Where did my mind go?

Lately, I've been looking at various blogs of different aims and means, and I've concluded that the majority of bloggers tend to follow some kind of implicated structure or with some specific goal in mind.

Fancy Robot is a bastion of political leanings and aimed personal stories. As

she is entrenched at The Nation, it makes perfect sense why this would be the case. Working specifically as a fact-checker and journalist for a newspaper or magazine allows for the writer to draw from stories they read or have interacted with each and every day. This creates easy links and even humorous barbs to the news stories and with each personal happenings.

Maryam's journal falls squarely within her specially and current field of

study, photography. The images she posts create a likeness of exactly what happens on a day-to-day basis; painting a personal and business oriented page. Specially, she and I hung out and she used me as a “model” for a shoot she did at the UTA studio. After concluding in the studio we moved out to the graveyard on campus to take some pictures through her Polaroid lense and created the photo “Gone Home.” It’s a mixture of story, whether created by the patron or the artist and the image on the page.

Natalie Dee, on the other hand, has decided on a far more gallery approach

for her page; a showing of her day to day work and mental tangents. This seems to be the most common path for artists, especially stick-figure artists, who wish to present their art to the masses without having to deal with the direct problems created by a newspaper or magazine source printing their work or an actual gallery that requires a grandiose fee for the display of her work. Instead, you have a very public gallery that costs nothing or very little, when it comes to domains that have been paid for by the artists, and allows as many people as possible to view your work. Nearly free upkeep, free viewing. It's hands on and alleviates oneself of the burden of dealing with dealers in person and critics noses and pompous, pseudo smiles. Some of these pages even include a branched page dedicated to the sell of the artists work as either collections in a book or singular pieces (if this is possible). It reflects the new direction of art. The masses wish they could view real art but don’t want to deal with the atmosphere of the gallery, and now they don’t have to.

This begs the question, ‘what does my page offer, then?” None of these

things. Instead, my blog represents fragments of my life and shards of what is actually going on in my head as it is impossible for me to glean all the “important things” to others without becoming incredibly uncomfortable and running away. This page acts as a way for me to trick myself into letting whomever may read the page without becoming immediately uncomfortable and nearly self-destructive. This blog is a relatively private representation of what the scatter is in my head. Subtract the idea of it being private and you’re left with nearly the same aims as the other authors and artists who make up the blogosphere. We’re all divulging our personalities to the world in different public spheres. Mine’s just slightly more private than others…or so I would hope.