Years ago, and long after I should have mastered this particular detail, I wrote something (on paper) where I referred to my "collage" experience. This amused my dad, who said something to the effect that my college years certainly were a collage.
I could paraphrase that to say that my post-high school studies were a mix of previously unrelated images and/or objects originally intended for other purposes, but assembled by me for my own purposes. I can't say it was art- I had no message or image I was trying to convey; and I can't say it was therapy, there wasn't a firm enough direction.
Point is, I have
a
Facebook (tm) page where I sorta keep track of some of my friends and occasionally post notices,
a
Word Press (tm) blog where I write a lot about building scale model airplanes, occasionally about software, sometimes politics or other subjects that get me wound up.
a pile of
reviews on Amazon.com (books and recordings),
some
Yelps about local businesses,
a few thousand
photos of family and friends, stuff from the "629" part of the library (transportation- airplanes, cars, boats, etc.)up on Flickr
a hundred or so
other photos, some duplicates, in other places.
a
kit review and build on ModellingMadness.com
and various lessor works, on line.
Part of me thinks, "If you enjoyed that, try this!" but part of me knows that pre-sorted by subject is probably the way most of us approach the world. Me, for example. As the moderators on the Airline Modeller'sDigest (AMD) or the various VW-bus related list-serves I've been on would say, stay on topic!
So, since I wanted to link to my friend Eric's blog, here's my blog on the same server. I'm not sure which subject(s) to cover here, perhaps this is my metablog about the others (gag!) but I do intend to start sorting by subject and that'll be fun. Be interesting to see how my stats work out when I do so- I've had over 50,000 views of my photos and some large number of hits, mostly on the model building stuff, on my existing blog. Stream of consioucness writing isn't about the stream of the author's consciouness- its admirably democratic to think art might simply be what pops out of the mouth or pen of a participant, but hardly practical. And it wasn't Mr James Joyce or Ms. Virginia Woolf's consciousness they were trying to capture as they wrote- it was the consciousness of their characters, selected and aranged by the author. So too in blogging. Time to go think of some titles...
