Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
Interesting idea to interview somebody about something people can go
and experience. I’m interested in what caught your attention too. 
  

    
<emilyg> I walked out of the exhibit and told the person, “I’m going
back in.  Please send in someone to bring me out in a week if I’m
still there.”  It was Zen.  But enthralling.  Peaceful.  I sat there
with my 12 year old for a full hour-and-a-half and neither of us
moved.  I recommend going more than once in the strongest terms.

My interest was the combination of the ecological aspect with the
artistic synthesis of sound and visual and even water (which
represents the tones lower than the human ear can perceive) and
something spiritual that I cannot yet put into words.

I’ll try to be more eloquent in a subsequent post rather than just
gushing.
  

    
I think you have expressed yourself wonderfully!
  

    
Anybody know Bernie Krause? I was a Beaver & Krause fan, back in the
day - would love to make that interview happen.
  

    
I used to.  Did studio work for him and Paul.  But I haven't spoken to him 
in years.
  

    
I cna probably find a way to reach him. Who would we get to conduct the
interview?
  

    
<rik>, would you like to do it?
  

    
I'll see if I can find him.  He should still be in our database.
  

    
While we're talking about dream guests, let me shout out Avery
Dame-Griff's new book "The Two Revolutions: A History of the
Transgender Internet." You might know Dame-Griff from the Queer
Digital History Project (https://queerdigital.com/). I've been
totally geeking out over the book and would love to hear what other
WELL-folk think. 

https://nyupress.org/9781479818310/the-two-revolutions/
  

    
Dream Guest: Martha Wells. I want to ask if she's sick of Murderbot
and would like to kill it off like Doyle killed Holmes...
  

    
Nooooooooooooo! Not Murderbot! 

But seriously, my dream guest from that world would be Ann Leckie or
Jeff VanderMeer.  
  

    
If you can find a way to connect to those folks, feel free to invite
'em!
  

    
yes!!
  

    
Hosts, please update the Well's splash page to point to the current
inkwell.vue discussion.

Beyond that, the inkwell.vue presence there is sort of messy. The
current offering is separate from the previous offerings, and the
page as a whole makes it seem that inkwell.vue is what the Well is
all about. Whoever thinks about marketing for the Well should think
about what the page should say.

Further, the <inkwell.vue> information page should include the
instructions to off-Well readers for how to participate. It's very
clunky to repeat that in each topic, days after the beginning of a
conversation. And by the way, right now that information page is way
too wordy.
  

    
Email sent.
  

    
Thanks. Please see <welltech.166.379-> for discussion of suggestions
that are outside the hosts' scope.
  

    
Maybe during a lull in finding guests, inkwell could revisit
previous guests and see what they have been up to since their
previous stint.  I just realized that it's been 25 years since I
interviewed Tim Powers, so there's a wealth of previous guests to be
tapped.
  

    
While I am not a member of Inkwell, I commend the site for allowing
people to exchange differing views in a dignified manner. At least
that's been my experience thus far. 
  

    
That's the idea! Thank you!
  

    
Thanks, Forrest! We do always endeavor to keep the conversations
civil.
  

    
Just to clarify: <inkwell.vue.> is part of the WELL, a conferencing
system, which means it has a number of "conferences" or forums that
include "topics" for discussion - each topic is a conversation about
something that is relevant to the conference where it appears. When
you start participating in a conference, you become a member of that
conference - and to participate, you have to be a member of the
WELL. <inkwell.vue.> is exceptional in that non-members of the WELL
can read a public or world-readble version - they can't post, but
they can send questions or comments to hosts at the email address
inkwell at well.com, and hosts will post for them.

So, literally speaking, you actually are a member of Inkwell and a
member of the WELL right now.

We invite non-members who find the conversations compelling to join
the WELL - see <https://www.well.com/join/>.
  

    


linda - i really love the idea of having followup discussions!