As I type I am monitoring Twitter, the Art world’s two Susan Jones are about to meet. Could this be our first real chance to see the god particle? or will the world just end?
Until yesterday evening I was completely stumped as to what I should say at the forthcoming Artists Talking event at Peckham Space tomorrow. I have to make a 15 minute intro before fielding questions (I assume) about blogging. In my indecision I decided to go with the Bard and get Annabel to do it. So last night she wrote about my blogs for me and this morning she skipped off to work singing with flowers in her hair. I may have unleashed a beast, she has said things I may have glossed over, but we shall see. I am a little suspicious that, if I am being called upon to talk about something, it is probably already over. Doesn’t everyone blog now? or tweet, or put embarrassing photographs up on Facebook? Clicking five times on the “next blog” (on blogger) at the top of the screen got me a Phd writing health food nut, a cat loving New Yorker, a chatty christian house wife, Cookie recipes and a home for children with Aids in Mexico. With such a lack of irony in the blogging world (sample of 5) no wonder some artists are wary. My blogger sample (I clicked on another 10 times) was also relentlessly Christian (and American), I had to stop when I came to the title “God is Doing a New Thing” it sounded like a report on a traumatised chimpanzee. On the other hand I like being reminded that writing a blog is really not cool. Is “cool” cool? Annabel has laughed many times at my continued utilisation of the cutting edge word “trendy” and I refuse to type “whoop” as I suspect that it is already out of date.
At least here on on Artists Talking there is something of a captive audience of fellow bloggers stimming away in our adjacent cages.
Is WordPress is cooler?
This is all prevarication, I must get on, the kitchen bin needs emptying, I have a job application to write, parcels to collect and a form to deliver to the bank.
