For a while I’ve thought of Art as an Experience, but lately I’ve been thinking Art is an Attitude. Recent random examples of global street art and online comic artists doin’ it for themselves seem to support this outlook. More to follow…

I’d like to be able to assign a star rating to individual artists and not just individual songs in iTunes.

I continue to be amazed at the versatility of the deceptively simple Omni Outliner app which came bundled with OS X on my Mac. It makes creating heirarchical and bulleted lists very easy, and creating columns with status messages, times, or checklists is a snap. I’m well aware of the Perils of Powerpoint oversimplification, but it really helps to organize some of what I do at work.

My favorite movies right now are Screwball Comedies from the 1930s: The Thin Man, Twentieth Century, Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, Trouble in Paradise, His Girl Friday, My Man Godfrey, Arsenic and Old Lace, You Can’t Take it With You, The Awful Truth, Holiday, to name a few.

During some morning reflection about a recent art event put-on by some acquaintances of mine, I had a realization. At the time, I opted-out of participating for reasons that were (then) hard to verbalize. The organizers were shooting for a one-off, gigantic event that would make a ‘Big Wow’ splash in an otherwise ho-hum cultural and social setting. (There were other personal reasons why I counted myself out, but no big deal.) This morning it hit me: I tend to operate more from a decentralized, grassroots Unix-like Philosophy than towards a centralized, monolithic approach. I had been interested in generating smaller activities and decentralized projects that could build some momentum and perhaps generate emergent organization between various parts. I want things to be authentic, dynamic, self-organizing, sustainable but didn’t feel that was the case. Realizing this made me feel I hadn’t merely been a lonely stick-in-the-mud, after all: it was a question of differing approaches. Perhaps that’s what some call ‘Creative Differences’. Viva Guerilla Design, viva Emergence, viva the Network!