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Looking Back

This platform feels like a blog, its comment section, and an RSS reader wrapped up into a semi-social network. It’s a refreshing approach. Anyone else remember when networking between like minded web pages was done with tiny gif graphics?

Different communities would share links to each others pages using these tags. I have fond memories of scrolling through pages full of them, checking out different sites and blogs. They were all driven by clever design and creativity as a means to drive traffic and we all had a sense of community through sharing.

There was a standard size for the gifs so they always lined up in a tidy way on everyones link pages. They are comically small now on modern pixel dense displays. I managed to find mine nearly lost among the ether. Back in the day hosting was so limited that in order to share you also had to supply a link to the image and use your own bandwidth by hosting the gif yourself, its why so many ended up breaking over time as webpages closed up.

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I also found this snapshot of one of my earliest web page designs, back when it was just hard coded with HTML Ive been sharing photos and designs as wallpaper online since forever; this version of my old site was from 2002! I still keep the last version of twistedsun.net up online for prosperity. Good times.

Feeling as if quiet spaces are harder and harder to find. Both online and off. I’m starting to discover that with the right approach, life online can be as quiet as we choose to make it. Its taken me far too long to realize this.

Some days it feels good when work isn’t a large festival or high profile anything. It’s nice to have jobs as simple as digging up and replacing old in ground area speakers at a park. No stress just digging and simple wiring. I’ll take it.

Distant memories from my childhood jumped into focus when I visited this little general store in the NC mountains. A glass bottle soda and a fried apple hand pie sealed the deal. Happy to have the blue ridge parkway and so much to explore within reasonable distance.

Sort of deciding how casually to use this space and I’m inclined to say very. I feel like I need a place that’s low pressure. No one’s even here yet. So, that said, I love these chips, one of my fav snacks to pickup at our local Asian market.

Lockstep.

Playing records out with friends has become a real genuine joy at this point in my in my life. There is something truly joyful about people dancing together. Ironically, and other DJ’s may see fault in this but I am not so much one to be found ON a dance floor. As someone that has long struggled with social anxiety it became a way to connect with others in a public setting using music as the tie that binds us. Theres something intimate about sharing a rhythm together, lockstep.

A sort of unspoken bond and understanding can be made when sharing music and in a setting meant for audience participation there are often moments of genuine catharsis when you reach a moment in a set that brings a whole room together. I wasnt lucky enough to be that talented making my own music so it really is a gift. Like most of my creative endevors, I see no connection to celebrity through the hobbby which is why I rarley play out anywhere other than with friends of mine. Were back to having a monthly event this year and im excited for it.

I really look forward to trying to make this year a year of reconnection to a part of myself that has slipped away from me over the past several years and, like this quick post in a new space to share online, I look forward to seeing if I remember how it feels to share. Seen or unseen.

(and yes, as rare as it may be, this is a photo I didnt take, but was taken of me last month by photographer Daniel White @freedaniel on isntagram)

Tiny trip to the beach. Milla decided to have a little book break.