I thought I’d create an About page. Mostly because this site had one that WordPress automatically generated for you on first install to showcase how the Pages system worked, and I just never got around to messing with it and had grown tired of the canned content that WordPress gave you. I wanted to personalize it, at least a bit, and I needed a reason to stay up for just that much longer. Besides, if I don’t tell you what this is all about how will you ever find out?
So about this blog.
This is the blog that tracks in one way or another the major successes and minor setbacks of my girlfriend and myself as we live, or try to live, for the most part in China, and other times in LA, NYC, greater Asia in general, and etc. It’s part travel blog, part photo blog, part personal blog with fiction, rants and ramblings, and music. Please visit the part web developer portfolio blog here. It is mostly dialogue-less, but I do try to respond to what comments there are.
This blog has also existed in one way or another for quite some time, though it took a year or two hiatus back in 2008 or so when it was just a portfolio blog and the inner machinations of this mind were veiled from the world at large. You might also notice that the earliest entries reference Blogspot as we started out after our haitus using that but have since ported ourselves over from there for the greater command and functionality of a fully working WordPress install.
This may very well also be the most successful I’ve ever been at blogging (and collaborative blogging), and I don’t Twitter, so none of this “micro-blogging” $h!t for me. I’m a writer at heart, or actually more musician, but one and the same maybe, and there’s something about a large block of text that I find most a) intimidating and b) beautiful.
2 Responses to "About"
maria j.g. | July 25th, 2010 |
What do you think about making some effort to relate the content to the title? Not that I’m taking a position one way or the other :)
sean x. l. | July 26th, 2010 |
Alright, regarding the title, Textures | Tones.
This goes back to my First Year Studies in Photography my first year at Sarah Lawrence. This was the class that acclimated all students to the Sarah Lawrence style of education as it were. I was lucky, and managed to land in the much coveted Photography one. This was basic photography, introduction to as it were, and dealt with black and white only. It covered basics on how to use the camera, how to “take” pictures, and how to develop your own prints.
There was a discussion once, I forget whether in class or just between me and the professor, about the limitations and subtleties of black and white photography. He said that since we don’t have the full range of colors to work with when putting together a shot, what’s really important then is to focus on the difference between textures and the tones. The textures were obvious, and since we were developing our own prints we could enhance them and their contrast, and since we were working only in black and white, effectively what we had were large gradients instead of different colors, where one “color” shifts and blends into another, making up the tones of the print.
At least I think that’s what he said. I could of course be making up the entire conversation in my head and attributing it to those circumstances, and obviously I don’t trust my memory enough to think that what I wrote happened actually happened exactly that way; I’m sure I attributed more eloquence to both myself and my professor at the time. The gist though, I’m sure is accurate.
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