HALL OF MIRRORS

Liza, self portrait using iMac Photobooth and digital point and shoot camera. With SP Goodman painting as screensaver.

Alison Bechdel mentioned in a response to my last post that there is a piece about this blog in our local weekly newspaper, Seven Days Vermont. At the risk of this blog turning into an endlessly recursive hall of mirrors, I refer you to the the piece.

Alison is one of several artists who have exhibited at PSAW who also blog. See Alison’s blog, also Elizabeth Bunsen and SP Goodman. Other artists have excellent websites, which you can get to by following the links page on the PSAW website.

Links are often my favorite part of blogs. I’ve found some of my most valuable resources by following links, not only in the body of the text but also by following the URL’s embedded in names of reader comments. [Which, by the way, is different from people using comment space to write about their own sites. This is generally - with certain exceptions -not considered good blogging manners]

Some of the people who respond  to blogs are brilliant bloggers themselves -creative thinkers, writers, artists, analysts, collectors. Or not. But it’s worth following the links if you are interested in what they've said.

Just click on the names on the comments, and if they have embedded their URLs you will get there. How postmodern is that? It’s one of the best and easiest ways for blogs to create community, which, according to the piece in 7Days, is what I’m here to report on.

Comments

[eb]

Hey Liza - what a fun post - went hopping from link to link - it's always a little weird to bloghop in your home town - love this photo of you...

xox - eb,

[Maggie Jochild]

Well, Lize, once again you've inspired me. I'm working on a little essay as a result that will go up at my blog hopefully by tomorrow, with props to you, of course.

But -- I wanted to share here, at this moment, an extremely clever website that made me immediately think of you and your "approach". It's for HEMA, a Dutch department store. This is their product page. Be patient, let it load, and then watch their creativity go wild (keep your hand off the mouse, let the screen do its thang): http://producten.hema.nl/

[La Strega]

blog hopping is so cool, thanks for the click tip. Love the photo too, the circle of reflections, & also how the photo strip at the bottom echoes the menu strip.