Sharing and Forgetting

December 10, 2011 | Category: Site News

Someone pointed out to me that I haven’t published anything on this blog in several years… and I thought “there’s no way this can be true”… but the date of the last post can’t be argued with. It definitely says 2009 and this is most certainly 2011.

I can’t possibly use amnesia as an excuse since such selective forgetting is unlikely… and I haven’t had an improbably comical blow to the head in ages, which, as television sitcoms have taught us, is required for that sort of thing. I believe my lack of posts has more to do with internet exhaustion cause by sharing fatigue.

I’m still taking photos and trying to improve my technique and skills… but there’s been less of a desire to put everything on the internet for various reasons but mostly because most social networks feel creepy and intrusive to me… and (as I’ve said in prior posts) they’re exploiting you by selling your thoughts and memories to advertisers in exchange for a free place to (essentially) blog and email your friends… things that you can easily do without having Facebook compile a Stasi style dossier on your life.

But, as the people in my life continue to tell me… the old ways are over and done with. Being an artist in the 21st century means cultivating a fan base… so in 2012… which sounds too futuristic to be real… it will be back to breaking rocks on the social network chain-gang with the rest of you poor wretches… and keeping an up-to-date blog.

Probably not on this site though. Like abandoned houses, old blogs should sometimes be condemned.