I put two posts up today that I think are are worth reading, one at The Analytics Guru titled
Interview with Steve Victorino - There.com
I attended Virtual Worlds 2008 a little over three weeks ago but found it really hard to focus on writing up the interviews (the couple of them that I did) I did there and with this one, I really tried to put both the memory of speaking with Steve Victorino who runs There.com and synthesis of the information they presented to me. As I was writing up this interview, I recalled that I was actually familiar with much of what There.com was doing, particularly with Virtual Coke and Virtual Branding - having done a painting last year on just that subject (see below)
I think you can see what my feelings are about Virtual Branding - it's more powerful than real branding - because there's no noise in a virtual world to interfere with taking in the Brand Message - so it could be almost …. like Cocaine, I suppose.
It wasn't, perhaps, my best painting, but I was exploring an idea, and that idea is tied in with Steve Victorino's There.com, in an off way - and that's what you get when someone asks me to do an interview.
The other interview is in ArtNewYorkCity -
Self Portrait and Framing Works
One thing that's come up for me is the activity of Art and Web Analytics actually feeds off each other, at least, for me they do.
I took a big step in deciding to frame a two paintings that will be in a show next month in Brooklyn - it's something I've been avoiding doing (framing my work) but it also brought me together with some old friends.
I was at my studio last week and was photographed by another artist - here’s the photo
See the rest and the work I'm showing at http://www.heartandsoulpilates.com/showing.html starting on May 3rd, 2008
