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Instagram warning.

Image used with permission from alexandrawrote.com

I am feeling like the internet is very out of control. Instagram made me a photo sharer. It made life easy for me. I keep in touch with family & friends by sharing with them my personal photos. My kids. My pups. My house. My life. It makes a beautiful collection and in Instagram's Terms of Service it says that the user retains all and every right to their photos. I thought I was safe. I found out yesterday that my favourite photo app is connected to third parties that allow/encourage people to PIN Instagram photos. I know, I know - everyone is sick of this discussion already... but what that means is that you can PIN one of my photos (without me even knowing) and then there it is for Pinterest to modify, exploit or sell.

Sigh. Does this not seem ass backwards to anyone else?

I took my mini Instagram feed off the left side of my blog and I really want to put it back when the developers of these apps make it kosher.

Read more about it on Alex is Type A. She's amazing + smart + a really awesome writer that makes things make sense. (She's also a talented calligrapher that I want to collborate with some day!) She has given me permission to post her Instagram image in an effort to educate people about how things are unfolding on the web.

EDITED: I put my Instragram feed back up because I emailed SNAPwidget (the provider of the feed service) and they took the PIN IT button down from their photos while they investigate further. GOOD SIGN.

Today: I have a painting that will be finished. Black tea on deck.

GO!

March bulletin board | 2012

March it out. I used to say that a lot when I was a fitness instructor. March this year will be about a few simple things: cutting crap, looking for stars and making marks. And by crap I mean gluten, sugar, dairy, citrus, brocoli, alcohol and tomatoes. Because the alternative to that is unthinkable. So I will look for stars. This bulletin looks crazy... but it's a pretty accurate reflection of the cirque de mon esprit. And my bulletin boards will be reflecting that from now on. No longer my wishy-wants, but more of a document of some of my favourite things of my own. Not because I'm trying to promote anything - because I'm reminding myself that I make art.

Today: is a sweet, solitary painting day after I take those beastly frenchies to get their nails cut.

GO!

Second hand.

Hello March. This is the month. THIS is the month that I think is going to turn 2012 around for me. I'm counting on it. Thanks for all of the incredibly kind things you said about my hands. I appreciate it. Very much. So very much. The photo above is from this post. I wrote it a year ago... I read it last night feeling a shade of sadness. I must have known. Either way - I said in the post that I was going to take photos of my hands as life progressed. And today is the day.

Today: I have a full studio day and a painting to finish. If I was a betting kinda gal I would not have a clue who to bet for: hands or paintings. I don't really know what to expect so I might as well get started.

GO!