The smell of a new text editor inside the browser. sniff
Moving from one place to another, if anything, has been a staple in my life — so it only makes sense to do it on the internet too. I’m not a stranger to the idea of a blog and have taken the entire of last decade to visit and revisit my purposes of keeping one. What used to be a curation of my journeys in the internet (mostly quirky and resourceful websites) quickly turned into a curation of personal things in the real world, documenting my foray into pop culture as a disconnected teenager. At some point documenting real-life on the internet grew into a monster, and my simple idea of an online diary turned into a vicious catch-up game of enumerating my favorite things, endless criticism, passionate arguments and a general air of outrage.
Every new place I have moved into has allowed me to absorb some of its character and add it to the person I was. The shape of the walls, smell of the streets, the morning air and cigarette smoke from the neighbor. Clearly the internet is no different. If nothing more, it is a tool, and a tool is an important enough collaborator in all our internal processes. It would be interesting to see what kind of creative provocation this place provides.
I’ve built and broken friendships on the internet, just like I have outside of it. But as time progresses, there is an inertia and a general discomfort surrounding the idea of losing touch with people — even those you don’t know too well in the first place — or missing out on what is happening in places you couldn’t care about. You have to remind yourself when it is time to move on.
So here I am, still as much an escapist as I have always been, desperately looking for new untouched places on the internet to make my own. I am not completely sure what I will write about here — but be assured it will focus more on the process of things as opposed to retrospection or criticism of the end product. There is nothing wrong with any of those — and if you look for blogs like this one to stoke your sense of validation, keep doing what you are! — but my general focus and paranoia around finding a regression-line inside the scatterbrain would be a meaningful meta-tool to document with. I may also curate resources every now and then, often specific to my own current work or from the past. I think this will be helpful in swimming upstream the eternal floods of information overload.
Hang on, this adds to the information overload.
So here goes nothing.
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