Why is it that every time you tell folk you are an artist ( as happened yet again at a party last night) the first question is:"Do you make any money out of it?"
Footprints
Jack Schofield in the Guardian suggests using the free"crap cleaner" if you want to remove tracks such as browser history, cookies, autocomplete entries etc.
Picasso was once asked:"why do you make work" and he replied:"why do birds sing?"
Thursday means IT Guardian. Victor Keegan is writing about the Slingbox.. This is a new gadget that allows you to access your computer and telly from anywhere in the world …on your mobile phone.
He says:"All of the new social networking sites- from You Tube to My Space- are hosted on the internet so can be accessed directly by phone wherever you are. So why rush back to your computer at home? Mobilise yourself: the revolution is just beginning."
(I am writing this in order to avoid getting down to doing work…it's the equivalent to finding odd jobs to do, fiddling with paper clips and anything that puts off the evil moment when you start the day working).
Wikia have launched a new site called Open Serving a free server where anyone can launch content and collect advertising revenue.
BBCMidWales online have posted my story- but we've got problems with the video and copyright music…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/abercraf/pages/annshaw.shtml
I often wondered what was the attraction of my film on the Bridge of Allan Highland Games this summer. I thought it was nostalgia, all those ex-Scots abroad wanting a taste of their homeland. Now I have just received a comment from a 35 year old man in Israel and the secret of the 2,546 hits is clear: it's the blonde girl wrestling her male opponents!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncZoKF-v_c
Ann Shaw is an artist/writer based in Scotland working in new media. As a journalist she campaigned and wrote about many social and medical issues. She is a feminist and founder member of Falkirk Womens Aid, active in the trades union movement and former member of National Union of Journalists Equality Working Party, and founder member of Forth Valley Open Studios.
