just wrote out my schedule and I'm tired from reading it! Will get home late Sunday and probably spend Monday sleeping and doing laundry.

I hope to have fun things to share with ya'll when I get back. One thing before then, though:
I will be live-text-blogging one of the sessions: The Art Of Craft:

The Art of Crafts
The CraftBlogging community is diverse and large, covering everything from scrapbooking to knitting to other handi-crafts. They use their online communities to collaborate, to provide critiques, to engage in commerce, and simply to learn. How do you find your piece of the CraftBlogosphere? And yes, we'll also talk crafts...our favorite solo and group projects. Leah Petersen moderates the conversation with Kathy Cano Murillo (aka Crafty Chica), Kristin Roach, Natalie Zee Drieu and Amy Sedaris.

So look for it here (probably at first chock filled with typos.) My goodness I get to sit at the feet of these women!!! I promise not to swoon.

See ya'll on the flip side.
I also blog at: Deb's Daily Distractions and BlogHer on Mondays and Saturdays.
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Last Friday I took the dogs for a walk at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley. It's a pretty circular route down by the bay; cooler than at my home, with great views.

Since then I've been fighting a cold that's settled into my chest and left me coughing and a bit breathless. Poo! I've spent little bits of time and energy trying to clean some of the clutter in my work room and hoping I can the pattern pieces I drafted my project. How did I lose half of them?

I'm not really in shape for doing much detailed sewing, so this project will have to wait for completion until I get home from Chicago. I really wanted to take my cool new bag with me, too.
I guess I can be thankful that I don't have to plan my whole wardrobe to match my new bag.





I also blog at: Deb's Daily Distractions and BlogHer on Mondays and Saturdays.

Ten-Second Meme (did I mention I'm math challenged?)

Once again, just before BlogHerCon we are all quickly letting people know a bit about us. This should make it easier to talk to some of the 1000+ folks I'll be spending the weekend with.

I'm a second generation American of mixed European peasant stock; as such, I'm strong, independent and optimistic. Also short, dark ash blonde (the box says) and bespectacled.

I'm a survivor of emotional abuse; as such, I'm careful with my words and easily perceive slights. (often when not intended). But I laugh a lot and listen well.

I'm a middle-aged, post-menopausal female; as such, I've got a good sense of humor and warm heart. Often that warmth just can't be contained!

I'm a married woman with 2 dogs and no kids.

I love baseball, sci-fi, creative activities and just recently developed a love for working out. I can explain the infield fly rule, discuss the brilliance that is Joss Whedon's society in Firefly (and how I think it's based on Walmart's world domination) and do either while I'm knitting socks.

For some remarkable reason, I'm generally happier now than I've ever been.

I also blog at: Deb's Daily Distractions and BlogHer

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Week, Next and Last

Next week, I've got to get ready for my 4 days of BlogHer. I've got things going on each day! (whew! I will run myself silly! baseball game, cocktail parties, microphone wrangling, live blogging, CHRISTINE CANE, CHLOE DAO!! Take a peak at some of the activities being offered.. and this doesn't show the private parties or the baseball game. ) Gee, and they think that a blogger conference will be nerds in dark rooms!

I leave Wednesday evening for a red-eye flight to Chicago and get home about midnight Sunday night. I'm pretty sure that Monday will be nothing but sleeping and chillin'.

BTW, I've gotten a small hint that next year, BlogHer08 may be in Atlanta.

Ah well. Maybe that's why I've been so laid back this week. I remember sitting on the porch swing, reading my books, and doing some research on articles.

Today:

I'm taking the dogs to Cesar Chavez park down in Berkeley. We haven't been there since 12/31 and I usually get some good photos down there. Like the boat above. We'll see what a summer walk offers.

Grocery shopping follows, then work on my sewing project. A couple weeks ago I cut out all the pattern pieces, now I can't find half of them. Re-drafting is in order! I'm hoping I finish up this project this weekend.

I also blog at: Deb's Daily Distractions and BlogHer on Mondays and Saturdays.

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Week, Next and Last

Next week, I've got to get ready for my 4 days of BlogHer. I've got things going on each day! (whew! I will run myself silly! baseball game, cocktail parties, microphone wrangling, live blogging, CHRISTINE CANE, CHLOE DAO!! Take a peak at some of the activities being offered.. and this doesn't it all!) Gee, and they think that a blogger conference will be nerds in dark rooms!

I leave Wednesday evening for a red-eye flight to Chicago and get home about midnight Sunday night. I'm pretty sure that Monday will be nothing but sleeping and chillin'.

Ah well. Maybe that's why I've been so laid back this week. I remember sitting on the porch swing, reading my books, and doing some research on articles. Ah well.

Today:

I'm taking the dogs to Cesar Chavez park down in Berkeley. We haven't been there since 12/31 and I usually get some good photos down there. Like the boat above. We'll see what a summer walk offers.

Grocery shopping follows, then work on my sewing project. A couple weeks ago I cut out all the pattern pieces, now I can't find half of them. Re-drafting is in order! I'm hoping I finish up this project this weekend.

I also blog at: Deb's Daily Distractions and BlogHer on Mondays and Saturdays.

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Dreams

I had this strange dream last night... well, I woke up because of it, so I guess it was this morning.

I had just moved into a condo or apartment. I was happy with the situation. There were boxes still all over the living room, but I was building a computer work desk and putting some shelves up, when there was a knock at the door.

I answered opened the door to a man that the-me-in-the-dream knew, but I didn't recognize. He stood at the doorway peeking in around me. When he saw something about the shelving and desk, he said: Well, we can fix that later.

I got pissed and woke up.

I know I was angry that this guy thought he knew better how to organize my own living space than I did. But the more I thought about the dream, the more I saw it as a positive thing. I was building my own space. It might be a place to live... or it might be my LIFE. I was making my own way and my own decisions.

And (because I apparently never let the guy in) I was willing to defend my life against the interference of others. THEY might think that things needed to be arranged differently; but I was having none of that.

Also. If I was putting up shelves and building a desk (I'm thinking it was from IKEA)... it probably meant that when I moved into this space, I knew to buy my own drill.

I don't know why that is important, but it made it very happy when I realized it.

I'm just hoping I bought a level, too. Or I'm so screwed.

I also blog at: Deb's Daily Distractions and BlogHer on Mondays and Saturdays.

Still No Head Shot.

Still no useable headshot. It's amazing what exists in backgrounds that you just don't see until look at the shot in an editing program. And lighting? Shouldn't be so hard.

Today we're driving to Bodega Bay. Ignore the thought of 2 hours with a convertible blowing my hair around. I'm hoping an oceany background will work some magic on creating one or two (or 10) usable shots. Of course those multiple shots mean a cooperative photographer. We'll see.

I didn't get any work done on my project.. and with the spouse home through Tuesday, it might be Wednesday before I can get to work. Sigh.

But I'm making plans. I'm thinking about (another) whole series of articles for BlogHer where I (gasp) demonstrate some of the art/craft I things I do. One of the first articles will be on discharging stained t-shirts to extend their life. Part two of this will be how to paint or dye over these discharged pieces to completely change to look of the shirt.

If you have a blogpost on either of these topics, and wouldn't mind a link back to what you've said/shown, would you please send me the link Thanks.

In the future, I'll be writing about DNA beading, felted bags from sweaters, and maybe t-shirt quilts.

I also blog at: Deb's Daily Distractions and BlogHer on Mondays and Saturdays.

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This is going to Take All Day!!

I have a simple goal for today: get a couple new "head shots" taken. Me, bright and smiley.. a background that is not bland... and one with me sleeveless and showing my arms (there is this Dove-sponsored cocktail party at BlogHer in 2 weeks and they want these...).

Unfortunately, all the walls in the house are pale off-white. NOT what I want. Moving outside I'm in shadow (at the moment) and the backgrounds are lit. NOT what I want. When I check them, the backgrounds still have elements that are not desirable. NOT what I want.

And my photographer seems reluctant to participate in the process, quickly snapping 2 or 3 shots then wanting to leave. Also, he was brought up on the stand-em-straight-ahead-and-shoot-'em philosophy. Quick, painless and the ugliest pictures of humans one can take.

I have a tripod, but can't find my instruction book to know how to take timed photos. What I'm trying ain't working.

sigh.

Wonder how to accomplish what should be a fun and slightly goody fifteen minute experience. At the moment, it feels like it's going to take all day. Where is a creative photography friend when I need one?

If I ever get a photo I like, my Saturday ToDos:

Farmer's Market
Walk the dogs
Play with PhotoShop
Finish constructing pieces for my project.
Grilled Animal Flesh and Farmer's Market veggies for supper.

I also blog at: Deb's Daily Distractions and BlogHer on Mondays and Saturdays.

Did I mention that last week I got a copy of A Writer's Coach by Jack Hart? It was recommended by Roy Peter Clark at Poynter Online. Since one of my goals for this year is to work on my writing skills, this was an easy call!!

Now this week I've been analyzing my daily schedule and thinking that it isn't working as well as I'd like. I want to try and switch things around a bit in what remains of this month and give a new schedule a real try starting in August.

What does the book have to do with the schedule? Simple. Part of the schedule will be to polish skills I've had in the past and add a few more. Spending 2 hours each week day seriously working at studying stuff. Writing will be one of those skills. Hence the Jack Hart book. (the other skills? Finally teach myself PhotoShop and become more comfortable with all the things one can do with MS Office).

This week, I've begun reading A Writer's Coach; think of it as part of my summer reading list for school. Just nine pages in, the book already has given me a clue that is starting to work. Hart wrote:

Nothing generates ideas like getting your hands on the keyboard...

Writing generates ideas by encouraging the kind of sequential, cause-and-effect thinking that leads your mind into new territory.

About the time I read that, I started searching blogs for posts about color. How do different crafters choose the palette they use in a piece? How do approaches differ? It's an interesting topic and will make a nice little post both here and on Blogher. And while I was reading for color inspiration, I found several other ideas: why do crafters craft and blog (what's our motivation?), what makes me envious of craft/art blogs (who has really pretty design features?), atleast 2 recycled craft projects.

This is a good thing!

While I have always been contracted to submit 8 articles/month to BlogHer, starting in August I will have to submit those articles on a predetermined schedule (every Saturday and Wednesday). While it won't be hard to comply, the schedule started freaking me out a bit. But thinking about Hart's suggestion to simply start the work and know that one thing will lead to another... I'm building a fine little reserve of ideas that I can grow into articles in small bits of time.

I'm also reassured that researching these topics will lead me to many others. Only nine pages in, and part of my life is easier already.

It's harder, I think, to use this technique for my daily blogs. When other bloggers slowed or stopped blogging in the last year, we talked a lot about how they stopped "thinking like a blogger." That ability to observe one's life like a third party and find the moment of magic that the world will appreciate? That's a much different talent to both develop and refine. My life at the moment is a fairly solitary affair which also doesn't provide much fodder.

Some bloggers will leave notes by their computer of small ideas that they plumb during dry spells. DebR. uses these notes for her Random Items.... Since I store everything online (notes are usually written in ScribeFox with any links I need right there), this would work if I remembered to enter items when I was working online. Alas, that isn't always a possibility.

Two techniques I've used successfully in the past were a)making myself take a photo each day and b)narrating my day to myself. Both of these techniques worked because they made me an observer in my own life. I've contemplating searching out a "creative non-fiction writing" class to help me find the groove again. But, who knows? maybe Hart will have a few more tips that get me moving in the right direction.

One thing that I know will help a lot: I'm getting an itch to do some more soy-wax batik and shibori work.

ToDo this weekend:

Continue working on my sewing project. Hopefully finish it up Sunday.
Weed gardens.
Measure family room for potential new sectional couch.
Walk dogs.
Start organizing/cleaning the drawers in the kitchen.

What will you be doing??

I also blog at: Deb's Daily Distractions and BlogHer on Mondays and Saturdays.

Just a Hint...

Just a sweet little taste of what I've been doing...



Sewing and stitching.

ToDo Thursday:

Walk the dogs.
Work out with trainer.
Sew a Little.
Go to Mall for a Bra Fitting??
Dinner and a Play with Friends. (the original Nunsense, directed by the playwright and with several of the original cast members.)

Debra also blog at: Deb's Daily Distractions and BlogHer on Mondays and Saturdays.

Recycled Geek Jewelry

If you're reading this, you use a computer. And odds are that you, like me, have a closet where you've stored broken computer pieces until you find the time to run them to a recycler.

You might want to rethink that move.

In articles that turn Geek into Chic (what? it does too rhyme!), you can use the keys from a now-defunct keyboard to make bracelets and necklaces.

DIY gives details. from Michele Beshen's program B.Original. In other articles, she uses a defunct USB port and internal computer pieces to make other jewelry pieces.

I like the take on this that Mixxtape riot shared with the cute earrings and bracelet she crafted at Craftster. She brilliantly used a heated pin to melt holes into the keys, rather than the drilling suggested at DIY. I like that gal!!

I'm curious to see how these feel and work on both skin and clothing. My instinct says they need something to fill the back, though neither artist mentions this. I wonder what would work?

Now if you'll excuse me I think I'll (accidently) pour some soft drink on a keyboard that's been giving me fits! Then you can all instantly know me at BlogHer07 by the stylin' necklace I wear!! What do you think? My name as a drop from a simple cord?
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This is one in a series of posts on "found object" and Recycling crafts. Coming up: recycling sweaters (both unknitting them and felting them), a review of a new book on making beautiful quilts from t-shirts, and soy wax batiking with found objects.

What other found/recycled art/craft would you like to see?
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When Debra isn't destroying computers for embellishments, she her life at Deb's Daily Distractions and all things arts and crafts at BlogHer. This is republish of a BlogHer article.


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Catching Up.. next Comments!

Man in a Pink Boat: The island of Burano, Venice, Italy.

I finally spent this evening catching up on all the blogs in my feed. (did you see that Gabrielle actually blogged again?) While I took a quick moment to comment on a couple blogs, most of the time it was a quick read in my feedreader then on to the next one. Not that I didn't want to comment!! But given the choice of catching up almost completely or commenting and only getting part way through? Sorry, but I chose reading over writing tonight.

I promise that I'll try to comment on blogs within the next few days. You all deserve some love.

Friday's To Dos:

1. Grocery shop? First I have to check to see what's stashed in our freezer. if not, then vacuum and dust.

2. Write an article for BlogHer. What on?

I'm tempted to expand upon Sharon B.'s post this past week about child labor and inexpensive beaded goods. I need to have my writing brain working to get it right, though.

I can do a round up of the fun projects on knitting blogs, or quilting blogs. Is it just me, or do there seem to be fewer really fun projects and challenges being written about on quilting blogs? Please say I'm just missing them. I see lots of finished projects, but little real discussion of the process.. or things that make me believe it will be interesting to casual or non-quilter readers. (my audience at blogher).

I can write a round up of all the crafty podcasts.

I can try to find some of the charitable activities for crafters, quilters, and knitters (like Afghans for Afghans... which I've written about twice already!)

Hmm. other ideas? It's sad when I make a silent prayer to find something inspiring before I open up my feed reader. It usually works, but it's sad. (fingers crossed it will work again).

3. Begin my quarterly closet clean up.

This might shock some of you. Every 3 months I go through most of the clothes in my closet: if something doesn't fit (too large or too small) or if it's stained (more likely) or damaged, it gets tossed into the donation bin. I do not keep clothes for a "some day" that is anything more than someday I may need a dress instead of jeans. No "some day I'll fit into this again, or someday it may come back into fashion." It's wearable NOW or it's gone.

That's enough work for one day...

This weekend, if it cools, I'll be working in the garden and sewing a new purse I'm working on. Will there be photos by Monday??

Check out my other blog: Deb's Daily Distractions where I review (sadly, not favorably) a new website.

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Babbling about Books

Occasionally I step out of my "normal reading" zone (alternating mysteries and sci-fi) and pick up something different. Frequently, these are books that speak to me, or books that someone specifically tells me I should read. Last year, it was Twyla Tharp's and Linda Ellerbee's. This June, it was EAT, PRAY, LOVE.
I consumed this book while on vacation, and I've decided to revist it immediately again to more slowly savor it. If you're looking for a good read, pick this book up.

Elizabeth Gilbert was 32 when she decided to divorce her husband. The 2 year experience was emotionally and physically devastating to her, except that she found "her" guru and began to meditate and practice yoga. A professional travel writer (oh, to have such a job), she was offered the chance to travel to Bali to report on yoga vacations. There she met an ancient medicine man who predicted that soon she would come and study with him.

Now I'm the kind of person who, when a ninth-generation Indonesian medicine man tells you that you're destined to move to Bali and live with him for four monhts, thinks you should make evry effort to do that. And this, finally, was how my whole idea about this year of traveling began to gel.

(snip) But what about the benefits of living harmoniously amid extremes?... My truth was exactly what I'd said to the medicine man in Bali - I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine trascendence - the dual glories of a human life.

(snip) So I stopped trying to choose ---Italy? India? or Indonesia?? -- and eventually admitted that I wanted to travel to all of them. (pgs.28-29).

That's what most of this book is about. Gilbert spent 4 months in Italy learning to speak Italian and experience PLEASURE. She spent 4 months in India living on an Ashram and learning to meditate and PRAY. Then finally 4 months in Bali learning how to live in balance with both extremes.

She shares her experiences is a way that is personal, hysterical and touching. I enjoyed almost every word (OK, she went on a bit too long about divorcing her husband and breaking up with her lover. But that's what pushed her to writing the book.)

Check out my other blog: Deb's Daily Distractions for this week's Tale of the Scale.

Ragged Rooftop in Old Dubrovnik. I love this photo!


It appears that my comments are broken at the moment. (2 pm edit: comments are working now! Haloscan was down for a while this morning, now everything is fine.) I'm trying to fix it, but if you feel the need to leave a comment, I'd suggest that you email me!

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Art and New Social Media

Blogumenta describes itself as the possibly the first art gallery/art fair group on Facebook. Running officially from June 16th, 2007 until July 16, 2007 the group encourages members to submit artwork.

The opening of the ceremony was announced by Michelle Kasprzak at Rhizome.org. where she described the event as an online reaction to the "Grand Tour" of large art festivals taking place throughout Europe this summer:

Blogumenta is more than that - it is a different kind of art event entirely. It has no physical gallery to visit, but there is an image repository on the website and in Facebook, one of the most popular social networking websites. It has no curator, but it was initiated by Robert and he is also the “Admin” of the Facebook group. The work itself is not for sale, but in the “Shopumenta” online store, you can purchase a Blogumenta ringer tee.

There is a companion blog to the Facebook space.

What is becoming interesting to watch are the other art activities springing up on Facebook, too.
There is a group that is discussing the connection between visual arts and language, there are museums and galleries...

So if MySpace is the home of all things pertaining to "bands and music".. will Facebook become the home to other aspects of the arts? And will this demonstrate further the perceived divide between the two?
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