12 January 2013

PIN PIN PIN

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after Pinning IT at Pinterest for a few weeks- joining the PIN IT craze-
I'm torn.
Meaning-Do I go On?

It's addicting-but so is coffee-
I am still drinking.
It's addicting-so is IL-2 Sturmovik.



It's maddening- there are many many images,pictures with misinformation-uncredited-no identity at all.
It's maddening-so is the land line phone-
It still rings on occasion and still feels like a necessity.
(I bet there are lots of Pins for that)


 To Pin or Not To Pin?
& why?



23 comments:

  1. I love this. My daughter says I must pin--and I hate the thought of one more "media" thing to do. Can you pay someone to pin for you???
    Thanks for the laugh.
    Mary

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    1. come on Mary, we're waiting.
      well I find it interesting Pinteresting-I should say-to cull through the images-if done properly anyone can improve and hone your eye-however I am seeing mass Pinnings of thoroughly lacking objects-so I guess that makes me a Pinterest snob, oh well! pgt

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  2. We too are thinking of getting rid of the landline, even if the sound quality is infinitely better than our iPhones. Pins? I can't say the quality is what is was touted to be; that is, the concerns about intellectual property are completely ignored as far as I can tell. It's one big free for all, or so you would think. The researcher in me pauses. But I do pin. Why? I think it's a way for us moderns to be somewhere else rather than where we are. It's the stuff of dreams: what the Buddhist's call Samsara. A bad thing if couched in this ways perhaps. Alternately, what does it add, professionally speaking, to the designer, avid interior decorator, and the collector. Ideas. That said, I think one could learn a lot more actually being in places and spaces. Of course, is being online a place in and of itself? I feel an existential crisis coming on. Waiter! Drink!

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    1. Daniel, gee-this comment- along with two other comments got caught in spam and I didn't see it till your email. I concur on all counts-that's what conflicts me. I've got some good encouragement today though-hope you do too.

      Did you happen to read and see that Aaron Swartz committed suicide-with overtones to this subject- here is a link.
      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz_n_2463726.html
      I am always glad you take time to read-and to add to the discussion. pgt

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    2. Just read it. Unbelievable and shocking. Persecuted - bullied to death - for downloading articles from JSTOR? I am no different than he, being well acquainted with JSTOR and very download happy. It's what the curious do. The only difference is that he knew -technically speaking - how to get what he wanted in one fell swoop. I wish our society was better able to understand those who's nature and sensitivity make them liminal in their understanding and experience of life. I also wish he had been able to be as compassionate with himself as he was with others. DJS

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  3. I wrote a quite cogent answer to this. Well thought out; 5 sentences. I pushed the wrong button! POOF!!
    gone!!

    I may be retiring in my old age; from the internet!

    But not before I complete the "Monterey Colonial" in Montecito! It is still "during"! Updates will be soon! t is so fun to watch!!

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  4. Oh, pin for God's sake!! it's fun and it gives you the opportunity to create a huge image library... I agree that the misinformation on certain pins it's quite frustrating, but you can eventually correct it. There is also a method to find out the source of pictures - check it on Pinterest, of course...
    Look at the positive side, it's addictive but it doesn't make you fat or gives you pimples unlike other forms of addiction.
    meet you on pinterest
    Ioana

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    1. Ioana-So glad you are on board. I will fine tune my pin knowledge- and be slimmer for it! pgt

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  5. At first I found it useful when I was remodeling a home we bought. It was a good way for me to "file" things that I liked, and organize. I still use it for recipes, which I find fun to peruse. However, I find too many images from sites like Flikr, Tumbler, etc. that are just nice photos with no link, so they're kind of useless to me. So, I'm having the same questions as you are. Also feel like it's become an advertising site for lots.

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    1. It is another place to promote product-I have dropped some of the original follows- and found others throughout the process. I have though found many wonderful things that have reminded me of something or taking me off to discover more about it. As with so many things-we make of it what we will-more or less. pgt

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  6. Love your pins. Am enjoying looking at so many inspirational photographs just for the pure seeing of them! Plus I am repinning some.
    Please do not stop pinning.

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    1. thanks Judith, it is kinda fun and as I've said in other comments above it does lead you to many things I haven't seen and I love being inspired! pgt

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  7. I think it is the lack of information and mis-information that leaves me unsatisfied. But perhaps I should give it one more chance.

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    1. I know you would have the most interesting things to share! I have gone back through some of my posts and pinned items that I hope "Pinners" will go to or revisit. I've noticed too-that Courtney of Stylecourt has done this-and I have always loved her eye. PGT

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  8. I have found it a useful tool when researching for a project. I make a real effort to pin only images I can source an include a caption with credit. I see no point in pinning a photo when I can't find out anything about it-- makes it useless.
    it's especially irritating when people used pintrest AS their source on a blog, and Tumblr, the source of many pinned images, is THE worst offender, no credit, no links back, no idea where that image came from. Drives me nuts.

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    1. Lynne, I have done that too-and have gone back in and traced things back and deleted things that did not have any information-or asked the pinner about sourcing. I have not see the sourcing named as pinterest-but I don't read as many blogs as I use to.

      later-and I am now following most of your boards!Can't wait to explore that heavy Pattern and MORE Pattern one! pgt

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  9. So it is addicting-or tempting. I have loved reading your comments and again am reminded that every tool on the web can be tailored for our use-and personalized. I love making my boards harmonious-I'll go in every 4 or 5 days and reshuffle the board covers-is that obsessive? or what?

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    1. you say that like it's a bad thing. LOL

      i posted a rant about this on my blog last year: http://www.ornamentalist.net/2012/02/top-5-policies-that-will-make-your-blog.html
      it includes a nice image source tool- a sort of reverse image search; it works very well

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  10. Gaye I must have been one of the last to start pinning. Now if I see something I just might want to use in some way later I pin it!

    xoxo
    Karena
    2013 Artists Series

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    1. it is addictive-isn't it? I was a late pinner too-but that is typical for Me-pgt

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  11. as someone from the age of royalties, it is true it can offend.
    and i am often of late burnt out on overkill...

    to pin or not to pin
    that is indeed the question !

    B

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  12. OK, I'm another Pinterest snob, but what do you expect? I'm a snob about everything else. At best, Pinterest is like an endless buffet spread, with a little bit of everything, and, in theory, at least, something for everybody. That all sounds great, but if I like something, I want a lot of it--not just a taste-and if I don't like it, seeing the same dish over & over, and piled up high on other peoples' plates (mmmm, Imperial Trellis!) isn't going to pique my appetite for it.

    And as far as the digital filing cabinet aspect of it goes--a place where I can store all my favorite images--I already have that. I've been saving pictures of good-looking rooms (as well as ugly rooms) on my own computer since 1999, when I started with images that I found on ebay, photos whose existence online only lasted for as long as it tokk a curling paper photo from 1902 to sell. But I grabbed them while the getting was good. But those were things that I merely happen to have spotted, unique images I wanted to save, not images that have already been ricocheting all over the web for years.

    I don't go to Pinterest for the same reason I don't go clothes "shopping": if I need something, I go to the store where I know I can find it. I don't wander around in places I don't need to be, just to see what might catch my eye. I used to do that, and that's how I ended up with an immaculate swallowtail coat getup from the 1930s which just happens to fit me perfectly. At least, it fit the last time I tried it on a few years back. Unfortunately, it's been a while (as in never) since the last time I was invited to a Nobel Prize dinner or a ball at the Ruritarian Embassy.

    I admit I've seen some things on Pinterest that I liked--in fact, the series of picture in your very first image includes a handsome room with tourmaline-colored curtains that might have been the inspiration for a similar room I just saw in the new House Beautiful, but then, I scanned that same photo out of an old House & Garden decorating book a decade ago & stuck it in my own files. Meaning I know where that photo come from--and who took it--but often, with Pinterest, that's a problem. Too many of the pretty pictures are unsourced, which for somebody like me, makes them just about useless.

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