Oh dear I'm hooked!

I bought an iPhone last Friday. Prior to this I was disinterested in the whole thing. A little bit of anti-technology crept in when I thought about it, a little worry about our addiction to these gadgets and what the future held, were we all going to turn into lazy slobs? what about our children? We are already becoming obese and eat too much take-away, is this because we play with our computers and iPods all day long and don't get out and get active? I was becoming more to the point anti-iPhone and I wasn't going to 'buy in'.

Well...I'm hooked. Now I'm trying to convert people, I tell them "you really NEED this" and I have no shame. I feel like I was functioning in the dark ages without this phone.

What I love about the iPhone? I don't have a great memory and am a little erratic and disorganised. I blame this on my artiness. I would start a diary / journal and would leave it somewhere unfinished, sometimes lost, at the moment I have around 6 or 7 at various stages of completion - these are so important to me because they store a lot of my ideas and thoughts. Now applications as simple as the 'notes' application in the iPhone allow me to jot down, wherever I am, my thoughts and ideas. As an artist these pop into my head at the most unexpected times. I can now enter them into my iPhone, categorise them, email them, whatever I like, but they are always going to be in the one spot and with me because I always have my phone.

And 'Evernote' - wow. I visited a friend today to see her gorgeous new little baby boy, on the way I passed a gallery (St Kilda Road, Melb) and saw some beautiful work in the window. I pulled over, opened Evernote and started recording my thoughts about the work and a reminder to look up the catalogue to see the other works in this exhibition (it was Bill Borrows whom I have met and am familiar with his work). This is like a dictaphone, it records your voice and is super easy to use.

These things have been around for a long time - but the beauty is they are all in the one spot! for people like me who forget things easily, it's perfect. I don't see myself not getting out of the house and getting lazy, quite the opposite in fact, I actually see this thing really helping me achieve what I want to in my art. I want to get out more! I want to be surrounded by nature and activity and capture my thoughts as they happen (and be able to hop online to do some research, and take a photo etc. etc). Oh I love my iPhone.