A few weeks ago, my web host had a power outage. Apparently nothing they had in place to prevent the disaster this would create actually worked. The hardware was hosed. My site was obliterated and so was my blog. So I figured that was a pretty good excuse to start over. After a few days spent re-uploading all my entries from Google cache, I started a redesign. I also reorganized my categories to better reflect the path this blog has actually taken over the years.
I started without any idea of how the blog should look. All I knew was that I had been looking at the same design since 2008, when I was trying to get a job in animation. Well, that happened in 2009 and I just left things the way they were, with very few updates to show new artwork on the home page. When I started the new design I went straight to my carnival photo collection and there it was, the Tilt-a-Whirl. Kind of a metaphor for life when you think about it — the more you try to control it, the less it moves, the less fun it is. And this blog has become much more than the work-in-progress tracker it was intended to be. The work-in-progress went from my demo reel to myself, and the new structure and design better reflects that.
The new categories are:
And yeah, I know how to back up this puppy three different ways now. So don’t even go there.
I started without any idea of how the blog should look. All I knew was that I had been looking at the same design since 2008, when I was trying to get a job in animation. Well, that happened in 2009 and I just left things the way they were, with very few updates to show new artwork on the home page. When I started the new design I went straight to my carnival photo collection and there it was, the Tilt-a-Whirl. Kind of a metaphor for life when you think about it — the more you try to control it, the less it moves, the less fun it is. And this blog has become much more than the work-in-progress tracker it was intended to be. The work-in-progress went from my demo reel to myself, and the new structure and design better reflects that.
The new categories are:
- Career: Anything to do with work or working in the animation industry
- Dreams: A relatively new category I created because some of my dreams are awesome, some teach me more about myself, and some are premonitions
- Love: General thoughts on the subject, particularly the fear and bravery involved in finding the real thing, and how easy it is to chicken out
- Process: Any artistic work-in-progress I have to talk about
- Random: Whatever doesn’t fit anywhere else
- Sixth Sense: My weird, totally random and completely unrefined superpower
- Soapbox: When I really get on a tear about something — doesn’t happen much
- Stupidity: Funny stuff, or just what I write when I’m feeling goofy
- Transition: Anything to do with change
And yeah, I know how to back up this puppy three different ways now. So don’t even go there.
