What is outrageous?
BloggerCon is a gathering of egg-headed bloggers from around the world being conducted on October fourth in Boston at Harvard. It's the brain-child of Dave Winer, who you may know is a fellow at the Berkman Center of Harvard Law school, where he teaches, uh, blogging. Yeah - sweet gig. Dave's software (More!, Frontier, Aretha and Radio) has been a big part of my computing experience since I switched to Macintosh in the mid 80's, so I was delighted and excited when Dave asked me to provide artistic input to BloggerCon.
BloggerCon demands outrageous art. But what is that - isn't art in the eye of the beholder?
Outrageousness is an elusive quality that requires complete abandon, yet I need aware interaction in order to work a computer, a camera or, to some extent, a paintbrush. Well, not a paintbrush:
I made this painting one evening while drinking wine and falling in love with the lesbian cutie you see to the right. We got married (for a couple years) later that week in order to cross the millennium from a sixth floor San Francisco hotel room. Now that was outrageous.
BloggerCon probably isn't the place for that kind of thing though. They need art that can be completed in a day, encompasses the experience of the conference and maybe not so emotionally draining. Something like 'no cameras - all images must be drawn or painted' or 'everybody wears the wrong name tags and we have to figure out who's who' - you know, groupy meeting stuff. Y'all are my artistic conscience, so I ask you: What would be suitable, yet safe? I mean, within the context of an academic gathering of baby boomer techies - what is outrageous?
It's been a while since I've linked around, so...
This style of linking can be attributed to my reading Carol's Chaotic Collection, where I got it from. It's very good for getting rid of all those look-alike links from my dock. 
This image of Mars is the size it appears through a 6mm orthoscopic eyepiece on the 7" Maksutov telescope. By using a barlow lens to halve the occular focal length, a magnification of 890x is achieved! The planet is squirming because of atmospheric movement.
A meadow in northern Arizona:
and a few of it's inhabitants:
