OK.  So I'm excited.  Podcasts will soon be found on this site and you may be my next featured guest.  Its name is a secret (unless you click on the player at the top of this post). Through podcasting, I'd like to explore creative process in conventional and not so expected art forms.  To get to the nub of artistic productivity. 

There must be compelling reasons so many people do art.

'Soon' is a relative term, of course.  Right now I'm learning with Podcasting for Dummies, GarageBand tutorials, Drupal screencasts and manuals.  The peach is ripe. Things like 'Wow!' 'Cool!' 'Huh?... oh!' spurt out of me at regular intervals.  And we have yet to record the theme song -- yes!

Last night's video chat with Joe and Andrew was peppered with technical repartee and Battlestar Galactica banter.  Truth to tell, when I read my way through my pregnancy with Andrew, the bulk of my book pile was sci fi classics.  Small wonder he's a bonafide geek, pursuing web site building, photography and graphic design when he's not (and often when he is) pursuing global justice.  The screen shot you see here is Joe and Andrew signing off... I think they said they had a BSG episode to watch.

The exciting thing for me about now, despite the economic free fall (or if you're a bank cat, free-for-all) is the communication potential.  Time refers to this in a piece about web start-ups:

'Surprise: there's never been a better moment to bootstrap your own Internet business.  All you need is a laptop, a broadband connection and a great idea.'
Josh Quittner, The New Internet Start-Up Boom

Where there are great ideas, and ever improving tools for spreading them around, there's room to believe creative thinkers and unconventional doers will be up to the challenge we have here.  Check out Peter Hessman's new Forum topic on this site for a very beautiful case in point.

Screengrab Susan Weber