Hi again!

Because I did not take the habit to post in the past, I kinda failed to maintain a high posting frequency.
ごめんね！

This week, I’m off so, although there are so many things I’d like to do, I cannot really pretend I don’t have the time to write more. And that’s why, here is the… daily post week! Yay!

 

Round 1: Art galleries vs. Paper.li

The former is pretty self-explanatory, and as I was saying yesterday, I am currently planning my future exhibits. I talked today with someone I have requested help and counseling from, someone who posts everyday one picture and one quote, matching each other in some way, and who is particularly good at that. I’d like her to do the same with the main works which will be exhibited in this upcoming event. There is still work to do, but hopefully, more on that later. So, as a general matter, I try to keep up to speed with what’s opening where and when, and in particular which galleries abroad could be a potential fit for some project in the near future. During my recent trip to Shanghai, I was surprised to see so many galleries, large and small ones, in Moganshan Lu, advocating for the existing opportunity, while the city being so interesting for photography projects, that it made almost the perfect match so start digging in (although I am also hearing a lot about Beijing and I cannot help but think this might be the next destination for me this year…)

 

The latter is not so simple to understand. Yet, its service might be the first try at a new generation of tools and services helping us to gather information more quickly and easily. It does provide some sort of daily report of what’s being said on twitter about one or multiple topics you define. An easy way to track what’s happening worldwide! So I tried to set up a simple request using hash tags describing the earlier context. The results are a little bit underwhelming now, though Small Rivers, the company behing Paper.li, is planning to release wider content authoring tools very soon.

Maybe this will be the time when we are be able to wire just into the information we need, removing the unnecessary clutter. Like eavesdropping the right discussion.