Friend of this site mccn sent me a photo of Ernest Hemmingway kicking a can, part of a thriving Artist in Action photo series.  A companion photo to your left comes from a Wikimania 08 conference, a type of gathering that involves a lot of not shutting up.  As for making something, there is always a good possibility of being inspired by a bunch of sojourners to go home and dig in with the muse.

Ironically, if I spend much of this morning organizing my thoughts around the issue the two photos raise, I’ll be kicking my can of worms, video editing and production, down the Saturday avenue of procrastination (in good company, apparently). 

So I leave you with a thought fragment, along with everything the photos conjure in your inner-sphere --

When we become artist-politicians, looking outward to the next vote from onlookers (or our own critical mass), we’re more likely to punt and shrug our way to the periphery of the making core. 

Wiser guys than I know this well.

I understand that the politically safe move would be to kick the can further down the road - to defer reform one more year, or one more election, or one more term.
Barack Obama, September 9, 2009 address to Congress

Artist in Action.  Oxymoron or precription? 

Behind the scenes at Cleveland’s Museum of Natural History are cavernous rooms of shelves and cabinets packed with our past, meticulously catalogued and preserved for our future.  The public sees only the tip.