Facebook is due a Spring clean, and first on the list is clearing out all the clutter. The new look is likely to remove a lot of the third party applications currently displayed on your page—personal information, photos, the continually updating news feed, and the “wall”, where users can post comments, for example—and divide them onto separate pages and accessible through distinct tabs.
”People are starting to feel that Facebook is quickly becoming like MySpace,” says Adam Ostrow, editor-in-chief of Mashable.com, the online social networking news site.
There is a groundswell of opinion that Facebook was in danger of selling out in the dash to feature new (often ad-based) content. Let’s hope this is a step back to it’s more user friendly origins.
This week’s Featured Nantucket Artist is photographer and writer Terry Pommett. Terry has been documenting the people and places of the Cape and Islands for the past 25 years. Read More Here >>
Our tip for the Earth Day project this year on Nantucket is the Wave of Change - a community Arts project brought to you by Sustainable Nantucket.
The Wave of Change is a large-scale sculpture created out of recycled materials, mounted on a boat trailer by volunteers from the Sustainable Nantucket Green Council, and then covered with whimsical, colorful sea creatures and environmental slogans created by the children of our community.
The Wave is designed not only to raise the awareness of the participants - but also to impact and engage additional members of the community through highly visible placement around town before and after Earth Day 2008.
Islanders affected by domestic violence will come together next Saturday, April 26, to raise awareness and show support through Art as part of the The Clothesline Project - a nationwide project conceived and launched on Cape Cod.
From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the Atheneum garden will display the customised tees, designed and decorated by victims and their friends and family.
Shirts and art supplies are available through A Safe Place at 24 Amelia Drive. Entrants may be victims, or friends or family members of victims who have been harmed emotionally and/or physically by sexual or domestic violence.
The film promotes a hopeful vision of a sustainable future, and explores how businesses are re-inventing themselves in order to work with nature and maximise our dwindling natural resources.
The ever inspirational Darren Rowse over at Problogger has declared today April 14th Blogger Appreciation day - and asked readers to email another blogger to let them know that they appreciate something about them, so let’s spend today doing a few random acts of kindness and encouragement for our fellow bloggers.
Here’s afew bloggers who make our world at Nantucket Art a little brighter..
Art Market Blog this month features a great list of sites where artists can get noticed, promote themselves, submit to galleries and find news and reviews from the latest exhibitions. Take a look and tap into the new talent listed if you are a fan of Art too!!
Anyone planning a trip off island into New York over the next few months could do alot worse than pop along to the The Andrew Edlin Gallery - currently playing host to one of the most celebrated examples of outsider artists America has ever known.
Henry Joseph Darger was a reclusive American writer and artist who became famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal along with several hundred beautiful and brilliant drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story.
Andrew Edlin Gallery
529 W. 20th St., 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011
28 March 2008 - 07 June 2008
btw very good tips i will use them. Some of them i did not knew.
