"Where Are the Artistics?"
Last week a good friend of mine, said "Patrick you must get out and do something new. Get out of your own normal." He said this because I had mentioned feeling a little blue (slightly depressed). This opened up a whole discussion on where creative freethinking people hang out and express themselves in the modern world.
One would think, with all the information avenues we have at our fingertips that creativity would be overflowing, but as we talked about the issue it became clear, although it looks like on the surface that people have many options, in general a great many of these perceived choices are really very similar to one another, and if they are not, people tend to use only the attributes which they are already familiar with. The result is more of the same stuff everywhere. Rather than stretching their minds people nowadays tend to repeat what they already know. -- I miss the mind stretch! I simply love going down the path less taken. Especially when it involves understanding something new.--. Take Facebook and Twitter, what do most people do with them? Make comments and share photos. This is got me thinking: "Where indeed are all the artistic, truly radical, minds hanging out?"
Living in Surrey British Columbia Canada, by the Guilford shopping mall, I have spent the past few months snooping around looking for those creative souls or clubs. So far the closest is, one slightly off the wall librarian (being "slightly off the wall" is a good thing by the way), and I think they have a hard enough time, finding fellow souls as well. But somewhere, hopefully in Surrey, there has to be a "hideout" for these characters. The ones who dare to be them themselves, despite the mediocrity around them. Don't get me wrong, I am not looking for a "Gunwielding Terminator type group", I am looking however for people and groups or organizations who follow their curiosity and are bored with the ordinary technologies or how they are used.
If this short post resonates with you or your group, regardless of the topic, do drop me a line. Even posing a question from out of left field might be enough to start the fire, to combat the mediocrity I see engulfing the modern society. And that right now includes me.
Take care Patrick
Sometimes small things elicit surprising responses. Such was the case last night, when after fooling around when the photograph of a gladiola on our patio something quite nice emerged. So I decided to post it to Facebook. What a marvellous reaction. People wanted to know how I made the thing. In all honesty it was a complete accident. But nevertheless, everyone wanted to know the details of how it was done . So without further ado here are the details.
