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Also, I have always really liked Miranda July but her website promoting her book No One Belongs Here More Than You just made me die of happiness.
Shaun and I have been talking a lot about websites lately, especially bloated ones this one, that are all style and no substance. They cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and take weeks to build, but serve, arguably no real purpose -- other than being a placeholder on the internet, to promote the company or brand identity. Except how many people even really bother visiting them unless they're already looking for information about Corona? (And if it's information they're looking for, a flash site that takes five minutes to load and navigate through is probably not the most efficient way to go ANYWAY.)
Websites like that make me feel sort of exhausted (not to mention basically crash my computer), so the low-tech-ness of the Miranda July site REALLY appeals to me. Awhile back I had planned to put my Beezus comics online and I got overwhelmed (not to mention exhausted) by all the perceived technical requirements behind it. But this website makes me rethink all that. One of the things that people seemed to like about the comic were how basic they were anyway, so I feel like a very low tech website would be pretty appropriate. I dunno. Just some thoughts!
Shaun and I have been talking a lot about websites lately, especially bloated ones this one, that are all style and no substance. They cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and take weeks to build, but serve, arguably no real purpose -- other than being a placeholder on the internet, to promote the company or brand identity. Except how many people even really bother visiting them unless they're already looking for information about Corona? (And if it's information they're looking for, a flash site that takes five minutes to load and navigate through is probably not the most efficient way to go ANYWAY.)
Websites like that make me feel sort of exhausted (not to mention basically crash my computer), so the low-tech-ness of the Miranda July site REALLY appeals to me. Awhile back I had planned to put my Beezus comics online and I got overwhelmed (not to mention exhausted) by all the perceived technical requirements behind it. But this website makes me rethink all that. One of the things that people seemed to like about the comic were how basic they were anyway, so I feel like a very low tech website would be pretty appropriate. I dunno. Just some thoughts!