I’m going to talk about some soccer, my favorite videos on YouTube, the new IMA web site and more. I recently helped a friend setup for an outdoor movie party that involved a laptop, LCD projector, a tatty white sheet and some old speakers. It was like a DIY IMA Summer Nights experience. We bbq’d, invited a bunch of friends over, drank some good beer, sat under the stars and watched a brilliant soccer film called Zidane – A 21st Century Portrait, by artists Douglas Gordon and Philipe Parreno. It’s remarkable even if you’re not exactly a soccer fan. Read the rest of this entry »

Somewhere between the information technology guru and the casual PC-user, you can find me. As Communications Manager at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, I have to stay on top of emerging communication tools. I need to know how people communicate now and learn how they will communicate in the future in order to make the museum relevant to their lives. Since undertaking my current role, I have developed a morning work ritual. At 8:30, I enter the office with my two-cup mug of coffee. At 8:35ish I begin checking my personal email account, checking my MySpace page, checking the IMA’s MySpace page, checking my Facebook page, checking my Flickr account, checking the IMA’s Flickr account, reading the headlines of NYtimes and the Indy Star, reading the latest postings of my dozen or so favorite art and tech blogs, and finally checking YouTube for the newest videos. At 9:00 am with half of my coffee gone, I move on to my work email account. During that half hour, I sometimes feel like my head might just explode from the amount of content I try to cram into it. The fast pace of technology and the amount of content that is now accessible through the internet, both excites and overwhelms me. Read the rest of this entry »