That's So Bunny!

A HUGE congratulations to my good friend Barbara Loveland, whose lust for fashion has hit a target-market home-run in this month's issue of Seventeen Magazine:

Go panties!

awesomeness part deux

where we're coming from

the world' largest art prize

Deadline: July 31, 2009

ArtPrize exists to reboot the conversation between artists and audiences on a grand scale. Any artist—from established to emerging—has the chance to show work. Any visitor can vote. The vote will determine who wins the largest art prize in the world. There is not one official curator or one jury for the competition. The possibilities are wide open.

"There are enough art competitions where the winners are decided by a jury of experts. That's not the competition we are creating. We're looking for a giant conversation to happen between artists and the public. That is why we developed a radically open framework for this event, which gives power to everyone's opinion. When everyone's opinion counts, everyone is included in the conversation."

amazingness prevails

The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

on community

The term "community" in and of itself is a malleable brand of sorts; from its literal meaning as a group or gathering of people to its broader meaning as a group or gathering of ideas, it simply implies commonality whose aim tends to be one of improvement (whether it be in terms of communication, relationship-building, artistic/ intellectual stimulation, etc). A colleague of mine recently recommended exchanging the term "community" for "tribe" – which seems to be the new "it" term in the social media marketing current, which to me ignites more of an exclusive air- potentially genius for marketing products or services but rather isolated when working toward an idea of community development.

 

Moving from a raging metropolis to a small rural island in the middle of the pacific rim has taught me a thing or two about the nature of community- and just how many communities we are linked to in every aspect of our life. By stepping outside of the everyday and into a place completely unknown, we're somewhat forced to stop and analyze our present situation. One of the toughest lessons I've learned is that it's relatively impossible to sustain a community you are not linked to on a personal (read: in-person), regular basis. Sure, this facebook/ flickr/ blogger/ twitter business has helped me reacquaint myself with countless connections that would have simply dwindled without the fascinating little e-communicados, but as you begin to lose the little, everyday, completely unplanned aspects of a relationship, sustenance becomes more of a challenge, regardless of the caliber of thought or genius that come of the modes of exchange.