Getting questions (and answers!) about my Flickr Group and the Website.
I'll post some, fun for me, stuff that could help my kids after I croak.
answer:
Nick, Major Powers, and I have been evolving the site since '07.
We we we have rollicking fun and do some self-serious shit.
I had +- 1500 pictures in older versions of the site.
Overwhelming and Underedited !
The 3 eras have logics.
The eras are functional divisions - for viewers.
I edited for 2 months 'weeding' my garden = very satisfying.
We found the logical breaks and put +-100 pictures in each.
We created 'Right Now' = Flickr - for recent pictures.
These are rough edited pictures - not digested over time - yet !
? Do I prefer an era (no) or pictures = I selected each picture from thousands since '69.
Jan-Feb - 2 months of re-editing = I prefer them all.
But !  I don't look back (except to website).
So !  Could say I prefer the pictures in reverse chronological order.
What I'm up to Right Now is all it's about.
Bill Dane
Damn  I wish I read stuff. 
Thanks Marc - I could start any day now.
Bill Dane
Re: 'my'  flickr group.
Response to a possible participant:
I started this group for fun - curiosity.
I was helped to understand my open-to-all-commonism leads to dumping-ground.
End of the adventure - so! - went with Edgy Poignant Pictures Please.
Which leads to unholy shit = I have to reject stuff - draw lines.
End up with only my own pictures ?!
Then I start dinging my pictures - until what ?
Some kinda masterbatory editing mission accomplished ?!
oh dear.
Bill Dane
​This flickr adventure has been supported fun after only 3 days of reach-outs.
Sharing-wise = way better than limited picturepostcard mailings.
One Brooklyn fellow hopes we're within one-big-serendipitous-article of virality.
Oh dear folks! but Thank you.
Bill Dane
Yes - I put up my pictures of women w/o clothes to test viewers.
How do folks find them ?!
No clue - yet.
I got 1500 views on each of those.
Usually 200-500 a picture on my Flickr.
Bill Dane
flickr commonist notes
Oh dear.
(I have even lost myself !)
Looking for order and clarity.?
But reality requires a poetic mix of ingredients in our lab-work, art-adventures, and in writing notes to cabbages.
This is fun, but perhaps not worth your lab time.
We will fade away very soon.
So, IT IS ALL  FUN  CODE, CABBAGE.
My funky translation is in the capital letters.
Cabbage wrote and I tried to clarify:
Fighting the urge to exclaim "was that code?" with a puzzled face (and assuming it wasn't), I think I must point out that although I manage quite well with high-horsed literary English, I really don't understand slang or dialect that well (especially not of the Northern American variety), so if any of the words listed below were of vital importance to understanding your last mail, please feel free to supply me with translations into, well, English that a foreigner with a basic understanding in English would understand. Again, no disrespect intended at all, but in between "at your whim" = WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE IT,  and "marijuana" I kind of lost you in translation (although I'm not sure why the pot popped up, I'm glad to assume you're not a fan - neither am I). And no, Google translate didn't improve things (although it did add some humurous twists, such as you being a "stabber" = HUGGER = ONE WHO HUGS PEOPLE, and rinsing laundry while 18 = SOAKING UP EXPERIENCES LIKE A SPONGE)...

"wonder stuff" - would that be imaginary ideas?
AMAZING-ENTERTAINING SHIT TALK,

"no hustle" =  DO NOT PROMOTE MYSELF FOR MONEY - would that imply that you don't engage in fraud, or that you don't like to move around? I MOVE A LOT, C.

"$non-starter"  = I HAVE NEVER REALLY MADE MONEY, AND CERTAINLY NOT A LIVING, FROM THE SALE OF MY PICTURES - I assume it has to do with money, and that money is not a great motivating force to you, would that be correct?

"unholy shit" = YOU ARE REALLY ON MY CASE CABBAGE, YOU ARE IN ATTACK MODE, TRASH-TALKING - is that good or bad? and would it be better or worse than "holy" shit? SAID WHILE GRINNING, WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK.

"army weekends" = I SPENT A YEAR STUDYING RUSSIAN IN THE ARMY IM MONTEREY CA, AND WENT TO S.F. = SAN FRANCISCO,  ON WEEKENDS TO GO WHERE THE 'BEATS' WERE, ETC- no idea
"S.F." =  SAN FRANCISCO - I'm stumped. Science Fiction? Swedish Film? Sinn Fein? Security Forces?
"A.G." = ALLEN GINSBERG,  WROTE "HOWL" I assume it's a person, but I can't for my life recall enough modern US history to figure out who it might be (or why he/she would howl, for that matter)

"soaking" = EXPERIENCING - I can only suspect that it has nothing to do with actually being placed in a waterbath"

Anyway, time for some tea and then pick up the kiddies = MOSES & ESTHER ARE BOTH 23 + MONET IS 39,THIS IS HER HUSBAND NICK, http://lofisymphony.com/, AND WE DESIGN MY WEBSITE TOGETHER. I STILL PICK THEM UP SOMETIMES!
Hope you're having a pleasant day.
Swede  = RUTABAGA / TURNIP (vegetable pun intended)

YOU WILL ALWAYS BE "CABBAGE" TO ME.
Os = HUGS,  Bill
Bill Dane
Thank you D. for your Flickr Group propping +.
Fine Mother's Days Years for you.
Heard that Szarkowski thought long ago that I'd gone 'too literal'.
I must expand and short-circuit my 'literal' - rather than whatever a vice-versa might be:
the old me?  Garry   Lee  . . .
Some kinda 'literal' winds up everywhere - after all.
My head offers itself no choices - very strict - hunt and gather and edit my way:
see - struck - click - edit.  
There is room for  and there certainly are plenty of  different 'style' picture folks. 
There may be an excuse here for this indulgence --->  John Szarkowski
- - -
Append:
You are screwing up my story M.   
'Conceptual - mail art', hmmmnn,  an issue for J.S. - doesn't figure ... 'literal' fits perfect.
My first photo-pictures were informed by pop - process & environment art - finding existing subjects.
Rather than spending millions wrapping shit - digging big holes - buying $$$studio materials ... 
Defrocking the masterpiece ... then seeing Ruscha parking lots-gas stations - then Frank +  ...
What about that could have bothered J.S.?
I'd started mailing in '69  - met him in '71 and started mailing him the pictures from the '73 show +++
I will assume you gotta be right M.  but 'conceptual-mail art' never registered = 'literal' forever.
It's all stories . . . this one's fun fragmented.
Bill Dane

Edith Thacher Dane  '13 - '02
Thank you.
Bill Dane

Lucky Us.
Thank You Nancy !
Bill Dane
! Do I know some Wonderful Mothers !
Bill Dane
"Jewish Voice for Peace" making sense.
Anti-semitic? I don't think so. 
We guided Esther and Moses thru 10 years of Jewish 'education' and Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
In a Synagogue that supports Justice for both Palestine and Israel.
Bill Dane
I hunt the streets for striking pieces of our human adventure.
Photographing to see if my finds will make poignant pictures.
Bill Dane
BART 5pm:
"Are you tired?"
"I'm good."
"Are you tired?"
"I'm fine."
"Are you tired?"
"OK."   She takes the seat.
Bill Dane
me:
(he favorited my Flickr pictures late this easter eve)
You're f---in' on duty WK!
him:
I sleep such weird schedules. I'm supposed to be watching horror movies with the partner but just wanted to get some texty things done real fast and then jump off.him:
I was having such fun reading Etgar Keret short stories in the tub.
Hope you're having a great evening..morning..well, whatever time it is where you are now.
me:
lucky us - we're horrified by most all of it
+! whatever & whenever you decide ta do it - jesus rises WK.
him:
The eighties movies are a hoot. I had forgotten how many The Blob remakes there are. crazy religious maniac in tent...going town to town, transmitting his Apocalypse...forgot that one.
&
I forgot it's Easter most of the day. We didn't do anything, family wise or diet wise or anything. 
I do have a sparkly bunny on the door. So I think I'm safe from the sword.
me:
i'm speechless
lucky for you
Bill Dane