Thinking "out loud" about the next blog project
I'm not leaving LiveJournal any time soon, I've decided. Not because the platform is all that great, mainly because it's what I'm used to, and I haven't seen anything out there, blog-wise, that blows it away. It was nice to read that this journal would be missed, also, thanks for that.
So now I'm thinking toward the end of the Muddy River project--it will complete on December 31st--and thinking about what's next. Past projects on this blog have been wildly erratic. Most people remember 365 Urban Species, from 2006, since it was in the LJ spotlight and all, but who remembers the Urban Wildlife Abecedarium,, orphaned at the letter E? So sad. That was really back when I considered this blog to be a notebook for the print product, and those days are truly gone. Where can you go once you've listed the planet earth as an urban organism?
Photo projects are very tempting, since everyone likes to look at pictures, and writing is so very time consuming. 3:00 snapshot was probably my best photo project so far, ostensibly limited only by time itself, but regrettably limited by real life and a job which required me to sign an agreement not to share most images from the workplace. It was very nearly an obstacle that prevented me from being hired in the first place, as I later found out.
It's also nice to have running projects that aren't daily obligations like Doorways of Brookline and Xmas Godawfuls. I can return to those whenever the impulse strikes (and the season is right). But they aren't substitutions for a daily blog project.
I suppose the right thing to do would be to keep posting a daily photograph in January, until it becomes clear what the project is. I may become clear before then. It will be good to have a low-pressure placeholder project for the long stretch of time from the beginning of the year until mid-April, when animals and plants start appearing again. Of course, I do have this idea for a project called "Wildlife of the Great Indoors..."
There's also this impending yet maddeningly vague idea that we're going to leave Boston relatively soon. Surely there's some kind of project which will help prepare me for the idea while simultaneously showing my appreciation for New England.
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This message was brought to you by being sick and up at 6 on a Sunday morning. Thank you.
So now I'm thinking toward the end of the Muddy River project--it will complete on December 31st--and thinking about what's next. Past projects on this blog have been wildly erratic. Most people remember 365 Urban Species, from 2006, since it was in the LJ spotlight and all, but who remembers the Urban Wildlife Abecedarium,, orphaned at the letter E? So sad. That was really back when I considered this blog to be a notebook for the print product, and those days are truly gone. Where can you go once you've listed the planet earth as an urban organism?
Photo projects are very tempting, since everyone likes to look at pictures, and writing is so very time consuming. 3:00 snapshot was probably my best photo project so far, ostensibly limited only by time itself, but regrettably limited by real life and a job which required me to sign an agreement not to share most images from the workplace. It was very nearly an obstacle that prevented me from being hired in the first place, as I later found out.
It's also nice to have running projects that aren't daily obligations like Doorways of Brookline and Xmas Godawfuls. I can return to those whenever the impulse strikes (and the season is right). But they aren't substitutions for a daily blog project.
I suppose the right thing to do would be to keep posting a daily photograph in January, until it becomes clear what the project is. I may become clear before then. It will be good to have a low-pressure placeholder project for the long stretch of time from the beginning of the year until mid-April, when animals and plants start appearing again. Of course, I do have this idea for a project called "Wildlife of the Great Indoors..."
There's also this impending yet maddeningly vague idea that we're going to leave Boston relatively soon. Surely there's some kind of project which will help prepare me for the idea while simultaneously showing my appreciation for New England.
...
This message was brought to you by being sick and up at 6 on a Sunday morning. Thank you.