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Every day, new websites pop up from nowhere, constantly aggregating information.  Expansion makes for a very interesting effect on the internet communities, as well as the physical communities that exist in real life.  Virtual identity becomes intertwined with reality.

There are both benefits and drawbacks for artists from this active sharing of information.  Beneficial, because it opens their audience to the world to expansive networks of people seeking creatives, and creatives looking for inspiration.  But more and more it dawns on me that perhaps somewhere in the line, identity takes a toll.  Creatives must try even harder to be more expansive, more selective with their work, as variation only causes the loss of personal identity.  Yet it creates an entire new identity altogether.

Websites like Tumblr among other blog sites seem to enable people to blog about anything, compiling image and text in any way they want, without the character limits, and constructing their own personal identity based upon the art that they view and share.  More and more I stumble upon websites that simply compile massive amounts of artwork.  Most of it is “pop” art, seeing as that there really isn’t much traditional painting or traditional art being made, and it’s being driven to spread through the internet.  I’ve seen the same artwork in several of these web compilations.

Lately, I’ve been doing a lot on web privacy and the creation of web communities based upon the sharing of information, so it’s caught my attention that there is so much happening, and the rate of how much is “happening” is increasing exponentially over time.  It’s incredible how much information our minds are taking as we continue to absorb information from the world, as well as contribute and add to the amount of information there is on the web.

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Disclaimer: you might be all TL;DR, but if you’re interested in this kind of stuff… uh… it might be interesting?

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