I know there's been a movement towards using Blogs as personal diaries (that aren't really private) and then again, some of them are private - as the blogging platforms work really for diaries - and Tony Hung at Deep Jive Interests is talking about just that in a post titled Getting Back To Blogging’s Origins where he actually posts a "notebook" much like the black sketchbooks I carry around and sketch in.
I put a lot of my sketches over at ArtNewYorkCity.com, where I posted some of my recent sketches over the last week in two posts
More drawings and some new developments
Resturant Drawing
Here's the drawings, BTW:
I guess a lot of my drawings are done when I’m sitting and idling, or thinking, and this one I did the other night after leaving work, having dinner and I feel really good about it (that doesn’t mean it’s good or not - just that I like it) because I can pretty much accomplish whatever I want when I draw.
Don’t feel the limitations of the past I used to have - I can take my work, pretty much, as far as I want to go.
Like here (below):
Last weekend, I also drew this, and a lady came up to me and we talked about art (see below):
BTW, I’ll also go over to my studio and paint some.
By the way, here's the image Tony Hung posted that got me thinking in this direction today and here's the link to Getting Back To Blogging’s Origins and Tony's thoughts about blogging as a personal diary.
My life — as, perhaps your life — is complicated. There are a lot of competing concerns, from personal issues, to work issues, to family issues and beyond. And that’s not even counting the blogging. One really interesting thing is that as I am ramping up towards a new DJI (one day soon, I hope), I discovered I needed a place to leave thoughts, reminders, and notes for myself and only myself, that would have no value to anyone *except* myself.
So, I started one, in private, behind a password-minded gate, and installed the latest version of Wordpress on a shared plan that I have with a URL that I already owned, and just started doing it. Why Wordpress? Only because I’m comfortable with it and the lead in time would be minimal."
For me, the process of reflection and Art, actually refine my Analytics thinking - I believe I'm a much better web analyst because I can see patterns in the data - that ability comes from the art works, sketches, museum studies, those kind of things - because the mind groups data - makes meaning of it.
I remember reading about Gustav Mahler's musical composition process - often the sounds he heard in the street, while walking, he replicated in his symphonies - they became parts of his movements - but he ordered them - much as an artist orders their sensations and even, as the creators of Web Analytics platforms attempt to order data.
But it takes an Analyst to find the meaning in the data.
And on another note, I put my personal Web Analytics thought over at TheAnalyticsGuru - where I just posted Consumers almost as depressed as they were in 1980 on an entirely different trend of thought. I like Paul Krugman's writings by the way - but I get the feeling no one really knows for sure, even him, where the economy is going to end up - but still - he has a better insight than anyone else I've read and he summarizes data in ways that are similar to what Web Analysts do - because we're not (or should not be) reporting data only, but thinking about what it means.
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