I just visited boingboing.net for the first time in a while, and noticed that they had their site redesigned… and it looks a lot like I somehow borrowed my new design from theirs: the serif font, the increased leading, the content on the right and the links (or ads, in their case) on the right - even the 1px solid #ccc line that separates the columns.
I swear! It’s unintentional! Great minds and all that!
Yes. My life is like a headline from The Onion. Only less funny because I don’t have a staff of writers, and these things really happen to me.
Anyway, thanks to Shahee Ilyas for his barecity WordPress theme, that I took and modified. And by modified, I mean that I picked and poked at the littlest things so that what took me roughly 4 hours looks basically identical to his original design.
Tessa says it’s too sparse. It probably is, but I’ve always been afraid of design. I figure it’s better to be too sparse than too busy. It was difficult to find a template that just provided the basics for the blog - most of the themes available have a billion graphics for everything, and I have yet to find one with really well written CSS (thus the 4 hours, and I didn’t improve it much) (yet).
The Industrial and Industrial Heritage Photos by Haiko Hebig
From the website:
What started as a journey to forgotten places of closed down heavy industries in Germany’s former economic heartland, now is a photographic coverage of both closed down and operating sites throughout Europe. Focus is on iron and steel, coke and coal, energy and transportation.
Kerry Skarbakka is a photographer whose work deals with problems more than solutions. This is something I hold in the highest regard: solid questions about the way we fit into the world, instead of compromised statements with question marks attached to the ends of them.
Check out the series The Struggle to Right Oneself and Fluid (website uses frames, so I can’t link directly to the portfolio section) (don’t use frames!).
So that this space doesn’t become a scrapbook of doggington (which it would), Michael has kindly set us up with a subdomain and another blog: tony.championbeginner.com.
From now on, Peeps McDinkledog will be featured over there, and I’ll try to keep the conversation over here a little less… er… doggy.
Just read this quote and thought it could start a blog war.
“There is as much ‘art’ in photojournalism as in ‘fine art’ photography, its just more grounded, more practical and less narcissistic.”
Wikipedia seems to agree (sort of): “Fine art photography, sometimes simply called art photography, refers to high-quality archival photographic prints of pictures that are created to fulfill the creative vision of an individual professional. Such prints are reproduced, usually in limited editions, in order to be sold to dealers, collectors or curators, rather than mass reproduced in advertising or magazines. Prints will sometimes, but not always, be exhibited in an art gallery.”
