All signs point to yes. As expected, the iPad is creating new ways for magazine and newspaper publishers to deliver their content while adding value to ad placement, or in some cases, creating new ways to sell ads in the form of exclusive digital rates. Publishing giant the New York Times is looking at how they can license their technology to other publishers who want to claim stake in this century’s’ version of the gold rush. They are creating a platform to allow other publishers use New York Times’ technology to create content for mobile devices. Soon it will be common for magazines to offer print or digital subscriptions meaning most publications will have digital versions of their issues.

This is a prelude to an explosion in digital publishing. Add the dynamics of devices will allow you to experience an article or chapter in ways one could have only imagined. Reading about distant planets, then with a single touch, watching live streamed footage of that planet and its orbiting moons. Reading an article about the new M.I.A. album and listening to snippets in the background—and then purchasing the deluxe digital album filled with more bits of media. Reading about a Kehinde Wiley exhibit, virtually walking through the gallery AND even reading/learning more about each individual piece—maybe even purchasing one for your collection before some hot-shot collector does.

The possibilities are endless for enhancing and extending a readers experience. I am starting to see passengers with their iPad on buses, writers hacking away at their latest manuscript/article in coffee shops, or hardcore early adopters watching double rainbow with friends. What does this mean? This is only the beginning.

I recently caught up with Lady Millard and asked her some questions about art, life and everything between. Here is what she had to say.

Why art? I was born with a talent and my mother helped me to recognize it.

When did you first start? I started painting professionally after I was diagnosed as bipolar in 2002. It was a way not to get fired.

Do you use your art to chart your life, or in other
words, do most of your pieces have a significance to you
personally or are they just streams of consciousness? Yes.

Who inspires you? Jeremy Fish and Shepard Fairey and Damien Hirst.

You ( as am I ) of Jamaican decent. Do you know of any thriving artists or art scenes on the island? I have never met someone that was a Jamaican Artist. It is an anomaly an occurrence that is strange, unusual, or unique.

Were you born there? Yes.

Does Jamaica inspire your artwork? I am inspired by my heritage because out of nothing there can be something – and out of many there is one. I love being Jamaican.

Your work is tagged with a gentleman in a mask. Who is he? or What is the story behind the Millard name? The story behind the name is simple my dad, Millard, gave me my name, Diana, after the princess. Lady Millard is homage to him ( and her ), but it also has a secondary meaning The Sex of God or Lai di Millard.

Do you have any shows coming up? I am writing a book called Nicolette the Avenger the book of Light.

Recently Erykah Badu released a video where she strips naked. Do you fell that there is a double standard when it comes to women making an artistic statement with their bodies? No. I think people take themselves to seriously when it comes to sex and their bodies.

When you are not painting, what do you do? While in New York I play hand ball and call my surrogate mom Hyueng Kim she is Korean. I also like to work on my relationships with friends. While in California there is only work.

If you could let the world know about someone/something,
who/what would it be? I would let the world know that I could save it if given the platform. Step one, more communication. Step two, more art.

Where can someone purchase your work? my website http://millardboutique.com/

Applying the Piezeo Effect, little generators in the dance floor collect the energy generated from the “mechanical stress” of you shaking and moving on the floor.  The first Pizeoelectric dance floor is in Rotterdam, go get your green party on…