Blog Iconoclasm

When the professor holds up a jar and asks the students, “How much can this container hold?”, I feel delight when he pours in marbles, then sand, then water.  I have a mind that sees possibilities, even expanse, in limits.

A blog post is a container, one square on a computer screen holding text and links, sometimes an added image or embedded video.

Nice little blog post.

A container made for iconoclasm.

The tradition-breaking kind.

My latest blog iconoclasm for Handshake 2.0 is art. 

Could a business news blog contain posts with stand-alone art - an illustration, a photograph, a cartoon - that conveys business meaning in such a significant way that the traditional explanatory text in a blog post would lessen, rather than increase, its value?  Could the blog post simply contain a title, a link or two to the context, a link or two to the artist’s profile and site? 

And then the creation.  Voilà!  A synthesis of blog, business, and art.

Ah, that would be sublime.

Oh, yeah, one more thing.  Because Handshake 2.0 is an enterprise of a company, the art would need to create business results for the company.

I posted job openings for illustrators, photographers and cartoonists on craigslist.

I’ve had wonderful responses and seen such creativity.

Might the reader be surprised to learn explaining that blog-business-art-biz-results-synthesis thing has been a challenge?

It's new to me, too.

The ultimate issue is the ever-present art conundrum:  Art must be for art’s sake and the art gallery’s rent must be paid and the art must be free to be itself and the art gallery's rent is not free.

Still.

Nice little blog post container…

I can’t stop imagining…

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