lately there have been conversations popping up about the world wide web and its influence.
things like the popularity of etsy (not to be the one to bite the hand that feeds me) and whether it helps or hinders the indie community: the hierarchy of sellers according to popularity--to clarify, this is just part of human nature and is NOT AT ALL IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM INTENDED TO SAY THE OWNERS/DESIGNERS/EMPLOYEES OF ETSY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!!; the influence of one designer on another in fairly obvious ways; or simply by making the smaller world larger and the larger world smaller.
the subtle way a streamlined design blog can convince you to want more and more (whether on a simple level of the expectation of an instantaneously desirable home, or plain and simple consumption)
Or, perhaps, the whole thing can be summed up as saying: creating a much larger level of consumption and the resulting high school feeling: I want to be popular.
I don't want to continue limiting my art simply because it seems too much like so-and-so over at www.blahblahblah.com.
In an effort to simplify, I resolve to:
Spend 2 days a week on etsy. This means shop updates and shipping will only be on Mondays and Thursdays.
My sidebars will be reworked and links will be updated.
Get back to nature. That was the intent of this blog--to chart garden progress and to keep home reno projects updated. . . that's what I need to get back to!!
Push my work a little less in the public sphere but explore my interests much more deeply.
Remove contacts on flickr that clutter my creativity.
things like the popularity of etsy (not to be the one to bite the hand that feeds me) and whether it helps or hinders the indie community: the hierarchy of sellers according to popularity--to clarify, this is just part of human nature and is NOT AT ALL IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM INTENDED TO SAY THE OWNERS/DESIGNERS/EMPLOYEES OF ETSY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!!; the influence of one designer on another in fairly obvious ways; or simply by making the smaller world larger and the larger world smaller.
the subtle way a streamlined design blog can convince you to want more and more (whether on a simple level of the expectation of an instantaneously desirable home, or plain and simple consumption)
Or, perhaps, the whole thing can be summed up as saying: creating a much larger level of consumption and the resulting high school feeling: I want to be popular.
I don't want to continue limiting my art simply because it seems too much like so-and-so over at www.blahblahblah.com.
In an effort to simplify, I resolve to:
Spend 2 days a week on etsy. This means shop updates and shipping will only be on Mondays and Thursdays.
My sidebars will be reworked and links will be updated.
Get back to nature. That was the intent of this blog--to chart garden progress and to keep home reno projects updated. . . that's what I need to get back to!!
Push my work a little less in the public sphere but explore my interests much more deeply.
Remove contacts on flickr that clutter my creativity.