Solitude 24

I've started a new blog dedicated to architectural photography, co-edited with Julien Konne. Our program is difficult to describe precisely: very generally, we present our own photos of modern buildings, architectural details, and urban spaces that we find notable, collected on our travels in Europe and elsewhere. The architecture of Paris and the Parisian banlieue feature prominently.
Please see for yourself here: http://solitude-24.blogspot.fr/

Interrupted silence

I'm sorry to have to interrupt my absence from blog activity. Silence is golden, but my summer travels have renewed my determination to destroy the sleepy stillness into which this corner of digital space has fallen. Words are on their way– reflective, expressive, judgmental, and partisan: words. Images as well! For this I can only apologize, and hope that the expanding ripples I excite may indirectly lead you, my reader, full-circle, back to the secret spring of the wordless world.

Returning

For the past two weeks I have been on vacation with no internet access. Normal posting will return soon!

Introduction

Welcome to my new blog.

Ausmalen will continue where I left off with my last blog, Saving, which I ran from 2004-2010, and which used to be located at saving.blog-city.com but has now been erased from the internet.

The founding of this blog also coincides with the deletion of my Facebook account, with the intention of funneling my 'content-creative' energies towards a more public outlet, which at the same time will be less connected to the marketing-oriented culture-spying that seems to happening on Facebook. I'm no privacy freak, but I do feel that, if I have any hand in the creation or distribution of any cultural data, information which concerns the cultural investments of myself and my friends, I would prefer that it be open to the wandering eyes of human blog readers rather than those of statistical marketing robots. This is not to say that my content here (hosted by Google, nonetheless) is in any way protected from data collectors, but at least with a blog there is a possibility of viewing it anonymously.

This move is also nostalgic, in that I already pine for the days of email and blogs, which were simpler tools of communication, completely public, more independent, less constrained by the format of Web 2.0 gimmicks. Back to basics. 

Ausmalen will differ slightly from Saving in that I'll try to focus more in writing. Short critical pieces will be mixed with fictional or experimental writing, as well as personal commentary in the tradition of the literary Tagebuch. I'll also be fairly unrestrained in my posting of videos, photos, and links— indeed, one of the few positive developments of Web 2.0 is the prevalence of the un-commented "forward-ing" of information from other sources.

Moreover, I aspire to tell the truth: