New: social-artAll contenthive-129948hive-196917krzzanhive-183959hive-166405hive-180932photographysteemhive-185836uncommonlabhive-144064bitcoinhive-150122hive-145157krsuccesshive-188619hive-124908hive-101145hive-183397hive-109690lifehive-184714hive-139150hive-193186TrendingNewHotLikerslloyddavis (71)in community • 6 years agoReal World StuffEven though it's getting colder and the evenings are drawing in, my thoughts are turning to getting out and seeing people. Working face to face. I've spent a lot of this year looking at a wall, a…lloyddavis (71)in work • 6 years agoFinding a Convial CaféI had intended to do more work in Guildford, but finding a space to do it in proved tricky. So many spaces are heavily private or commercialised here. The only real common public areas are the…lloyddavis (71)in art • 6 years agoHow does a Social Art project begin?You've got to start somewhere. Most people want to know what the outputs will be. Is it a film? Or a play or a book? Or maybe an exhibition or a conference? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe all of…lloyddavis (71)in archive • 6 years agoTangled webs of ownershipI'm starting to think about a possible social art residency in an archive. One of the complicated bits to deal with is the ownership and copyright of media and other materials. Here's an example…lloyddavis (71)in death • 6 years agoGoodbye to MelMy uncle, Mel Thompson, died in July and we saw him off properly at the weekend. I'm glad that many of the pictures here show him looking happy, because even though he was, as my cousin Simon said…lloyddavis (71)in social-art • 6 years agoGreetingI went to a thing. I'm not going to name and shame, but I didn't like it and I didn't stay. It failed the "3 Hellos" test. I said hello to three people and each of them said hi back but nothing…lloyddavis (71)in retail • 6 years agoA quick survey of #emptyshops in GuildfordOn Friday, I walked around the centre of Guildford and grabbed pictures of all the empty spaces I could find. Guildford is a pretty prosperous area, not the sort of place you'd expect to need…lloyddavis (71)in memoir • 7 years agoTuttle To Texas: Another bite at the appleAbout this time last year, when I was getting going on Steemit, I tried to serialise my writing about a trip I did in 2010 called "Tuttle to Texas". The basic idea then was for a bunch of me and my…lloyddavis (71)in blog • 7 years agoSocial Media Café from 2007Ten years ago today, I wrote a blog post that changed the direction of my life and ended up making a few microscopic dents in the universe along the way. It was the post that first described…lloyddavis (71)in vlog • 7 years agoVlog 170627: What does a social artist do when they move to a new town?A good walk this morning gave me the chance to ponder on this a bit more. It seems to me there are a few things to do: Find the others (there are always others!) Find the places people gather…lloyddavis (71)in life • 7 years agoPresent DazeSo things aren't getting much clearer in the election. Campaigning is uneasily suspended though I hear things should get back to "normal" tomorrow morning. I'm more drawn to this concept of…lloyddavis (71)in tuttle • 8 years agoTuttle Coin via Grantcoin - social meetup rewardsThe What-tle Coin? I run a weekly meeting, in London, called the Tuttle Club . We've done it every Friday morning for the last eight years (excluding like Christmas/Boxing Days etc.) - it's a…