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CREATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING

Building

Communities can develop unique video chronologies for their membership, -for purposes of teaching/learning, training, identity, fundraising, and events.

DEVELOPMENT

Snakebyte Cafe June 9th, 2006


MENU for change, predominantly Tex-Mex, lots of green pepppers and corn tortillas, and avocado. As we amalgamate as one people, we love to taste the different flavors of our world. As we incorporate them into the most powerful way of being on earth, America the beautiful, we are encompassing change as aesthetic and as morality. Our unique Destiny is to help show the way to all people, many who are holding the line against change. This is the on-going catastrophe of history and the old ways, wherteas we have evolved to a moment that creates the future. The responsibility is to learn and teach.
For you or your community or business, we can help in development from Snakbyte Associates. Communities long held by power structures are reluctant to reduce change. Conventions must be assessed, put on the table for dialogue, otherwise All will suffer. Snakebyte Videos offer a way to see, -and health, perception, creativity become strong engines of a New Territory for people. The revolution is upon us. Then, watch the growth.
Creative Community Building collaborates in online techniques for fundraising, group identity, and goal achievement using creativity tools to develop community. High tech hype as seen in advertising and business interests can confuse our goals with Fast Foods Hype, and freeze the ability of communication exchange of people within the community. For example, web design requires a web designer, when the rapid fire of web communications commands that the discourse must be in our hands. ThatÕs you and me, and everybody who defines goals and creates a ladder to success, and communicates it. Open source technology, in this wordpress blog format, is one way to give the power to the people. As the web is mainstream communication, how can it work for you?
Sickness & death versus Time and living openminded to newthought. To think on living means creating a new world everyday. Holding onto the Past will clog the drain. You canÕt hold onto the world and stop it. Too many people are busy getting to where they need to be. Too many people are working hard learning the new variables of understanding in order to live a decent life. Competition is intense in the local, regional, and national markets, and in the international market.
All People is the essential community, and it is made of millions of smaller communities, many of which have positive agendas and interests, all learning to find a place in the future. Creativity and openess to expression are the critical facts of education. There are more people, more regulations, and more solutions, and, all solutions are amazing. We create constantly to encompass the need to have space for more people.
Community circles are NO LONGER closely-held modes of behavior in villages, or towns, or even human types, or any gathering or union or organization that suggests people bond together against others. Our conncern is to create energy for learning, and put it out there. As community circles overlap in everyway, each is focused for determined ends of each agenda. As these communities seek to establish the power of interests to individuals, they grow. But, choose to live in the conventions, to be in a mode of holding onto the past, and you will find lots of company, all held by fear of expression, -afraid of the snakebytes.

SNAKEBYTE VIDEO?

A SNAKEBYTE is a PR release that publishes information and links to an xonline video for individuals , organizations, and businesses who need to explain and show ideas, products, therapies. Virtually anything on video that can enlarge the information base of a region, or the world.
Come join the CCB community, and become a Snakebyte Associate. contact.

PRICE LIST

Snakebytes, are 2 minutes recorded in video of a concept and published online, $200.
Additional time, $100/per 5 minutes. Minimal editing and titling.Ê
For business people, artists, therapists, anybody who wants to make a statement, and can stand up and be recorded, or explain something that needs to be seen for the information or education of others.
Recording done at The Yellow HouseÊ Rockport, ME.Ê Contact
Off-campus locations are additional charge.
Recordings are re-recorded up to 3 times, additional charges for additional time.Ê This is not a production concept, people who know their content can express it, so practice before making an appointment. See examples in snakebytes category.
You can provide video for editing, and publishing, same fee.
Snakebytes are paid by PAYPAL which offers MC/VISA options.Ê Payment works like this standard fee button.

ARCHIVES

Lavinia Captures the Title

APRIL 19TH, 2007 / ART/POETRY, DEVELOPMENT / NO COMMENTS
Best in Show was awarded to 205 Lavinia Street gallery for the video made in early April. ÒShooting BillyboyÓ was a creative video made of the artist in residence at the Milton Delaware Gallery. The video was made after a year long consulting on video blog as a way to enhance organization control and creativity of the web site, and, after a productive month of videos cuminating in Corcoran, a video of the recent Modernism Exhibit at The Corcoran Gallery of Art.
These videos are in the Lavinia chronology on BBÕs Video Press under art category. Videos and the blog format can be seen also at www.205lavinia.com.

What IS the Exhibition?

MARCH 26TH, 2007 / ART/POETRY, DEVELOPMENT, EVENT / 1 COMMENT
If you got this far in reading the description, then you may be surprised that there is another meaning to exhibition. We are used to going to see exhibitions, and used to going and thinking about things the artist shows us, the new vision or what a sensitive sympathetic view we can relate to, and then, maybe buy a work for home or office. Picture this, as we have relegated art openings to a form of behavior, a glass of wine, people watching, as the curious magic of creativity sweeps into our conscious being, we are changed, but how? Why is this a spike in the routine of life? Or why is it just not interesting?
The learning experience is the only reason to do anything, in work or outside, we play to learn. The visual culture in which we live, through such things as Flickr, we are constantly taking pictures, seeing. The exhibition shows us how others see, but we see more than that in the river of imagery on the NET. It is the main exhibition today. Gallery shows are the business of art. We were once hungry to see art, like in Paris in the last part of the 19th century, then through much of the 20th century, we were hungry to see the new images that were freed of the past, abstract expressionism became understood, even boring as we desired more meaning to chew-on. Suddenly, the World Trade Towers came down on all our illusions, and now, we see as the World Culture of Learning, that WE Are the artists, WE ARE the creativity, and conventions of religion and nationality are no longer meaningful conduits, -WE ARE! (See Fallen Angel)
People are all just creative beings, learning to do art whether in work, in pictures, in blogs, in the family. Simple routines require more complex, imaginative solutions, hence, creativity evolves.Ê Life is not what we thought it was, itÕs an exhibition! Because things have changed so dramatically, past models no longer are dynamic, nor relevant. We cling to those past ways for security, but after we have contemplative experiences shopping, in the mode of life even that can ascend to the height of a Òreligious experienceÓ, which is really a creative moment of choices, i.e., the stained glass of color in endless racks of clothing. remember, once people had so little, and it was controlled. Now, we return home wondering if things are the same, or why are things the same, but things are not the same one moment to the next.
William Anderson has been in company of Lavinia for a year, during which time he has begun an effort to change the idea of working in the arts as an advocate for Creative Community Building. ÒThe best works of art are for the expression of manÕs struggle to free himself..Ó(Thoreau) This means bringing communities into a relationship with themselves by seeing through video the answers of understanding agenda and training and group identity.
At 205 Lavinia, the concept has been embraced, but as yet, the strength of this kind of vision is only being developed by Jeanie Greenhaugh. Others have little interest in the power of seeing with video, but enjoy many 205 Lavinia workshops. However, a young woman who teaches a voice workshop, suddenly acquired a dv camera and Apple laptop and began learning to edit, because she recognized a future of seeing is here today. While others have not joined themselves to learning the vision that is now mainstream America, thinking that things were what they used to be, that only watching the bus leaving will get us aboard.
Meanwhile, Lavinia as videographer has created many videos, developing a view of the work being exhibited at www.205Lavinia.com, an Art/Health/Development Gallery on Delmarva Peninsula. Lavinia, as she credits herself in the videos, has begun to teach others, and is distinctly open to the creative efforts of people who never imagined that creativity is not just artists, that everybody is creative. Then, we begin to see the coming day of creative communities. By all measure, the exhibition is wonderful moment, but, it is the learning that you do as viewer which brings it all to life. See 205 Lavinia Street
About the artist: William Anderson, born in Concord Massachusetts, is an ardent learner of Emerson and Thoreau, influenced by Esther Howe Anderson and Newell Convers Wyeth, began his education at Harvard Divinity School at the age of 50, and after a lifetime believing in the conventional form of art, Anderson has taken up Creative Community Building as a resource for change.

William Anderson, when after a traumatic accident destroyed both hands, transferred his useless right hand to his left arm, to create a working hand and a useful hook, at the age of 33, in fact, a seminal experience regarding creativity.
Tapestries of a Higher Plane, photography exhibit reception, 5-8 p.m. April 5, 205 Lavinia Street Gallery, Milton, DE.
Images by Maine artist William Anderson. An interesting aspect of the images is the size, many over eight square feet, hanging unframed, like tapestries.
The artist is an accomplished image-maker since the early 1970s and has been printing on a large giclŽe printer since 2000. He developed a high quality approach to space installations, more commonly known as wallpaper, for the needs of the contemporary home design market. His designs were named ÒeyetilesÓ because, the quality of image and design together would transform a room. Today, homes and offices are just emerging from decades of white-wall-itis. People desire a more creative approach to walls. This exhibit remains on display through April 30. Call for an appointment,Ê 302-684-3379.

205 Lavinia Excels in Videos!

MARCH 18TH, 2007 / ART/POETRY, DEVELOPMENT, EVENT / NO COMMENTS

BBÕs Video Press, situated in Rockport Maine, has a unique button that opens a string of videos from Milton Delaware, in a unique Art/Health/Development Gallery on Delmarva Peninsula. William Anderson has spent the last year helping them be more creative about generating information for the various exhibits, lectures, and workshops taking place there. As a result, a string of videos can now be accessed for viewing pleasure, information, and learning content, on BBÕs. Look for Lavinia under Art category.
Most recently posted are ÒSarah McCarronÕs Voice Workshop Goes BeyondÓ, ÒLavinia Looks to Tina Beneman, Part 1?, ÒBrian Jones Calls about the Yoga retreat!Ó, ÒVenetian Beadmaking WorkshopÓ, and ÒGalapagos Islands: Poetry & MotionÓ. BBÕs order the video for easy chronological viewing. Each video has a different approach, truly a different voice, and all reveal more than writing could ever do. Online video is rich content, and the signal is out, is your website presenting video?
Creative Community Building focuses on video as a teaching/learning tool. BBÕs Video Press brings the agenda into focus for the community, and my be customized for identification. Contact, for more information, consulting fees, and video workshops.

ARCHIVE FOR SEPTEMBER, 2007

Rebirth, A Daily Affair

SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2007 / DEVELOPMENT, PHILOSOPHY / NO COMMENTS

Yesterday I thought this, and today I think that. No difference. We are the same each day, but modulated by weather, events, compassion for others, and pressing needs. Everybody has a handrail, or several handrails, even an escalator, to the heavens. That is the daily fare, though heaven is on earth, and attending to business is the key to a successful appreciation that we are less what we think and more, what we are, -just human beings. I love the moment, as do you all. Envying others, or reading the news and thinking things, or listening to the judgment of a higher being, such as a priest or police officer, has little or nothing to do with minding your own business, that is, living your life.
simplest measure of the day, are the steps you take away from that series of demands which robs you of your nobleness, and a walk is fine, especially if you measure out enough steps to make an hour, therein your life assumes a brilliant core of being, and add to that, the perception of taking beauty with a camera, that is recognizing beauty around you, for that is only within you, then you can assure yourself that nothing is as important as yourself.
As I am so fortunate to think these thoughts at a moment in the company of friends who sing, sing to themselves and sing to others around me, we have compounded delight, -afterall, I walked today, and they sing, Òwe still havenÕt found what IÕm looking forÉ.Ó (U2) Pity our Irish musical priests confuse their fans, for I have found it, it is me.
More to say, things ae happening, life mountsÉ.. A solar house, but in the earth. Videos are constant birth, the teaching of being, and the learning to refill a cup constantly in need of expansion. Create, and you emerge as the brightest star, truly for everybody as well.
At www.bbvpress.com, a Dance of the Cosmosphere.

ARCHIVE FOR APRIL, 2007

Lavinia Captures the Title

APRIL 19TH, 2007 / ART/POETRY, DEVELOPMENT / NO COMMENTS

Best in Show was awarded to 205 Lavinia Street gallery for the video made in early April. ÒShooting BillyboyÓ was a creative video made of the artist in residence at the Milton Delaware Gallery. The video was made after a year long consulting on video blog as a way to enhance organization control and creativity of the web site, and, after a productive month of videos cuminating in Corcoran, a video of the recent Modernism Exhibit at The Corcoran Gallery of Art.
These videos are in the Lavinia chronology on BBÕs Video Press under art category. Videos and the blog format can be seen also at www.205lavinia.com.

ARCHIVE FOR MARCH, 2007

Tapestries of a Higher Planes

MARCH 26TH, 2007 / DEVELOPMENT, EVENT / 1 COMMENT

205 Lavinia Street is pleased to announce an exhibit of photographics by a Maine artist, William Anderson. Opening 5 April 2007 at 5-8 p.m. at the Milton Delaware gallery of the same address, 205 Lavinia Street. More information about the exhibit and lecture/workshops may be accessed at www.205lavinia.com.

William Anderson has lived in Rockport Maine for the last 20 years, originally from Concord Massachusetts, where he became influenced by Henry David Thoreau and subsequently, N.C. Wyeth. That means there are a selection of natural landscape scenes, as well as more graphic constructions using photoshop and a giclee printer. The images are unframed, hanging like tapestries, and large, some as big as 4? x 4?.
One image, ÒRiver of LifeÓ is a wave motion red cloud, rippling in quantums of energy, and seen against a blue atmosphere and backed by a black star-studed, cosmos. XÕs symbolically represent the inhabitants on Earth, but, just to the left side of the wave motion sits a lobstertrap buoy, floating, it is indicating the origins of the very picture indeed!
This extraordinary interpretation aligns Anderson closer to the painter traditions than photographic, and on a inspection of the whole exhibit, the images are more uniform in design grids than of specific subjects. However, two images of green trees against the sky blue, awash in wind, bring you back to the ever present need for Spring and rebirth of life on earth.
Four landscapes from the Palouse in Washington are reminiscent of the Delaware flatlands, are here seen in the moments just after sunset, all is still, earth and sky, after the daily sun blaze. The art of photography has evolved from intense rendition, where absolute optical clarity was a defining objective of photography, for example, as seen in the landscapes of Ansel Adams. An established view of photography is an isolation of fine silver prints matted and framed, and carefully hung for the gallery-goerÕs inspection. This is our past. Collectors may still see and buy these kinds of prints, because it is a known quality, and value is more fiduciary than insightful. The new image-making is much more eclectic, boundaries often undiscernible, and what is most important, is that the images provide appetite for the viewers creativity. Always, this has been the case, to see New Work because it contains a New Vision, and art is no more than thatÉ. These Tapestries are not framed, they hang and blow in the breeze, they move and are moving images, but not of romantic or sentimental subjects, there is no despair or macabre subject matter. There is only the delight in seeing and creating. While in the context of the show, these prints seem unassuming, a flow without surprise after you settle on the fact that the show is unorthodox for reasons not explained. (The artist has definitely made a commitment to large, full images.) But, if you take one home and put it up on your wall to see, the quality of the image, the object nature of the picture will be one of impact. These images will change your life. The Show title reflects on Thoreau and Wyeth, asks that we elevate our conscious to the higher planes of human pursuit and appreciation, that the world is our gift to see it as more than just possibility, but that if we attend to understanding ourselves, rather than the Media, we can achieve a greater peace in this life.

What IS the Exhibition?

MARCH 26TH, 2007 / ART/POETRY, DEVELOPMENT, EVENT / 1 COMMENT If you got this far in reading the description, then you may be surprised that there is another meaning to exhibition. We are used to going to see exhibitions, and used to going and thinking about things the artist shows us, the new vision or what a sensitive sympathetic view we can relate to, and then, maybe buy a work for home or office. Picture this, as we have relegated art openings to a form of behavior, a glass of wine, people watching, as the curious magic of creativity sweeps into our conscious being, we are changed, but how? Why is this a spike in the routine of life? Or why is it just not interesting? The learning experience is the only reason to do anything, in work or outside, we play to learn. The visual culture in which we live, through such things as Flickr, we are constantly taking pictures, seeing. The exhibition shows us how others see, but we see more than that in the river of imagery on the NET. It is the main exhibition today. Gallery shows are the business of art. We were once hungry to see art, like in Paris in the last part of the 19th century, then through much of the 20th century, we were hungry to see the new images that were freed of the past, abstract expressionism became understood, even boring as we desired more meaning to chew-on. Suddenly, the World Trade Towers came down on all our illusions, and now, we see as the World Culture of Learning, that WE Are the artists, WE ARE the creativity, and conventions of religion and nationality are no longer meaningful conduits, -WE ARE! (See Fallen Angel) People are all just creative beings, learning to do art whether in work, in pictures, in blogs, in the family. Simple routines require more complex, imaginative solutions, hence, creativity evolves.Ê Life is not what we thought it was, itÕs an exhibition! Because things have changed so dramatically, past models no longer are dynamic, nor relevant. We cling to those past ways for security, but after we have contemplative experiences shopping, in the mode of life even that can ascend to the height of a Òreligious experienceÓ, which is really a creative moment of choices, i.e., the stained glass of color in endless racks of clothing. remember, once people had so little, and it was controlled. Now, we return home wondering if things are the same, or why are things the same, but things are not the same one moment to the next. William Anderson has been in company of Lavinia for a year, during which time he has begun an effort to change the idea of working in the arts as an advocate for Creative Community Building. ÒThe best works of art are for the expression of manÕs struggle to free himself..Ó(Thoreau) This means bringing communities into a relationship with themselves by seeing through video the answers of understanding agenda and training and group identity. At 205 Lavinia, the concept has been embraced, but as yet, the strength of this kind of vision is only being developed by Jeanie Greenhaugh. Others have little interest in the power of seeing with video, but enjoy many 205 Lavinia workshops. However, a young woman who teaches a voice workshop, suddenly acquired a dv camera and Apple laptop and began learning to edit, because she recognized a future of seeing is here today. While others have not joined themselves to learning the vision that is now mainstream America, thinking that things were what they used to be, that only watching the bus leaving will get us aboard. Meanwhile, Lavinia as videographer has created many videos, developing a view of the work being exhibited at www.205Lavinia.com, an Art/Health/Development Gallery on Delmarva Peninsula. Lavinia, as she credits herself in the videos, has begun to teach others, and is distinctly open to the creative efforts of people who never imagined that creativity is not just artists, that everybody is creative. Then, we begin to see the coming day of creative communities. By all measure, the exhibition is wonderful moment, but, it is the learning that you do as viewer which brings it all to life. See 205 Lavinia Street About the artist: William Anderson, born in Concord Massachusetts, is an ardent learner of Emerson and Thoreau, influenced by Esther Howe Anderson and Newell Convers Wyeth, began his education at Harvard Divinity School at the age of 50, and after a lifetime believing in the conventional form of art, Anderson has taken up Creative Community Building as a resource for change.

William Anderson, when after a traumatic accident destroyed both hands, transferred his useless right hand to his left arm, to create a working hand and a useful hook, at the age of 33, in fact, a seminal experience regarding creativity. Tapestries of a Higher Plane, photography exhibit reception, 5-8 p.m. April 5, 205 Lavinia Street Gallery, Milton, DE. Images by Maine artist William Anderson. An interesting aspect of the images is the size, many over eight square feet, hanging unframed, like tapestries. The artist is an accomplished image-maker since the early 1970s and has been printing on a large giclŽe printer since 2000. He developed a high quality approach to space installations, more commonly known as wallpaper, for the needs of the contemporary home design market. His designs were named ÒeyetilesÓ because, the quality of image and design together would transform a room. Today, homes and offices are just emerging from decades of white-wall-itis. People desire a more creative approach to walls. This exhibit remains on display through April 30. Call for an appointment,Ê 302-684-3379.

205 Lavinia Excels in Videos!

MARCH 18TH, 2007 / ART/POETRY, DEVELOPMENT, EVENT / NO COMMENTS
BBÕs Video Press, situated in Rockport Maine, has a unique button that opens a string of videos from Milton Delaware, in a unique Art/Health/Development Gallery on Delmarva Peninsula. William Anderson has spent the last year helping them be more creative about generating information for the various exhibits, lectures, and workshops taking place there. As a result, a string of videos can now be accessed for viewing pleasure, information, and learning content, on BBÕs. Look for Lavinia under Art category. Most recently posted are ÒSarah McCarronÕs Voice Workshop Goes BeyondÓ, ÒLavinia Looks to Tina Beneman, Part 1?, ÒBrian Jones Calls about the Yoga retreat!Ó, ÒVenetian Beadmaking WorkshopÓ, and ÒGalapagos Islands: Poetry & MotionÓ. BBÕs order the video for easy chronological viewing. Each video has a different approach, truly a different voice, and all reveal more than writing could ever do. Online video is rich content, and the signal is out, is your website presenting video? Creative Community Building focuses on video as a teaching/learning tool. BBÕs Video Press brings the agenda into focus for the community, and my be customized for identification. Contact, for more information, consulting fees, and video workshops.

What? A Video Press!

MARCH 5TH, 2007 / UNCATEGORIZED, VIEWS, SNAKEBYTES, DEVELOPMENT, EVENT, PHILOSOPHY / NO COMMENTS
The advent of broadband has enabled online video to become ubiquitous on the world wide web, giving access to a much richer content than ever before, in the short life span of the World Wide Web. The early nineties saw a simple scripting of words, suddenly made stylistic, when the Apple Macintosh arrived on the scene. In the intervening 20 years, the writing of words has been gradually embellished with pictures, delivered in many ways, like Flashª and Flickrª. Now the age of digital pictures has turned-into a tidal wave of imagery of every kind. People are pouring images into massive memory systems and using access and dispense software, i.e., Flickrª. (http://www.bbvpress.com/1006.html) In Centre Rockport Maine, BBÕs Video Press is another kind of formatting for ease of viewing online video. The software is set-up so a community can gather video that relates information about the interests and agenda of the community, that is, like a library shelf on a specific topic, members of a community can easily see relevant and essential videos created by members of the community to express an essential point-of-view. Currently, we have written words, arguments, advertisements, expositions, and queries, all aimed as means of communication. Recent developments in computer video are forcing the assorted thought patterns of writing to move over and accept the new visual communications. It is not the common manÕs hands but his face that can express a familiarity and urgency of idea through access to many people. Because of mass media computer systems, the shooting and editing of ideas and expositions are no longer expensive production concepts. DV cameras, and software packaged with computer systems that edit, now are capable of producing online media of feature film length (though of different quality than wide screen cinema), accessible to the surfing public, because of broadband, and, at any hour of inquiry. BBÕs Video Press Has two addresses online, one is an html formatted presentation of videos, for communities such as schools, businesses, .orgs or groups; the other, is a wordpress blog to publish information about the videos. This output for the web search engines. These two tools can consolidate, and generate more growing interest for communities, in attracting prospective membership and informing AND utilizing the creative efforts of the members. As well, answering the call of fundraising need, giving event highlights, explaining future prospects, and reinforcing training. The key is, people in their communities can now do it themselves, as the people learn basic technique, in editing and compressing, they can focus on topical questions and answers. No matter what you produce, as long as it centers on the key interests of the community, and is made by the members, it will provide more depth and insight within the community by nature of, videoÕs RICH CONTENT. More is seen, heard, and learned by this method of presentation. People have a familiarity and basic knowledge of programming, because of years of television we are a nation of watchers, and now, to do it ourselves, the process becomes learning/teaching, in short, convincing. The power of media has been brought into the hands of the people, and the communities which are made of people can begin to grow. Look at BBÕs Video Press, as a demonstration of access that might be useful to informing and changing your community by dynamics unimagined in the days of website development, and by encouraging all ages, it makes it more interesting for young people to participate with their growing insights, and, as a medium for binding ourselves together as all of our communities overlap and influence all others. http://www.bbvpress.com

ARCHIVE FOR FEBRUARY, 2007

Student Video Website

FEBRUARY 21ST, 2007 / UNCATEGORIZED, DEVELOPMENT / NO COMMENTS BBÕs Video Press proposed Maine Learning Technology Initiative (Apple Computer) the use of a model presentation website, similar to www.bbvpress.com, for the seventh grade students to display videos in a single website. The unique development of granting students in Maine with laptop computer was made with Apple. The proposal to display the further use of AppleÕs extraordinary graphics and sound software was made by William Anderson of BBÕs Video Press on Tuesday February 17, 2007 in a email to Bette Manchester, Director of Special Projects at MLTI. The letter is as follows:
Dear Bette Manchester, I wrote this subject to Governor Baldacci, then later, thought to readdress to MLTI. My interest is to consolidate creative output, primarily as imovie mp4s, uploaded to a central website for viewing by any all people associated with the schools and elsewhere. My business is Creative Community Building, and I am looking at this particular community as having a profound potential. I have built a model site, www.bbvpress.com, where each school could be represented by a button. The model is only html and would need some development for ease of use by the system. It is not subject to any terms of Youtube or Google video, or any commercial carrier, the point is to establish one of the educational systems goals toward eye/camera to laptop expression/exposition, then complete the cycle by presentation on the Net. The laptop as package is way sophisticated towards this kind of future thinking. The wave is coming, and, it will be a tsunami. You have a integral connection to Apple and of course the laptop project, so I believe that Apple would be interested in developing this vehicle for you. It also, of course, can be a conveyer of courses, the learning/teacher aspect of this kind of development is astonishing. In fact, it can be a way to expand the project by sheer delight brought to the world through young eyes. I would be pleased to make my case in person, or answer any questions.
William Anderson

Newell Convers Wyeth

FEBRUARY 18TH, 2007 / ART/POETRY, PHILOSOPHY / NO COMMENTS
!n 1932, N.C. Wyeth painted a giant mural in a bank in Wilmington Delaware, entitled ÒApotheosis of The Family.Ó The mural is 18? x 60?, has a central grouping of a family, and a landscape panoply of four seasons, with many figures at work in the diarama. The subject of the work appears to be a thematic ideal choreographed by the artist, and what follows are this writerÕs theory. A quicktime video of the mural, which I took last Fall, can be seen, here.
NC was inspired by Henry David ThoreauÕs Walden, and a possible explanation might be found in this quote, about the simplicity of needs to live, ÒWhen I think of the benefactors of the race, whom we have apotheosized as messengers from heaven, bearers of divine gifts to man, I do not see in my mind any retinue at their heels, any carload of fashionable furniture.Ó He completes the thought by referring to the work of maintaining a home, and says, ÒHow, then, could I have a furnished house? I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.Ó (Walden, Economy)
The difficulty of interpretation, in the reasons for this image, is because NC Wyeth is renown for illustrating epics, where action and morality, are integral and easily seen. ÒThe Apotheosis of The FamilyÓ apparently refers to the strong family center in WyethÕs life in Chadds Ford in which NC adhered to the ideas and precepts put forth by Thoreau. He had received a gift of the book Walden from his wife when they were married, and carried it henceforth through life as a guiding light. His dream had been to illustrate a book of Thoreau, which became a quest, which was finally realized in the thirties, shortly after completing the mural.
At 50 years old when he painted the mural, NC was passing a career as one of AmericaÕs most notable illustrators of books and printed media. He had learned his art from Howard Pyle in Chadds Ford Pennsylvannia, and was a fan of the paintings of Frederick Remington. By 1932, his career was in decline, photography and moving pictures had replaced the art of illustrator. The heyday of epics was past, and the ball of synthesizing legend was picked-up by Hollywood and Walt Disney, and so the worlds turns constantly into new ways of seeing, and thinking about things.
NCÕs son, Andrew Wyeth, who was 15 in 1932, and, in this mural painting, is reputed to be the model for a young boy shooting an arrow with bow outstretched. The acuity of the artistÕs representation of the family includes children but foremost, highlights the razor sharp aim of Andrew Wyeth, whom NC homeschooled, to become a never-ending wellspring of painted images, brought forth before his eyes in Nature, -as if he were the observant Thoreau. By creating this central figure identity, in this ÒFamily of ManÓ, NC reinforced the magic of the illusion of painting in young AndrewÕs eyes of his destiny, seen as he gazed-up at himself. Andrew Wyeth has never forgotten the lessons he was taught, and it can be said, paints for his father.
The story is told that when Andrew was a youth, he complained to his mother that his father read too much, when he should be playing. NC found comfort in the observations of Thoreau and Emerson, who preached a philosophy of knowing through observing yourself, and NC synched into this with an obsessive intensity that caused much discord with others to whom he prosletyzed Thoreau. The emphatic point of view, that the world was a different discipline than the manner others lived, was more than an idle pastime, it was a passionate calling. It is the definition nof Thoreau.
Wyeth associated with his Concord teachers by reading, and visiting Concord to sleep by the shore of Walden Pond and walk in the woods, and nearly, by moving his family there. The mural stands as an expression of his fervent association with their idealism. Though it can be said, as America is built on idealisms, his Art had finally evolved into an expression of his being. But not in the New York sense of Art, the same forces had fought him on the Scribners Series, NY publishers werenÕt interested in New England writers with ideas about the spirituality of the individual. at the same time, N.C. Wyeth had painted a portrait of Thoreau which he described as his best painting ever, and not in his illustrative manner, but modern, even showing Cubist influences, and definitely like this mural where he place the family in the same context, the highest good. To this day, the Wyeth family stands together as a remarkable family history.
As young Andrew Spun away from his father, imagining the potential success of his Art in the New York market, he achieved instant fame by an existential interpretation to his painting. ÒChristinaÕs WorldÓ was seen and grabbed by the MOMA, who has since been embarassed to have the work in its collection, because it is not Modern Art. Andrew is to his father, a younger parallel figure as in the teacher/student relationship of Emerson-Thoreau. By Andrews success, we can say his father taught him well, to create by observing Nature. As Thoreau is Emerson, Andrew is NC. Not that anybody should agree with this, but plainly itÕs true. Not that Emerson and Thoreau are writers, rather they evolve from the ministerial world of New England, and N.C. comes later but from the epical world of morality in tale, and he in turn brought Andrew to the true justice of vision in that world. Look at his pictures and say it not so. If these two men are artists, their concerns are unlike Art, and more like Thoreau.
To this day, Andrew plays and paints within 500 yards of his fatherÕs home in Chadds Ford, where he grew-up. As a symbolic family, one might imagine what kind of conversation Andrew has with his dad NC. The Wyeths, a book of NCÕs letters, edited by Betsy Wyeth, relates that after NCÕs death the letters went in a box to New Mexico, but eventually returned to AndrewÕs studio, the same studio next to NCÕs home, where Andrew painted, and as he worked he would pull-out letters and read them. No more emphatic association with his dad could be effected, than through the marvelous writings of NC, through the same words that expressed his inspiration of Thoreau. So you see, the influence is not shooting stars, but a heaven of stars, and in the great confluence of these stars, NC lives onÉ, not as as an artist playing, rather, by attention to the manna of life, that which we are and see. But, wherefore hence?
The central figures are the mother and father in front of a small hut-like house, which is ThoreauÕs house at Walden and symbolizes the simplicity of need in favor of philosophy of life. The landscape is segmented by seasons, Spring to Winter, left to right. After thoreauÕs death, his extensive observations were culled into seasonal books. The subject of the landscape are figures working the land, and as well, as a Thoreau/Pan figure playing a flute while sitting beneath a tree by a field, not working, but observing the wonder of the seasons. The flute was ThoreauÕs favorite instrument.
The representation is a series of scenes of the life working from the land, and in the midst, the family which is the underpinning to all humankind. It is noble and grand, illustrative, and frivolous. Each side has a progression of figures, on the left a picnic grouping, and the right, men carrying trade which has come in by sea to far right. The strength of the father is almost Superman-ish in stance, and as well, the strong woman holds a baby as if the hard work of frontier life were more natural and good than shopping is today. A unique and unexplained attribute is the highlighting of the two central figures with white halo, which just may be a highlight or the deification of the family union.
Nudity plays a significant role, as all figures are either nude or partially draped, in the manner of Italian art, where drapery seems to be added to a picture that had been simply figures completely nude. One can imagine NC desiring to create a classical image, apart from illustration, -a MichelangeloÕs Sistene Chapel effort in industrial Wilmington. But in America, where there are many representations of nude figures in sculpture, this aspect is the most troubling and mystifying, for as an illustrator, NC was well-known for his costumes. It is in fact, his quintessential Wyeth trait, to robe his figures authenticately, and it could be said played on in the successive generations of Wyeths.
An online video of this mural in its entirety can be seen here, http://www.bbvpress.com.

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BBÕs Video Press

JANUARY 27TH, 2007 / XIDEAS, SNAKEBYTES, HEALTH, DEVELOPMENT / NO COMMENTS
Bill AndersonÕs new web sight is exactly that, a vision of artistic work, mainly from the year of 2006. Although the site was established at the turn of the year, in Camden/RockportÕs busiest intersection, the fulcrum twists between old videos, history, and the new videos, the future. When asked what he intended to bring forth, whether hot news like the Villagesoup, or artistic ÒbluedotÓ videos like The Maine Photographic Workshops, he replied, ÒOh I like the scones at Market Basket every morning.Ó The web sight is www.bbvpress.com and when you get there donÕt be amazed, there is very little writing. Mostly, there is a picture of a camelia, repeated many times, and these are links to legions of videos not yet made. Wait! Not yet made? Of course, the future belongs to the online video, and here in Maine people are just trying to catch-up to the internet. We asked Anderson, what can be the matter? He said, ÒThe reason for video press is that people need a place to put videos for their group, organization, church, or teen sports, and since nothing is available, he would offer it to those who didnÕt feel comfortable with google video, youtube, or and of the big clearing houses of video. This would be for the community. Oh, okayÉ. But, whatÕs that mean? Anderson said, ÒFor twenty years the internet has been about words, writing, exposition, then gradually pictures came into it because the loading time was so slow, and now many people all over the world have very fast feeds, so video is now there. You can watch movies, but who needs that when the movie houses blow you away. No, you can watch local programming that you do, they do, everybody does. You can watch anything from anywhere in the world. People can speak clearly about important subjects. Awesome. So, whatÕs the bottom line? Anderson says, ÒItÕs learning, we can learn anything like we were in class or better. Then we can teach too. ItÕs the same thing, the only thing in the future, when we have so much leisure time, there is only learning. BBÕs Video Press doesnÕt want to video your event or your organization, you do it. WeÕll help you. But if you donÕt learn to do it, then you will fall by the wayside. Nobody has time for anybody who is not grabbing the future.Ó More on that later, Anderson said, ÒWe have workshops. Everybody does. And they need online video to inform, cajole, convince, and explain the everything about what we think is important. There is very little time.Ó Check out BBÕs, and ask how your organization can get a space under a camelia. William Anderson is a consultant on Creative Community Building, available here through comments on www.snakebytevideo.com, or at BBÕs video Press web sight.

Chef David Grant

JANUARY 24TH, 2007 / DEVELOPMENT / NO COMMENTS
Chef David Grant, a longtime resident of Maine, is well-known for his restaurants Aubergine and Reunion Grill in Camden Maine. More recently, his restaurant Aubergine was on Congress Street in Portland, featuring French Cuisine, fine wines, and late night dining. After he sold that, he returned to Camden, where he is often seen at Francine Bistro, a small chic Camden nightspot for dining on Chestnut Street. With unqualified knowledge, David drops-in on Francine Bistro, seen in a brief online video, to taste some of the delights of Chef Brian HillÕs cuisine. His comments flow with largesse on various aspects of the serving and intimate atmosphere, which have contributed to the success of this restaurant. The video captures, without the comfort and noise of clients, the charming setting which is unlike any other restaurant in town. The video may be seen at new BBÕs Video Press at this address, http://www.bbvpress.com/8001.html

Lily Pond Aquatic Center

JANUARY 13TH, 2007 / HEALTH / NO COMMENTS
The BB Video press announces a PR video of the new Lily Pond Aquatic Center in Rockport Maine. Featuring three practitioners, Sonny Bolduc and Gretchen Scott in the water, with Mary Sheeline giving a voice-over narration, demonstrated Watzu therapy. This unique therapy is done in an 18 foot round pool. The practitioner holds and manipulates the clientÕs body in the water, relieving stress and tension in a variety of manipulations. The therapy was brought to Maine by Stephan Huyler of Camden, Maine. The Center opened in January 2007 at the new facility on Union Street, and are open to business. The telephone nuber is 207-236-6626. The video is presented in a format of health related topics of local community videos, and may be seen at this address, http://www.bbvpress.com/7001.html. The practitioners made a demonstration open to the public and were videotaped by Robin Mackenzie of Rockport. BBÕs Video Press (http://www.bbvpress.com) offers online videos of all sorts.

Jean Chalmers Day

JANUARY 13TH, 2007 / EVENT / NO COMMENTS
BBÕs Video Press annouces 2 online videos recorded at Lincoln Street Center in Rockland Maine of Jean Chalmers Day festivities. As the gathering of friends and associates grows, Jean Chalmers is seen in the midst of her friends, just before the ceremonies in the auditorium. The roar of conversations is like the restless sea on the jetty out beyond in the harbor. The second video is a shorter close-up of the recently re-elected Governor Baldacci standing with his arm around Jean, and is a touching expression of his long friendship. Both video clips can be selected from this grouping page, http://www.bbvpress.com/9000.html. BBÕs Video Press is in Rockport Maine. www.bbvpress.com

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Snakebyte Video

DECEMBER 27TH, 2006 / SNAKEBYTES / NO COMMENTS
Snakebyte video, is a short video of you or your business or product or art or idea, explaining that topic in online video. The concept was developed by William Wheeler Anderson at The Yellow House in Rockport, Maine. as photographer and later, videographer, Anderson realized that the format of RICH CONTENT in online video heralded a new day in learning and teaching, primarily because the tols were readily available. Apple Computers were sold with software imovie for easy editing and presentation of visual information. The Net access for viewing has become mainstream by fact of broadband. The public has only to give itself an open mind to learn and teach others their vision. The State of Maine, under the leadership of Governor Angus King, gives every 7th grade student an Apple laptop with this software installed. Take a step into online video, share your knowledge, and teach it to people. No other way, to change the world, is possible.

The Enchanted Tree

DECEMBER 17TH, 2006 / EVENT / NO COMMENTS
In December, during the darkest time of the year, a community of people gather in the fields of Martinsville Maine to seek the spirit of light to see the way through the dark. After gathering, they walk through the fields to a remote hidden tree decorated with candles and candy, and sing carols for warmth and cheer. BBÕs Video Press has a short version of the event, seen at: http://www.bbvpress.com/9001.html

Angela Anderson Trio

DECEMBER 16TH, 2006 / MUSIC, ART/POETRY / NO COMMENTS
Appearing 16 December 2006 at The Yellow House in Rockport Maine, for one evening, the Angela Anderson Trio, featuring Angela (vocal), Steve Payor (bass), and Mike Garrigan (drums). The music follows a day of Open House Studio, an exhibit entitled BAD ART SALE, large and overflowing graphics by William Wheeler Anderson, accumulated since leaving The Temple of Light, and setting-up shop at the badly run-down, and eventually restored, 3 years later, house on the corner across from the Market Basket. As renovations continue, the Yellow House is FOR SALE and listed with Realtor Annie Higbee, (see Snakebyte: http://www.bbvpress.com/3001.html). Currently, the artist has announced the beginning of BBÕs Video Press, an online exhibition of videos and html formatting of Creative Community Building. The web site may be seen at http://www.bbvpress.com. Angela Anderson Trio performing original and popular music, ranging from very mellow and soft to raucus and rowdy, based in Rockland, Maine. Features Angela Anderson, vocals, guitar, song-writing Stephen Payor, bass, back-up vocals Michael Garrigan, drums Contact Angela at 207-372-6172

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Annie Higbee, Realtor

OCTOBER 21ST, 2006 / SNAKEBYTES / NO COMMENTS
BBÕs Video Press announces the Snakebyte Video, seen here in a demonstration of sales pitch at Snakebyte headquarters, The Yellow House in Rockport Maine. What is a Snakebyte and how much does online video cost? Annie Higbee, Realtor in the midcoast Maine region, proposes in this online video, called a Snakebyte Video, the SALE of The Yellow House on the busy intersection of Rtes 90 & 1, Centre Rockport. By appearing for your familiarity of site and sound and person, in this short online video, you can get a sense of what it is sheÕs selling. For more information, as well for a photographer and visual/image business, contact Annie.