The thought my brain is currently stuck on
Jan. 6th, 2024 11:04 amIs something ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mallorys_camera recently wrote:
Gartner, the technology research firm that was my bestest friend back in my ICM-Brakepoint days, is predicting 50% of current social media users will be giving up social media entirely within the next 2 years.
Gartner has an excellent track record so far as these types of predictions go.
Also, I read somewhere else that even currently, maybe only 25% of the people who use social media actually post to it.
The rest are lurkers.
Watching the advertising ratchet up on the more trashy of the social media sites I still use to procrastinate, I keep thinking, “Well, of course.” Thanks to the bike ride I just went on, I just got subjected to some egregious bicycling Mansplaining that makes me ever sympathetic to any woman living any kind of public life.
I wonder if I can come up with better brain candy for myself. Starting with the trip to Kauai, I have been taking a bunch of short films, primarily around the theme of water, but I don’t yet know what I want to do with them, if anything. I wanted to collect them as a memory of the feeling of standing in each place, with the sense that in the future I might find myself in a context where I might want to conjure those memories back up again. Kind of like that small handful of art installations I want to revisit again and again, but can’t, always, because they are on other continents or in storage somewhere or no longer exist. The trouble is the short films might turn into a New Project and I obviously don’t need those. What I want instead are atmospheric elements that create a time and place where I can buckle down and work.
If I could take a moss-and-lichen-covered stick with me and keep it alive and happy and so wet and green, I would still be living in upstate New York among people for whom the talisman would be quaint and pretty and largely unfathomable.
Somehow, Roy Jacobsen’s spare prose in The Unseen and beyond is a more powerful way to carry memories and feelings.
mallorys_camera recently wrote:Gartner, the technology research firm that was my bestest friend back in my ICM-Brakepoint days, is predicting 50% of current social media users will be giving up social media entirely within the next 2 years.
Gartner has an excellent track record so far as these types of predictions go.
Also, I read somewhere else that even currently, maybe only 25% of the people who use social media actually post to it.
The rest are lurkers.
Watching the advertising ratchet up on the more trashy of the social media sites I still use to procrastinate, I keep thinking, “Well, of course.” Thanks to the bike ride I just went on, I just got subjected to some egregious bicycling Mansplaining that makes me ever sympathetic to any woman living any kind of public life.
I wonder if I can come up with better brain candy for myself. Starting with the trip to Kauai, I have been taking a bunch of short films, primarily around the theme of water, but I don’t yet know what I want to do with them, if anything. I wanted to collect them as a memory of the feeling of standing in each place, with the sense that in the future I might find myself in a context where I might want to conjure those memories back up again. Kind of like that small handful of art installations I want to revisit again and again, but can’t, always, because they are on other continents or in storage somewhere or no longer exist. The trouble is the short films might turn into a New Project and I obviously don’t need those. What I want instead are atmospheric elements that create a time and place where I can buckle down and work.
If I could take a moss-and-lichen-covered stick with me and keep it alive and happy and so wet and green, I would still be living in upstate New York among people for whom the talisman would be quaint and pretty and largely unfathomable.
Somehow, Roy Jacobsen’s spare prose in The Unseen and beyond is a more powerful way to carry memories and feelings.
