Update your website as often as your social media
Build a body of work that anyone can see
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Substack is the home for great culture
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Okay okay this is SO smart. I've been having fun on my site design with hidden links and magic doorways and secret pages you can only find if, for example, you wait 90 seconds (the stamina lol) before you're *permitted* to click through.
This idea of a personal feed falls squarely into the "make a website for a human not a brand" category of fun. I also feel like it inherently subverts the typical question — "do I make content or do I make art?" Is content only content if it benefits the broligarchs? Is it only art if it's hard-won and pushed through multiple drafts and formalities? Is content actually FORM and not .... content???
You clearly are hitting on something cool because my head is spinning.
TY!!
I love that you suggest this as I think it lead to our personal sites becoming a more engaging and dynamic place for people to visit.
I'm on Squarespace and I'm trying this with the Blog feature since there does not seem to be a "feed" tool. My thinking on key topics that I teach and talk about evolves over time so I'm going to try a "stream of consciousness / journaling" approach where existing blog entries on core topics are added to over time. This is on the "education" side of what I'm doing.
I think this more informal approach was closer to the original intention of blogging...even if not, It's the direction I want to go in to cut out a step in my "note-taking" or journaling step.
On the art side involving my photography, I use another "blog" where I will publish photo-essays of my imagery.