Handmade Web My website is a shifting house A Rant About "Technology" New Document 1 Spirit Surfing Reboot the World Nasty Net back
In reference to spiritsurfers.net
a shapeless organization of users who rearranged bits that were unimportant individually but who's sum amounted to something so massive that it could only be thought about and never seen.
This practice is similar to what I'm interested in as well.
Joseph Cornell's box
INFObrats are on the web for obligations in their material and practical lives. They shop, instant message, pay bills, relay practical data, and consume.
While I relate more to INFOmonks' use of the web, the author assumes an air of superiority by calling other users "brats" based on a usage pattern that is different from his. Hey, we're all just different kinds of users, that's all.
The boon is revealed at the eureka moment of a surf when the surfer becomes enlightened by the INFOspirit.
Speaking of which, the way he talks about INFOspirit sounds like a borderline cult.
I easily get lost surfing the web. I feel as if my soul gets sucked through the eternal wormhole of the web. I'm sure a lot of people experience this - hyperlinks from an article, Wikipedia pages, a Google search after another, a stream of Youtube videos...

One day I want to keep track of this wondrous process of how I got to one point from the other. Not just a browsing history, but keywords and thought processes.

It's good when I want to empty out my mind for a while in order to get back into focus on my tasks. It's bad when I get too distracted and instead fall through the quicksand.

Sometimes I feel as if
I devour and devour on images and information until there's no more satisfaction and I look up from the computer at last. It's probably similar to stress-eating, caused by the stress of the real task at hand.
It is the framing of the finding that rewards us with the greatest bounty.
INFOmonks are adept not only at finding, but at framing a boon in a way that best reveals its ineffable truth.
For some of the material I see on Spirit Surfers website, I don't understand why they are there or why they were chosen. The truth must be vivid to the collector but will never be known to a viewer like me.

That is the eternal question in the art world as well, and something I'm concerned about as an artist and a viewer.

As an artist: What if no one understands my work?

As a viewer: I don't understand this artist's work. What now?

I guess we would all have to shrug and move on at that point.