mark tagg-art Art Notes

Adium follow-up

2008-08-05T12:34:00.001-05:00

Still loving it

Adium 1.2.5 Rocks! (first glance...)

2008-05-20T11:13:00.001-05:00

If you're using Apple OS X and you have multiple chat services, I now recommend Adium. I had problems with it in the past, but the GUI has really matured a lot since I last tried it a few years ago. nice app.

Now, to test it out and see how it holds-up over the next couple of months...

Becoming a Cyborg

2008-03-18T13:54:00.001-05:00

I'm tapping into the full matrix now by attending Andrew Mara's Cyborg Session at the NDSU Social Media Conference.

Meg Luther Lindholm online

2007-12-09T13:51:00.001-06:00

I helped a friend of mine, Meg Luther Lindholm, get her website/webpresence established a few weeks ago. After exploring a lot of options from Rapidweaver, .mac, and do-it-yourself options at various major site hosts, she chose a really nice, clean, easy-to-use online web-builder site called, iCompendium.

She is an excellent portrait and documentary photographer. Take a brief moment (or longer if you can) to look at her online collection at http://www.meglutherlindholm.com.

FMVA Artist Den

2007-12-03T12:44:00.001-06:00

It turned out to be more of a "how to get a website/presence" than scrutinizing design/usability issues, but gave the audience something to expand their needs/understandings of the growing web and 'web 2.0' offerings.

Click here if you would like to see the slides I used for the presentation.

Mark Gives Demo of Rapidweaver @ FMMUG

2007-09-07T20:42:00.001-05:00

Sept 7 07 I presented RW to our MUG. They loved it -- go buy it (I don't own stock in this app -- I just really LOVE it)

tagg-art's Site Design

2007-08-11T20:50:00.001-05:00

Ok, I admit and will be the first to announce that the design of this site is not very original. It is a blend of Apple's old aqua/graphite style website -- which I actually and endearingly miss since Apple has evolved to a more iPhone-grey design. Anyhow, as I was saying... Apple's former aqua/graphite design and my own minimal-heavy-thick painting style.

I had been planning this simple design for a long time, as many of you who have visited already and painfully know. But a few months ago, I stumbled on Rapidweaver, thanks to Grant Harrington, and found an already-built aqua theme which I tweaked for my own visual interests and after a couple of days of tearing apart and experimenting, I have what I've wanted all along -- A clean, php backed, personalized design for my website along with a fast scale for building and maintaining. For me and my own satisfaction, it is a perfect blend of stepping from my last 15 years of being heavily techie to becoming more tangible and creating a physical link to my own artwork which has been overly neglected.

So, if you were wondering, there you have it. If you're offended, take a page from Picasso or hundreds of other artists or composers who've said something of the like...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.

Does it make it wrong or unethical? Good question. Others can debate that, but I don't believe it is either as we all create from being influenced by something/someplace/sometime. Afterall, as my undergrad art proof William Foster often quotes, "we don't create art in a vacuum." I suppose if we did, we probably wouldn't have anything to work with including our own minds and imaginations.

East

2007-08-03T21:38:00.000-05:00

East: Currently showing in the FMVA "Big Art Show" at the Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center.

blogger + widgets + rapidblogger + rapidweaver

2007-08-03T21:36:00.001-05:00

Ok, my "raw-blog" is at tagg-art.blogspot.com. Most folks will probably come through my Art Notes portal at my tagg-art.com site. Either arrival, I have the power of two -- 1) the network of blogger and 2) a maintained look/feel of my developing website.

The next possible 'knit' may be using Loghound Software's other Rapidweaver plugin, RapidFlickr to quickly build galleries.