Oppenheim Arts & Letters

Swamp, North Tract, Patuxent Research Center, May 1996

Tall Grass, Pool Fence, and Shed, Hunter Hill, December 25, 2014

Fieldwork - Raindrops - Hunter Hill - December 23, 2014

Pride of Baltimore, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, October 30, 1999

Summer Haiku From a Journal, Hunter Hill, July 3, 2013 - 4:10 a.m.

Concentrate

On the wind, lovely,

Refreshing

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Concentrate

On the wind so strong

So quiet

That Darned Beautiful Logo! Shaping the Web Dimension

I've left this Typepad field fallow while sorting out how one may work -- actually exist as mind -- online.  At this point, I don't know what to do with my domain name web site and e-mail, which produce a real kick in the wallet annually, but am okay with the division in Wordpress blogs attempting to separate business, personal, and political interests.

The basic layout:

Level I

Business

Main Communicating Arts Web

Communicating Arts -- The Journal

Personal

J. S. Oppenheim -- All Together

Political

Backchannels

Personal Political-Social Network on Facebook

Twitter

Level II

Business

Amazon Author's Page for James Oppenheim

Fine Art America - James Oppenheim

Reverbnation (established, not built)

Business and Personal Publicity for Photography

Flickr

In addition, I've a spot on the royalty-free photography market site "Alamy" but it does not seem searchable by photographer or maintain a link to a photographer showcase.

Level III

Google+

LinkedIn

Modelmayhem.com

Peace and Collaborative Development Network

Plaxo

Zoetrope.com

Xing

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Although I've previously posted some of the known numbers in posts around the web, I haven't worked through an inventory like this one in quite some time.  The scope of participation online seems to me at once both breathtaking -- from account setups to outbound messaging, there's been an astounding expense in time, and time that could have been used making photographs, writing songs, working on short stories, or, as seems my interest here today, just plain working for someone else!  

In addition to the expense in time, there have been real costs in the dollars involved in sustaining Communicating Arts, the web domain and e-mail address, which have been my online anchors since about 1996.  

How does one retreat?

If one retreats completely from life online, one most certainly will disappear from the online environment while declining in presence as regards distant real space relationships.

On the other hand, and having complained about this for a few years now, there seems to me no longer any point in maintaining such a spread of portals, especially absent of the focus of either studio projects or contracts.

One, of course, need not attend to all of one's pages at one time and some elements seem to be working, especially Facebook.

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This blog automatically renewed this year, and as its logo has become an icon for me on Twitter, I may return to it.  

I felt Oppenheim Arts & Letters -- what a narcissistic and romantic thing to launch on behalf of one's self-concept as "artist-intellectual" -- a bit heady and pretentious as well as "too much too much" especially with, say, haiku on one post-- or a pretty photograph -- and notes about terrorism on another.

Fundamentally, it's good to have some separation in the world itself as well as along the spread of one's own activities, enthusiasms, and interests.

I would like to see this blog continued in the area of arts, entertainment, and leisure but in ways that are not so much about me me me me me me!

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Dusk, Bascule Farm, Poolesville, Maryland, Summer, 2001

Sunrise, Atlantic Ocean from Assateague Island, Maryland, May 1991

A World of Perception Changing

Artist: Maqbool Ahmed, Karachi, Pakistan

Source: Fr. Jakub Solitart Gallery, YouTube

Fr. Solitart Gallery, Web Address

 

 

http://youtu.be/QoZxlJFb84s

Published! For Kindle.

Oppenheim, James S.  A Younger Soul: Seven Short Stories.  Hagerstown, Maryland: Communicating Arts, 2013.

The busyness enabled by the web -- the Facebook thing and its 570 buddies; the several blogs; the unbridled span of artistic and intellectual interests -- finally staggered me, and the whole "Bertha-the-Printer" thing (she's checking herself out by spitting ink as I type) feels like the last straw: I've done enough for glory! My environment may be rich, but I seem to remain ever the bohemian rattling around inside of it. I haven't set down the cameras, far from that, but am more inclined to license images than print them (unless there's an order out there tall enough to cover the complete costs of the work and produce some pizza on the side), to continue shooting for fee (of course), and then, using Amazon's vendor program, to get started on the next e-book.

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Note: reblogged from Communicating Arts - The Journal.