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PostModernMan in Search of an Identity: Who am I and What am I Doing Here?

I feel that we today must play many roles. New roles, old roles, in between roles. We are good at picking up new roles, but it is hard to integrate them into a whole.

I feel the need to express something of what this is like. I come at it from a fairly typical point of view, but I am a male American. I thought of using PostModernFolk to avoid gender specificity, but I am who I am.

Change happens so fast nowadays. I have read that prior to Shakespeare, no literary character changed persona in mid course. Characters were more static and well defined. Shakespearean characters actively considered their inner conditions and made conscious changes. Of course, Homer might protest that Odysseus did as well.

But now we are beyond that. Maybe not beyond good and evil, but definitely beyond simplicity. We are only too aware of the different world views found amongst people of different cultures. Different religious views, different social roles, different mores. Different ways of relating to the world. Different ways of being human.

But in the midst of all this, how do we find an identity, what some might call a soul? Is it even important? This is what I want to explore.

Oh, I love the technology, but at heart I am a poet. Not a good one perhaps. I have explored poetry techniques all my life but I can only write poetry by forgetting all that and going with the zen or satori of the moment.

I am going through a period of maximum change and stress right now, but with my few spare moments and brain cycles I find a need to pour myself out and try to express something.

Watch out.

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ArtBlog

This ArtBlog will be an expression from the point of view of a prototypical Postmodern Man. People in this day and time have something to say, but it ususaloly gets lost in teh shuffle.

I suppose I should add a few words of explanation to clarify my comments. I will continue to do all the things I have been doing, but in addition I have this idea of an ArtBlog.

An ArtBlog, as I envision it, will be a vehicle for expression including photographs, videos, music, and written commentary and poetry, all in a unified and coherent manner. The tools for doing this have come together for me in the right place at the right time.

I am about to purchase a Canon PowerShot S500 Digital Elph Camera. I have never owned a hobby camera before, analog or digital. My wife makes the family photos. In my business travels, I have often bought disposable cameras to take pictures and I have been very pleased with the results. For instance, years ago, when one could still walk right up to and touch the Stonehenge rocks, I took some pictures that I have blown up and framed for my company office and my home office.

I have a lot of ideas for pictures I want to take, primarily around my home and the nearby environs, but also on my many travels. Each picture I have in mind will tell a story all its now, and I will comment and write about what the photo (and/or video) means to me. This may be supplemented by associated Python' and JavaScripts.

It may not seem like much, but I am going to use all the tools of the Mac world, GarageBand, iTunes, iMovie, as well as Firedrop2 (the Python blog software I use) to create my own unique expressions.

I expect to churn out a lot of stuff, interesting I hope, within the next 3 weeks. Then, I go on a trip to China from June 20 to 30, and I will no doubt take pics as I go from south China to the north, ending at the Great Wall; I have several photos in mind already.

I'll stay in touch even while I'm in China, via the Discussion Forum if not through actual Blog posts.

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Diary of a Madman

Diary of a Madman

Henceforth, this Blog will be taking a new turn. It will become a new ArtForm, an ArtBlog.

Ultimately, the technology is a means to an end, a toolset for the times. This site is produced and operated on a Mac OS X box and a Suse Linux box, using Python, JavaScript, Firedrop2, and soon, a Canon PowerShot S500 digital camera.

Images and videos of our times will be combined with music, song and commentary.

But it will not be namby-pamby artistic commentary. It will be the anguished cries of postmodern man, lacking a stable identity, alternatively manifesting himself as chameleon, centaur, and ghost. Where it will lead no one knows; who will follow, no one can guess; but the explosion can no longer be contained.

If we lose our existing following, so be it. If our howls are lost in the oblivion of cyberspace, so be it. The record will be there for archeologists and anthropologists of the future. There is no longer any choice. The future is now.

Stay tuned.

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