Editorial : Why I'm Still Here
Everyone gets everything wrong. I have an entirely different subject I want to write about, but I wanted to just mention that everyone that thinks we have started a new decade got it wrong. NEXT year will be the beginning of a new decade, but that doesn't matter because everyone thinks it started this year. It's just an example of how everyone gets things wrong, and how just because you might have the knowledge of that wrong it doesn't mean shit when confronted with a mass of idiots.
To that end, everyone I know has a Facebook or a MySpace page. They try to customize it the best they can. MySpace is a perfect example of people that don't get that putting so much stupid content on their pages that all we get are pages that load at the speed of glaciers. Because I really want to know about that video that's been bouncing around the internet and EVERYWHERE else that you felt had to be on your page as well. Thankfully a couple of years ago I came to my senses and deleted my MySpace account. It felt pretty useless. Like so many others I went to Facebook. And while I like Facebook a lot more than MySpace I think that while the social interaction is good, at the root I'm still missing something that tells my story.
I started this page as a sort of an experiment. I knew that the new way of doing things would be here on the internet. Information is the great strength of the internet, as well as it's weakness. When there is so much information that you can't wade through it all, that information actually becomes a hindrance rather than a blessing.
I like being able to check out a friend's photos moments after they posted them. But, I also like having the control of what size to make my photos, what resolution, and in what order you see them. Perhaps I'm trying to formulate a narrative, but I can't really do that under the constraints of a Facebook. Which is why I'm still here on this webspace, updating once a month.
I like the freedom that controlling my content in every way affords me. I put up my homestead in the early days of the internet and waited. Some others were there before me, and some came after. Many of those that I used to visit nearly a decade ago are now gone. Perhaps migrating to the cities of Facebook and MySpace. I'm still here perhaps because this is what I know. I like this place, which I built with my own two hands. The content here is not something that I've come up with overnight. Elsewhere, for example, is just over nine years old. Vista Drive was where I posted photographs for eight years. This is something I do for myself, and if you want to share it then I'm glad you are. But as I enter my second decade with this site I look back and think that I've only just begun.
