Jim Whiteside
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer/Photographer |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | Thanks to the Internet, social networking has taken on a whole new meaning. Because its potential is so revolutionary, it's considered one of the harbingers of Web 2.0. That's how it arrived on my doorstep anyway...and sure enough, in three months time it turned my life inside out. My house is now packed wall-to-wall with people—along with their letters, pictures, video productions, and memorabilia. Fortunately, they also brought an addiction to Alice's little pills. Everything has been shrunk to the size of a laptop. Welcome to the World Wide Wonderland—the ubiquitous Web! It will change your life…literally. |
| Interests | the internet, design, art, the surprisingly visual world of modern music, writing of almost any kind, photography, contemplative prayer, world religions, mysticism, modern cosmology, politics, my Great Pyrenees Sophie, thought-provoking movies, long walks on the beach, |
| Favorite movies | Waterloo Bridge, Lady of the Tropics, Random Harvest, The Scent of Green Papayas, Ryan's Daughter, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Out of Africa, The Big Chill, The Enchanted Cottage, Pride and Prejudice, Casablanca, Hamlet in all its many versions, Lost Horizon, almost any old black-and-white movie, |
| Favorite music | dance, Latin, Luisa Maita, world, Aimee Mann, Lara Fabian, Bebel Gilberto, Dirty Vegas, piano, Satie, Rubenstein, pan pipes, sax, Stan Getz, |
| Favorite books | Eugene Onegin, War and Peace, anything by Chekhov, Dr. Zhivago, the Romantic poets, the Transcendentalists, the Symbolist poets, The Prince of Tides, The Da Vinci Code, |
What would you wear for camouflage if you were hiding in a gingerbread house?
Garlic! I don't want anybody eating me! Just kidding. Since gingerbread TV wouldn't work anyway, I'd eat my way through the back, then crawl inside. That way I could still keep an eye on things. If anyone switched on the set, they'd get the only channel in the gingerbread house: Me!