Retweetables Volume One - The Humor of Wild Apple Graphics

Social media phenoms Facebook and Twitter continue to attract outsize attention as they increase members and traffic. Naturally, such attention has to draw its share of humor. Here is one of the funnier things I've seen poking great fun at both.

It comes courtesy of John Chester, president, publisher and janitor at Wild Apple Graphics. For more than two decades, he and his wife, Laurie, have managed a topnotch innovative art publishing business. Check out the company's Almost News page for an idea how a serious successful company can display a smart sense of humor. It puts the graphic here in perspective.

For the years I've written this blog, I've been collecting tidbits of news, events and opinions I filed with the idea one might be useful in this blog. But, I've always wished for a way to easily share them with you. Twitter fills the bill for me to pass along these items with the occasional nod to musical gems and heroes. I have my Tweets setup to simultaneously publish on Facebook. In case you missed any there, I present them here and trust you will find an interesting bit or two among them:

• Chelsea galleries hold up during downturn Though 25 galleries have shuttered in the past year at least 10 have opened http://twurl.nl/tgnxo6
• Sam Maloof dies at 93; designer and builder of simple, beautiful furniture http://twurl.nl/nva416
• New Wholesale Art Company Captures Attention with "Fresh Vintage" Approach http://twurl.nl/1l7fkq
• Milton Glaser Documentary Premiers May 22: You can win a signed poster promoting it or his book! ' http://bit.ly/bBxor
• Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah - at age 74 w/more inspiring soul stirring passion than others half his age http://twurl.nl/1njb7g
• Joe Cocker breaks down this 1926 song into an R&B masterpiece. Jimmy Page's guitar punctuates the song perfectly. http://twurl.nl/fovy1f
• 10 Great Places for Big-City Art, Small-Town Feel http://twurl.nl/iosywt
•  http://twitpic.com/5gqpf - Here's the Milton Glaser poster you can register 
• Google Business Development Manager Jaime Casap: Nonprofits advised to expand resources via social media http://twurl.nl/6upg8j
• Arts & the Economy - Creative inspiration - determined collectors make a difference in their hometown http://twurl.nl/vn3ehx
• @ArtThatFits Entertainment influences tastes in art. Here is another example. I'll bet the outcome is more interest. http://twurl.nl/fht571
• Art dealer indicted in Ponzi scheme - No Bernie Madoff, but the scum bum still got 100 peeps for $3.2 million http://twurl.nl/iojfnk
• Listening to 'You Were Never Mine' by Delbert McClinton @imeem http://x.imeem.com/4Qm69PRrra. Deeply plumbing the hurt & depths of love lost
• Great example why counter intuitive marketing works: Philadelphia couple right at home with Southwestern design http://twurl.nl/yraxze
• @ArtCareerDeva Choice, Confidence and Contrast - pillars of success for visual artists http://twurl.nl/p0rb7j
• Inkd - bills as The First Market for Original Print Design -purchase/contribute customizable designs in popular formats http://inkd.com/
• Telluride Festival of the Arts Announces 2009 Juried Artists - what I would give to be there in August :) http://twurl.nl/dkm845
• RT digitalpaint: REGISTER FREE Auto Painting Digital Painting with Corel Painter 11Webinar http://tinyurl.com/cmnkvh & Painter Master
  11:06 PM May 14th from TweetDeck   
• Alvin Lee - The Bluest Blues - An emotional testament to love lost. You can feel it in every note sung and played http://twurl.nl/2tujzd
  10:54 PM May 13th from TweetDeck
• Stunning Surreal Photography Rankin’s Iconic Images Are Slightly Off the Wall http://twurl.nl/dt30do
• Candy Dulfer& Dave Stewart Lily Was Here -You ain't never ever heard anyone named Candy wail an alto sax like this http://twurl.nl/xd523c
• @Clintavo #Art Marketing with Email Newsletters - Stories frrom the Wild http://clintwatson.net/blog
• Crop of new businesses open on hopeful note in P-town, including severals galleries. Huzzah to their chutzpah http://twurl.nl/to838z
• David Hockney’s iPhone art exhibited in London’s Annely Juda Fine Art Gallery http://twurl.nl/x5iumx
• ArtsBoston Debuts as First Online Arts Concierge to help patrons find the arts and entertainment options in Boston. http://twurl.nl/j6sjwm
• Art collector suing fashion designer Louis Vuitton over some leather prints he purchased for $12,000 http://twurl.nl/vnbkp8 
• @drewbrophy License Your #Art Part II - Make a Plan - Straightforward solid advice here http://twurl.nl/mf56ct http://twurl.nl/vcggim
• @ancientartist How to Survive Series: Curating the Artist Website http://twurl.nl/xum31d
  12:03 AM May 11th from TweetDeck   
• @EmptyEasel: How to Write Blog Post Titles (for Search Engines AND People) http://twurl.nl/ffn6ck
• @jess_bennett Marketing Art: Attract the Right Audience: A Guide to Attracting the Best Traffic to the Artist Website http://twurl.nl/nb3cdy
• Sante Fe #Art World May 2009 Newsletter and the Collectors Choice Awards http://twurl.nl/nijdjj
• Women Prefer Blogs/Facebook To Twitter http://twurl.nl/uxi06q
• Marketing Art Online: Promoting the Artist Site: A Guide to Five Simple Things to Do Now to Promote Art Online http://twurl.nl/sgmw1f
• Adidas Urban Art Guide to Berlin is an iPhone travel guide listing Berlin’s best graffiti. http://twurl.nl/4dggp2
• @ ArtistTaraReed Paul Brent License! Magazine’s Top 100 licensors for 2008 Estimated $67 million in art sales http://twurl.nl/8tv2bj
• Blues Festival Calendar 2009 Where to hear the best blues music this year http://twurl.nl/icinww
• RT What Is Twitter About in One Word? http://bit.ly/Ds6eC
• RT @rhdesign: Over 40 Beautiful Portfolios: http://tinyurl.com/ckm3tp Prepare to be inspired Web designs
• @NYTimes Genius: The Modern View - The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is ...practice http://twurl.nl/058lly 
• RT @annesart: @LesRinchen thanks! Great link: http://artistswhoblog.blogs
• Here's an interesting debate. Conceptual artist Scott Kildall is a troll, says Wikipedia founder http://twurl.nl/xrhaj2
• Thanks to @ArtCantHurtU for this: Small Business Survival - Market Online or Die - http://twurl.nl/wyv5ov
• Creative businesses get a marketing hand, Visual #artists add to the economy and help drive tourism http://twurl.nl/vqki22