Not many of us left - Bloggers. I have considered (and been urged towards) a number of social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram but sadly, they are not for me. They are too "noisy", that's the only adjective I can think of. A blog can be a very quiet, contemplative place. The concept of blogs for artists has always been to be able to have conversation around the work if and when you wanted and then "considered" conversations. The "likes" on Instagram kind of offend me. The whole thing is like loud music playing, like a fairground. There are of course websites and you can make them as peaceful or as jazzy as you like but I see websites as displaying the very best you can offer so that means not everything you put out, ie, the good with the bad. A blog is more like a visit to the studio with all its perambulations, failures, hopes and successes and a website more like a visit to a solo exhibition. So for the time being and until Blogger dies its death, I'll be sticking to it. Maybe the last Blogger alive!
Hi Sheila - I, too have been just blogging (not too often these days, tho) and have not done a website. But for my birthday this year, I have been gifted a website so finally I am going to do it. And on the site there is a blog page where I will continue to post my "perambulations, failures, hopes and successes", with a link to my old Blogger blog. I totally agree with you ... the IG and FB posts are like blaring music ... but the dopamine slug is amazingly real, and hard to stop. Thanks for being there.
ReplyDeleteHi Teri, great to hear from you. Thanks for dropping by. It will be good to get your impressions of a different blogging software and I look forward to seeing the new website too. All the best, Sheila
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