instagram flowerock Kind of the opposite of blather in a way. 150928 ... raze you mean in the way it's all about images and not really about words at all? imagine if each picture linked to another related picture when you clicked on it. that would be kind of fun. 150928 ... flowerock In a way it's exactly like blather but with pictures... now that you mention the linked images... the hash tags ( # ) are like that... I can tag #dog #climbingtree And find more dogs and tree climbers... hmmm... But yes, because of the abundance pictures and lack of words, though are some words... 150929 ... raze i was thinking about signing up, if only to have an excuse to take more pictures. then i read about richard price, who's made a career out of stealing the art of others and calling it his own. a few years ago he took a bunch of pictures people posted on instagram, printed them, and then he sold the prints at an art gallery without asking the permission of any of the photographers or models, without giving them credit, and pocketed tens of thousands of dollars. he got away with it, thanks in no small part to a hidden clause in instagram's terms of service that allows users to "re-share" images that aren't their own. what is with these people who think undisguised theft can somehow be called art? 170623 ... raze actually, his name is richard prince, not price. but that seems a fitting typo, given what the dude does and how he's made his bones. 170623 ... amy adaptability I'm so pathetic. I would be flattered. 170623 ... raze i don't think that's pathetic. it's a perfectly valid response. i guess i just lean pretty hard in the "don't steal my stuff" direction after some of the experiences i've had with people either giving themselves credit for my work or stealing it wholesale, and these days the idea of anything i've done getting any kind of widespread distribution or visibility doesn't hold much appeal. the good news is, i'm nowhere near being a good enough photographer to ever inspire anyone to lift my images. ha! 170623 ... amy anthropology I just learned that Richard Price was practically a Founding Father of the American Revolution, but he was Welsh It was to make a point about how people decide what sides of political debates and how they go forward with that. Because this professor is sly. It's a Barnes and Noble audio lecture about the Enlightenment which is highly relevant to what we do here. 170629 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Darn. I was going to go and name my next poetry book The Chicken Angel Woman with Medium-Fi Creative Nightmare Stew. In real news, Instagram is how my bosses are plotting to attract people to our language group classes (as a gateway drug to expensive 1-to-1 tutoring). Because if you see a picture telling you about French classes, you are going to pay for French classes. It's that simple. 170701 ... raze you SHOULD name your next book of poetry that! i would laugh and laugh until i could laugh no more. and then i would probably become a spinning top and start asking hard questions about the nature of my altered existence. 170701 ... nr interesting how social media seems to be moving toward pictures more than words. i like instagram a lot—seeing people's lives and selves and worlds through their own eyes—but i do miss the prevalence of the rambling written word. 170725 ... unhinged a photographer/videographer friend of mine was trying to convince me to get an instagram account after i shared some of my photos with him. i'm still on the fence. i receive a lot of compliments for my photos from friends. not sure if i want to release them into the wider world though 170727 what's it to you? who go blather from