Holy Forms of Participation Batman!

I am constantly stunned by how much stuff is just in my Facebook feed at any given time about art.  Either it is due to the fact that I have an artistic nature or that I have actively chosen to follow arts organizations and friends who share similar interests in the arts.

For example, a friend posted a link to another Facebook member for their photo album of sharks wearing hats, note the type of hat they are wearing?  Or another friend posted a link to classic console games.  My favorite find in my Facebook feed is the idea of Disney Princesses drawn with realistic waists.  There are artists (and I will consider computer programmers as artists for the sake of this conversation) putting out hard to find games, entertaining themselves and others with obscure references, or wanting to see a form of realism in popular media.  After completing my response to Module 3 questions for my Art in Society class, I just feel like I can back up my argument of fan art as art when these shared pages and links appear on a social media site, like Facebook.  (To see my Module 3 response, click here.)

With so many opportunities to interact and be entertained or provoked where does one slim down their choices?  Can anyone participate in all aspects of art?  While we have not found a way to clone humans, successfully, what about opportunities to see more than one type of art in a given day?  Is social media going to be the immersive experience we will have to rely on?  Or will theme parks be the other?  Live Tweeting with actors or following them on social sites like WhoSay and Instagram?  Just where to start, or rather, where to keep going!

An exciting development in my work for a field guide came in today’s Register Guard.  I can now find specific information for my guide and potentially expand upon what they reported on the tea shops here in Eugene.  I loved how my mom texted me with the news and suggested I “think along the line of the IAAF trying to get the track trials here in 2016.”  I love my mom so much!  Such brilliance!  Now I am 2 for 2 with my goals in the AAD program; first my main masters work to be able to see what the performing arts does for our Veterans (see Eugene Weekly’s Volume XXXIII, Number 41) and now tea shops in Eugene!  Just honestly blown away by how the Universe works.

Now to start this week off with approving my official UO business cards (eeeee!), contacting my Alum for a different assignment in Cultural Administration, and starting my new job on campus as the University Theatre’s House Manager/Marketing Assistant!  I set a deadline of November 1 to have a job and I met it on October 31.  Life is super weird/crazy/awesome right now and it could not be more perfect!