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I like the idea.  I myself have been trying to discover my own path out here in california as many of you know.  Its been difficult to come up with my "original idea" or watever you would like to call it so far.  I'd like to use something like this to hear from you guys and get some feedback on my ideas and visa versa. 

The whole point of this thing right here.

Hey Everyone, 

I wanted to try and set something up online that would help us all stay in touch with one another on a creative tip, to inspire, share, collaborate, and to help facilitate a lot of projects and ideas that we have had in this past but haven't moved beyond the initial drunken enthusiasm. Hopefully this can be a place that helps cultivate something really tangible. We all have a lot of ideas, motivation and plans, I think it would be great if we could share them on here. We've got to take advantage, beyond facebook, of how we easily we can stay connected through the internet. I want this to be less of a social network then facebook or myspace and more of a forum for creativity. In our group of friends alone we have people interested and invested in multiple forms of expression, from music to writing to films to art, we all have something to offer. And now that we're out and collaborating with others we can stay connected with an even larger group.  It'd be great to create a community that helps to inspire all within. Looking back on past periods of history its easy to see the spurts of creation and art that stand out from other periods and they usually come from a group of people that are working together, no reason we can't do the same. I hope this blog can help do that. Instead of bullshitting on facebook or digg and seeing what others heads are doing, come here and let everyone know what you're up to. The idea for this blog comes from a lot of different wants and hopes, as well as out of what I thought was a little bit of necessity as well. It also came out of reading some of the writings of a critic Matthew Arnold. Arnold says in one of his essays, talking about different historical periods of extraordinary creativity,"In the Greece of Pindar and Sophocles, in the England of Shakespeare, the poet lived in a current of ideas in the highest degree animating and nourishing to the creative power; society was, in the fullest measure, permeated by fresh thought, intelligent and alive." Arnold died in the 1800's so we can add even more examples of creative communities, from the beat generation, to bebop jazz artists, the musical and social movements of the 60's, to the golden era of hip-hop. Its that flow of ideas that I hope this blog can induce, so as Arnold wrote, we can "[nourish] the creative power." So yeah, lets try and get this going.

Peace -

Kyle