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Digitalia

Digital Abstracts

By Steve Wilde

Where It's At
October 19, 2008

Well, I didn't get much studying done last weekend but I certainly made up for it today. The first three weeks have been about accessibility, usability and planning and it's prompted me to review this site in a critical light. using the Internet Archive's way Back machine I have been looking at the various stages of this homepage.

What was started [mid 2002 is the earliest archive, but I'm sure I started before then] as a promotional tool for my various musical guises soon took on a "magazine style" feel that I obviously couldn't maintain, with enough variety, on my own. The addition of the blog in 2004 made little difference to start with other than increasing my interest in web design rather than mimicking printed styles. As the content increased though my attention to the music grew steadily less and it just became an online journal really. Handy for remembering stuff [which I generally don't] but, not being of a journalistic bent, lacking much critical substance. If I like it it gets in and if I don't it won't. That's about it, unless someone or somethng has really pissed me off of course!

I had hoped it would lure people with similar tastes that would appreciate the music but that's not really highly likely is it? Just because you like a French restaurant that I visited doesn't mean you are likely to be into minimal techno or something!

Getting a digital camera [or three] added another distraction as well. I've been checking my stats on Flickr and since November 2003 I have uploaded 1559 items, which have been viewed 34,826 times and referred to by 135 different domains; including the Tate, Londonist, Trinity College and Schmap and even Katy Perry's website apparently, although I can't find it [damned Flash driven sites].

This in turn has led to my interest in geotagging the photos and Google Maps/Google Earth. Which also brought about my digital abstracts and generally I've devoted less and less time to any musical venture that I have started ever since. Mind you I have managed to get work shown in both the Tate Modern [albeit briefly] and Hype Gallery [transiently!] in Amsterdam.

Now I have this certificate in Web Applications Development to really distract me [it's going to take up the next 18 months] but hopefully by the end of it I can realise some project that somehow merges music, art, photography, geo-location and data visualisation into one big something I have yet to imagine! I want to get my head around Processing and Synesketch by then as well!

I've yet to decide if I like these Zemanta boxes and the Blogger labels at the end of these posts. They need reining in a bit I feel.

Categories: Music, Art, Web, Photography

Labels: Flickr, Google Map

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