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"Your latest Facebook or Twitter update might be insightful, or funny, or mundane....but is it art?  \nOver recent months we've brought you a service that lets you print your Facebook status on a t-shirt; explained How To Get the Most Out of Status Updates; brought news of a Facebook update feature in the Twitter client TweetDeck and brought you 10 of the most extraordinary updates on Twitter. \nOne artist thinks that her friend's Facebook status updates are remarkable enough - or perhaps mundane enough - to merit works of art.  Stacey Williams-Ng currently has an exhibition in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin of oil paintings based on her friend's status updates.  The Journal Sentinel writes:\n\nShe selects what some of her 247 Facebook friends type out about their days and transforms the mini missives into oil paintings...Most people write that they are doing fabulously interesting things, said Williams-Ng, a freelance critic, graphic designer and social media consultant.\n\"But they're not,\" she said. \"They're sitting at their laptops\u2002.\u2002.\u2002.\u2002painting a picture for us.\"\nWilliams-Ng jots down intriguing updates on Post-It notes and puts them up around her computer and painting easel. Right now, she's got a collection of about 50 she'd like to paint.\n\nSome of the paintings, which include the update itself, are below along with their related Facebook statuses.\n\n\n\n\"Tony R. could\u2019ve died a superhero but instead he lived to become the villain.\"\n\n\n\nBrian J. is putting down the ukelele and going to work out.\n\n\n\nSacha A. is cooking dolphin-shaped pancakes.\n\n\n\nMolly E. is hot for Robert Frost.\n\n\n\nRafiq A: Spring\u2026 the end of my winter of discontent or just the next pithy chapter?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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