links i can send . whether they are art remains to be seen . i came to art as a collector . i was in india and started to see things . and some things i bought . i went back to the states in 73 or 74 for a month and stayed with friends in philly . everyone had these underground comic books in their bathrooms . so i brought a whole bunch of them back to goa . when i read them i thought of the story or the characters . but all of these french and german and italians who were hanging out in goa started to talk of the artists who made the books . what a revelation . so when i finally left asia and started to live in san francisco i ended up living close to this bar ' dick's cafe ' . and it was the hangout for all of the comic artist , poets and others . bingo . i started buying . and one thing led to another . and then i ran into mailart . and to collect that kind of art you had to participate , so participate i did . and what a joy that was . slap one rubber stamp on a blank envelope , mail it and get a masterpiece in return . so one thing led to the next and my level of participation grew and so did my collection . then i ran into the spray paint and stencil crowd and they were young and also broke . so i bought that also . soon i had no room left . but i did not stop . and then i bought a typewriter so that this broke artist who was also a gallery girl type could start to catalog the collection . and then i started to use in for my mailart as i did not like the look of my handwriting at that time .
http://www.youtube.com/user/jesseedwards
in those days i still had a bit of the army training left in my fingers so i could do kind of a good job at the keyboard . that skill has since left my fingers but i make do with my own style of typing .
http://jesarchives.wordpress.com/
now for me all of these free web sites like myspace , FB , twitter , blogstream , bloglines , . . . . . . . are sketchbooks . it was this venice beach artist david hinnebusch who told me about myspace and he was the one who showed me that websites can be more that a cut and dried business method . check out hfilms.com or fakeart.net to get an idea of what he does . so i just started to play with idea and any time i heard of some new place i went there and created a presence and started to work and play with the format . i my self like the ones that allow a background image . just personal preference .
http://jesarchives.blogstream.com/
so i learned the difference about all of these sites and as i learned i played . as the web got bigger so did i . i also lost many sites to the changing nature of the web and to the changing nature of the log in requirements . so now i just use the same user name and same password and the same email address for all of them . and thank god for google . the history saver . also for the web archive dot org . using the web archive i have been able to save some of the work i did on defunct sites that i no longer own . . . . . . . . . .
more later ,
rock and roll ,
jesse
