Had a talk with with my wife about the state of social media and our über con­nect­ed­ness. It’s really kind of depress­ing. We are cre­at­ing more con­nec­tions for our­self, but are those con­nec­tions really meaningful?

I have 250+ friends on Face­book, 100 (+/- Note: haven’t checked today) fol­low­ers on Twit­ter, can’t remem­ber how many peo­ple I fol­low, and I think I still have my MySpace page. Out of all those peo­ple I am friends with on Face­book, I may only keep track of 50, maybe 60, peo­ple. Most of the time I am bar­raged with game requests, fan page updates, or updates on where Friend X is eat­ing inside the Mega Wal­mart that just opened up near their house. Read more on “Social Media is the new Agent Smith” »

Still work­ing on the site. It’s funny, the one client that you will always have prob­lems meet­ing dead­lines for is your­self. Doesn’t mat­ter how much  I have to do for myself, to get my own affairs in order, other work always comes first. It’s either fam­ily work, client work, or house work, but it’s work that takes pri­or­ity over my own goals. Read more on “Criticism’s Counter Argument” »

I have always been fas­ci­nated by still life paint­ings. They cap­ture a very small moment in time when it appears that all life is stand­ing still. How­ever, that is totally not the case. Even as the artist is paint­ing the piece, the fruit is decay­ing, chang­ing, oxi­diz­ing, break­ing down into all of it’s vary­ing chem­i­cal parts until it is eaten, or thrown back into the grand.

We look at still lives as if they cap­ture a moment. But even within that moment, the sub­ject or sub­jects have changed sig­nif­i­cantly. It is as if we want to believe there is some part of life that is free from time. Sadly, this is, as is most art, only an illu­sion lulling us into a false sense of secu­rity. We over­look the dynam­ics of the world around us. We toss around words like ‘change’ and ‘sta­tus quo’ as call to actions or weapons to hurl, when in fact that change is hap­pen­ing whether we want it to or not.

Just a thought.