Welcome

DATE: 06/05/2011 03:47:43 AM -----
Welcome! I've been wanting to try my hand at a blog for quite a while now, but I came across a couple of major obstacles at the very beginning: First, there was the problem of the name. Can you believe 'doodlesoup' is already taken on ALL the free blog sites I could find??? And I just never came up with another name that felt like 'me'. (Sorry to those of you who were campaigning for 'negroponderings' but it just sounded a bit too much like the 'ponderings' of a 'negro' person... which I am clearly not, and I didn't want to lead folks astray. I finally found squarespace, which requires a small fee but hopefully will make up for that with no ads and helpful support people.
Then, I couldn't figure out a topic that would be interesting for more than one person to read and sustainable enough that I would WANT to add to it from time to time. So I gave up for a while, until one auspicious day I decided to look at a few TED talks and learned about a specific project by Aaron Koblin, and I immediately wanted to email everyone I know so they could check it out... and I thought about all the amazing cool experiments in community creativity that are out there... and the idea of writing about participatory art projects was born!
I'll tell you about Aaron's project in the next post. Until then, keep your space creative! - jn