2006/09/04 23:04
Blowing My Own Horn
For the handful of you that haven't been checking breathlessly to see whether I've updated this site, the Web sites portfolio section and my biography are now online.
It can be difficult for me to write objectively about my own work. I believe one incarnation of my personal Web site had a section for my writings where each new story was described with more vitriol than the previous. "This one sucks, this one blows, this one sucks and blows, and barricade the windows because here's Hurricane Another Shitty Story By Mo!"
On the flip side, the music section has historically been hypertext self-fellatio (a different kind of suck and blow entirely). I struggled with whether to put that one back on, but as I'm trying to renew my involvement with St. Cecilia, it made sense in my head to incorporate it. You know the inverse logic -- you aren't doing something, you want to be doing that thing, so if you write about it on the Internet you will be forced to do the thing or else you look like a tool. The problem with this, of course, is that on the Internet we are all tools, and it's now an academic matter of who's providing the torque.
So with this site, I'm attempting to put my journalism degree to good use for once. No praise, no derision, no astonishment or disgust or anger, just a description and maybe a little back story. Yes, there are some personal tales in the sites section, but I've tried to keep them separated from the work itself. The goal is to let you, the reader, decide for yourself how good or bad my creations are without my feelings coloring your judgement.
And I won't be hurt if you hate my stories, as long as you invite me to play saxophone at your grandma's birthday party afterward.
It can be difficult for me to write objectively about my own work. I believe one incarnation of my personal Web site had a section for my writings where each new story was described with more vitriol than the previous. "This one sucks, this one blows, this one sucks and blows, and barricade the windows because here's Hurricane Another Shitty Story By Mo!"
On the flip side, the music section has historically been hypertext self-fellatio (a different kind of suck and blow entirely). I struggled with whether to put that one back on, but as I'm trying to renew my involvement with St. Cecilia, it made sense in my head to incorporate it. You know the inverse logic -- you aren't doing something, you want to be doing that thing, so if you write about it on the Internet you will be forced to do the thing or else you look like a tool. The problem with this, of course, is that on the Internet we are all tools, and it's now an academic matter of who's providing the torque.
So with this site, I'm attempting to put my journalism degree to good use for once. No praise, no derision, no astonishment or disgust or anger, just a description and maybe a little back story. Yes, there are some personal tales in the sites section, but I've tried to keep them separated from the work itself. The goal is to let you, the reader, decide for yourself how good or bad my creations are without my feelings coloring your judgement.
And I won't be hurt if you hate my stories, as long as you invite me to play saxophone at your grandma's birthday party afterward.
I think one thing you should add on the web portfolio page is links to the sites you currently run. NMHR, LazarusWorld, and put up a copy of the flash that used to be Moyamedia. To me, when I look at a websites portfolio page, I want to be able to click through it and get the actual feel of the site, including all mouseovers, etc. Just my two cents.
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