Author: Nick Kempinski

I knew there was a lot of porn on the web. It’s a given. But I wasn’t aware of the impact of the industry until reading this little article, 12 ways porn has changed the web.

Case in point. #7: Broadband

In the 1990s, Penthouse magazine gave away 2400-baud modems with the periodical’s logo on them, according to Gerard Van Der Leun, former director of Penthouse.com and current contributor to American Digest. At the time these modems offered the fastest way to access the magazine’s popular XXX bulletin boards. Clearly, in the early years of the Net, nobody had a greater need for a bigger, fatter pipe than the adult industry and its customers.

Though the evidence is largely anecdotal, various authorities believe that “acquiring higher resolution pornographic images faster promoted broadband connections,” as Jonathan Coopersmith, an associate professor of history at Texas A&M, put it in a 2006 paper on the nature of computer-based porn PDF.

So the military made the web, and porn made it better. Hmmm, interesting.

As you’ve seen from my observations on Avatar, I’m a cartoon lover. There is something in the art of teaching our children that bring out things that are “deceptively simple.” Stories that are to the point, and yet, when watched again have a beautiful complexity.

Case in point – Wall-E ( yes, it’s taken me long enough to get around to actually watching it )

On one hand, you have a love story.

On the other, you have a robot, logical in nature, who is inquisitive and is a catalyst for change. Simply by his curiosity for people and things; simply by doing something different: things happen around him. If you haven’t seen it yet, I strongly recommend you watch it.

Remember when you watch it chaos = change. change = creativity.

Sometimes we are more diverse then we know. But it comes down to YDKWYDK ( you don’t know what you don’t know ). So you need help. Enter the collective. The herd, the tribe, what ever you what to call it. People. More brains then just yours.

PEOPLE-FOOD is a Los Angeles-based art collective that specializes in writing, directing and developing film, theater, television and online content. Unique in its composition, the foursome applies its high concepts and low blows to the cross-pollinated entertainment industries of the modern age. Their primary goal is to create intelligent, boundary-pushing works that enhance and unify art and commerce while making people laugh. Hysterically.

um….note the bold. That’s pretty much everything.

On the topic of doing creativity, becuase it’s what you do. Take a look at these to projects. Really, from a practical point, why?

The Happiness Project

But then again, why not! Because they can, they did, and they loved the process. It’s what they do.

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You need to have faith that it will pan out. Take it from experience and wisdom. Take it from Twyla Tharp.

It’s about making the dance, in my case, that you’re really curious about and trusting that others will be interested in it and that if it has a sincerity and a truthfulness to it and if you really tried something in it – and guess what? You guessed right! And it has a really wonderful feel to it people will sense that and all this other stuff will come.

What is “this other stuff”? The stuff you need, the stuff you want, the stuff you dream of. A classic tale of “Build it and they will come.”

Do it becuase you do
I always forget this one. A classic blunder on my side. I sometimes get wrapped in the minutia, or the striving for perfection. Sometimes I even get bogged down by asking “what’s the point?” The point is to just keep doing it.

I never thought I was going to make an income. I never thought I was going to earn a living doing it. I just was curious about doing it…We did dance because that’s what we were really challenged to do.

Thanks Merlinn Mann and Mark McGuiness.

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