Trying to do a little revising on NaNoWriMo and actually turned off the interwebs for awhile. As a reward for a nice long dint, I turned it back on and found none other than Felicia Day touting Amanda Palmer’s TED appearance this week. Not sure how this came to be on the web so quickly but I’m not complaining.
Those who come round here pretty regularly know I’m a big TED fan. I had watched Amanda Palmer’s kickstarter project with great interest and see crowd sourcing sort of rippling through the internet. A click and there she was, speaking to the darkened hall. This just happened, I thought, a day or so ago. That by itself is pretty amazing stuff.
I’ll let you watch and decide for yourself, but I’ll say that it gave me a good feeling about artists doing what artists do and being part of a bigger world. I loved that she brought in at the end the idea that artists were once part of their close community, not performing to massive anonymous crowds. She sees the internet bringing us back to that smaller feeling, face-to-face community where we can know each other. Shades of early web pages and community, Batman!
