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O<\/em>ur friends from Likeminds<\/a> in Exeter have asked me to write a little piece about me and the Web and it didn\u2019t have to do with business matters, so there it is, with a few literary references of no consequence.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Ha tutte le carte in regola per essere un artista”
\nand I have a valid passport to the land of artists
\nPiero Campi<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Businessmen, as the Little Prince<\/a> found out, are only dealing with matters of consequence and they have no time for balderdash. Yet, I don’t think that my Web work is restricted to matters of consequence. Besides, I’m not just a blogger blogging about bloggers either. I am also an artist<\/a>; at least I wish I were regarded as one.<\/p>\n

The Web has been my oyster for the past 15 years. The place \u2013 is it a place? \u2013 where I could not only write things<\/a> but express thoughts, mostly about marketing;\u00a0 e-commerce too was on my agenda. A serious business tool in other words. But this is not how it all began. As a matter of fact, business was not my primary objective at all in the beginning. I believe that mere curiosity was the main motive.<\/p>\n

I first heard about the World Wide Web, back in 1994, and so I went and grabbed a cheap Internet access package from the computer shop next door. People would come to my house and “see” the Internet. They had no idea what it was and I felt proud for being able to show them the way; not by sheer hubris but just because I love to share and exchange with friends, old and new.<\/p>\n

My grandfather was like that. He could hardly get anywhere without bumping into at least one old pal. I believe one can’t escape one’s heritage. Some of us are social animals and I feel like I’m one of them. As I said above, the focus of my interest in the Web at that time wasn’t business, let alone computer science. Instead, I felt attracted to Art like a magnet, and I still do, now that I have practised watercolours for the best of the past thirty years.<\/p>\n

Way back then, a person who went – and probably still goes – by the name of Nicolas Pioch had decided to reproduce the Louvre online and I had spotted that gem (this \u201cwebmuseum\u201d is still available at http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/wm).<\/p>\n

That’s what people came to see at my house at the time: online replicas of the Mona Lisa and other masterpieces, miles from today’s technical perfection, but then most beautiful of all … because this had never been done or seen before.<\/p>\n

A few years later, I created my own picture gallery<\/a> in which I could show my own work, and which eventually evolved into a blog, however poorly maintained nowadays.<\/p>\n

Soon, I hope, I will be able to use this space to the full, mixing video, painting, etchings and music as well as creative writing and possibly organise happenings and exhibitions online and off-line. This is too early stages right now, as I have more work than ever on my plate, but I am looking forward to that day on which I will be able to devote all my time to my passion for Art, pictures, poetry\u00a0 and all things of absolutely no consequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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