PicMonkey Escapes With Picnik Basket

Google killed the much loved Picnik (very bad idea) .. RIP the best photo editing application on the Internet .. but some creative monkeys ran away with the Picnik basket = go to PicMonkey.com ^#^

Slaves To The Empire
Some people like to serve Alpha male Institutions and feel safe being taken care of by these ruling, overbearing Saturnian organisations. What I am saying is that, in general, human beings tend to organize themselves in a ruling father hierarchical system. That is not what the Internet is about !!

The Internet is about freedom, creativity, learning for oneself and not being told what to do. I would say that it is a balance between male and female energies .. the creative and essential.

The big Internet companies - who really do not understand the soul of the Internet and why it is what it is - they go around buying up the most creative sites and then they totally destroy them.

For example, Google bought the highly popular Picnik (photo editing site) and then they claimed there is not much interest in this kind of Picnik and they killed it. If Picnik was not worth it, then why did they buy it? Oh! Sorry! They bought it to move all the unique Picnik applications to Google+ ..

Well, if Picnik was a waste of time then what would you say about Google+ ??

Reverse psychology is that Google just moved a worthless load of Internet junk into Google+ (have fun folks)...

Coders Jump Ship
Two of Picnik's earliest coders, Justin Huff and Brian Terry, packed up their Picnik basket and are working on their own startup: PicMonkey: "If you loved Picnik, PicMonkey is back in town and better than ever. It’s faster, more powerful, and easier to use. It’s the real deal you already know, plus 78% more monkey."

Jonathan Spontano, one of the three founders of Picnik, also left Google .. being the last to leave the ship. "I don’t know if this is the right analogy. But it is a little bit like the captain of a ship not abandoning ship until all of the passengers are off,” said Sposato in explaining the timing of his departure. “There was something that felt right about sticking around to the last day." GeekWire

It's All For Free
Maybe little children are happy to be given everything "for free" .. but there are people in this world who like to be independent and trade. For thousands of years our ancestors traded with each other. The Celts and other civilizations created beautiful and extremely fine metalwork - these people were artists. The Romans came along and said: Give us your wealth and we will feed you for free...

I am happy to (in the future) pay a subscription for PicMonkey where no one can "legally" take my creative work and use it to generate income - or simply just using it in any way.

This is just the way my mind works! If people create virtual realities on the Internet, those creations are "their land". Everyone talks about Copyright .. but I don't mean that .. I mean integrity.

In the early days of the Internet there used to be an unspoken code of honour. That people sharing information would credit the source or creator of that information. Today, people just take...

This is not really the general mass of Internet users. These are highly organised groups and media who trawl the Internet and use what they find to create their articles. It's called "marketplace".

The Romans were not good traders - they were only good at going to war and taking the resources, while destroying everything that stood in their way. Their Empire was built on brute force and destroying other cultures and civilizations.

The Monkey's Picnik Basket
I diverged a little bit back there - but it is all related... We create something real surfing the Internet .. otherwise, the trawling companies could not make money out of our presence. As with reality, there are many multiple layers to our relationships in Cyber Space.

This time the Cyber Monkeys got the basket.

That is exactly what the internet is all about. The space to be creative, if you are an "artist". Look around you at the world we live in! The loss of the ability to create ART .. like cultural Art, that was always part of man's expression in this 3D world.

Cultural Art has become a "tourist industry" .. rather than what it is. People today will worship Van Gogh or a Picasso inside a museum; but what about the artists in India or Nepal, or Native Americans weaving those beautiful rugs by hand ??

In my view, the Internet allows us to re-connect and return to something we had lost over the last two thousand years. Which really is a return to ourselves. It's a creative principle.

The Internet: Cosmic Mind of Man

My heart cries that Google are destroying the brilliant photo editing online Flash application: Picnik.com

Google Shutting Down Picnik PC World - Google's campaign to drive up usage of its growing social networking service could be the reason for the demise of Picnik, a fun and powerful photo editing website that will be closing shop on April 19.

I rarely get upset .. because I have taught myself an internal Karate Do.

Master Gichin Funakoshi: He who would study Karate-Do must always strive to be inwardly humble and outwardly gentle. However, once he has decided to stand up for the cause of justice, then he must have the courage expressed in the saying, "Even if it must be ten million foes, I go!" Thus, he is like the green bamboo stalk: hollow (kara) inside, straight, and with knots, that is, unselfish, gentle, and moderate.

A strange Karate-Do dream...
The strange dream came to me out-of-the-blue .. and I have to admit to you, there are mysterious forces around the Earth, close to humankind, who respond to our psyche and to our consciousness-of-heart. Those unseen forces are our "earthly back-up team". This other-level, this other-frequency sends us Cosmic information as we grow together, in spirit.

First: The dream world does not only belong to humans. Life is a dream and we humans are simple one small part of that dream. What makes us "enlightened", is when we humans see and understand our place in the Cosmic dream. Therefore, Karate-Do would teach you that your opponent is yourself. When you overcome and step beyond yourself, you overcome your opponent.

The Internet dream was a typical "2012 Mayan Transmutation" dream .. in which the Internet was a living part of the human mind, part of the human consciousness. I saw magic and Lord of The Rings type other-world energies, alchemy, Gandalf type magi and various energy frequencies all overlaid one on the next.

The beauty of the dream was that creative brilliance like "Picnik" survive.

You see, we spirits are born on Earth as forces of creation. Seeds of creation are like the seeds from the Bodhi tree. We receive those seeds and it is up to us what we do with them.

It is a struggle on Earth, as streams of consciousness also use this creativity to destroy. We may not like it; but weapons of destruction are a "creation". Therefore, Google destroying an Internet form they perceive as a "threat", is part of how one fragment of humanity uses and applies its "power".

In the dream I was shown one aspect of the problem - a very old aspect that has haunted mankind for thousands of years. We keep playing this over and over again. The artist creation and the destruction creation.

In the dream I was shown that the world-wide-web (the Internet) is alive !!! We humans give the Internet life. It is a part of us. It is an extension of our mind(s). However, we humans are fragmented. At present we are not united as one mind .. one mind does not mean that we all think the same. One mind is an internal orbit within the Galaxy of spirit beings. Just as a Galaxy rotates around a central source - so do spirits orbit the source...

I am not making this up .. I saw higher and lower frequencies interacting around the Earth, in which the consciousness of the Earth allowed human consciousness to interact with Cosmic consciousness. The Internet was a bridge between various levels of consciousness. The Internet was an extension of the human mind.

Earth humans are expressing - or are connecting to - their creative energies through the Internet.

However, highly advanced "Open Source" expressions of individual creativity, such as Picnik, are rarely understood. The mass movement of expression is towards a self-expression: Facebook or Google+ .. where people feel safe within a restricted framework. The ARTIST and the unique expression of ones-own-true-self is less understood.

Earth humans do not yet understand the unique beauty of each plant, animal, tree, flower and bird. How can millions of humans express their own beauty and creativity within the field of planet Earth? The evidence is all around us... Each magpie feather is unque, each dolphin is unique, as is the bee, the wasp, the dung beetle and the ant. They seem the same; but each one is different and unique.

Each snowdrop, each daffodil, each cherry blossom is unique...

Inside the dream I was shown that there are forces who protect creativity, as there are forces who misuse creativity. The misuse of creativity is power - the power to destroy - and yet in the dream I saw the true creative force grow, blossom and establish itself like an Oak tree as other forces fell away and disintegrated.

It is up to us to carefully choose out path.
One cannot think "good or bad"
One can only think: Karate-Do / Wing-Chun / Aikido.

From My Picnik Folder:

Forget SOPA! Google Kills Picnik!!

I can't believe what I am seeing here... Yes! Dear people of the Internet .. I am a Picnik Geek! I love Picnik... It is a BRILLIANT online photo editing website. If you don't know Picnik.com - go there and try out the whole range of editing .. soon to be ended by GOOGLE on April 19, 2012.

Bought by Google in 2010 .. Internet Media reports: Google shut down Picnik...

In reality, Google are shutting down not "a service" - but they are shutting down a source of creativity. The editing features of Picnik originally designed by the creators (not Google), were brilliantly conceived, brilliantly designed and fun to use. Picnik was not a "service", it was an artists drawing board .. easy to use and a lot of fun.

By shutting Picnik down Google are not killing a service, they are destroying an "Open Source" creative platform.

Yes! I was a subscriber to Picnik Premium.

Premium Refunds To our primo Picnik Premium members, we’ll begin processing a full refund of your current membership fee within a week of this announcement.

I don't want a REFUND - I want PICNIK !!!

It's like crushing a flower, picking off the petals and sticking them one by one onto various stagnant projects. Sticking them under glass in a Google Museum.

Technologizer reports: Picnik is popular, and it’s good, and the world will be a sadder place place without it–at least for folks who already know and love it.

Why is it going away? That’s not entirely clear. Google’s blog post says it’s so “the Picnik team can continue creating photo-editing magic across Google products.” But when you go to Picnik, you get a message that “Picnik is moving its easy yet powerful photo editing tools to Google+,” which is a slightly different message. In either case, though, it sounds like Google thinks that photo editing is less of a destination, which is what Picnik was, and more of a feature.

...I don't want to use Google+

More than that .. Picnik is not something you can just break apart and add to a "social service" .. Duh!! This is so horrible .. for fun loving creative, innovative geeks .. it is the "end-of-the world". The Maya were right!!

Instead of killing Picnik, why don't Google sell it to someone? Even better - give it away to ??? the people who created it!! Or, even better!! Just leave Picnik online - as it is - just for fun - like a temple of Atlantis [Haha! Funny joke!!]

Just leave Picnik floating there in hyper-space... A strange and elusive settlement of artists and innovators who just meet up on the Picnik platform. Don't kill it .. let it be - what it is - for those who love it.

I don't want a GOOGLE+ account - I want PICNIK !!!

GeekWire "We’re retiring the service on April 19, 2012 so the Picnik team can continue creating photo-editing magic across Google products..."

I don't want to "create magic" across Google products...

But, you know what? I have a GREAT IDEA !!

Salvage what you want from Picnik to be the magic@Google products .. and leave the rest online as it is, rather than cut it all up and dissect this marvelous open creative online "drawing board" that people love to use. '-)

Creations From My Picnik Folder