Some of you may know that I've struggled from time to time with the design of this blog. Currently, this is just a Movable Type 4 default, and I really hate it. As a visual artist, it's very hard for me to get excited about blogging when I know the end product is going to look bland/gross. Whenever I try to haggle with CSS files and all that I either change only half of what I want to (like the front page but not the archives) or a break the whole damn blog.
Well I'm afraid I've had it. I've been seeing Tumblr blogs pop up, and they look really good, even in default or very near default mode. So I decided to make one. Not only was the design a breeze, posting stuff is absurdly easy. I've got a button on my browser now that says "Share on Tumblr," easy as that.
Of course, this means that my posts on Tumblr won't be pulled into the feed of new G-RAD blog posts, and this bums me out a lot. I really like blogging in community here at G-RAD, but I'm starting to feel like the neighbor with a really bad paint job, and try as I might, I just can't seem to master to mysteries of the CSS file. So my plan is this, when I do a post on my Tumblr, I'll repost it here, with a link to the good looking version. I hope that doesn't seem lame.
So here it is, The Porcupine School of Poetry, Tumblr Edition.
hey, i can just do that for you... if you want.
It's not the CSS I hate, but for some reason blogging on Tumblr seems easier, and like way less work. I hate writing tags.
er, what i mean is that i can wrangle the initial code for you and make it into something easy to modify in the future.
MT also has the little quickpost droplet function thing that you can have in your web browser. i can help you set that up too!
have you seen david attenborough's book 'amazing rare things'?
it has a lot of the same engravings from that 'metamorphosis' series, as well as lots of other old world eye candy. unfortunately, attenborough has little to say in it...