Not-a-meme Challenge #19
I'm taking it upon myself to have a turn at posting a challenge again. I think this one should be relatively easy to answer. If anyone has an idea for another please IM or email me and we'll schedule some new ones.
"Find and review art in Second Life"
I view Second Life as a platform for self expression. As such it's also a platform for art of all forms. Paintings, drawings, buildings, gardens, abused prims, music, poetry there are so many living breathing works of art in Second Life to marvel at. Do you take the time to marvel at that fact? Do you slow down long enough to smell the primses?
Go forth and discover - take a moment and find something you consider to be artistic then tell us ALL about it. Whether that something strikes you as beautitul, provocative, sinful or enlightening if you consider it art and are compelled to share then you are on the right track.
Be sure to include images if possible. It's show and tell time and you're it - get your finger out of your nose and get out in front of the class!
My challenge response will come in a follow on blog entry.
By the way - I named this category of challenge and response blog entries before I had yet unearthed the meaning of "meme". I didn't bother looking into the definition of a "meme" since I had seen examples of "internet memes" over at last.fm. The examples I saw were less than engaging and did not set forth a great template to work from. They were mostly lists of information according to some request/rule without much thought behind them. The results made for barely readable lists, not really blog posts or journal entries as much as glorified shopping lists. I did, however, like the idea of a challenge/response scenario within a blog community - but one with a bit more meat, one with more thought behind the responses if possible.
It's interesting to me, that after having read Richard Dawkins's "The God Delusion" and enjoying it so much, that Richard is behind the term "meme". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme: "Biologist and evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins coined the term meme in 1976." A meme is "a unit of cultural information, cultural evolution or diffusion [which] propagates from one mind to another analogously to the way in which a gene propagates from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution. Multiple memes may propagate as cooperative groups called memeplexes (meme complexes)." Of course there is a list of "internet memes" available at wikipedia.org as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_memes.
So, are we not-a-meme or are we meme-with-purpose or are we challenge-and-response-blog-entries? Any which way I think we're having a bit of fun and that's all we need to be concerned with, right? Thanks for reading, thanks for posting, thanks for being my friends in Second Life.
Comments
Better late then never!
Here ya go!
Posted by: Rose Farina | July 9, 2007 06:02 PM