Bridge to Nowhere - 16x16 mixed media on board - 2008After a much needed (yet involuntary) break from the Internet, I'm back. Well sort of. Other than a little Tweeting, a few Facebook updates and checking email from my Blackberry...I have been mostly cut off from the Internet -AKA: Big Huge Time Suck. I have had a summer full of technical problems: the laptop is on a respirator-I don't think she'll make it. My Internet connection is hit or miss with no explanation. My router takes mini vacations without even letting me know....essentially I am in techno-hell. I am actually blogging right now on a borrowed computer and posting an old image from a Facebook album. It's the first time I've blogged in a long while...the first time I've seen a full version page of Facebook...the first time I've looked at a YouTube in a long, long time.
The amazingly good thing that has come from this is that I have been painting A LOT! I have churned out some good work - focused work. I have rearranged my studio to give me some great new workspace. I have (sort of ) organized my supplies. I have been a full time artist! It has been wonderful. I'm thinking that in the future, I should schedule a few breaks here and there to really focus on my art. After all - It's why I'm on the web in the first place. Don't get me wrong...I can't wait to purchase my new laptop and get my website updated, get back to blogging on a regular basis and do all the other things I love to do online. But for now....I'm headed to the studio!
6 comments:
Kathy, I think about this ALL THE TIME! I remember studio days before there was the "internet". Even though I wouldn't want to go back to those times, I realize how technology sucks my time away. It is like an addiction. Sometimes I fantisize about just getting rid of it all. However just the thought of not having a computer with all the bells and whistles makes me break out in a cold sweat. Recently, I have tried to put myself on a technology "diet". The longest I have made it so far is nine hours. This is so sad, but true!
Sheree Rensel
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Wouldn't be the time suck if everything worked like it's supposed to! Got lots of headaches with my arrangement and made it worse by inserting an iMac into a fairly stable but old PC situation... my bad!
I have been wondering where you have been. sounds like you've been productive. I've been trying to cut back on computer time as well with some mixed success.
Sherree...I like it: technology diet! Yet I am always afraid I'm missing something important. I love my yearly treck to ACA (atlantic center for the arts in new smyrna fl) I go "into the woods" for a week...they have internet but I skip it ...limited phone service...no tv. I paint and paint and visit with other artists and when I come out I am refreshed and rejuvinated....and amazingly I discover that the world keeps right on turning without me!
Karen... OH NO... my kids are trying to talk me into a mac. They make it look easy and love them so much. Are you that unhappy or is it just a lot to learn?
Jan...yes it's hard to cut back - untill something goes wrong! then...it's easy! LOL
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