tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post6602392098720166404..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: WHERE DO I SEND THIS? SHE QUERIEDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-77850719463729605502010-07-03T11:12:36.375-06:002010-07-03T11:12:36.375-06:00I've been wondering about blogging as self-pub...I've been wondering about blogging as self-publishing. Who reads my stuff? Who follows? Who cares? How do you do it more formally than to just give it away for free? I don't mind giving some of it away for free, but I'd also like to make more of my living from my creativity (I mean in general, from music and art, too). <br /><br />I think your circuit-riding book is the more dangerous and subversive of the two proposals. By far. It follows in the mystical Jewish tradition's definition of a prophet being one who speaks the truth—and often one who speaks the truths no one wants to hear. So such prophets get stones, exiled, driven out of their villages. As you know. <br /><br />What's new and scary to many about Orpheus is style and format, not so much contents; not to diminish the contents, but this is a new WAY of presenting the contents, a genuinely multimedia way. Some of the resistance is probably very much about resistance to multisensory media presentation, not to the challenges of the stories involved. At least that's my sense of it.<br /><br />I've been struggling with similar multimedia solutions, making small films that incorporate music, photography, and poetry all into one unified piece. Words appear on the screen overwriting the scene they're talking about, and on the soundtrack something connected to the words also is heard. Making the experience genuinely immersive. At least that's the idea. I feel like a caveman who's just picked up a lightning-struck tree-branch and brought it back to the cave, not yet quite knowing what to DO with it.<br /><br />I presented one of these films at the Robinson Jeffers Association conference in California this past winter. And while it was well-received, no one really knows what to DO with it. It's only just recently that we've had the technology that allows us to publish videos as part of a book.<br /><br />More food for thought.Art Durkeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432noreply@blogger.com