Artists Unite Issue

This is the funniest invite I’ve ever seen.

They deserve whatever extra publicity this post gets them! Good luck!

There are a few buildings competing with the Flatiron and Empire State (off to the left in the 2nd photo). Be sure to take a look if you’re at 23rd and Broadway…

Wired thinks blogs are so 2004. That the form, which was lo-tech and authored by individuals has turned pro and overly lush, and is therefore no longer valid. Paul Boutin’s article has a solution in mind: Twitter and Facebook.

I say no way!

I have friends who facebook and twitter, but what led me to the blog format in the first place is the ability to have a deeper discussion of ideas. The format of the replacements explicitly fosters the kind of succinctness that I believe devolves into superficiality — not the kind that is shallow, but the kind that asks only for things you can share in a sentence. Not a description of why you like the painting you just saw, but that right now “I’m looking at Morandi.”

I suspect I’m going down on this point. I have felt a lack of participation in blogging among my own circle. But I think the solution is to turn off the kind of sharing we have on facebook and twitter, which diffuses the energy available for communicating and leaves less for deeper communication.

Right now, I’m blogging!