“The most visible creators I know are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the inexpressible – without brush, hammer, clay or guitar. They neither paint nor sculpt – their medium is being. Whatever their presence touches has increased life. They see and don’t have to draw. They are the artists of being alive.” — Jay Scott
It’s been quite the fantastic week; there’s been a certain composure there that’s making its presence known. No doubt about it, this is going to be quite an unfolding over the next three months.
Saturday evening got a surprise call from Lumi who invited me to a local crab cioppino event, happening literally about a mile from my house. No problem, I ran the whole way there, worked up a bit of an appetite, and enjoyed much crab cooked in an aromatic broth. As we spoke between cracking legs and claws we caught up on our lives, shared some philosophical musings and marveled at the humour of the crab feast. Also got to catch up on something else on Sunday, mainly the staff sparring set. Rev and I learned it a good chunk of years ago – he rode over to our new training spot on Sunday (the Sunday Sifu/Tai Chi group found this great spot to train on Sundays) and we worked on the set for a bunch, managing to get the first half back to pretty good form by the time we were done. Between that, Tai Chi and practicing a few Shaolin forms it was a good ‘fu weekend.
Gaming was Sunday night, a good game of the Bloodstone campaign. Some work for DP9, some more exploration in Outland in WoW and some cleaning rounded out the weekend.
Found this link today, which is pretty interesting: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/30/lily_white_and_not_loving_it/. Some food for thought in regards to the composition of online communities, and what that means for what gets created and/or had there. To take what the author says and take it further, it is kind of like, in a way, a giant theme park or fenced community. You have to be this tall to enter this ride… and by that very virtue it sets up a baseline meme that gets reinforced by newcomers who are then influenced by the meme and react according to it and which reinforces it even more. Not quite a direct reflection/representation of FirstLife.
Current Possibility: Being the artist where every situation is a blank canvas
