If you would for a moment take a second to ponder the following: My blog recently celebrated its second year, but the hardest issue/comment/question anyone has ever posed was, “WHY?” It was in the form of a comment:
“Why blog, why put the random and the crazy online for both absolutely no one, as well as the whole world? Why waste your time when no one is guaranteed to see it?”
I’ve never really had a good answer for that question, but the answer is beginning to make itself apparent.
I go to the largest art and design school in the country. I sit in class with the future animators of Pixar and DreamWorks, I walk the halls with the Picassos and Cézannes of the twenty-first century. I hear lectures with the next Louis Vuitton and Donna Karen. I come into contact with amazing characters that the world will someday know as “that odd ball” or “that man that changed the way we look at things”. I often wonder who in my class is going to be the next Louis Kahn that everyone loves, or the next Frank Gehry that everyone loves to hate. Perhaps my blog has allowed me to express myself in a way that doesn’t compete or allow for comparison, but instead is individually natural. There is no market, there is no client, no critics, just pure thought that you as the reader have the option to use as an addendum onto everything else in your lives. A year ago today my stomach began to ache. It was a different kind of ache, not one you get from a virus or nerves, but one that reached far deeper within. I want to thank my dedicated readers, to those who have friended me on Facebook, and other blogs/writers that have featured my links[some listed below], and I hope that the future brings improvements for us all as we live without reget. Love and gratitude. –B.
http://freetraveling.info/tag/architecture
http://architecturalhistoryscad.wordpress.com/page/6/?pages-list
http://www.cranial.com/patrick_park/7/
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