Long Time, No Write

Well, I'll be damned. I still exist. No one but myself to blame, and no one but me to notice (I'm guessing I lost all three readers a few years ago). But no more - I have something to say again.

So where was I? Well, had another son, that's a few years gone right there. I became a front-end developer, basically a webmaster with new business cards. And most importantly, I took a hiatus from being an artist - something I wasn't really involved with since Y2K or so. Yeah, that long. And since I thought of this blog, however unsuccessfully, as a place to explore the convergence of analog and digital art making, i wasn't left with a lot to talk about. Game over, digital won!

And yet I'm back? Yeah, something new is tickling me. While I've spent the last few years being a good digiteratti (not only bought the iPhone but also made an app, for God's sake), something else has been happening behind the scenes. More and more I'm picking up habits from the last century. Need to shave - use an old fashioned brush and safety razor rather than the rechargeable ten blade Gillette. Need to go bundle up - what about tweedy wool rather than Tron-ish neoprene? Why check the time on the iPhone when watch hands will do?

Don't get too worried yet - I'm not milling my own paper or carving a dining room set yet. But I am slowly but surely turning my clock back fifty or so years, trying to understand what me father and grandfather already knew. I'd like to think I'm trying to find a more authentic experience, trying to insert meaning in the daily routine. Or as someone recently pointed out, maybe I'm trying to avoid boredom. Either way, I'm finding this analog/digital juxtaposition interesting.

So awaken, thou sleeping blog. Let us together explore this dual life, where I hold an iPad in one hand and a pocket knife in the other, where I take my cues from Steve Jobs and Beau Brummel. Let's live life both in the village and on the grid. Maybe we'll find something between the two that's worth writing about...