Creative Cogitation

So while I was work­ing on Bird on a Wire an whole series of ideas came into my head.  Tweet­Deck is one of them.  It took sev­eral days from inkling in the old brain hous­ing group to fin­ished can­vas.  I hope you like it.

The series is the result of my immer­sion in social media lately (and prob­a­bly for some time to come).  I have a Face­Book fan page started (and only started).  It is going to take me a while to fig­ure out how to really use that tool prop­erly.  And there is all the link­age between Face­Book, Twit­ter, my blog and to a lesser extent, MySpace and LinkedIn.  MySpace seems to be yesterday’s news.  LinkedIn seems more busi­ness minded.  But I think the whole thing can work.  In the­ory Twit­ter­Feed is feed­ing this blog or the RSS feed to sev­eral locations.

In fur­ther­ance of my edu­ca­tion, I par­tic­i­pated in a kind of Face­Book for Dum­mies class this week.  I didn’t learn too much except how to stop being ham­mered with all the games.  Yes, I know, its easy, but I have not had the time to sit around and play with this stuff a lot.  Learn­ing how to get rid of Far­mVille Spam was pretty cool.  Also learn­ing what infor­ma­tion is being shared and how to con­trol it to some extent was also impor­tant.  The class actu­ally did not sug­gest any rec­om­men­da­tions in this regard, which I found to be an inter­est­ing omission.

It was a hands on class, so the moment I logged on, all my Face­Book friends could see I was there and engage in chat. That was a new expe­ri­ence for me.  I spent a bit of time chat­ting with sev­eral peo­ple includ­ing my nephew who seems to think Apple/Macintosh is the be-all-end-all-here and can’t under­stand why I am still using a clunky HP lap­top or why I think my next phone is going to be a Blackberry.

Any­way, so my mind is chew­ing on this stuff and out comes this series of ideas with canaries and binary.  I enjoyed paint­ing my lit­tle tweetie bird com­mune so much another one is under­way.  Any­way, with­out futher ado, Tweet­Deck.

Tweet­Deck, paint­ing by Jake Beck­man. Five canaries perch on a wire.

Its a lit­tle abstract in con­cept, but also kind of lit­eral too.  The ASCII binary reads “Tweet­Deck” from Left to Right, and Top to bot­tom.  In addi­tion to the binary I have attempted to imply a golden spi­ral in the arrange­ment of the birds and the wire and to a lesser extent the tonal vari­a­tion of the col­ors in the back­ground.  Mostly I think this series is going to be about whimsy.  What do you think?

Alter­na­tively, got any Face­Book Fan page or other social media tips? Love to hear from you.

Details about Tweet­Deck, size etc., can be found on its art page at AKAJake.com

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

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Tried to fig­ure out a way to reply to my own blog but couldn’t, so to all my com­men­ta­tors, thanks for all the social media applause.    I really appre­ci­ate you stop­ping by.  — Jake