Things We Didn't Know Last Year
Sometimes I feel like I'm on information overload, but I also want to know more, see more, learn more. The Internet is an amazing resource for learning.
At the same time, the BBC's article: 100 things we didn't know this time last year seems mainly irrelevant. I don't care that I didn't know that stuff last year & for the most part I don't care that I'm still a little hazy about it now.
What does bother me is that last year:
- I hadn't heard of, or seen for that matter, the retractable Vanishing Point Fountain Pen which even though I've seen it now, seems like an impossible feat of engineering.
- I hadn't poured over the entrancing book called Pockets, Pull outs & Hiding Places: Interactive Elements for Altered Books, Art & Collage,
- hadn't "met" the blog squad, and
- hadn't read Confessions of a Reluctant Blogger.
- I hadn't found Lulu or set up the download portal for Ephemeria's artistamps.
- Hadn't heard about Nova Color Acrylics
- I didn't know what a TrackBack was or what it could do for me.
- And I hadn't figured out what exactly technoratti was going to do for my art.
Being an artist has changed for me with time, with life, with new tools and technology. Enjoying the changes and the bits of this and that I've learned every few months, I still look forward to finding out what else I've missed.
OK, fine. If you insist, I'll admit I'm kind of taken with the same line from the list of 100 that the blogger who created Trapped in This Life liked, namely the following:
The "=" sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde. Recorde was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. He chose the two lines because "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle".
And you've got to agree that just the things that people decide to comment on from "the list" is worth thinking about. Notably, the Pipe's network choices are, well, choice.
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