Showing posts with label community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community. Show all posts

10.03.2009

This Broth Tastes Like Pretty Pictures and Community

The Broth is a site about community and art, and community art, where you can work on pieces of art collaboratively, chat live with Broth peers you "meet" on the site, and show off your artistic talent, if you have any, which as we will see I do not.














Anyway, one of the most active group art pages is the broth "mosaic," an ongoing work original to the site that remains at the forefront, and continues to feature tiles to work with instead of the more recent option of creating, in other rooms, with "spray paint." You can watch as community members move the tiles around to create something knew, or make a move yourself if you log in.



















There are plenty of other public works, meaning someone else created the "room" but that the public can come in and can alter or add to what has been designed previously.





















I created a couple rooms of my own that people have added to. Here, a bowl has been added to the scene of my red wine drinking, and some moron has put an umbrella in my wine glass. Glad we're working together on this.















But tiles are hard, so i created another using the spray paint feature. That's hard too. Someone added the sun.














And then there are those participants with an ability to create in these mediums, and they submit some fairly cool shit they let others view but not touch.
































Can't say I blame them.

12.27.2008

Ho Ho Ho! It's the December Top 3

Given the holiday and it being a supposed time of good cheer and goodwill, this month's top three includes sites that work to foster working together and senses of community.

1) Drop Spots. This site allows you to search for and locate and/or create and post "drop spots" across the country. Apparently, people will leave an item or collection of items in a hidden "spot," and then post its whereabouts on this site for other participants in the area to find and check out.






2)Flash Mob. This site is one where people can "plan" a flash mob, suggesting spots for people to gather seemingly spontaneously and randomly, only for a minute or so, and then promptly disperse, all just for the hell of it.





























3) Global Orgasm. This site promotes this annual even (since 2006) informing people of the date and time for people all over the world to strive to have an orgasm simultaneously.