Tag: web
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Something I wrote in an email thread with other artists/makers… My sense of websites, having had lots over the years that I started, finished, redesigned, endlessly tweaked, and deleted, is that they are never done and that is what can make them great. The “finished” or “ready” website is often too late to do what we want it to do. It can feel immediately static or out of sync with where we are. Websites are, by nature, fluid and changeable things and so it can be wonderful to just let them do that and connect us with where we are.…
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A physical artefact of an ephemeral time and place on the web. Joshua Davis’ Praystation Harddrive released roughly 25 years ago. It was a time when the web meant exploration, discovery, and community to me. It was rough around the edges but if you looked you could see those edges and follow them. The web now mostly feels like an infinitely sprawling grid of big box stores with the occasional service road and even more rare raw alleyway. The alleys are where the edges still exist, they are just much harder to access. Let’s still make things. Digital and physical…
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I’m going to create a links page on my website—what used to be called a “blogroll” back in the web days. I want a place where I can compile links to other people’s sites, publications, and projects. I want it for my own use but I also want to be part of a personal network that prioritizes people and making. It won’t be anything fancy, just links with a bit of contextual text but it’s good to be a simple link in a chain sometimes. I’ll post more about the page when I have it started.