Diary of an artist writer online

Early walk before breakfast doing some simple photography with found objects before leaving for New York where life will be anything but quiet…

I like to get out before breakfast with my camera at this time of the year and work with objects I have collected and kept in my studio, like this bone from a sheep.

Sometimes it's good to go out into the woods and make site-specific work, especially after hours in front of a computer writing.

You Tube have introduced a couple of new projects. One is a special section for mobile videos. Have only had a look at two and they were surprisingly good. Had expected the technical quality to be poor.

They have also got a Test Tube an ideas "incubator" which allows you to try out new "recipes and concotions" while still in the development stage.

One is an Audio Swap ( an attempt to solve the problem of music copyright) which offers you the chance to replace your aduio with officially licensed music…..mmmmm

The other is Stream..chat with others who are watching the same videos as you.

You are invited to "jump in and play around."

Avatars
Somewhere in deep cyberspace I have an avatar . Well, actually its lodged in Second Life and I am one of the 5million who have registered since last July. At that time there were only 330,000 there.
However, my avatar lies dormant. I am not alone. Most of us who register never get around to being active in Second Life.
A more accurate figure of users, says the Technology Guardiantoday is 1 million. Still that's a hefty number of people to be playing in virtual space on a regular basis.
So I was interested to see that Ars Virtua is advertising under Opportunities in AN magazine for a resident artist to carry out a performance in a place that has no physical location.
You apply via your online avatar….now what was the password?