Communicating Arts - Main Web SiteI'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
Communicating Arts -- The Journal
Personal
J. S. Oppenheim -- All Together
Political
Personal Political-Social Network on Facebook
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
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
Peace and Collaborative Development Network
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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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