It’s funny you should say that Helene as this weekend, I figured out how to get the Israelis to stop building settlements on the West Bank! Abu Abbas said if the Israelis keep expanding settlements, they will leave the peace process.
He should have said the exact opposite!
He should have said, ”we want you to build as many settlements as your rich Jewish friends all over the world can afford.
We want those settlements to have the strongest foundations, built out of the best materials, with abundant water, and electricity. We want those settlements to have the best roads, schools, hospitals and recreational facilities. We want these things because when we get our state and all of you are removed from the West Bank, we’ll insist these settlements be turned over intact, and delivered to our most needy people.”

How fast do you think people would STOP the settlement?

I don’t think I could solve the Mideast problem myself, but if our board put their minds to it…………..

Awesome David! we’ve got great stuff planned and hopefully some surprizes!!!
Glad you can be here.

Patricio is unable to attend the conference in either NYC or the Cisco feed from London, but we are working to ensure the great Patricio is skyped into our conference at some point to make some live art. NYU ITP has many large screen terminals scattered around to skype from. There is enough bandwidth to allow for as many folks as possible to be using video iChat to some artist who cannot be in actual attendance. We just need help organizing these kinds of things and time is running short……

How could I forget Matthew! Congrats to him too!

How great is that! Thank you so much Roberta for bringing all of us into your world. I just wish I could have been there…….Congrats to Cedric, Jonathon and Benj for their success!
Roberta, you are getting so much experience at this, come speak in NYC!
I’m sure you’d be a hit!

Thank you dear Roberta for promoting the mobile art movement, educating people and including all your Flickr friends in the show. Send pictures!!!!!
Ciao

I’d like to try to get you guys connected to the Printmaking Dept. at NYU.
They might really enjoy participating in this conference and for us it’s a win-win situation. We need Kara to ask George at nyu, ”who’s da man?” to talk to???

iAMDA is an international organization now, without chapters, just the web….we appreciate your offer of help in organization and right now just need folks like yourself to get the word out about us to like-minded groups. Fundraising? sure! you are in the belly of the beast. Fundraising for our organization in Silicon Valley would be like fundraising for the ”United Jewish Appeal” in the 5 towns! (Long Island, NY/Jewish)
You have the web site with a page for donations or high-profile sponsorships are still available for the conference.
That would be a great help!
Thank You!

I couldn’t afford to be a starving artist! Married w/2 kids & 2 cats meant a lot of mouths to feed. I was fortunate to find a freelance job that I love that I’ve averaged 2 1/2 days of work /week for the last 30 years.
The rest of the time, I make art. Not quite the starving artist but it works for me, and I’ve created enough self-satisfying art to last 2 lifetimes. If others dig it, great, if not……….everybody still eats.

Luis, It has always been my goal to make everything I do international, the app, the book, and iAMDA if I have anything to say about it. Don’t despair! I have faith in the Spanish iPhone artists mafia and that the powerful work streaming from your iDevices and the work coming from almost every continent is the glue that binds this movement together.

I spoke to John Derry on the phone yesterday. What a gentleman! He loved what we were doing and said if he wasn’t already speaking in California for Adobe that weekend, he’d have been here with us, speaking and participating. We just have to get to him earlier, and book him for next year’s conference. For those who don’t know him, John Derry was the creator of Painter in the early ’90’s and guided this Natural Media Painting application through all the different companies that have ”owned it” since then. His famous quote, ”It’s all about the brushes, stupid” rings true today as the mobile art community is always looking for a new tool to put in the ’ole app toolbox. I hope that John joins our organization, as his contribution to the dialog with app developers would be invaluable.