Over the last year or so I’ve been going back and forth with the hipster blog grotto known as Tumblr. I was trying to make something fly over there, and I finally realized that don’t really like it, and the last thing I need these days is the further fracturing of my attention on yet another online time-suck. Besides, what I ended up with was a pathetic placeholder of a blog that was basically an auto-feed of stuff I did on this site and LastFM. Lame.
I started this blog almost two years ago specifically with the intent of paying attention to it — unlike previous blogs, which were supposedly “about something” and which have all met a slow withering demise like so many untended house plants — and I don’t really need some other shit that I have to worry about populating with content. I mostly like this blog and have spent a considerable amount of time, effort, and even a little money to set up and maintain it.
My initial idea for the Tumblr thing was to do less writing and concentrate more on just images and music with little-to-no explanation; no fuss, no long-winded points of purpose, just audio and visual content (my own and others’) I find interesting for whatever reason. But why can’t I do that here? I mean, I can, so…
Here’s the deal: I take a fair amount of photos — with my mobile and my proper camera — that end up going into my Flickr stream (and sometimes get pushed to my Twitter stream as well), and they’re going to start appearing here regularly. I also see a fair amount of cool images online, so I’ll post up some of that from time to to time as well (appropriately credited, of course). I also like the idea of posting songs just for the hell of it (I’ve started using Swift.FM to play half-assed DJ on Twitter occasionally) so I’m going to start posting that kind of stuff to this site as well. I’ll try to put up something basic and image- or sound-related at least a few times a week, in addition to my once- or twice-a-month posts that have a bunch of words in them. There will be some redundancy between this initiative, and my Flickr and Twitter feeds, but whatever.
I’ll retain the Tumblr account, just so I can keep up on the handful of blogs that I like over there, but I figure this site is my main home on the interwebs, and I might as well treat it that way. And to that point — while I plan to populate it as much as possible with posts containing either just a single image or a song — here are a bunch of photos I’ve snapped with my mobile over the last week or so, as well as a couple of related songs…
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