I heard a definition of Folk Art once that explained it as an attempt, by someone who is not formally trained in art, to create art — regardless. Ha! Guilty as charged. I have been known to muck around with some art, yet no one has ever accused me of being very educated. My creed: “Uh, I like it.”
In the world of high-tech gadgets, you read about these guys who make super-duper high powered Wi-Fi antennae out of a handful of metal washers and a Pringle’s Potato Chip can. That’s not Folk Art. Well, I have never done that, but I did make an “electric drum” out of a tennis ball can with a microphone in it. That’s Folk Art.
Lately, it seems I have been trying to incorporate gunpowder into my palate. Longtime readers may recall the Christmas video a couple of years back. The PingWi-Fi folk art team filled a huge pickle jar with colored Christmas lightbulbs and water. I ain’t gonna lie, they actually looked pretty cool when backlit, bobbing and floating and jangling around.
And what did I go and do?
Well, I marched myself over to the PingWi-Fi WindFarm with my Pickle Bulb artpiece. I balanced it inside an old livestock water tank, sat up my video camera … and I blew the hell out of it with my shotgun.
Folk Art!
Well I was wearing my creative beret again yesterday, and apparently some camo, when I was messing around with video. It seemed like a good idea at the time … to make some sort of promotional piece about @pingwifi on Twitter. You are on Twitter right? After some video tinkering, I was happy with the visuals but needed a soundtrack. For availability, the gunfire recorded on my iPhone seemed like a natural. Voila!
If you don’t know, and you are wondering about tweets — why am I so excited? … well, pun intended, “bullet points” is a good way to explain twitter. Tweets are life’s little insignificant and random bullet points. I’ve been known to fire off a few of those. And, occasionally for the Twitter challenged, I scatter a few on this blog … a sampler, if you will.
Let me know what you think and feel free to follow. Tweets from @pingwifi:
One friend is working in Abu Dhabi, another headed for Qatar. When did I get to be so uncool?
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Just when was the last time someone said, ‘Surely, you can’t be serious?,’ and you weren’t. Know what I sayin?
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I get great satisfaction out of Twitter, perhaps none greater than learning someone called JonasPonas is following … Great name!
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James Blunt is on CBS trying to erase “Beautiful” from our minds, w/new song. Ha! Good luck with dat Mr. Over-Played Pop Sensation.
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Forget Starbucks is adding trenta size. Scramble to collect one of their Starbucks signs before they change the logo!
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IF 1 more TV talking head says 31 ounces is too much coffee, I am going to ram a Trenta cup down they throat!:)
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Just saw the engaged Royals on CBS …. Is the good prince going bald?
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At the risk of being cliche – Happy Birthday to Betty White, 89, average actress, now trendy among lemmings, due to foul mouth skits,
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‘Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Well … I think you get the gist.
Know what I sayin?
