eatsleepdraw:
HEART BEARPOD SEEN IN VANCOUVER SKIES
http://fubear.tumblr.com/
http://www.fubearstudios.com/
If I disappeared tomorrow I’d leave behind the expansive, exhausting matrix of my internet wandering to the great search engine in the sky. On secret sites and password protected forums my future followers will attempt to prove or disprove my multiple identities and trade info on where to find authentic, TRUE bits and pieces as they revel in the eternally fleeting nature of my insight—the genius gift of Secret Rockstar Knowledge bestowed upon me by @hena, Goddess of cool hunting, who smiled on me from up in the clouds as I smoked the wild green grass and body surfed between the lyrics and the beat. She gave me the ability to drop critical pearls into the viral swineflu of the internets. Character limits in comment boxes and on Twitter were turned into creative catalysts—it was mind blowing to realize that the most complicated, impossible to explain things came across as succinct and well-put in140 characters or less. It was like taking a Polaroid of an architectural masterpiece. Auras of ghost light and other magical ephermera that get filtered out as mistakes by supposedly state of the art equipment are captured in a spur of the moment SNAP.
In the end, the art of living and the art of dying are all about the simple joy of pressing a button and pressing it NOW.
eatsleepdraw:
I call this: ALTER-EGO
An artwork that was featured in our group exhibit last year.
Recently, I had an idea that I keep coming back to—a Matrix-inspired notion that we, as humans are the flowering fruit and technology is the plant. While we grow, blossom and die they upload and update—creating off-shoots via cut/copy. We live connected to one another via their long green stalks, eventually shrivilling up and rotting on the ground while they live for hundreds of years like trees…
I keep coming back to this idea because as nighmarish as its initial resonances might be, the act of contemplating it acts like a springboard into an innerworld of endless corridors, each lined with doors leading to new realities.
(it’s up to me to pick one and push it open)
skinnypop:
(note the infinity tat and ties)
I realized that due to their infinite nature, I’d been thinking of Twitter streams as being timeless—but this is not the case. Time matters on Twitter. Not all of the same people who are on early in the morning are on late at night. There are waves of users—one after another the continents wake up, drink coffee, go to work, go out, eat dinner, drink coffee, etc…
This doesn’t mean that the members of a Twitter stream are bound by geography or time zones—all that matters is that they are “on” at the same Twitter stream time—regardless if it’s real world quitting time for one and breakfast time for another. For instance, I know it’s getting near lunch when my west coast peeps start popping up, still sweetly half-asleep. We communicate on Twitter together (as an us) in a shared time that hovers over and in-between “real life” schedules.
Despite the fun of stretching out a Twitter conversation over many hours and many days (I’ve had extremely spirited exchanges with peeps in Australia that occur with over 12 hour intervals in between responses) there are also certain advantages to coordinating your Twitter time with the Twitter time of someone else. For instance, you’re free to “@” reply any public account on Twitter—even a famous person—and the reply will be waiting for them, which they may or may not read. But if you send the @ shout when you’re both online at the same time then there’s the chance that person might actually see your tweet flash across the screen and feel moved to engage you in a “real time” back and forth.
As a group of people who discovered each other through their mutual following of someone else (or something else, in the case of a trending topic), a Twitter stream is strong if it has a far reach, meaning the content of its users keeps reaching new people. One of the ways this happens is if the stream has amplification activity going on at many different times. People are retweeting and replying to one another about the content of someone they both follow regardless of whether that person is even online.
For those who are using # signs and other microsyntax for the purposes of propaganda they would do well to chart the times of the day in which their stream is the strongest—and then work from there to get others to tweet during the off hours.
One thing I wouldn’t recommend is using software to auto-tweet your content in intervals spaced out through 24 hours. That’s because I don’t recommend any auto-tweet software or software that “automatically” increases your number of followers or anything like that. Twitter is about being there, whenever you can make it—live and direct, in Twitter time. It could be once a day or a thousand—at 3AM eternal or 24/7…whatever works for you.
If you Tweet what’s real, when it’s real, you’ll never go wrong.
