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observations
Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 12:21PM Sunday Scribblings prompt: observations
Detail of Louis Vuitton Window from my NYC Windows series on my FLICKR
Observations
The world is transforming at a faster speed unearthing the ground right below our feet.
Art is breaking through like an unruly weed that will not be deterred by herbicides, in fact it only mutates to champion the current chemical composition of our air.
We call it guerilla art - because it will not be contained or owned.
It sneaks up on you and attacks, permeates in a military fashion.
The creatives will champion the future as they redefine conventional thinking, replace the techno-logical mastery that is outsourced. However we are growing appendages in the visage of pods, berries, and other digital gadgets.
Soon my hands and eyes will be windows... extensions of my thoughts.
Our youth don't hear each other, instead they read each other 'texting' and 'iming' a new language of acronyms- lmfao. Virtual relationships dominate the living. This new dimension is surreal to those who refuse to enter the terrain...the internet has become the secret garden and those outside of it 'the antiquated architecture' or so says the master.
I'm not sure how much of my human flesh can be shared, translated into html, coded, programmed and posted...I'm not sure how much should be. I just know it is now always on my person.
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Reader Comments (12)
Very cool post on observations, loved it- I love the thoughts on art..nice.
I really like this post, it is very interesting and I love that photo!
I loved your image of the internet being "the secret garden". An interesting post!
Very interesting observations there. I'm not sure, yet, whether you're describing a perfect dream, or a nightmare.
Not only don't they hear each other, they also don't see each other and they don't smell or touch each other. It's all turning into a one-dimensional activity - friendships,or whatever we should call them.
That photo has more dimensions than that!
astute observations --- my generation "gapped" long before the internet came along so here i am stuck with plain every day old fashioned face to face friendships --- although i do like a touch of the tech for amusement --- great post!
This is a great prose poem! Everything you say is true. Sad but true!
I like that we're mixed-breeds: still talking face to face, but tackling the virtual conversations -- like this one -- as well. Great observations in your post.
Very well done prose poem. It echoes..
Has anything changed?
Sometimes I feel safer with the virtual friends than with those who know me personally. Why? Because virtual friends aren't emotionally involved. And yet, virtual is cold - they can't hold my hand or pat me on the back. Perhaps we have the both of best worlds. :)
excellent post... i have yet to get a pod.. though i have thought abt it many, many times... guerilla art, fantastic!!!
this image is great.