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I used a computer to randomize the fundamental fifteen-word question posed by a human [me]: “Do you think all this texting email and internet is making us less human somehow?” The randomizations create questions that are obviously related to the fundamental question, but meaning is denigrated by syntactical gaps, breaks, dislocations, etc. In struggling to read a few of these degraded questions, you vaguely perceive the original, intended question, but comprehension is labored and fuzzy.

From this perspective, comparing just one of these randomized questions to the fundamental question provides a poetic metaphor of the difference between Cyber-social interaction and pre-Cyber, face to face, in the same physical space, Human social interaction.

Face to face, in the same physical space, Human social interaction is dense, with meaning amplified, buttressed, nuanced, modulated, etc by:

·         Gesture, posture, dynamics of personal space, etc

·         Inflections of tone, volume, pitch, timber, tempo, etc

·         Facial expression, including the subtle eyes, often described as windows to the soul

·         Etc

In comparison, Cyber-interaction is the dim shadow of a fragrant, glorious flower … A flower less and less in the sunlight as people, especially youngsters, invest more and more time and social energy in the Cyber-cave.

Homo Cyberius: Cyber Man #1

Stepping outside, I see vast, fragrant fields of tulips, lavender, daisies, poppies  … a thousand varieties … slowly morphing to plastic, dime store replicas …

Stephen Rowe welcomes correspondence of all sort per StephenRowe.OriGraphics@yahoo.com

Do you ever feel like you REALLY need a new Facebook icon, if just for one day?

“Where’s your head at today?” When it is absorbed in Cyberspace, then you are a ScreenHead. And what is your Facebook icon, but another type of ScreenHead?

Yet our Facebook icons are more than ScreenHeads – they are our masks, even the void, default silhouette some choose by not choosing otherwise. The void mask obviously hides us, but so do many others. Some hide the 'real' us through glorification, while others radically transform and reinvent us. And all are expressive of something … Don’t you ever feel like you REALLY need a new Facebook icon, if just for one day?

William Blake, Nebuchadnezzar

William Blake, Angel of Revelation                                         William Blake, Eve Naming the Birds 

                         Stephen Rowe, Cyber-Man                                                                 Edvard Munch, The Scream

             Kali the Destroyer Hindu Goddess                                                           William Blake, Death’s Door

 Grant Wood, American Gothic

To PARTICIPATE in constructing a HYPER-CYBER MONTAGE:

The above icons comprise a personal Cyber-Montage of some interest which reflects my personal psyche ... but wouldn’t it be cool if we could altogether construct a much-expanded Hyper-Cyber-Montage?

SAY WHAT??

Well, imagine that you …

1.       Construct your own personal Cyber-Montage just as I did above, and post it on your own web site or personal web page. [Your Facebook Notes could work.]

2.       Include that internet address in a comment to this post so anyone reading this post could then go to your Cyber-Montage. See the Comment Examples below.

3.       Also imagine that your own post contains all the identical text you see in this section, beginning with “To PARTICIPATE in constructing ..." above and ending with “NOW DO IT!” further below.

Now further imagine …

4.       Sending invitations to your friends [per email, Facebook posts, etc], inviting them to view your Cyber-Montage.

5.       Since your Cyber-Montage contains all the identical text you see in this section, it is self-replicating:

a.       Friends viewing your Cyber-Montage are automatically invited to do the same, thereby iterating successive branches, similar to a chain-mail.

The root of this tree [chain] is http://screenheads.blogspot.com/2012/01/do-you-ever-feel-like-you-really-need.html. Do not edit this URL [internet address], as it points to the very first, beginning post in the Hyper-Cyber montage: starting here, anyone can navigate through all the individual Cyber-montages added to the ever-growing Hyper-collection.

The URL to your Cyber-Montage should go in the comment you write to the post that just now brought you into the chain.

Comment Examples:

This idea is super-cool!!  I set up a branch at www.MyPost.MyHost.com, wonder where it will lead?

Interesting selection, especially liked the _________ icon. My personal interests revolve more around _________ you will see that in my Cyber-Montage at www.MyPost.MyHost.com .

Dig it, my Montage is entirely composed of my own photos: www.MyPost.MyHost.com .

If others participate precisely as outlined above, we will be jointly constructing a Hyper-Cyber-Montage, wherein each individual Montage is just one facet of a dynamic, ever-expanding super-construction of Cyber-Montages, all related per the Cyber-tree-branches, continuously growing as additional participants are brought into the project.

Of course not everyone will participate, but that’s OK – it’s like a successful Gallery exhibit: you expect far more lookers than participants, and all are welcome: anyone can view the facets of the Hyper-Cyber-Montage by simply following the links left in the comments, and it will be an interesting gallery indeed!

Perhaps the very first example of an entirely new concept: Hyper-Cyber-Art?

NOW DO IT!