Resistance is Futile, We are Borg

So I guess I have run out of excuses for not borging or blogging or whatever you kids on my lawn do with your computers. WSIWYG and linked to Flickr won me over. Incompatibilty with Safari almost gave me an excuse but I'm using Firefox more and more these days. I was even considering making it my primary browser of choice but I can't get Paypal to play nice with Firefox.

Kat tries to push me into the tools all the hip kids are using. I do cringe when I get the same tone from Kat that I let creep into my voice when I do unpaid Macintosh tech support for my elderly relatives. "Why is there a little yellow man next to my address in my AOL mail?"

She was all hot on Flickr awhile back and I uploaded a few pictures and got little response from anyone but her so it kinda went on the back burner. Then I had a bunch of shots from my nephew's wedding that I needed to post and share with family. So I actually learned how to use Flickr and discovered all the groups.

Now I'm hooked and not just on the ego strokes of comments, views, favorites and having pictures making it into Explore. It is finding other people with the same weird aesthetic. learning techniques I'd never thought about and being part of artistic communities. Being a stay at home Dad, for the most part, for the last 6 and a half years and moving to a totally different part of the country far from most of my freinds and family has left me pretty isolated. Flickr gives me a little glimpse of what it might have been like to be part of one of those historical tight circles of artists or be part of a movement. It feels like taking art back from the commercial world where it has lived for so long. Come see what I painted on my cave wall! Thanks Kathleen!

MY CAVE

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